Orlando, June 15, 2010: QAI (www.qaiglobal.com)(www.qaiglobalinstitute.com), the global leader in consulting and competency development, addressing the space of 'operational excellence' in IT and knowledge intensive industry, has recently announced its increased focus on Vietnam. It foresees great potential in the territory for growth and has decided to invest heavily in building Information and Communication Technology (ICT) competencies in Vietnam, the second largest country in the South East Asia.
 
The Ministry of Information and Communication (MoIC) has set its highest growth rate target of 14% to be reached by 2020. In order to reach these targets, the ICT industry of Vietnam has to evolve and gain the required impetus. QAI will work towards bringing global best practices and proven approaches to sectoral development to Vietnam's ICT industry.

QAI, with its huge experience in partnering nations to build ICT capacity, has been consistently focused on building nations of ICT excellence. QAI has partnered with ministries, IT and communication departments, governments and local industries of countries like Egypt, Singapore, Malaysia, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Jordan, India, Russia and China through their apex bodies like Mdec, SECC, IDE, ETIDA, INTAJ, NASSCOM for setting up Centre of Excellence (CoE's) to drive industry promotion and helping the governments set the right policies and regulatory systems.

QAI in association with the government of Egypt and other apex bodies worked towards transforming 100 IT and BPO companies through assessments and trainings and provided end-to-end CMMI® training, consulting and appraisal services to a group of companies.

Mr. Tom Ticknor, COO, QAI Global Institute, said, "Vietnam is one of the huge potential and influential markets in South East Asia. QAI is already working with clients in the territory and is in the process to set up local presence."

About QAI:

QAI is a leading global consulting and workforce development organization addressing 'Operational Excellence' in IT, BPO and knowledge intensive service organizations.

QAI Global Services, the consulting division of QAI, addresses the space of Operational Excellence which includes the areas of Process Management, Quality Management, Innovation Management, Project Management, IT Service Management and others. 

QAI is currently servicing over 200 clients in 30 countries and our regional bases are located in US, India, UK, China, Singapore, Malaysia and Canada.

For further information, please contact:

Tom Ticknor
QAI Global Institute
tticknor@qaiworldwide.org