Business India March 3-16, 2003 For Mick Spiers, senior consultant QAI, the toughest thing in India is negotiating its traffic. Counting on the tips of his fingers, he says, "I've crossed the road four times and I haven't been hit." In India for the first time to promote the successful Capability Maturity Model Integrated (CMMI®) level 1.1, Spiers upbeat about the prospects of this version. He says, "This is the right time for the technology to be launched in the country. Most of our prospective clients and we are at the right maturity levels to adopt this technology that will integrate all the various divisions of the organization and for the first time allow for decision-making that is not routine." For example, adopting this tool by the organization will allow it to reduce its expense on the tendering process which is an expensive proposition for most companies by concentrating on only those tenders that have a chance of wining. Sixty companies, worldwide, have adopted this tool that comes at a cost of Rs 16 lakh. Back