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U.S. management group sees good growth from Indian operations
Friday, 17 January 2003, 20:30 IST
NEW DELHI: U.S.-based Breakthrough Management Group (BMG) is expanding its training and technical services product operations to help Indian firms improve performance and keep ahead of domestic and global competition.
"After six months of preparations we have formally launched our India operations with an executive awareness programme," Naresh Raisinghani, founding director of BMG India, said here.
"We are already in exclusive talks with major financial, automobile and services companies for using our training and consultancy programmes for improving the bottom lines," he added
Tata Group, Hero Honda, Maruti Udyog Ltd., Crompton Greaves, ICICI Bank and major call centres have initiated talks with BMG's Indian arm to implement Six Sigma - a wide range of software and training support programmes.
Six Sigma's package has 60 percent focus on training, services and deployment and 40 percent on technical products.
Management experts maintained that investment made in Six Sigma rollouts has a great financial return and companies would be able to recover the costs within a couple of years.
"India is at an awakening stage where companies are looking at how to improve their performance and optimise their production," Raisinghani, formerly with Infosys, told IANS.
A leading global innovator of Six Sigma products and services, BMG will be offering its services in tie-up with Qualteam Consultants and Quality Growth Services.
Said David Silverstein, co-founder and president of the U.S-based BMG: "As companies seek to improve their performance, we hope to help them not only to improve their bottom line profits but will also be looking at the top line.
"BMG India will initially be targeting multinationals like Asea Brown Boveri, DuPont, Johnson & Johnson, Praxair, Ford and Siemens, who are our clients in the U.S. and are keen to replicate the benefits of training here," he said.
With BMG being web-based, several Indian companies have already approached the company for their services, said Silverstein.
The package that costs between $50,000 to a couple of million dollars in the U.S. depending on the size of the organisation has been priced at 
100,000 to 200,000 in India.
Inclusive of the implementation cost, a company would have to shell out around 300,000 for each top executive trained.
BMG India will hold training programmes from February for different levels of corporate hierarchy.
Initially, U.S-based consultants would be coming to India to provide training. Once more consultants get trained here, India would become a base for providing services in the Asian and Middle East regions.
Source: IANS
100,000 to 200,000 in India.
Inclusive of the implementation cost, a company would have to shell out around 300,000 for each top executive trained.
BMG India will hold training programmes from February for different levels of corporate hierarchy.
Initially, U.S-based consultants would be coming to India to provide training. Once more consultants get trained here, India would become a base for providing services in the Asian and Middle East regions.
Source: IANS