MTI Consulting

With the phenomenal international growth of  Pre-Paid Cards, Mobile Payments and e-Wallets, MTI Consulting has initiated an alliance  with UK based Polymath Consulting. As part of this alliance, the CEO Polymath Consulting David Parker will be in Sri Lanka for a Thought Leadership Seminar on 18^th April 2012, from 5.30 to 8 pm.
 David Parker is the founder and CEO of Polymath Consulting who work on project and advise organizations across the Cards & Payments industry.  Polymath Consulting are particularly well known for their work on Prepaid Cards/ E-wallets /Mobile Payments.  They work across the complete value chain helping banks with their overall prepaid strategy right through to market entry analysis; as well as working with processors and programme managers on segment analysis, certification and membership applications.   For brands and Telcos they assist in product proposition development as well as managing RFP processes/reviewing existing contract relationships for both open and closed loop schemes.    Geographically their client assignments have covered Russia, South Africa, Middle East, Europe and Asia.  
 MTI’s Associate Consultant and Financial Services Specialist Mano Tittawella will be moderating the session

 
Mr. Mano Tittawella, MTI’s Associate Consultant. 


Mr. David Parker, CEO of Polymath Consulting.

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!

Access Engineering, presently heading towards their landmark IPO, have completed a successful ‘Pre-ERP’ audit in Sri Lanka and have commended MTI Technology for conceptualizing and executing the initiative.
 
“At a time when large corporates are committing large sums of money on fancy ERPs, we as a responsible corporate entity felt that we owe it to our shareholders and our people to ensure that such investments are challenged and validated. We were given a very insightful view of our technology priorities and paths forward - without any vendor agenda.” said Mr. Christopher Joshua, Executive Director.
 
“MTI’s Pre-ERP audit focused not only on strategic management business insights but hands-on, real, on the ground challenges and requirements, casting these needs across business priorities and future readiness.”
 
(L-R) – MTI Consulting Business Lead Kapila Liyanage, MTI Technology Associate Consultant Yusuf Isaam, Access Engineering Director/COO Rohana Fernando, Access Engineering Executive Director Christopher Joshua.