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SQC & BD Institute launches BD-CMM [R] |
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4th August, 2006 |
Bangalore - The Business Development Institute (BD-I), USA and Software Quality Center India, a wholly owned subsidiary of US based Software Quality Center LLC, its exclusive India partner, and one of the world's Top 5 full service IT and best practices consulting services company, launched the premier Business Development process improvement, excellence and benchmarking model, the BD-CMM® in India.
The BD-CMM is developed based on special permission from the Software Engineering Institute (SEI) the custodian of the grand Capability Maturity Model (CMM) the grandest known benchmarking model in the industry for software and software intensive systems development.
About 60+ organizations including major US Defense Contractors, Commercial companies and International organizations were involved during the development of this new model since year 2000. The initiative combined efforts from the Association of Proposal Management Professionals (APMP), Shipley Associates along with the US DoD contractor community and Industry consortia contributed to the development of the model.
Left to Right : Mr. Pawan Kumar, Mr. Howard Nutt and Mr. Kris Puthucode
On the occasion speaking to the media Mr. Kris Puthucode, CEO, Software Quality Center said "This model is by far the grandest and the only available, for structured Business Development process improvement and excellence, and benchmarking and is being used by over 30+ organizations worldwide in efforts to achieve sustainable excellence in BD. India Inc. has been using the CMM models for over a decade in the IT sector and now there is a great model to help bridge the gap between the pre-sales, sales and delivery functions in an organization".
Further he said "Companies in India that have grown through IPO/VC or FII route and have succeeded in growing through "Volume" or "mass" based work, especially in IT/ITES think they have good BD practices, while there is not a lot of evidence to prove that. In fact we have not found evidence of Increasing Customer Value through long term and continuous process improvement of BD processes in majority of Organizations. There is a need to retrospectively look at what these organizations need to do to sustain the growth, and the BD CMM is one such powerful mechanism to diagnose the state of their BD efforts and function and re-align priorities and refine processes. We would like the SME s in India to take advantage of this to become more competitive and aim at efficiency and effectiveness of their marketing and sales Investments."
Mr. Howard Nutt, Executive Director, BD Institute said "What is advantageous in BD CMM is that it is built on the framework of models that have been tried and tested in the Industry and widely accepted as de-facto standards, and also includes aspects from the People-CMM model
integrated into it.
Further he said "We are happy to have partnered with SQC to bring the model to India and South-East Asia and hope the industry will find value in improving their BD processes. I look forward to a long and mutually beneficial association."
The BD CMM model provides a methodical process improvement and excellence path for the entire life cycle of Business Development from an ad-hoc people intensive to a mature, disciplined approach to achieving sustainable results in Top and Bottom line of companies through practices from the BD CMM. The model has a five level maturity scale to benchmark and measure progression of organizations through the maturity levels.
Among the next steps, SQC has plans to organize a series of seminars and "Adoption runs" in major cities to help widespread adoption of the model in addition to providing very high end consulting and benchmarking appraisals against the BD CMM. SQC is also targeting at least 2 to 4 early adopters across Industries over the next two years.
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Premier Business Development Excellence model launched |
4th August, 2006 |
UNI India Online |
Bangalore, Aug 4 (UNI) The Business Development Institute International (BD-Institute) USA, a non-profit organisation, and Software Quality Center (SQC), a wholly-owned subsidiary of US based Software Quality Center LLC, today launched the premier Business Development process improvement, excellence and benchmarking model, BD-CMM in India.
Addressing newspersons here, BD-I Executive Director Howard Nutt, said his company had selected the SQC, one of the top five full service IT and best practices consulting service company, as their exclusive representative for the subcontinent of India and developed BD-CMM, the grandest known benchmarking model in the industry for software intensive systems development.
He said the model was the result of combined efforts of 60-plus organisations, including major US defence contractors, commercial companies and international organisations, since 2000. It's advantage was that it was built on the framework of models that had been tried and tested in the industry and widely-accepted as a de-facto standard.
The model provided users with a framework, a path, and a guide for achieving dramatic process improvements in their organisations.
It encompassed the full BD life cycle and organisational components, including advance marketing, sales, sales account management, proposal development and others engaged in the BD enterprise.
Mr Kris Puthucode, CEO, SQC, the first-ever International Licensee for BD-I, said the SQC had plans to organise a series of seminars and 'Adoption runs' in major cities to help widespread adoption of the model, in addition to providing very high end consulting and benchmarking appraisals against the BD CMM.
The company, which was bringing the model to India and South-East Asia, was also targetting at least two to four early adopters across Industries over the next two years. The seminars would also be aimed at Small and Medium Enterprises in India in Tier II and Tier III cities, he added. |
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Business Development CMM Module |
5th August, 2006 |
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BD - CMM makes its Indian debut |
5th August, 2006 |
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BD-CMM Introduced By Software Quality Center India |
04th January, 2006 |
EFY NEWS NETWORK
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To improve practices across organisations SQC India is introducing BD-CMM Wednesday, January 04, 2006: Software Quality Center India is introducing Business Development CMM model, a pioneering and `inclusive' standard for improving practices across organisations. It would seek to initiate best practices in various departments in a company. It proposes to include companies in Kerala to be on the pilot programmeSQC has partnered with the Business Development Institute, which has developed and maintains the BD-CMM based on the Software Engineering Institute's CMM models. It canbe used to improve business development, sales management and sales processes across industries.
BD-CMM is expected to find far wide acceptance in the Indian industry, given the need to be competitive in the global market.
"We are happy to have partnered with SQC to bring the model to India and South-East Asia and hope the industry will find value in improving their sales processes. I look forward to a long and mutually beneficial association", said Howard Nutt, Director, BDI. |
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BD-I, US & SQCI launches BD-CMM in India |
04th August, 2006 |
The Economic Times (Online Edition) |
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BD-I, US & SQCI launches BD-CMM in India |
04th August, 2006 |
Infotech Online (Indiatimes.com)
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