Before we start with what happened today: HAPPY BIRTHDAY RAFFAELLA!!!
As usual this day also started early in the morning with a breakfast between 8 AM and 9 AM (from 8.55 and 9 AM for those of us who likes to sleep). Even if the day before was a free day, we were all sleepy as visiting India can be as tiring as attending lessons.
During the first lesson we met Mr. Zarir Batliwala. Class started at 9.15 and was referred on trends in India Management HR. The professor gave us an important point of view of Indian HR market history, Indian special skills and the future of the Indian development in this particular area of management.
After a small (but necessary) coffee/tea break, we started the second lesson: “Rural Marketing”. Prof Prakash Philipose shared with us his amazing knowledge of rural needs and marketing advices that companies use in this particular situation. It was an interesting lesson also thanks to the professor charisma, humour and capacity to keep the class awake and sharp.
The last morning lesson was “Doing Business in India” explained by Mr. Hubert Reilard who is a German manager who came in India in 1987. From this date he has been managing a German company (EFD) in India that we visited later in the afternoon. He gave us some brilliant overview of the possibility to invest in this country, to open a company and manage it with success, comparing this experience with similar ones in other countries.
After a quick snack most of us decided to change our clothes to be more comfortable and ready for the company visit. Monday at Xime is “formal day” but wear suits and dresses with Indian temperatures and visiting a firm is impossible. Also Mr. Hubert Reilard came at Xime from its factory without his tie on but in few seconds, after he understood the formality of the lesson he was able to solve the problem opening his “emergency bag” and taking out a perfect tie to wear.
At 2.15 PM our BUS was ready to go EFD but, as usual, we were not... Finally at 2.30 we left Xime and after just 15 minutes we arrived to our destination.
EFD business is based on “Induction heating”, the process of heating an electrically conducting metal by electromagnetic induction. An induction heater consists of a copper electromagnet, through which a high-frequency alternating current is passed. The frequency of alternating current used depends on the object size, material type, coupling (between the work coil and the object to be heated) and the penetration depth. This process of heating and hardening differs from heating using ovens as is more precise and the depth and wideness of the area to operate on can be easily controlled.
EFD plant is just outside Bangalore. When we arrived we split in three groups and we started the visit. We were with the HR director, a kind little man, who brought us firstly in the engineer offices on the second floor, secondly in the area where the machines are built, thirdly in the area on the first floor where EFD use some of its machines to evade the Indian market commission and finally in the area where the machines that are sold to other companies are tested before shipping.
We understood that EFD both build induction heating machines for its customers all over the world and sell the hardening service to local companies.
We finished the visit in the conference room with an interview with Mr. Hubert Reilard who proudly told us other curiosities about this company. Moreover he also explained us that the plant was a little bit a mess (compared to Same, it was a lot) just because they were moving things to restructure some parts of it (the building has at least 20 years).
Finally at 5 PM we finished our visit and we got on our bus.
After we come back to XIME, Matteo managed to catch everybody before we disappeared and make us go to the auditorium to start to work on the Italian cultural show. Thursday night we will have the chance to entertain our Indian hosts showing them somehow our culture. All of us tried to express as better we could all our capability in doing something typical Italian. After a lot of songs, dances and others ideas were proposed, we reached a point and we planned the program hoping to be ready on time for the exhibition.
Dinner time arrived immediately after 8 PM but when we arrived in our cafeteria we were shocked to see that there was not enough food and there was almost just plain rice!! We were really hungry after “cultural show preparation”!! After complaining, they brought some other things to eat and we could nurture our starving stomachs…
After dinner we went out to party all together for Raffa’s birthday. After our rickshaw got lost at least three times in the end we arrived to a special pub chosen by one our Indian friend: The Beach.
Over there we had some cocktails and beers to drink, we danced and after a while we were forced to leave the pub before midnight. Bangalore laws in fact prohibit keeping pubs open after a certain hour in the night (not without any bride for cops).
Even if it was still early for “European standard” we had an awesome night all together and that is the point.
Happy birthday Raffa!!
TNX 2 ALL, 4 BEING HERE N BEING AS U R!!!!
Domi e Gian
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