Mumbai: IBM India has announced the appointment of Anjan Mukerji as country leader, IBM Business Consulting Services (BCS), to head the India operations of IBM BCS, effective January 2003. IBM BCS is the newly established consulting arm of IBM Corporation, formed after the merger of PwC Consulting and IBM globally.

IBM BCS is the world’s largest consulting organisation with over 60,000 professionals operating in 160 countries with in-depth experience and expertise across 20 industries. BCS is India’s largest consulting service organisation, with operations in more than 14 cities.

Outlining the value proposition for the newly formed IBM BCS in India, Mukerji says: “Given the complex technology landscape, organisations are constantly looking at new ways of running their businesses. BCS is poised to help customers conceive, develop, implement, and operate critical aspects of their business as the collaborative business and technology partner of choice.

“BCS will leverage the strengths of the erstwhile IBM Business Innovation Services and PwC Consulting to provide our customers an unparalleled breadth and depth of consulting capabilities on a global basis backed by broad technology resources in India.”

Mukerji was the chief operating officer of PwC Consulting practice in India before the merger of PwC Consulting with IBM in October 2002. Under Mukerji’s leadership, the PwC practice moved to a premier position in the Indian consulting industry.

The establishment of PwC as a leading consultant, leading the SAP initiative to position PwC as the leading practice with around 60 per cent of top clients in the market, starting the strategy consulting practice are some of the significant accomplishments during his tenure.

Mukerji has both engineering and accounting qualifications. After completing a bachelors degree in engineering from University of London he went on to become a fellow of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants, UK, and Certified Public Accountant, Singapore.

He started his professional career in 1966 as a management trainee at Molins Ltd in London. He joined PW Consulting in 1975 in London and subsequently went on to lead the Management Consultancy Services operations in various countries like Singapore, Malyasia and West Africa.

BCS is uniquely positioned to advise and enable clients to fully leverage these new models of business computing, driving greater return on IT investment. Combining the strengths of PwC Consulting in the areas of strategic business consulting skills, expertise in specific industry issues, an understanding of key solution areas such as customer relationship management, supply chain and financial transaction management with the market leadership of IBM in the areas of large-scale for outsourcing, IT infrastructure skills, key technologies, and financing, BCS will offer customers a broad set of solutions spanning strategic change, customer relationship management, supply-chain operations, financial management, human capital, IT, and business-process outsourcing.

IBM is the world’s largest information technology company, with more than 80 years of leadership in helping businesses innovate. IBM Global Services is the industry’s largest business and information technology services provider, with approximately 180,000 professionals serving customers in 160 countries and annual revenue of $35 billion (2001).

IBM Global Services integrates a broad range of capabilities - services, consulting, hardware, software and research - to help companies of all sizes realise the full value of information technology.