Developing Products in India
What's In It For Me?
Did you know that Google, Siemens, GE, Conexant, and innumerable startup companies are developing products in India for the global market? Companies have discovered that the benefits of outsourcing to Asia's third largest economy extend beyond cost savings. Gains in performance, quality, time to market, and revenue growth are also spurring demand for the outsourcing of product development.
In this program, Gunjan Bagla will review the essentials of new product development by leveraging resources in India, describing the reasons why a business can utilize India as an offshore sourcing destination and the steps needed to find and work with a local partner. Gunjan will draw upon recent personal experience and several years of investigation in product development outsourcing and the lessons learned from recent trends.
This program will cover the following topics:
- The value of offshore product development
- How to determine if your company or project should adopt a distributed or offshore product development model
- Allocation of teams overseas or outsourcing to vendor partners
- The lowest risk processes that one can outsource
- Risks to intellectual property prompted by outsourcing
- Effects of globalization on career advancement
- Dealing with product development across multiple time zones
- Skills engineers, managers, or leaders must develop to succeed in a shrinking world
Speaker Biography
Gunjan Bagla is Managing Director of Amritt Ventures, Inc., a consultancy that helps American companies globalize by leveraging resources and markets in Asia. Current clients include some of the leading product innovators in the entertainment, industrial, medical, and aerospace sectors. Gunjan teaches an executive seminar at Caltech entitled "Doing Business in India: Key Success Factors" and his book Doing Business in 21st Century India: How to Profit Today from Tomorrow's Most Exciting Market will be published by Warner Books in 2008.
Gunjan obtained a bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology in Kanpur and an MBA with honors from Southern Illinois University. He is a frequent speaker on globalization and has written several articles that were published in CIO, Daily Variety, BusinessWorld, and Dataquest India.
Event Details
Date: | Tuesday, August 21, 2007 |
Location: | University Club on the UC Irvine Campus |
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Time: | 6:00 PM - Networking |
Pricing: | Register online / Register at the event: |
