IBM CSC assignment - consulting for a social cause

Last week, our entire IBM CSC Morocco9 team gathered at the local IBM office in Rabat for some networking with the local staff and took some cool pictures. @ibmcsc #ibmcsc #cscmorocco9

Below is a great picture of our entire CSC Morocco9 team on assignment in Morocco. Top row, L-R is Venkatraman Umakanth (India), Jessica O’Gorman (Canada), Larry Clevenger (USA), Georges Maamari (Canada), Kent Van Horn (USA), Phillipa Hartley (USA), David Vincent (India), Manasi Raveendran (USA), Kautaka Nakao (Japan), Lucrecia Barrilli (Spain), Adnre Luis Peres (Brazil) and Dushyant Khale (India). Bottom row, L-R is Alena Nemcova (Slovakia), Ji Hyun Shin (Korea) and Li Jing Wang (China)

We are split into four groups with each team focused on a specific mission. Find below a picture of my team (L-R - me, Jessica, Kazu and Larry) that is working with MAScIR (Moroccan Foundation for Advanced Science, Innovation and Research) and trying to assist with market analysis and recommend measures to boost crop yield with optimal fertiliser usage across Sub-Saharan Africa leveraging appropriate technology.

Our team carries diverse expertise with a senior person from IBM Research, a SAP consultant, an Application Architect focused on Mobile application development and myself with varied experience across development, Project Management, Strategy, Business Partner Alliance, Business Development, etc.. It has been a great experience with loads of learning, discussion with various stakeholders and formulating a strategy that would be appropriate (economically, socially, politically & technically) for the Sub-Saharan Africa region. We are in the process of refining our recommendations for the final presentation later this week. Wish us good luck!

As usual, it would be good to learn from other’s experience in case anyone of you reading this post has experience in similar initiative.