Strategic insights recommendations

• Strategic insights will keep council members updated on industry disruptions, business model innovations that would help increase the value from the India center
• Sample Topics
  • Recalibration of India center vision - Essentials
  • Product transition roadmap - Implementation methodology
  • Innovation strategies - Learnings from other industries
  • Product ownership - Realization of R&D center value
  • Emerging markets - Opportunities to maximize R&D center value
  • Influencing the matrix organization structure
  • Offshoring to Globalization - Value transformation

Operational insights/recommendations

• Operational insights and recommendation will provide key industry information that will help organizations improve the operational efficiency at the R&D center
• Sample Topics
  • Middle management development
  • Strategies to attract and retain top talent
  • Domain expertise - Best practices
  • Green initiative - Workforce, Facility, Datacenter
  • Operational best practices for Center of Excellence
  • Effective communication with US stakeholders
  • Effective operations of shared services
  Working with government and related agencies

Global location trends

• Multinational companies have set up R&D centers in a number of emerging and developed countries. Evolution of R&D capability at various countries and cities is impacted by a number of parameters such as local talent pool, local market, cost escalation, location proximity, language, infrastructure and regulation
• Global location trends will provide up-to-date analysis of global locations such as St. Petersburg, Beijing, Shanghai, Minsk, Sofia, Bucharest, Singapore, Hanoi and Warsaw and provide comparison with Indian cities.

Talent pool analysis

• R&D talent pool in India is dynamic and each center should understand the talent availability and capability to be able to plan the growth and project strategies for the India center.
• Talent pool analysis will include detailed analysis of talent across various domain expertise, experience levels and locations. It will also provide an analysis of fresh talent pool availability.

Contract Negotiation/ Renegotiation

• Zinnov will help council members in defining the detailed business term sheets and SLA structures
• Zinnov will assist the member companies during the negotiation process with vendor(s) by actively taking part in the negotiation process
• Zinnov will validate the final contract after companies legal to ensure completeness of the contract

Operations Review

• Operations review will help review the efficiency of the service provider through a defined review criteria and identify key areas of improvement
• This exercise will evaluate interdependencies between organization strategy, design & human capital

Beyond R&D Insights

• Beyond R&D insights will include insights around shared services outsourcing and will discuss about the best practices
• This would also cover insights from a market expansion opportunity perspective

Global stakeholder presentation

• A large number of internal stakeholders across the organization would have to be continuously educated about the capability available in India, and have to be provided with insights on the success case studies from other companies.
• Global stakeholder presentations will include a series of fact-based presentations focused on specific stakeholders such as CEO, CIO, SVP of HR, SVP of Eng, CFO and CMO. The content in each of the presentations will be customized as per the type of stakeholder and the domain of the council member.

Consultant support

• Consultant support will help get access to additional data, and quick clarifications from the consultants who had worked on various reports and studies as part of the council member service offerings.