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IKAN, talent mobility

Programme / Service field guide

Mobility Policy & Program

India operating experience translated into policy choices, governance and programme decisions, with legal and tax boundaries reviewed separately.

Delivered output
Policy options, India-market review and decision summary
Scope position
Confirmed before delivery begins
Decision contextA policy can be precise and still not fit India.

Housing caps, eligibility, timelines, benefits and reporting routes need to reflect current India markets and authority processes. IKAN turns operating experience and programme data into explicit policy choices and delivery responsibilities.

  • Eligibility and scope
  • Governance
  • Cost and experience trade-offs
A mobility team reviewing a programme together

02 / What happens

The working sequence.

Live facts decide timing. This is an operating sequence, not a duration promise.
  1. 01

    Benchmark

    Review the policy against current India-market requirements and the programme's own experience and data.

  2. 02

    Design

    Shape domestic and global mobility policy options around current India requirements, programme objectives and budget.

  3. 03

    Administer

    Scope programme administration across process, providers, payments, cost tracking and compliance reporting.

03 / Included

India practice tests every policy choice.

The exact format follows the signed programme and live move.
Primary artefactPolicy options, India-market review and decision summary
  • Policy benchmarking
  • Domestic & global policy design
  • Programme administration
  • Vendor & supply-chain management
  • Cost tracking
  • Compliance reporting

04 / Boundaries

Signed responsibilities define programme administration.

Tax, legal, employment and immigration provisions require review by the accountable specialists for the relevant jurisdiction.
  1. 01

    Tax, legal, employment or immigration advice from anyone other than the accountable specialist

  2. 02

    Programme administration, vendor management or payment work not included in the signed engagement

  3. 03

    A policy outcome without approval from the client's authorised stakeholders

05 / If it goes wrong

When the plan changes, ownership gets more explicit.

Open the four-level ladder
Signal
A policy choice creates an unowned exception, conflicting control or delivery gap.
First action
The programme lead records the conflict, affected population and decision authority before recommending options.
Escalation
Legal, tax, employment, immigration or governance questions move to their accountable owners through the agreed programme forum.
Record
The decision log captures the option, authority, approval and resulting delivery responsibility.

06 / Answers

Settle the scope before the work begins.

01Can you run the whole programme?

Programme administration can be scoped across process, vendors, payments, tracking and reporting. The actual responsibilities, controls and specialist boundaries belong in the signed engagement.