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Business as UNusual in India
Live the business experience of India
Which India
The media generally presents two Indias. There’s the India with a 9% plus annual GDP growth. There’s the India that by 2040 will be in PPP terms the second or third economy of the world. There’s the India whose economic acceleration seemingly touches everything, IT, cell phones, airplanes, cars, textiles, steel, finance, even wine and cheese. The Sensex grew 47% in 2007, the highest in the 20-year history of the Sensex. Its middle class is booming. Retail is mushrooming. International brands queue waiting for the opportune moment break into the market. You can hardly speak of China without hearing India mentioned in the same breath. For the multinational, not being in India means being out of sync with one of biggest successes in the global economy.
Then there’s the India with GDP per capita under 4000 USD per year. Yet 30% live below 1 USD a day. Adult literacy is 61%. 65 % of its population works in agriculture which contribute 25% to the national GDP. Contrast that with France, where agriculture employs 4% of the population and contributes 2.5% to GDP. Bombay with 20 million inhabitants has nearly 10 million people living in grinding poverty, the largest concentration of poor in the world. There is the near universal chaos of the exploding cities. There are the overtaxed and underfunded infrastructures. There is the endemic government corruption, its legendary inefficiencies, and the haunting persistence of inequities.
Which India is the real one? At the beginning of the millennium, India surged onto the global scene. But in 1600, the year the East India Company was founded, while Britain generated 1.8% of the world's GDP, India produced 22.5%. But by 1870 and the peak of the British Raj, while Britain generated 9.1% of the world’s economy, India had become a failed state, marginal, dogged by famine, poverty and deprivation. The real India today is a world of revived possibilities and huge development challenges. This India can only be understood on the ground, witnessing firsthand its economy of growth where deficiencies both fuel growth and risk perpetuating exclusion.
Experience India
Our week in India provides a one-of-a-kind entry into the vibrant, maddening, inspiring marketplace of India. We will offer a view of the public sector: its workings, its traditions, its need for change, its reputation for corruption, and so on. We will also briefly consider the current 123 deal and its reception in India.
A better understanding of the forces driving modern India, should prepare people to lead an effective, sustainable and idea-generative entry into the Indian market.
Overview
• One week breakfast to bedtime intensive visit
• Explore the business environments of Bombay, Bangalore & Delhi
• Meet local business people and government officials
• Site visits of Indian companies and MNCs
• Specialized workshops with legal, trade & commercial professionals
• Reality-test your projects
• Intercultural briefings on working in India
• Coaching your business plan
Session schedules
Dates for in-company groups can be arranged.
Where
The course base is in Bombay, with organized visits to Delhi and Bangalore. Bombay accommodation is in one of the premier hotels of the country, the Taj Mahal Hotel, in the heart of the traditional business center.
Who should attend
The program is targeted at senior executives, in particular: Chief Executive Officers, Vice Presidents of Operations, Administration, Human Resources, Marketing, and Finance, and anyone who perceives working with India as critical to their organization’s future.
Program highlights
This is a program about the real world of India. It offers participants on-the-ground opportunities to challenge assumptions about India and to explore its rapidly developing new business paradigms. Participants will meet senior counterparts of Indian companies, start-up entrepreneurs, business journalists, trade and legal specialists who will provide insight to overcoming potential obstacles to success in India. Participants will explore the intercultural components of doing business in India, to better understand its particular pitfalls and benefits. The program also provides participants with coaching to maximize the pursuit of their individual needs.
Program faculty
Kathleen Dameron has run her own networked consultancy in Intercultural Management since 1992 (KD Conseil). Her clients have included: 3M, Alcan, Matra British Aerospace Dynamics Aerospatiale, Faurecia, Delphi, France Télécom, Herman Miller, Pfizer, Thales, Thomson multimedia, PSA. She also teaches at the French Business school ESSEC on the Executive MBA programme, the Masters in International Affairs, as well as programs designed specifically for one company.
Richard Cooper is Director of International Training Consultants India. Richard has trained, lectured and consulted in over 20 countries including Asia, Africa and the Americas. He is based in Bombay and has consulted with India-based organizations such as Citibank, Colt Technologies, The Walt Disney Company, L’Oréal and the Taj Hotels Group. Richard has an MA in International Relations from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Boston, USA. He is a certified mediator and a member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators.
BOTH have strong facilitation skills and high flexibility.
Registration
Registration fee for Doing Business in India is € 5000. It includes elite hotel accommodation, meals, coffee, receptions, airport pick-up, transport within India and complete program materials. It does not include transport to India.
Attendance limitations and liability
Reservations are on a first-come, first-served basis. Reductions for early registration as well as group registration are possible. Cancellation is restricted to the registration fee.