Nihilent to add KM muscle in frameworks

PUNE, INDIA: Nihilent Technologies, a business consulting and solutions integration company would take up Knowledge Management as the next improvement area in its menu.

L C Singh, president and CEO said that while the company is still using third party solutions in that area there's opportunity to create clusters around content. "We will buy the base technology from someone else and populate the next frontier. This will make the framework more robust."

Otherwise, he opines that the company's main offering, the patented change management MC3 framework is holistic enough. He was speaking at the sidelines of a conference where he announced the domestic roll -out of LAMAT, a web-based performane management tool.

The tool strengthens MC3 framework in areas of calibration, skill assessment, real-time anaytics, automated balanced scorecard, initiative tracking and one-screen glimpse of key performance indicators. The tool gives a holistic view of business performance at all levels. It has seen 80 man-hours so far and is built on Microsoft platform. It has been explored in beta phase in South Africa already and marks Nihilent’s move on product-based consulting.

The company was sharing the implementation of LAMAT for the first customer in India, which is Demag Cranes and Components India. Going ahead, the company will increase its focus on the Indian market with a strategy that will help it leverage its current horizontal strength to a gradual vertical spread. "Engineering, software and construction would be some hot areas. Currently South Africa makes up 70 per cent of its revenue pie.