I am back to work and sharing my thoughts about AMP with my team.
Hi Xebians,
Good Morning!
I was away last two weeks to participate in the Accelerated Management Programme at Indian School of Business at Hyderabad. In this program I learned about Finance, Strategy, Operations, Sales and Leadership. The program duration was short to cover such a diverse range of topics but still I got useful insights. It was also a good networking opportunity since I had a chance to interact with a cross section of people from the Indian corporate world or new India as some people call it. The participants included managers from companies such as Jindal Steels, Thermax, Marico at one end to companies such as Vertex, Genpact at the other end. The faculty came mostly from the American universities except a professor from INSEAD.
In the lovely campus of ISB, I also had opportunity to benchmark Xebia culture against various other companies in our region. I found that many practices at Xebia come as a shock to most managers while the professor said that the most modern organizations should head toward people first approach. We had a very interesting case study on HCL Technologies focusing upon the turn around of HCL under leadership of its CEO, Vineet Nayar. HCL follows written ‘Employee First, Customer Second’ policy. I doubt if it is possible to be true to this policy in a big organization like HCL.
While following training for 12 days in a university setting was tough but tougher still is to put the learning in to practice. In the coming days, I will share my learning with you and plan several activities. This will make Xebia India organization well known, well respected and authority in our market.
Unlike many other fellow participants I was rarely called by Xebians during my training period. I am glad to see that we have a mature team that can function without too much supervision. Agile also aims to achieve that. It gives me extra space to find ways to add value to the Xebia India at a higher level.
I have created a blog on my ISB experiences, which will be improved and updated. You can read it on http://axvia.wordpress.com/.
Regards,
Anurag Shrivastava
