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Adding value to the spirit of enterprise
Mohammad Arif is leading a fine team at OCTARA as its
Business Head, and what started as a CSR initiative on
the 20th anniversary of TCS has developed into a full
fledged business concern as TCS celebrates its Silver
Jubilee, focused on developing the human resource in
Pakistan’s corporate landscape. In the current air of crisis
generated by the global recession, OCTARA’s mandate
has taken on a fresh urgency as businesses look to
weathering the storm through an improved caliber of their
human resource that can think out-of-the-box, and is capable
of lateral movement, innovation and intrapreneurship.
Perhaps the most memorable OCTARA event was the jam
packed session with Dr. Prof. Edward de Bono, the father
of lateral thinking. Another memorable session was with
Prof. Kenneth P. Morse, the Senior Lecturer of the MIT
Sloan School of Management, and a great champion of
intrapreneurs whom he defines as creative and innovative
employees of long established companies who recognize
that unless they can develop entrepreneurial behaviors
and activities, they may become redundant in an increasingly
innovative and competitive world economic environment.
OCTARA and its impressive line-up of Marketing and
Management Gurus have a very central role to play in
bringing about this critical transformation within the Pakistani
mindset in the workplace.
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