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INDIA STRATEGY FORUM 2012

Date: 30th & 31st October, 2012
Venue: The Hotel Grand, New Delhi

The India Strategy Forum 2012 began with a high level panel comprising Mr. Bala Krishnan CEO Anglo American Plc India and Mr. Sudhir Nagpal MD mPOWERASIA and was moderated by the Honorary Chairman of the forum Dr. Rajesh Pillania with the topic, Strategy in India: Opportunities & Challenges. While Mr.Bala gave his views from the perspective of an MNC, Mr.Nagpal shared his views with experiences relating to Indian business houses. Dr.Rajesh shared his findings of the focus areas of the top 100 companies both in India & Abroad on a few select parameters which made interesting observation.

The second session was a discussion on Infrastructure Strategy with a panel comprising Dr. Narindra K. Bachlaus CEO Exxon Mobil India, Mr. Dinesh Pillai CEO Mahindra Special Services Group, Mr. Rajeev Gupta MD resource Development International India Pvt. Ltd. and Mr. Inderjit Sehrawat MD Dv Tel India who also moderated the panel, deliberating now on the key challenges and issues facing the Infrastructure Industry in India and how to develop Strategies to take of the same.
The table highlighted the importance of Planning and Resource Optimisation in Infrastructure Projects. Financial Controls and Compliances are the cornerstone of successful Infrastructure Strategy.
Dr. Narindra K. Bachlaus spoke on the impact and perils of mismanagement in an Infrastructure Project and how we can avoid the same.
The table also dwelt at length on the large no of licenses and approval mandated by statutory bodies that delay the execution process. It was discussed to approach the governing bodies to suggest a "Single Window Clearance" and a usher in a more open comprehensive license regime. The session on Entrepreneurship Strategy was both thought provoking as well strategically informative for SME's & entrepreneurs which has been a focus area by the Govt. of India. It was moderated by Mr. Rajiv Bajaj Partner Roland Berger Strategy Consultants, India. The panel comprised of Mr.N.K.Maini MD SIDBI, Mr.Pramod Arora Group President PVR Ltd & Mr. Pawan Kumar Owner Continental India.

The deliberations on Corporate Social responsibility took on the challenges & development of strategies for the successful implementation of CSR in an Organization. Dr.Narindra K.Bachlaus CEO, Exxon Mobil India along with Mr.Mandeep Singh MD.Asia(New verticals),d.light Design Inc. gave their insights & were moderated by Mr.Yatinder Suri Country Head Outukumpu India Pvt. Ltd.

The deliberations on the Outsourcing Strategy session focused on the challenges as well as the strategies for outsourcing. Lucid insight on the topic was provided by the panel of eminent speakers comprising of the moderator Mr. Pavan Bhalla MD, Aon Hewitt India, Mr. Rajesh Sharma, CEO & DG, SEPC, India &

Mr. Sandeep Soni, President Hero BPO. The emergence of India as a Global Knowledge and Business Process hub was hailed and it was discussed that there was an urgent need to further build on this strength. It called for Indian Organisations to think Global and make forays into the Global Market and focus on the Outsourcing needs of the developing countries too apart from the developed countries. The team also discussed the need to update themselves with the latest technologies so as to have a wider market coverage. Mr. Pavan Bhalla mentioned that the developed countries have no other option than to outsource their requirements to India as we have the unique advantage of advanced IT, Ability to think and develop solutions, and knowledge of the English language. The day concluded with a discussion on issues facing competitive strategy & steps to alleviate the same. It was moderated by Mr.Nitin Bahl, country manager-India, Natuzzi S.p.A. The panel comprised Mr. Eric Yu, President Huawei Enterprise, India and Mr.Arun Kumar NT.,MD(Group Ops)-Global head of Outsourcing & Off shoring , UBS.

DAY-2
The day began with an interaction on the challenges and issues facing Innovation strategy and the steps to counter them. The panel comprised of Mr.Neeraj Gulati MD. Monotype Imaging & Advisor, Innovation Council, Mr. Parmeswaran Venkataraman, Head Innovation labs, IMRB International who was also the moderator and Mr.Piyush Mathur President, The Nielsen Company India. The Session on Human Resource Strategy bought out the passion of the speakers on the subject and the vast knowledge that they could share because of their experiences in various large Indian as well as multinational organizations. It was a lively discussion ably moderated by Mr.R.S.Dabas, Senior VP & Head HR and CSR, JSDL. The panel comprised Mr.Sumit Banerjee Vice Chairman Reliance Cement & Mr. Varadarajan Srinivasan, Executive President HR, Tata Telecommunications. The deliberations on Financial Strategy threw up interesting challenges on how to develop & implement successful financial strategies in India due to its diversity. Mr. Kapil Arora partner Ernst & Young moderated the session comprising of the Panel Members Mr. Kiran Shetty, MD Western Union Services India (P) Ltd and Mr. Manasije Mishra CEO, Max Bupa India. Sessions on Operations Strategy & Marketing Strategy bought forth some startling facts by the speakers like Mr. Kamal Verma CEO SREI mainly in operations and Mr.Sanjay Kumar CEO & MD, Altran India and Mr. Vineet Kanaujia President Safexpress Private Ltd. Mr. Rajesh Pillania, Chairman Institute of Strategy made an impassioned plea to develop a Strategy for the future encompassing all aspects that were deliberated earlier during the two day event. He was of the firm view that Strategies have to evolve with the changing times and not remain stagnant.

