The India Competence Centre (ICC-FIM) is an integrated part of the Research Institute for International Management (FIM-HSG) at the University of St.Gallen under the leadership of Prof. Dr. Winfried Ruigrok.
The India Competence Centre (ICC-FIM) has an extensive collaboration network with leading business schools in India including the Indian Institutes of Management in Bangalore (IIM-B), Udaipur (IIM-U), Kozhikode (IIM-K), Calcutta (IIM-C) and Indore (IIM-I). It further collaborates with different associations including the Swiss-Indian Chamber of Commerce and Swissnex India.
In particular, the ICC-FIM collaborates with Mohit Srivastava from IIM Udaipur on projects about SCM and internationalization, Gopalakrishnan Narayanmurtny from IIM Kozikhode on access to affordable drinking water as well as Prof. Shainesh G from IIM Bangalore on new solutions to improve affordable healthcare infrastructure.
Moreover, the India Competence Centre works together with the Swiss Business Hub India of Switzerland Global Enterprise.
In short, the India Competence Centre (ICC-FIM) provides the following support for…
- Students:
- BSc courses on “Doing Business in India” and “Developing Infrastructure Solutions for Rural India”.
- Supervision of bachelor on master theses in the context of European companies doing business in India and Indian companies doing business in Europe.
- Executives:
- Different sessions and courses on “Doing Business in India” as part of various HSG executive education courses including negotiating in India, sourcing in India, marketing/selling in India as well as market entry development.
- Coaching of executives along market entry strategy development.
- Coaching of executives as part of their preparation to work as expat managers in India.
- Companies:
- Applied research to improve the intelligence of European companies in India with respect to industry intelligence, process intelligence, cultural intelligence as well as geographical intelligence.
- Applied research to support the development of innovative business models such as access-based solutions.
- Development of local business ecosystems for European companies in India to improve their networking and business development opportunities.
For more information about our applied research services, please follow this link.
Companies located in the St.GallenBodenseeArea (SG, TG, AR, AI) can benefit from free services and support as part of the collaboration between the India Competence Centre (IIC-FIM) and the ASIA CONNECT Centre (ACC-HSG) at the University of St.Gallen.