Minacs' Godbole on India BPO visionaries panel

BANGALORE, INDIA: Milind Godbole, president-Asia Pacific at Aditya Birla Minacs, a global business solutions company (subsidiary of Aditya Birla Nuvo), has been elected to the India 6 (I6) think tank. He comes on board as one of the six members elected to the first ever think tank of Indian BPO visionaries organized and coordinated by Shared Services and Outsourcing Network (SSON).

I6 is the Indian version of the respected G6 think tanks supported by SSON globally. The six visionaries from Indian outsourcing were elected via a month long voting process.

SSON's election rules allowed only the ''buy-side'' of industry to vote, with the ''sell-side'' players (namely, employees and executives of third party service providers like Minacs and their competitors) not participating in the election process.

Commenting on his election to the I6 think tank, Milind Godbole said, ''Firstly, I thank all our clients, buy-side industry friends and the entire Minacs leadership for placing their confidence in me. Along with my I6 panel colleagues, I look forward to working towards building up this inaugural panel into a thought leading think tank for our industry.

Enterprises today are looking for Next Generation solutions and strategies to ensure sustainable business acceleration in the uncertain times that have become the New Normal. A forum like the I6 presents a great opportunity for industry thought leaders to put their collective experience and knowledge towards creating a long term vision and strategy for catalyzing industry growth.''

Emma Beaumont, SSON's global director of Events sums up the importance of this new I6 panel within the region, ''SSON felt compelled to react to the overwhelming increase in enquiries seen from our Indian market members, regarding interest in BPO over the last twelve months.

Launching a regionalized version of the Global Sourcing Think Tank (G6) to specifically tackle the local nuances of the BPO related activity in the Indian market was a very natural decision for us, and a clear indicator that some Indian organizations are now beginning to reassess their approach to traditional Shared Services modeling.

We're definitely seeing more Indian businesses considering outsourcing and hybrid activity a potential solution for delivering the next wave of value, whilst some captives remain strongly skeptical on the cultural fit between BPO with this market. We anticipate there will be some tough questions posed to those thought leaders voted into the spotlight to answer them.''

The I6 will come together for its first meeting at the Shared Services and Outsourcing Week, Dec 5-8 in Bangalore, India during which SSON will also present them as a panel on Dec 7 to the event's participants.