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During his recent visit to Sri Lanka, MTI’s Bahrain-based CEO Hilmy Cader, as part of MTI’s ‘Think Tank’ initiative, shared  their learnings on the impact of media on world opinion and what governments around the world can learn from businesses.
The cold war and the ensuing threat of nuclear warfare has always pre-occupied the world with the fear of ‘Weapons of Mass Destruction’ – in the cause of which billions of dollars are spent on the defense industry. The mind-set of governments around the world has been to build more powerful attacking and defending capabilities. The unfolding of socio-political problems around in almost all parts of the world means this emphasis will continue. However, as Governments around the  world are fast realizing, ‘Weapons of Mass Media’ is proving to be more lethal than ‘Weapons of Mass Destruction’. Think of Kosovo, Egypt, Syria, Rwanda (and the list goes on!) and one realizes how ‘battles’ are fought over mass media (including social media) and how World opinions are formed on what such media portrays.
Governments around the world are now responding by better appreciating how World opinions are formed, how public perception (mind-set) works and what stimuli are needed to influence the perception in favor of a particular cause. This is where Governments can learn from businesses, as business success depends on, not just how good your product or service is, but how well you understand the consumer mind-set and then work backwards to ‘craft’ your message.Governments around the world can also learn from businesses on crisis management, for instance the classic case study of how Tylenol accepted its mistake, did a product re-call and in fact came out much stronger. In more recent times, how Coke handled the crisis in Belgium and how Nestle handled the Perrier crisis should serve as good learnings. Otherwise, it could be like winking in the dark, we know what we are doing, but not the world!

The Seylan Bank Strategic Plan for 2012-15 was launched to the corporate management and entire branch network at Waters Edge this week.

The strategic plan was developed with the active involvement of the entire Seylan management team with facilitation and advisory from the MTI Consulting team led by Mano Tittawella. The theme of the MTI presentation was ‘Sweating your Assets,’ delivered by MTI CEO Hilmy Cader clad in a sporting outfit.

MTI HRM Solutions (www.mtihrmsolutions.com) was recently retained by Janashakthi Insurance, Sri Lanka’s leading Insurance Brand, on a successful HR assignment
 

MTI HRM Solutions is a subsidiary of fast growing boutique management consultancy MTI Consulting and offers the full suite of HR consulting and advisory services. This includes: Integrated Audit & Strategy, Organizational and Job design, Recruitment & Selection, Motivation & Talent Retention, HRD/Training Need Identification, HR Capacity/Manpower planning, Performance Management and Employee Engagement/Organizational Climate Surveys.
 

MTI HRM Solutions believes that success of an organization in a highly competitive environment is significantly influenced by the organization’s ability to develop and optimize returns from its human resources. This requires a strategic and holistic approach to Human Resource Management.

The research and intelligence team of MTI, in the last quarter has completed two assignments in the African Continent.
Last month, MTI carried out a study of the market for retail banking in Algeria, with particular focus on Time Deposits, Auto Financing, Cards and Infrastructure Funding. This study was on behalf of one the world’s leading banks.

Previously, MTI had completed an assignment on the market for hair care for one of India’s leading personal care companies with a growing international footprint “Although we had previous done work on Egypt, these two assignments have provided us the opportunity to work on two diverse and exciting markets.
MTI Consulting CEO Hilmy Cader said, “We have also formed a strategic alliance in Tunisia, which was signed just before the Arab Spring, which we now hope to resurrect. Our Partner in Tunisia has already completed an intensive two week orientation program in Sri Lanka.”