Microland, Allianz Cornhill Information Services & Cognizant Technology Solutions win top honors
Bangalore, Karnataka, India, Friday, April 12, 2013 — (Business Wire India) — QAI ( www.qaiglobal.com ), the world’s leading consulting and workforce development firm addressing Operational Excellence announced the Awards for excellence and innovation in Program and Portfolio Management at the 1st Program and Portfolio Management Conference ( PPM ) 2013 . Rahul Vilas Ghodke & Vishal Sanghi from Microland emerged as the winner for their paper titled ” Incubating a Strategic “PgMO” To Drive Business Goals “. The 1st Runner Up position was duly awarded to Sujit Nair & Nilesh Sagale from Allianz Cornhill Information Services for their paper on ” Challenges in Off-shoring Function in Captive ITeS Environment and Application of Program Management Techniques “. S. Chandramouli from Cognizant Technology Solutions secured the third spot with his paper titled ” Program Management Best Practices in Adaptive Agile Environment – Product Development “. The awards were given away at a glittering ceremony at the Novotel Bengaluru Techpark, Bangalore.
PPM 2013 received author intent submissions by professionals from 35+ global companies across industries and sectors to compete for the awards at the conference. In all 100 delegates from 50+ organizations attended the conference in Bangalore. After detailed paper evaluation rounds by internal technical review committee, a subset of these submissions was shortlisted for presentation at the conference. The presentations were then reviewed by the external jury team of Mr. Nagesh Kumar – Head of Operations, Global Account, Tata Consultancy Services and Mr. Tathagat Varma – Sr. Director, Yahoo! in-person at the conference.
The jury members were quoted as saying “The concepts presented were completely unique, original and well-articulated. The frameworks presented were unique and have a high relevance to business, and converges the elements of business and technology very well.”
Commenting on the overwhelming success of the first edition of PPM, Mr. Navyug Mohnot, CEO, QAI said, “To acquire a leadership position, it necessitates a strong leadership commitment at the project as well as the organizational level, in addition to knowledge of tools, techniques and approaches which are transformational. How projects and programs need to be aligned to organizational strategies and how best they need to be resourced and balanced is the main objective of all Portfolio Management initiatives. This Conference aims to recognize leadership and contribution in the field of Program and Portfolio Management. It will provide impetus & encourage contribution to the Program and Portfolio Management practices, skills & principles.
For over 15 years, QAI has brought together international representatives and recognized thought-leaders to share information, learn new software quality processes, and discuss software practices through a number of prestigious events like Project Management Leadership Conference (PML) , Software Estimation Colloquium (SEC), IT Service Management Conference (ITSM) , High Maturity Best Practices Conference (HMBP) and the International Software Testing Conference (STC) .
About QAI
QAI is a leading global consulting and workforce development organization addressing ‘Operational Excellence’ in knowledge intensive service organizations.
QAI Global Services (QGS) provides advisory and consulting services, leading to operational excellence in organizations. QGS engages with client organizations for deployment of best practices and process improvement engagements in areas including Quality, Innovation, Project and Programme Management , IT Service Management , Testing and Service Excellence to name a few.
QAI Global Institute (QGI) is the workforce development division of QAI and engages with individuals inside organizations and with professional communities. The Institute, through learning design , training delivery , competency assessments, development and certifications enables career growth and equips individuals to help realize organizational goals.
QAI has trained over 1,60,000 professionals and certified over 40,000 professionals across the globe and is currently servicing over 300 clients in over 35 countries. Our offices are located in USA, India, China, and Singapore.
To know more, please visit www.qaiglobal.com
For PPM 2013 visit www.ppmconference.in
CONTACT DETAILS
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