Prior to our company visit to Accenture August 18th, we attended three lectures at XIME.\u00a0\u00a0 The first session focused on managment education in India and featured the president of XIME, Professor J. Phillip.<\/p>\n
The business schools in India are some of the largest in the world and graduate more than 160,000 students annually.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Since there are so many schools, there is a lot of competition and demand for high performers.\u00a0 Most of these schools are located in south India where there is a high literacy rate among women and population growth is less.\u00a0 What I found most interesting was when Professor Phillip lectured about David McClelland<\/a>‘s theory that people have three basic drives; achievement, affiliation and power.\u00a0 A business professionall will likely be less successful if he or she has an improper balance of any of these aspects.<\/p>\n The second lecture focused on cross cultural aspects of doing business in India.\u00a0 Some interesting subjects that were covered included India’s many red tape heavy government procedures, how many Indians view the castes today, and the how India’s government and businesses got to where they are today.<\/p>\n The final lecture was given by Dr. M. P. Ravindra, an employee of Infosys on sabbatical at XIME for the next year; it covered Information Technology (IT) in India.\u00a0 His lecture focused on the evolution of IT in India and it’s current challenges to achieving greater success.<\/p>\n Later that afternoon we visited the company Accenture, which is an innovative back-end software provider, emerging technology leader and provider of other customer services such as software development life cycle consulting.\u00a0 We were able to test out their latest technology related to consumer services.\u00a0 They also overviewed how they provide some of their accounting services such as accounts payable processing.\u00a0 I was impressed with their many layers of security assurance and controls for handling their customer’s information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Prior to our company visit to Accenture August 18th, we attended three lectures at XIME.\u00a0\u00a0 The first session focused on managment education in India and featured the president of XIME, Professor J. Phillip. The business schools in India are some of the largest in the world and graduate more than 160,000 students annually.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Since there […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":891,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/studyabroad\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/studyabroad\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/studyabroad\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/studyabroad\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/891"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/studyabroad\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=117"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/studyabroad\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":121,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/studyabroad\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117\/revisions\/121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/studyabroad\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/studyabroad\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/studyabroad\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}