Nihilent announces Strategic Partnership with a Tanzanian company

Nihilent’s partnership with Equip will address the requirement for capability building in the area of Business and Information Technology Consulting
Pune, India, 26 March 2012: Nihilent, a leading global consulting and solutions Integration Company today announced a strategic partnership with Equip Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC), an advisory firm that provides governance, risk management and internal audit transformation solutions. Nihilent and Equip will combine their expertise to address the business challenges faced by organizations in the Financial Services, Government and State–run enterprises and Supply Chain and Logistics.
Nihilent-Equip partnership is a manifestation of rapidly developing India-Africa bilateral trade relations, which has IT and ITes as one of the core focus areas. The partnership intends to focus on helping companies in Tanzania on adopting world class business practices. It also plans on hiring substantial local talent and work towards building local capability through knowledge transfer.
Mr. Minoo Dastur, Chief Operating Officer of Nihilent, said, “Nihilent is engaged in introducing change through information technology, people and process interventions, in systemic manner to improve performance for our customers. Equip’s portfolio of Corporate Governance and Risk Management services complements our business and technology consulting portfolio. We are pleased to be partnering with Equip to provide end-to-end and high quality consulting services to our clients in Tanzania”.
“Equip and Nihilent have worked together in the past so I am pleased that we have now jointly created a framework that allows both organizations to leverage each other more formally and across a broader range of geographies,” said Davith Kahwa, Chief Executive Officer, Equip. “Nihilent’s presence in Markets such as the India, North America, Europe, Southern Africa, and Middle East coupled with its expertise in business and technology consulting brings a wealth of consulting experience and exposure. Moreover, Nihilent’s strong commitment to emerging economies particularly East Africa makes them a welcome addition to Equip’s partner community,” added Mr Kahwa.
Nihilent brings hard rigor and plentiful experience into effective deployment through its competence around corporate strategy execution capability, while Equip brings with it leading practices in corporate governance, risk management, regulatory compliance and internal audit transformation.
Conceptualized with the objective of creating a different kind of company, through a unique holistic and systems approach to problem solving Nihilent has been credited of creating the World’s first Change Management structure based on its patented MC3 TM framework for Change Management, Performance Management and Strategy Execution. The focus from the beginning has been to invest substantially in people and R&D on building a consulting led framework driven company. Nihilent was also recently awarded a patent for its predictive ‘Customer Loyalty Evaluation’ (CLE) model that helps businesses to successfully identify the loyalty drivers and build enduring customer loyalty.

About Nihilent
Nihilent is a global consulting and solutions integration company using a holistic and systems approach to problem solving. Headquartered in Pune, India, Nihilent has extensive experience in international consulting, IT outsourcing and IT services. Nihilent’s operations span North America, Europe, Africa, Middle East and Asia. Nihilent’s mission Change for Performance encapsulates our commitment to make change happen systemically in terms of people, process, technology and knowledge for achieving sustained performance for our clients.
For more information, please visit www.nihilent.com
About EQUIP GRC
EQUIP GRC Limited is the business advisory firm dedicated exclusively for corporate governance, risk management and internal audit transformation. Equip assist clients seize new opportunities for growth and profitability while not losing sight of associated risks. Equip’s highly trained, results oriented professionals provides a unique perspective on a wide range of critical business issues for clients in East Africa and Southern Africa.
For more information, please visit http://www.equipgrc.com.

Himanil Bose
Nihilent Technologies Pvt. Ltd.
Pune, India
Tel. +91-20-39846100
Mobile: +91-90046 90695
Email: himanil.bose@nihilent.com

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