Dear Comrade,
“It was a great honor to train the Top Managers of India Post, an institution of a tremendous dimension with its 155’000 post offices and 600’000 employees. We have taken another step forward to offer the expertise in International Postal Management of the Chair MIR and it is good to see that the participants were delighted of the Training Program at the EPFL.“ comments Erik Swars, Managing Director, Postal Executive Education and responsible for the program for India Post.
The one-week program took place from 7-12 November 2011 in Lausanne, Bern and Paris with the topic “Transformation of the Postal Industry - Leading and managing change”.
16 Directors of India Post participated in the Executive Training Program delivered for the third time by the Chair Management of Network Industries of Prof. Matthias Finger.
Beside the analysis of the postal industry covered by Erik Swars, the participants from India Post could profit from high-level speakers of the postal industry, among others from Mr. Bernhard Bukovc, Director Regulation of IPC (International Post Corporation), Mr. Elmar Toime, former CEO of New Zealand or Stéphanie Scouppé, Director Sustainability, La Poste, France. In addition to the three days in Lausanne, visits to Swiss Post in Bern including the new letter sorting center in Eclépens and to La Poste in Paris completed the program.
“It was a great honor to train the Top Managers of India Post, an institution of a tremendous dimension with its 155’000 post offices and 600’000 employees. We have taken another step forward to offer the expertise in International Postal Management of the Chair MIR and it is good to see that the participants were delighted of the Training Program at the EPFL.“ comments Erik Swars, Managing Director, Postal Executive Education and responsible for the program for India Post.
The next EPFL-Program for India Post will take place in June 2012.
NEWS MIR 21st Nov 2011
