Sustained Double Digit Growth -Companies that increase revenue significantly year after year possess a rigorous management process that aggressively seeks revenue increases in five fundamental areas: Retention of existing customers, Market share gains, Market positioning exploitation, Adjacent market entry and New business investment. The theme for this year’s summit is KM for Double Digit Growth with the broad focus on What CEOs should know about KM and how CIOs and CKOs can play strategic roles.
Knowledge Management has become a key item on the corporate agenda and is increasingly seen as a key enabler that fosters the organization’s ability to innovate stated Mr Adi Godrej, President CII & Chairman, Godrej Group while inaugurating the CII Knowledge Management Summit 2013.
Mr Adi Godrej further stated that the good news is that we have excellent companies with excellent practices to pull from. The bad news is that we don’t have enough platforms by which these practices spread. One such platform is this summit, an annual CII event which will bring together various stakeholders from industry, academia, public sector, and society, to enter into learning, discussion and debate, all around knowledge management. This is a forum that will bring out various viewpoints and we want to convert them into actionable plans and make recommendations to the appropriate industry bodies and ministries for maximum impact. This is where practitioners of KM come together, both within India and abroad, and enter into conversations. Such a social process is very important in making a strategic impact.
Swati Piramal, Vice Chairperson, Piramal Enterprises Ltd said that India has great potential in research and knowledge creation and the Government must remove impediments to growth.
Ganesh Natarajan who has been leading the KM initiative for CII since 2011 stated that the focus has moved from just technology to include business processes, organization culture and leadership, all of which contribute to the effective management of knowledge – in organisations and society.
Ganesh Natarajan stated that to realize this intent, CII has established 3 different KM Platforms: a) KM India as an annual conference and summit brings together people from academia, the public sector and corporations to discuss and debate the most recent trends in Knowledge Management. b) City-specific social processes should be instilled so that rich social networks get created between practitioners of KM in key localities like New Delhi, Mumbai, Pune, Chennai, Bangalore and Hyderbad. c) A KM India Portal has been created to support the above 2 activities and online activities from a larger audience
India is being recognized globally as a prominent intellectual power. It is also understood that knowledge is a key strategic asset that must be harnessed to further develop a robust economic system. The long term intent of the KM India movement is to create an ecosystem within India via which we are able to build and harness India’s intellectual capital. Knowledge when created, shared and applied, creates rich economic value. To accelerate the production and consumption of knowledge, we must create catalysts which support it.
Noshir Kaka, Managing Director, Mckinsey & Company India spoke about the importance of highly competent leadership to bring about learning and knowledge transformation in the successful firms of tomorrow.
The Summit brings together global experts like Tom Stewart, Chief Marketing and Knowledge Officer, Booz & Company, USA ?Vadim Shiryaev, President, SOMAR (Business Development Organizations Union), CKO LiveJournal , Russia? Karuna Ramanathan, Deputy Head, SAF Centre for Leadership Development, Singapore Armed Forces, Singapore ? Noshir Kaka, Managing Director,McKinsey & Company ? B V R Mohan Reddy, Founder, Chairman and Managing Director, Infotech Enterprises Ltd ? P D Mundhra, Co-founder and Executive Director, eClerx Services Ltd ? Dr Deepak B Phatak, Subrao M Nilekani Chair, Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, IIT Bombay? Ashank Desai, Founder, Mastek Ltd ? Avinash Vashistha, Chairman & Geography Managing Director, Accenture India ? C P Gurnani, CEO, Mahindra Satyam ? Ajay Nanavati, Managing Director, 3M India ? Anand Deshpande, Founder, Chairman and Managing Director, Persistent Systems ? Jaideep Mehta, Country General Manager, IDC India ?Sandeep Aurora, Director of Marketing and Market Development, Intel South Asia? Manish Bahl, Country Manager, Forrester Research India ?Jayesh Chakravarthi, Senior Vice President & Country Head - IT, Fidelity India ? C N Raghupathi, Vice President and Head, India Business, Infosys Ltd ? Nikita Tete, Vice President-Knowledge Management, Deloitte US India Offices ? Uma Ganesh, Chief Executive Officer, Global Talent Track ? Ramesh Nagarajan, Chief Information Officer, IT Services , Wipro Technologies ? Arun Gupta, CIO, Cipla Ltd ? Rajesh Uppal, Chief GM- IT and CIO, Maruti Suzuki India ? Anantha Sayana, VP and Head- Corporate IT, L&T Ltd ?Aditya Chandrasekharaiah, Lead Consultant, Zensar Technologies Ltd ?Mukund Prasad, Director – Group HR, Business Transformation and Group CIO, Welspun Group, India and more…to discuss the challenges facing the knowledge-intensive industries and organizations.
The annual Indian MAKE (Most Admired Knowledge Enterprise) Awards, recognizing the best Indian organizations in Knowledge Management was announced at the Knowledge Summit. The recognition is based on an annual study conducted by the UK based Know Network. Adi Godrej, President, CII & Chairman, Godrej Group gave the Awards to MAKE Overall Winner : Tata Consultancy Services ltd and the Other winners:EClerx Services, Eureka Forbes, Infosys, Larsen & Toubro Hydro Carbons, Mahindra Satyam, Mindtree ltd, Tata Steel Ltd, Wipro Technologies ltd,
Other highlights of the summit are Master Classes, and Panel discussion on key topics. The Master classes were on Building a Knowledge Strategy Ground Up by Karuna Ramanathan, Deputy Head, SAF Center for Leadership Development Singapore Armed Forces , Knowledge Strategy: Don’t Just Manage Knowledge—Make It a Competitive Advantage by Tom Stewart, Chief Marketing and Knowledge Officer, Booz & Company and a Strategy Workshop on “Growth in uncertain times” conducted by McKinsey & Company.