ASCI conducts an MDP for Small and Medium Enterprises
The Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) are a significant and growing sector in many developing countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America. In recognition of the fact that many of them can gain from enhanced skills in the management of finance, marketing, human resources and operations, the Administrative Staff College of India in collaboration with the Commonwealth Secretariat in London and Norfund-Aureos, has been organizing training programmes for managers and entrepreneurs of SMEs. The latest example of this is the programme it conducted for SMEs of the Pacific region at Madang, Papua New Guinea from 26th to 30th October, 2009.
Twenty participants from PNG, Tonga, Vanuatu and Fiji representing SMEs at middle to senior management levels, participated in the programme. The programme was designed to provide the participants an insight into the globally benchmarked best practices in management with learning focus on integrating functional business processes with enterprise level strategy.
The programme was led by Dr. Hemnath Rao, Professor & Director, Centre for Poverty Studies and Rural Development, with support from Prof. Raj V. Ponnaluri, Area Chairperson, Procurement, Operations, Materials and Project Management and Information Systems and Dr. B. Lakshmi, Professor, Centre for Public Policy, Governance and Performance. Mr. David Ashiagbor from the Comonwealth Secretariat, London, Mr. Howard ARU from Center for Development of Enterprise, Vanuatu and Mr. Andrew Crompton from Pacific Capital Partners, Brisbane, served as observers.
Three members of the faculty from the Divine Word University, Madang in PNG also participated in conducting the programme.
The programme received a positive feedback and was widely appreciated.
