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- QAI was the first
organization to provide CMM® & PCMM® Assessments
in Asia.
- QAI conducted the
first SEISM-Authorized PCMM® Lead Assessors
course and SEISM - Authorized Official
''Introduction to CMM® Integrated'' courses
in Asia.
- QAI was the first
company in Asia to undergo a PCMM® Assessment.
- QAI assessed
the world’s first People CMM® Level 5 Organization
– Wipro Technologies
- QAI conducted the
first QAI had the first Certified
Software Quality Analyst in India and China.
- QAI's Executive
Director, Navyug Mohnot is the first Indian to
be invited to join the Editorial Board of Ed Yourdon’s
Cutter IT Journal.
- QAI is the only
Indian organization chosen to be the SPICE Trials center
in India.
- First organization
to institute a quality excellence reward for organizations
for demonstrating an improvement in business value,
resulting from software process excellence in association
with Computer Society of India.
- QAI and
NASSCOM announces first ever nation wide launch of “Certifications
for Frontline Management” for the ITES-BPO sector
(CBTL and CBQA certification for Team leaders & Quality
Analysts.)
- QAI is the only
Implementation Partner of COPCSM Inc. in India and has
the world's only Lead Auditor who is also a Six Sigma
Master Black Belt.
- NASSCOM and QAI
published a research report on ‘Key Operational
Excellence Challenges in Indian ITES-BPO industry.’
The report deconstructs some of the Key Operational Issues
facing the Indian ITES-BPO Industry and benchmarks our
performance with global benchmarks, provided by over 600
COPC audited reviews in 35 countries worldwide.
- FICCI (Federation
of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry) selects to
partner with QAI for offering Six Sigma services
to the manufacturing, financial services, consumer goods
and other sectors.
- QAI organized
the first ever SEPGSM (Software Engineering Process
Group) along with the Carnegie Mellon University, USA,
Strategic Human Capital Management (SEISM People
CMM®) in Asia. These are now annual events
by QAI with tutorials running simultaneously in India,
Singapore and Thailand.
- QAI, a vendor neutral
organization, has organized the first Annual International
IT Service Management Conference (itSM 2005)
in India supported by itSMF (IT Service Management Forum)-UK,
Parity Training (UK's No.1 IT Training provider) and BCS
(British Computer Society).
- QAI had organized
the first-ever Project Management Leadership Conference
in India in 2004, with support from PMI®
(Project Management Institute chapters all across the
world)
- QAI is the first
Indian organization to offer the full suite of ISEB
(Information Systems Examination Board) Accredited
ITIL Courses.
- QAI is the first
Indian organization to organize and conduct the ISEB Accredited
Foundation training & ISEB Accredited Service Managers
training programs.
- QAI has two
of only seven persons in the world to be both SEISM -Authorized
Software and PCMM® lead assessor. He is also the first
PCMM® Lead Assessor in Asia.
- QAI
and our Lead Assessor for SEISM’s People CMM® have
been acknowledged on the contributors list for
the version 2 of the PCMM®
- QAI organized the
first ever People CMM® workshop
in Asia conducted by the architect of the People
CMM® Model, Dr. Bill Curtis.
- Launched
the Version 2 of PCMM® model in Asia and
conducted the first SEISM Authorized workshop on ''Understanding
the PCMM®'' in India.
- QAI has consulted
and assessed the first CMM® / CMMI® Level 5 organizations
in several countries that include Philippines, China,
Hong Kong to name a few.
- QAI personnel have
started and were founder members of various SPINs
(Software Process Improvement Networks) in several
cities across the world.
- Accenture has licensed
QAI’s Six Sigma Body of Knowledge and curriculum for global
usage.
- QAI brought
the ISO 9000, Tick -IT Lead Auditor course into India
and co-tutored it several times.
- Working
with the Government of China for training for 100 companies
in China on Software Process Improvement
- Working with Ministries
in the Government of Singapore on implementing
Six Sigma to improve their operations.
- Working with Governments
of Bangaladesh, Pakistan, Mauritius, Egypt
for providing Operational Excellence services.
- Largest
competency Center
on Software Process Improvement outside US
- QAI has over
200 active CMM® and CMMI® Accounts spanning
several countries.
- QAI Lead Assessors
have conducted over 75 Assessments.
- The QAI Consulting
Team aggregates to over 500 Person Years of experience.
- QAI has the largest
team of CMM®, CMMI®, and PCMM® Lead
Appraisers outside of USA.
- Trained over
1500 Organizations and 75,000 professionals from
several countries
- Four of the Big
5 consulting firms are our clients.
- QAI has conducted
numerous workshops for the BPO Industry and has
trained over 1200 representatives at middle-management
level, of which around 700 are certified professionals.
Range of organizations includes - Captive MNCs, 3rd Party
MNCs, Captive Indian, 3rd Party Indian. Industry verticals
include - Customer Contact Centers, Business Process Outsourcing
(BPO) firms, Banking & Financial services, Insurance
& Telecom companies.
- QAI’s Six Sigma
Coaches have trained over 1000 professionals as
Black Belts and Green Belts and lead / mentored over 1200
Six Sigma projects.
- QAI Auditors have
conducted over 25 COPC Audits and have
been involved with more that 65 ITES-BPO companies
for process and operation excellence and organizations
having a combined capacity of over 100,000 seats have
been covered.
- QAI’s personnel
have presented papers at conferences abroad, written books,
been on international review committees in UK, Singapore,
Malaysia, Hong Kong, China and Taiwan.
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