Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Stage 1:
• The Participants will be required to send the solution of the case study as a soft
copy on or before 15th January 2008 latest by 23:59 hours.
• Only 5 teams will be short-listed and will be intimated through email.
Stage 2:
The results will be announced on 18th January 2008 and the selected candidates
will be invited for a presentation to be held on February 2nd and 3rd 2008 at IFMR,
Chennai campus.
CASE
It is Thursday, 24th Jan 2008.It is 4:15 PM on the clock. R Krishnan, Vice President -
Human Resource of New Day Software Solutions (NDSS), is deep in thought in his
office on the 4th floor of NDSS House, the corporate office of the company in
Bangalore. He has just returned from a week long business trip to the US and is now
probing over the matter related to relocating the NDSS engineers to the new
subsidiary NDSS Germany which was known as Deutsche Technologies before
acquisition. At 5:00 PM, he has a conference call with his German counterpart, Mr.
Ralz Bernhard, Chief Operations Officer- NDSS Germany, on the issues related to
Manpower requirement and allocation. He has the profiles of the engineers of NDSS
who are most likely to be sent to Germany. He has done his homework, but he is still
unsure about the adequacy of the information in hand. At 4:30 PM, his secretary, Ms.
Reena Sharma hands over the report sent by Ralz describing the job profiles of
engineers at NDSS Germany.
At Home
New Day Software Solutions is an IT Company, which provides IT solutions across
the communications value chain and hence aids clients to accelerate product
development life cycle. New Day offers a unique combination of research and
development consultancy, wireless software products and software services, and
works with Network OEMs, Semiconductor Vendors, Terminal Device OEMs and
Operators across the world. New Day's customer profile includes Global Fortune 500
and Tier 1 companies in these segments. Established in 1999, New day employs
over 4,500 people. It operates from state-of-the-art research and development
centers in Bangalore, Mumbai, Hyderabad & Chennai in India, Frankfurt (Germany)
and Stockholm (Sweden). New day is also present in Shanghai (China), Ottawa
(Canada), Nice (France), Guildford (UK) and Boston, Dallas, New York & Santa
Clara (USA).
New day is SEI CMM Level 5 certified and its solutions are ISO 9001:2000, ISO
27001 and TL 9000 certified. New Day’s proprietary quality management system
strengthens its business offerings and ensures client satisfaction. New Day’s
commitment to environment is highlighted by its ISO 14001 certification. Hence
excellence in service and its global presence makes NDSS the preferred company
by its clients. The innovative spirit of NDSS can be seen in its people policies. It has
the concept of “For By and Of the Employee” which is unique and well known as the
best in the industry. The HR policies make NDSS the most preferred company to
work for. NDSS was ranked the best company to work for in India for the year 2007
in a survey carried out by a leading HR consultancy.
German Subsidiary
Established in 1995, NDSS Germany is a global company which works on wireless
technology. The core business areas are hardware, software and mechanical design
and testing related to these areas. The company improves the competitiveness of its
customers among their rivals by accelerating their R&D and testing processes to
achieve high quality products. Currently NDSS Germany employs 400 people. Being
such a small company there is no separate HR department.
The Interview
CEO of NDSS Germany Lars Lau had a press interview at 10:30 AM on Thursday,
28th January 2008, pertaining to the company’s acquisition by an Indian firm.
Excerpts from the interview are as follows:
The Situation
The acquisition process started in June 2007. Financial integration is over and
technical integration is in progress. Both the parties intend to close the entire
process of integration, including Human Resource integration by March 2008.
Questions
Ralz and Krishnan are on call at 5 PM IST. Help them to solve the issues faced by
the company.
1. What additional information is required for case to be complete and to solve the
issues?
2. Based on the assumptions and additional information that you provide for question
1 and also taking into consideration the policy and cultural differences of both the
firms suggest the best way to deal with the situation from an HR perspective.
Guidelines:
• The event is open to all students currently enrolled in a Business school.
• Maximum of three students are allowed per team and all should be from the
same Institution.
• No participant can be part of more than one team.
• There can be multiple entries from the same college.
• The solution of the case study should be in Times New Roman font, Size 12 with
1.5 line spacing. The word limit for the case solution is 3000 words.
• The front page of the document should contain the Name of the Case Study,
Names of the participants, their mobile number and email ids. The identity of the
participants should not be revealed in any other part of the document.
• The solution should be mailed to abhyudaya2008@gmail.com with the word
document file labeled as 5Ps_college name_team name
• Judgment of the panel will be final and binding.
• Organizers are not responsible for non-receipt of email submission due to the
failure of email network providers before deadline
PRIZES:
First Prize: - Worth Rs 12000
Second Prize: - Worth Rs. 8000