{"id":1466,"date":"2011-09-11T20:21:00","date_gmt":"2011-09-11T20:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/projects\/horsesforsources\/genpact-nissan-hro_091111\/"},"modified":"2011-09-11T20:21:00","modified_gmt":"2011-09-11T20:21:00","slug":"genpact-nissan-hro_091111","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.horsesforsources.com\/genpact-nissan-hro_091111\/","title":{"rendered":"Genpact drives a Nissan into HRO"},"content":{"rendered":"

A lot has changed over the last five years in the outsourcing business.\u00a0Has it really?<\/em>\u00a0I hear you cry. OK – you may have a point, but one thing is evolving – the emergence of some of the major Indian\u00a0service\u00a0providers as credible HR delivery firms.<\/p>\n

When Indian service providers were originally mentioned as budding HRO providers, many HR executives would respond “we couldn’t possibly entrust such sensitive HR processes with offshore\u00a0<\/em>firms”. \u00a0Since then, many Indian service providers – and other global organizations with large Indian captive organizations, have become exemplars of how to develop, manage and motivate talent.<\/p>\n

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Nissan liked Genpact so much, they bought their HR…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

One US C-suite executive even recently broached the topic of bringing Indian service provider leadership over to the US to help educate US firms on how to develop a competitive talent development culture.<\/p>\n

Genpact has been working with Nissan for more than six years, providing finance and accounting, procurement, customer service,\u00a0supply chain and analytics services. \u00a0So adding HR services seems a natural extension of these services – even though Genpact has limited client experience of multi-process HRO. \u00a0Moreover, this is also the reemergence of what we started to see in the pre-Recession days –\u00a0increased\u00a0bundling of business processes with a single provider which has a developing knowledge of a client’s institutional\u00a0processes. \u00a0Once they have lived their clients’ quirks, challenges, ideals and best-practices, surely the\u00a0opportunity\u00a0to broaden<\/em> into new process areas is a\u00a0natural\u00a0extension of the relationship?\u00a0So let’s hand over to our own HRO provocateur, Keith Strodtman to\u00a0elaborate\u00a0further…<\/p>\n

Why Genpact has some serious chops to do well at HR Outsourcing<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Genpact may not be a well-recognized name in HR circles but in the business process outsourcing (BPO) world they are a premier BPO provider, especially in finance and accounting (F&A), procurement, IT, and other process areas. That said; the company\u2019s recent acquisition of the HR services subsidiary of Nissan Motors in Japan is a significant statement about its ambition in the HR BPO market. According to Anju Talwar, Head of HR services at Genpact, we should expect to see Genpact sign several more strategic HRO customers in the next couple of years. Talwar says Genpact plans utilize the capability gained in the Nissan deal to offer HR services to other customers in Japan and other Asian countries.<\/p>\n

Nissan, who had a previous F&A and procurement BPO relationship with Genpact, has expanded the relationship to include HR services to 54,000 employees in more than 20 offices in Japan and other parts of Asia. In all there are about 200 Genpact staff supporting the HR processes. Many of the staff are located in Japan but some work is also processed from a Genpact center in Dalian, China. Genpact has more than 3,000 employees in China. The scope fo the Nissan deal includes: payroll, benefits administration, career development, portions of recruiting, an employee call center, and other HR processes.<\/p>\n

Genpact got its start in the 1997 as the internal shared services arm of GE Capital. Know then as GECIS, the Indian captive shared service center served as the back office for many divisions of GE. In 2004, GE sold a share of GECIS to two private equity firms and it became independent in January 2005. This enabled the company to diversify its customer base beyond GE. It changed its name to Genpact and the company went public in 2007. Many of it early non-GE customers hired Genpact to manage finance and accounting transactions like accounts payable, account reconciliations, and payroll. The company now has more than 51,000 employees, $1.26 billion in revenue, and offers a broad range of BPO services.<\/p>\n

Payroll was the process the got me talking to Genpact when I was leading the HR outsourcing business at Ceridian. I was looking to increase the efficiency of our managed payroll business and sought a partner to support several payroll processes from an off-shore location. This occurred in 2006 and even then it was clear to me that Genpact wanted to expand into other HR BPO services. In fact, had it not been for the \u201cgreat recession\u201d we might have seen several more HR BPO contracts signed by Genpact in the last few years.<\/p>\n

Payroll is not the only credential that Genpact has built upon to develop its HR BPO business. Its GE heritage has left a deep and innovative HR culture at the company. Talwar points out that many of their HR service engagements begin with a conversation with customers who are interested in emulating some of Genpact\u2019s internal HR programs. This comes as no surprise to me. When I was traveling around India in 2006 talking to several Indian BPO providers, I recall being very impressed with the Genpact\u2019s talent management practices.<\/p>\n

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HfS Research's HRO Maxima, Keith Strodtman (click for bio)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Its recruiting, performance management, and training processes rivaled the best I had seen anywhere in the world. The GE heritage also embedded a vast Six Sigma competency that is not only used to increase operating efficiency in the outsourcing centers, but is also used extensively in client process improvement engagements.<\/p>\n

The outcome of this deal could have a significant impact how much progress Indian outsourcers make in the HR BPO space. In addition to Genpact, Infosys, Wipro, Caliber Point, TCS, and some smaller Indian providers have active HR BPO practices. Each has customers in the North American market but none have experienced rapid growth here. If Genpact has success with the country\/ regional model that it has with Nissan, we may see others follow with similar approaches.<\/p>\n

Genpact certainly has a lot of skills to employ in the HR BPO market. The Nissan engagement could very well be a significant proof-point that will help propel the company to higher prominence in the HR services marketplace. We should see in the next couple of years if Genpact does indeed continue to \u201cdrive\u201d its HRO business to significant growth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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