Your business teams will learn the indispensable keys to selling and marketing into India, navigating the financial, legal, and accounting environment, and developing productive supplier relationships in India.
Successful sourcing from India, selling products to India, or operating your business in India requires an understanding of the Indian business culture. Your company's attendees at Business With India receive an in-depth understanding of the fast-evolving business culture in India within the larger context of Indian society and cultural landscape, and its direct affect on your results.
Your company will get help to construct a framework for immediate application to its business interests in India by evaluating specific business situations, case examples, lessons learned, and up-to-date information.
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Who Should Attend
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Bring Business With India to Your Company to:
Avoid the common mistakes Western firms make doing business in India
Improve business relationships and communications through a better understanding of the management culture of Indian organizations
Manage risk by learning how to evaluate the risks and rewards of doing business in India
Increase business opportunities by learning how to scan for important trends in Indian society
Reduce costs and risk by identifying Indian regulations that will affect how you do business
Increase your effectiveness in communicating with multi-cultural and virtual work teams
India’s Business Culture in Transition
Indian governmental policies and practices and their effects on business
Assessing the impact of local geography and resources on the corporate landscape
Segmenting India by religion, region, caste, and class
Understanding key business groups in India and the underground economy
Negotiating successfully with Indians
The role of family in the Indian workplace and business
Cultural beliefs and their effect on doing business in India
Creating Your Supply Chain in India
Key issues for sourcing services and products from India
Evaluating vendors and partners in India
Avoiding the top five mistakes in sourcing from India
Deciding to outsource vs. offshore
Setting up offshore centers in India
Uncovering the hidden costs of outsourcing in India
Selling and Marketing Into India
Assessing the major marketing opportunities in India today
Establishing and gaining market share in the business-to-business and corporate markets
Selling to the government in India
Adapting to the six mega trends shaping middle class India
Grasping the four secrets to rural India’s 600 million persons
Overcoming pitfalls and challenges specific to India
Successfully Working With Business and Virtual Teams in India
Overcoming the cultural barrier of speaking and writing English with Indians
Understanding the Indian sense of time
Indirectness vs. indirection in India
Power and hierarchy structures at 21st century Indian companies
Reading cues from non-verbal messages in India
Understanding Indian business etiquette
Navigating the Financial, Legal, and Accounting Environment
Understanding the flow of money into and out of India
India’s capital markets, project financing, and foreign direct investment
Considerations for joint ventures, and mergers and acquisitions
Legal questions for your attorneys and accountants
Tips for creating contracts and the transfer of real property
How Indian law deals with employment and intellectual property issues
Human Resources Issues in India
Attracting top talent in India
Hiring locals vs. sending expatriates
Hiring fresh grads: what you need to know about India’s education system
Dealing with salary escalation in major cities
Containing attrition in a hot market
Succeeding in managing unions and blue collar workers
Ensuring Productive Business Trips to India
Planning a successful business trip
Essential information for women traveling in India
Enjoying Indian cuisine
Staying healthy in India
Business owners, senior executives with general management responsibilities as well as operational management and teams from sales and marketing, engineering, production, quality, purchasing, information systems, accounting, finance and HR, wanting to successfully conduct business in India.
Schedule
Day 1 - 8:30 AM - 4:30 PM
Day 2 - 8:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Each person attending this course receives a copy of Doing Business in 21st Century India, written by the instructor, Gunjan Bagla.
Comments from Past Participants
“The information I learned in this course is invaluable and provides a good basis for my ongoing work. The instructor, Gunjan Bagla, has a conversational style that is engaging and impactful. I found the informal Q&A and interaction among the course attendees to be very valuable.”
Scott Parker VP, New Business Development Walt Disney Parks and Resorts
“The content of this course is very relevant. I give high marks to the instructor, Gunjan Bagla, and the staff at Caltech IRC. The interaction wiht my peers was helpful. As we shared our experiences, Gunjan provided solutions wiht his knowledge of Indian culture and the way to conduct business in India.”
Trenton Christian International Sales Representative for Asia Red Spot Paint and Varnish