Working with India. The Softer Aspects of a Successful Collaboration with the Indian IT & BPO Industry

Intelligent IT Offshoring to India. Roadmpas for Emerging Business Landscapes

Globalization of Professional Services

International Business, Marketing, and Management

Wolfgang Messner is a clinical professor at the Darla Moore School of Business. He earned his Ph.D. in economics and social sciences from the University of Kassel (Germany), MBA in financial management from the University of Wales (UK), and B.Sc. and M.Sc. in informatics and economics after studying at the Technical University Munich (Germany), University of Newcastle upon Tyne (UK), and Università per Stranieri di Perugia (Italy).

Prior to coming to the University of South Carolina in 2016, Messner was a professor of international management at the MYRA School of Business in Mysore (India). As an adjunct faculty, he also taught at the Indian Institutes of Management Bangalore, Indore and Kozhikode (India), Julius Maximilian University of Würzburg (Germany), Royal Docks Business School at the University of East London (UK), and WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management (Germany). During that time, he co-founded GloBus Research in the UK and India as a niche consulting and training company with the objective of helping resolve international business and leadership challenges. Messner provided trainings in big multinationals like Capgemini, Ericsson, Hitachi, Infosys, McKinsey, Microsoft, Siemens, and selected mid-caps across industry verticals.

Before joining academia, Messner worked for 18 years as a business analyst, project manager, and management consultant with Capgemini (2006-11), BMW Group (2003-05), The Information Management Group IMG (1999-2002), and Deutsche Bank (1995-99).

Data Analysis

Statistics

Marketing

Managing Global Teams

Selling & Marketing

Offshoring

Intercultural Communication

India

Strategy

Data & Analytics

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The World is Flat - or is it still Round?

Meeting Local Requirements in a Global Market. How to Sustain the Firm's Talent Base?

Negotiating with Indians - Intercultural Peculiarities

Intercultural peculiarities and consequences for daily work

What started as a labor-arbitrage body shop, is now not only the topic of Presidential debates, but has become a fear for joblosses in the developed world. What is really behind the headlines of India's IT & BPO Industry? What can one expect out of an India project? How mature is it? And how good are the people? Where is the industry going to be in 2020

The Current State and Future Perspectives of India's IT & BPO Industry

Venkata Jayaraman

Country Head Payments CMS Ops

Somok Ghosh

Head of Offshore Management

Antonino Gargano

Delivery Manager

Srini Subramanian

Principal Consultant

Ignaz Vinzenz

Director

Shantanu Patil

Project Manageer

Andreas Philipp

Development Director Central Europe

Peter Schmid

Senior Software Engineer

Ravi Tirumalaraju

Head Mobile Solutions

Dr Marion Kremer

Head of CSD Research

Clinical Professor of International Business

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