The Corporate Experience so far... A Patient ride!!

Well.. here I am once again.. continuing from my previous blog... with the exploits of the corporate world post the 1 year of an amazin vacation at the GMBA program at SP Jain!!!!

I must say most of you would simply envy the tremendous amount of patience some of us who rejoined this giant organization might have... and well.. i guess we surely do :) ...

As anticipated, the adventure did not end at the twin-city model.. but continued further to the city of Mumbai as well :)

The face-off with one of the worse bureaucracies in India started in the very first week at work (after the 10-day paid holiday in "God's own country- Kerala" )when I thought of moving to the Financal Services Consulting Group from the "Office of Strategy Management" that I was allocated to (kindly excuse the jargon :) ).. thankfully.. the "CAT-1" MBA tag did its trick and I ws able to skip thru certain hurdles in bureaucracy to get an interview with the FS Consulting group head within a 3-day span (yeah.. surprisingly enuf.. this happened within this very bureaucratic maze).. and all of a sudden.. I c myself being "released" frm OSM and joining FSC in Mumbai's business hub- Cuffe Parade...

So well.. that was about me gettin into the the current team....Now..lets get to the point as to why I actually gave the mentioned title to this post...

My first assignment started about 3 days into me joining the FSC group.. the 3 days being devoted to some patient follow-ups wid the admin and the Infrastructure development team to get my system configured and ready, of course that was after some hunt by the admin to actually find me a cubicle in the wonderfully crowded office space :) ...

So the first was an Internal consulting assignment related to suggesting a strategy to my bosses to scale up the customer numbers after the merger of the FS Consulting group wid the larger Global Consulting Practice... and this is where the wonderful "gas" that we were exposed to in the Business Strategy classes came to use... well... quite an experience given the limited data availability and time constraints (always the excuse for consultants)

Along wid the above ongoing assignment.. another "unofficial" assignment was handed over to me and another of my colleague concerning the forex process mapping at the Central counter- party in India (wat!!! )... another funny experience after the pages and pages of reading and the exassperating interviews wid the contacts at the concerned client site...

now.. u guys would wonder... wats the above to assignments got to do wid patience whn it all happened so fast... well... hw it is related is this way... i wud say wat each of us MBA's would always want is to be a Profit-center and not a cost-center for the company... like wat is said in consulting jargon.. hv the maximum utilization possible.. and here I ws.. workin on internal assignments for the first 2 months of the MBA.. can get a little dicey in the head sometimes...

so thr i was waiting to finally b on a "billed" project... of course.. all this while havin hopes for some good projects given the booming financial services sector globally...and.. in the meanwhile.. doing wat v all do wid no wrk... "Developing Competencies" :) ..

eventually..the 3.5 mnth wait is lookin to end... and.. hopefully... in the next few days frm nw.. I wud b moving on to the Debt market process consulting fr a Regulator in one of the fastest developin economies of the world (not India :) )..

and... wid this optimism of finally doin some good work and gaining some visibility.. I bid Adios to u guys!!!... hope my next post would hv something interesting wid visits to new places for work and leisure... Ciao ppl!!!