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SANKALPANATIONAL CONFERENCE ON“EMERGING SECTORS: GROWTH DRIVERSFOR INDIAN ECONOMY”M S Ramaiah Institute of Management, Bangalore, in association with Federation of Karnataka Chambers ofCommerce and Industry (FKCCI) held the third national conference “Emerging Sectors: Growth Drivers for IndianEconomy” on March 8th. In this conference, 78 delegates had registered and 60 paper presentations were made onvaried management topics such as banking, finance and insurance services, education, infrastructure and energy,health, retail, and logistics.The inaugural session had eminent speakers like Shri. K. Siva Shanmugam, Senior Vice President, FKCCI; Dr. J WLobo, Managing Director, Albertson International Pvt. Ltd.; Dr. S. Kumar, President, Medical Education, and Shri.S. M. Acharya, Chief Executive from Gokula Education Foundation. The Plenary session too had distinguishedspeakers from the industry- Mr. Ravi Kumar Ramanan, Vice President, Finance and Operation, IBM; Mr. PrakashRaikar, CEO, Raikar Metal Industries, and Mr. Chandrashekhar, CEO, BCIL. The valedictory address was given byMr. H R Girish, CEO, Vakil Housing. During these sessions, the speakers identified health care, garment, foodprocessing and beverage, tourism, retail, infrastructure, informatics, pharmaceutical, natural resources, social media,wealth and event management, and micro credit as the emerging sectors and the growth drivers for the Indianeconomy. Entrepreneurship was however, emphasized by all the speakers; entrepreneurs with innovative thinkingand risk taking and following basic principles of business of simplification of products, cost reduction andidentification of customer behavior.2
SANKALPADISTINGUISHED LECTURE SERIESLeaders Need to Delegate, Communicate: Bijou KurienBijou Kurien, President & Chief Executive of the Lifestyle division of Reliance Retail, spoke at the Times of India's‘Leaders on Leadership’ lecture series, hosted by M S Ramaiah Institute of Management, on Feb 12th.“The distributed workforces of today require a very different kind of leadership,” said Kurien adding that in the past,when the entire workforce was in a single office, leaders needed principally to plan and control. "But withorganizations expanding across the country and the world, it brings challenges for communication and themanagement of the implementation of vision," he said.“In the new environment, it was important to have leaders who are able to connect with the distributed workforce.You need to travel and be in contact with people. You have to be able to articulate your vision across the organization.And you have to do a lot of delegation and monitoring, was the advise given by Mr. Kurien.Kurien started his career with Hindustan Unilever (then Hindustan Lever ) in 1981, was in Titan Industries between1987 and 2006, and has been with Reliance Retail since then.Kurien said the need for leaders in India was growing, with more and more Indian business houses flourishing andprofessionalizing. "Pre-1990, there were few Indian business houses, and MNCs dominated.The MNCs primarily required managers who would implement the headquarters ' demands. But post-1990, manynew Indian business houses have emerged, and as they scale, they recognize the need to professionalize. And theyneed people who are leaders, not just managers," Kurien mentioned.3
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