29TH SKOTCH SUMMIT ON REFUELLING GROWTH 2012

Date: 8th June, 2012
Venue: Hotel Hyatt Regency, Sahar Airport Road, Mumbai

Partnership with Microsoft - mPOWERASIA

As first step, mPOWERASIA exhibited and showcased its capability as a partner of Microsoft during the 29th Skotch Summit held in June, 2012. mPOWERASIA has partnered with Microsoft to promote the proliferation of Performance Monitoring and Strategy Execution using COVENARK® in implementing Strategic, Enterprise, Operational and individual scorecards.

The response to mPOWERASIA's offerings was very well received by a good number of PSUs and Consultants, who work with government of India, being a first time where special attention was given to the importance of monitoring performance aligned to a business strategy to encourage innovation and inclusive growth.

The Skotch summit held in Mumbai was organized by the Skotch Group based out of Gurgaon. It laid focus on how India should realize its growth potential which is a prerequisite for generating surpluses for inclusive growth.

The session kicked off in right earnest with Dr. Deepak Phatak opening the discussion of the plenary session comprising of members Mr. U. K. Sinha, Chairman SEBI, Dr. K. C. Chakrabarty, Deputy Governor RBI, Mr. Joseph Massey, MD & CEO, MCX Stock Exchange, Ms. Manjula Prasher, Secretary (Posts) & Chairman P. S. Board, Department of Posts, Mr. Ravi Saxena, Additional Chief Secretary, Govt. of Gujarat & Dr. Ashima Goyal, Professor, IGIDR by providing them with the platform to "Collect important thoughts from important leaders" so that valuable inputs can be provided to policy makers."

Mr. U. K. Sinha, one of the architects of the pension sector reforms said that there was overall a feeling of dejection and anger among the investors due to the economic scenario in the country and it was not possible for India to take shelter under global economic problems. He urgently advocated speeding up the reforms & resolving major issues related to their implementation.

Economic reform
Dr. K. C. Chakrabarty, Deputy Governor of RBI who spoke at length on the economic reforms and policy processes and implementation challenges the country is facing. He reeled out numbers to buttress his answers as to how Financial Inclusion was on the increase due to the spurt in opening up banks in the rural sector where the population was 2000 or more.

Financial Inclusion
On the topic of financial inclusion, Mr. B. Rajkumar of Indian Bank spoke about their Pondicherry experience where they worked in Managalam village as a pilot project for financial inclusion. However, stress was also laid on financial literacy which would be the driver for banking by other speakers.

Self employment and MSME Sector
On the panel discussion on rediscovering MSME's and self employment Mr. Ajai Kumar, CMD of Corporation Bank spoke as to how this sector is neglected in comparison to the Retail & Corporate Sectors. He also mentioned as to how they were the only bank that fulfilled their targets in the MSME sector by showing a 20% growth, 60% credit disbursements to new entrepreneurs & 100% growth in numbers.

Book Release
The session finally concluded with a book written by Mr. Montek Singh Ahluwalia, Deputy Chairman Planning Commission on Policy Making - for Indian Planning being released by the Chief Minister Mr. Prithviraj Chavan who along with other members of the panel comprising Mr. Montek Singh, Mr. Ashok Jha, Chairman MCX Stock Exchange, Mr. Uday Kotak, EVC & MD Kotak Mahindra Bank, Mr. Rajiv B. Lall, VC & MD IDFC & Dr. Ashima Goyal, Professor IGIDR also discussed the issues and the expected path ahead in policy making for Indian Planning.

Other Inclusion thought leadership roundtables were conducted simultaneously at the venue on the following topics:

Building Business for India Post
Community participation for growth
Financial Literacy - Financial Inclusion
Technology & Application trends

Eminent luminaries from various Govt. organizations (both Central & State), Banks, NGOs, Financial Organizations, Insurance, large MNC's with a PAN India presence and Economists attended these panel discussions as speakers.