SHILLONG: The three-day business leadership summit at IIM-Shillong concluded on Sunday with consulting and strategy experts talking about legacy businesses being pushed by startups to reinvent themselves.
The eclectic panel featured former Zee Entertainment Enterprises CBO and Rainshine Entertainment Co-founder Mihir Modi, GATI-KWE’s Corporate Strategy and Analytics Head Vikas Pawar along with Happily Unmarried co-founder Rajat Tuli.
The rest of the day focused on how marketing is evolving to meet the needs of India’s burgeoning youth.
Students gained insights about the sharing economy and the experimentative nature of today’s market from Girnar Soft CMO Gaurav Mehta and Ogilvy’s President-North Kapil Arora.
To wrap up the three-day lineup of industry veterans, Business Standard’s Sales VP Vijay Kadu and Freudenberg Filtration Technologies India’s Senior VP Anand Singh gave students their expert take on how digital marketing in India was coming of age.
The second day had witnessed eminent speakers from HR and operations domains.
Discussing how human resource management has evolved as a strategic partner from a mere supporting functional unit, Caterpillar Inc’s Head of Talent Acquisition (Asia Pacific) Mukesh Tiwari, Eastman Auto & Power’s President and Chief Human Resources Office Satyendra, Business Head (HR) of Mahindra and Mahindra Financial Service Jyotirmoy Bhattacharya and Colgate Global Business Services’ Head HR (India) Ranjeev Lahkar touched on a wide area of topics from diversity to increasing automation in panel moderated by Microland’s Sujitesh Das.
Following this, a panel of HR experts comprising Haresh Chaturvedi from Reliance Industries, Annapurna A from Inspirage, Surinder Kohli from Jaipur Rugs and Vivek Jain from Kotak Mahindra Bank shared their views on ‘Rebuilding India with a Billion Human Resources’.
The operations panel that initiated a discussion on ‘Perspective on growing relevance of factoring in behaviours of suppliers, employees and customers in executive decision making’ was also graced by Rashmi Patra, Head of Technical Operations – Novartis and Welspun CHRO Rajeev Yadav.
