World HRD Congress

18-21th Jan 2001

Ascent presents, ATCOM Technologies-World HRD Congress 2000
Mumbai.

"The omens are promising with an undoubted increase in awareness, albeit at the germination stage only, of the need for a healthy, growing and competitive organization. The lessons learnt in any branch of management and organisational development have more linkages, a common thread, similar challenges and shared solutions than is often recognized. To remain competitive in the very tough global marketplace, organizations have to look at some of the solution that have already been developed and applied.

Every business in the recent past has been dominated by intense and aggressive competition from every conceivable corner of the globe. For any business to operate in the global framework, the challenge before it is to be world class. The world HRD congress will provide a few glimpses of light at the end of the long, and very often, frightening and despairing competitive tunnel........"

On this promising note, the four-day conference organised by the 'Centre for Change Management', from the 18-21 January, 2001 at Nehru Centre, Mumbai, debated on the theme: "Building a World Class organisation : Challenges & Opportunities". The program objectives were aimed at creating a platform to share the best practices in HR of global significance, and also to enable the best practices to migrate across industry. It also conferred the best in HR practices, through awards for HR Excellence.

Amongst the distinguished panel of speakers from the industry, Douglas Breckenridge, CEO, The Business Workshop, presented on "The Challenge of Organisational Culture in a Global Environment". His session focussed towards understanding the importance of Culture within organisations, as well as the need to create the 'right culture', in globally progressive companies.

He said that, in order to compete globally, organisations are becoming more performance driven. Therefore, when working with international teams, the challenge for them also lay in ensuring that there is a right integration of values, beliefs, customs and attitudes, in order to reach organisational and individual goals.

Mr. Breckenridge stressed that, with the ongoing pace of collaborations, Mergers & Acquisitions, it was not only enough for organisations to have a good 'strategic fit', but it was also important to have the right 'cultural fit'. Therefore, it becomes very crucial to do a careful assessment of cultures existing within the organisations before undertaking such critical ventures.

For further information contact: doug@thebusinessworkshop.com