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Transnational Skills – The Global Currency

DP Singh, Vice President & HR Head, IBM India /South Asia

14/02/2014

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Major Global Trends Shaping Enterprises, Forcing them to Transform their Operating Models

Global trends forcing major change for clients… …and a new transformation agenda

Horizontally integrate

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Instill a culture of innovation

and continuous improvement

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Leverage skills &

capabilities globally

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Drive faster decision making

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Build customer and

client intimacy

Globalization

Social Networks

Big Data

Demographic Shifts

Lower cost structures, flexible

architectures, and pervasive

innovation are critical for success

Changing the way that individuals,

customers, and organizations

engage, interact and collaborate

Creating new opportunities for real

time analysis and predictive

analytics – driving business insight

from more and more data

Availability of talent and skills

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Today - a Globally Integrated Enterprise… … business without borders

21stCentury

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New connected era, leveraging Transnational Skills leading to Enterprise Transformation…..

……. What does this journey mean

Why are wedoing this?

What capabilitiesdo we need?

Where arewe today?

How willwe get there?

Who will beresponsible?

1. Vision 2. Scope 3. Baseline 4. Road map 5. Governance

Clear goals and objectives

Alignment with corporate strategy

Executive, business and cultural alignment

Understand motivations, constraints and complications

Skill sets and expertise required

Functions that will be included in the transformation

Starting point for the journey to GIE

Assessment of the status quo

Establish point of reference for targets, goals, progress and success

Steps and pace required to bring about change

Train and acquire required skills

Instill continual transformation in the culture

Measure success

Leadership

Measurements and incentives

Ongoing change management to ensure consistent commitment to the transformation

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Optimize operations globally

Reinvent processes and integrate

functions, removing complexity and

uncovering new efficiencies

Activate information and analytics

Improve business performance across

all functions with data-driven insights

Accelerate organizational agility

Infuse speed, flexibility and

collaborative behavior into the

organization to capitalize on market

opportunities

Globally Integrated Enterprise

Transforming

the organization

for efficiency,

effectiveness and

to enable new growth

The new playing field - A MUST for leveraging Transnational Skills

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Successfully leveraging skills in a Globally Integrated Enterprise

Consistent Values

Creating Uniformity in Culture

Global Processes and Systems

Change initiatives involve participants and teams from across silos and around the

globe

Driving IT infrastructure efficiencies can free up resources to fund transformation

investments

Knitting Transnational skills through engagement

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