List of intern projects undertaken during 2006-07:

• Prime broker services for hedge funds — opportunity analysis — global financial markets
• Mapping of export potential to regions of strategic importance to Tata companies
• Identification and suggestion of new avenues and cities to scale up operations
• Involvement in the process of new product development at various levels ranging from packaging development, sourcing plan to consumer feedback on test launch
• Case for integration of brokerage and wealth management services — global financial markets
• Energy derivatives — trading and risk management — financial markets
• Consumer development and engineering department — customer surveys, working on tariff structure, customer marketing
• Strategy development — industry analysis, bench marking studies and financial modeling
• Evaluate business potential and identify product offering opportunities for Pakistan market
• Ways to make a better workplace — creation and execution of initial phase of proposal
• Mapping of human resource business processes
• Develop process reliability methodology
• Business process detailing for production, planning and control
• Business process detailing for material (inbound) — order to payment
• 360 degree activation plan — marketing / communication
• Benchmarking of processes
• Studying of market share of domestic businesses
• Integration of collections with treasury and expenditure to realise best possible returns and to avoid idle funds
• Benchmarking of treasury / fund management practices and suggesting most suitable model in context of the particular company
• Harnessing captive power generation capacity available with larger consumers in an organised manner for meeting peaking demand shortfall
• HR — development of performance management systems
• Business development strategy for logistics business / coastal shipping
• Business development strategy for pharma and chemicals business
• Business development strategy for castings and forgings acquisitions and greenfield business
• Process optimisation at plant / factory
• Creating synergies in banquets and rooms between the luxury properties — hotel industry
• Diversity mapping and designing induction kit
• Developing a model of economic indicators for predicting potential business growth and developing appropriate strategies
• To attract and maximise share of the high-end traveler to the Taj Luxury hotels in specified regional markets
• Developing a framework for assessment of capabilities. Considering a competency based assessment model, relevant to the function / level of the individual
• Power plant projects and M&A
• Repositioning of hotel brands in sections of various cities
• Review of delegation of authority and linking to IT in the chemicals industry

(Note: Project details provided above do not contain company names and specifications. They are broad indicators of the projects that have been covered thus far, and are not restrictive in terms of future projects that may be made available to interns).

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