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| Facts and Questions - FAQ's |
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| 1. What exactly is Interactive Management in Centre
for Interactive Management India (CIMI)? |
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| Interactive Management (IM) is a discipline of
systems sciences propounded by Prof. John Warfield, former director,
Institute for Advanced Studies in Integrative Sciences (IASIS),
George Mason University, USA. IM essentially provides methods
for group idea generation and structuring for understanding
complex problems in organizational and social situations. We
adopt the IM approach along with other systems methodologies
for understanding the complexity of any subject we are working
on. Using IM gives us a competitive edge. |
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| 2. Is IM different from Moderation approach, which
international development agencies such as German Agency for
Technical Cooperation (GTZ) and Swiss Agency for Development
Cooperation (SDC) commonly use in their projects? |
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| No, IM is not very different from Moderation, as far as the
underlying philosophy is concerned. Both the approaches emphasize
participation of stakeholders, visual representation of ideas
and consensus in arriving at an understanding of the key issues
to be addressed. However, IM is different from Moderation with
regard to the way it is applied. |
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| 3. Do you only specialize in Interactive Management? |
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| No. We use interactive management, moderation
and many other approaches as required by the situation we are
dealing with. |
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| 4. So, what exactly are the services you provide? |
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| So far, since inception we have worked in fields as diverse
as Information Technology, HRD, Vocational Training, Education,
Ecological Refrigeration, Gender Issues, and Employment Situation
etc. We have provided services in the form of research, consultancy
and teaching/ training in these areas.. |
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| 5. Do you work only in Environment, Education, Training
& Technology sectors as your Home Page describes? |
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| We believe in diversity and flexibility of our services, since
we are essentially knowledge workers. We have the capability
to reorient our skill sets to any new sector or functional area.
In fact, we feel challenged if asked to provide services in
newer fields where we may not have worked so far. |
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| 6. Typically, what kind of clients you work for? |
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| We have worked for (a) UN bodies like ILO and UNDP; (b) International
Development Agencies like GTZ and SDC; (c) international consultancy
organizations such as INFRAS Consulting Group, Zurich; and Springfield
Centre for Business in Development, UK; and (d) Indian corporate
sector organizations and research/academic institutes. |
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| 7. Can you give some examples of Indian corporate
sector organizations and research/academic institutes you have
worked for? |
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| Amongst the corporate sector organizations, we have worked,
for example, with Federal Mogul Automotive Ltd. and Godrej Industries
Ltd. for conduct of attitudinal training and customer service
training programmes respectively. We have also worked for Subhash
Projects & Marketing Ltd., a well-known firm in infrastructure
development. Amongst academic institutes, we have worked , for
example, with Lal Bahadur Shastri Academy of Administration
in developing case studies on gender issues; and with Institute
of Applied Manpower Research in conducting diagnostic studies
for Women Development Corporations in different states. Both
of these engagements were on World Bank-assisted projects. |
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| 8. Do you work only in India as your name suggests? |
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| On the contrary, we are a global service provider. We have
worked on projects in China, Greece, Japan, Uganda and Ghana,
amongst other countries, having traveled to these countries,
as demanded by the respective clients. |
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| 9. Do you travel abroad extensively? |
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| We may not be known as an Outsourcing Firm, but we are also
comfortable providing off-site services through simply e-mail
based service requests. There are some clients of ours whom
we have never met in person, and they are very happy with our
services. But, of course, we do travel abroad (and would love
to!). |
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| 10. How many employees do you have in CIMI? |
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| The number of employees ranges from one to infinity. We have
the strength of all our networking resources behind us whenever
the situation demands. |
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