The Hindu Business Line : DDI bets big on India operations

Globally, Development Dimensions International (DDI), a US-based human resource training and consulting company, helps hire and promote 10,000 people in the corporate sector each day. “We cannot not want to be part of the India success story now that your companies are going global,” says David Tessmann-Keys, Senior Vice-President, International Operations, DDI.

DDI operates in two key areas that are crucial to India Inc’s plans to extend its global footprint: Designing and implementing selection systems to enable companies hire better people faster and identifying and developing exceptional leadership talent critical to creating a high-performance workforce.

Tessmann-Keys told The New Manager that large Indian organisations with global plans need talent to execute that strategy. Towards this end, DDI was already assisting 50 of its clients in the country to select, retain and develop talent.

DDI kicked off its operations in India last October and currently has two offices in the country and is on the verge of opening its third office. However, it has been servicing the Indian market through its MNC clients for the last 10 years.

In 20-25 organisations, DDI is identifying and developing critical talent for large organisations, i.e., a leadership bench. General Motors, Tata BP Solar, Holcim, ICI, Avaya Global and Johnson Mathew are among DDI’s 50 clients in the country.

DDI has developed systems and processes that help companies in targeted and behaviour-based selection. According to Tessmann-Keys, around 250 start-ups in the country that have plans of scaling up their workforce rapidly want DDI to design a system to bring in those large numbers.

Then there are MNCs wanting to import systems and processes into the country. DDI has 75 offices in 26 countries and many of its programmes are available in multiple languages.

“With a CAGR of over 50 per cent, China is one of our fastest growing operations, but India is likely to overtake it soon,” said Tessmann-Keys. His confidence about the higher projected growth in India: Indian management talent is far more sophisticated than China’s.

All Indian corporates need to do now to go global is manage their human talent as successfully as they have managed their financial capital, says Tessmann-Keys.

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