QAI has completed the WORLD’S FIRST People CMM® Assessment
(PCMM®) for Wipro Technologies at Level 5 under the Software Engineering Institute - Carnegie Melon University's assessment process.
Wipro Technologies is the world's first software services
company to achieve CMM® Level 5, now has the unique
and dual distinction of being the only organization
in the world to be assessed at Level 5 under both
the Software CMM® and PCMM® processes.
Wipro is a 9,500 people, multi-national, New York Stock Exchange Listed Indian IT Powerhouse. After successes of ISO, CMM® and Six-Sigma journey, PCMM® Level 5 is the latest achievement of Wipro Technologies in their quest for excellence in people and business processes.
The Assessment was conducted by Mr. Ajay Batra who is an accredited Lead Assessor and is working as a Consulting Partner at QAI Ltd. The assessment spanned over a period of nine days covering all the strategic business units and divisions of Wipro Technologies,
Bangalore, encompassing over 6000 employees.
Wipro has pioneered excellence in several people processes since the 70's. Competency based talent hiring (1971), Performance Linked Pay (1973), Employee Stock Award programme (1983), Economic Value Add based stock award programme (1989), Human Resources Review and Succession Planning (1994), Competency based Human Resources Practices (1998-99), Life cycle Leadership Development (2000) are a few examples of such processes.
About the PCMM® model
The PCMM® Model is a framework which helps organizations successfully address critical people process issues. Based on the current best practices in human resources, knowledge management and organization development fields, the PCMM® guides organizations in continuously improving their processes for more effective management and development of their work force.
The PCMM® framework decisively helps organizations improve the maturity of their people practices, establishing a programme for continuous development and integration of talent development with process improvement and finally promoting a culture of excellence and innovation.
About Wipro
Wipro Limited is the first SEISM CMM® Level 5 certified IT Services Company globally. For the last two decades, they have been a Global Leader and have successfully served the technology needs of more than 200 customers from diverse industries and locations.
Their Chairman Mr. Azim Premji places tremendous emphasis on people development and believes that Wipro's success is due to its people. He was in fact also listed as the richest Indian by Forbes magazine, with a personal worth of $2 billion, and became the second-richest man in the world for a short time before the technology stocks tumbled.
Wipro's ADS’s are listed on the New York Stock Exchange, and its equity shares are listed in India on the Stock Exchange -
Mumbai, and the National Stock Exchange, among others. For more information, please visit their website at
www.wipro.com
FROM THE NEWS … Wipro Tech gets PCMM® Level 5
"Wipro Technologies has matched all the fundamental quality parameters required for a PCMM® Level 5 certification…" Times of India, Dec 22, 2001
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