The CII Knowledge Summit is always a great place for the rivers of knowledge, from CEOs, academicians, consultants and visionaries, to flow into a body of practitioner wisdom that assembles at the confluence! This year’s edition, recently held in Mumbai, epitomized the best of thinking that prevails in India today – thinking that could solve the dilemmas that industry faces as it struggles for growth in a weak economy, find solutions for everyday problems of dealing with too much data and information, an, potentially, even build the truly inclusive India that many of us dream of!
While Mr Adi Godrej, Immediate Past President, CII, and Chairman, Godrej Group, and IT CEOs like Infotech's BVR Mohan Reddy, Accenture's Avinash Vashistha, Tech Mahindra's CP Gurnani, and Uma Ganesh of GTT emphasized support at the top for the proliferation of knowledge and learning across Indian organizations, the timely input of eminent consultants like Mr Noshir Kaka of McKinsey & Company and Mr Tom Stewart of Booz and Co provided the participants the tools to build a coherent knowledge strategy that could place knowledge at the centre of all organisation processes, and reach out to transform the expectations and attainments of external as well as internal stakeholders.