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Global Business Leaders
Forum 2007
Changing Paradigms:
Building Organizations for the Future
- MPOWER was one
of the key promoters of the Global Business
Leaders Forum in March 2007. The Commonwealth
Business Council (CBC), London, and Confederation
of Indian Industry (CII) organized the event
at the Taj Mahal Palace & Towers, Mumbai.
The Forum united eminent leaders
from the Commonwealth nations, focusing on
building organizations for the future.
The first of its kind in India,
the Forum saw Chairmen, Managing Directors,
Presidents and CEOs of powerful global enterprises
exchanging views with a blue-chip audience.
Subjects discussed at the forum
included -
- Global Perspectives –
New Challenges
- Transformation and Innovation
– Leading change
- Financial Markets and
Financial Flows – Different Perspectives
- Inspirational Leadership:
“Learning from the Experience
of Young Business Leaders”
- India’s Emerging
Global Players
- Emerging Markets Multinationals
– Claiming their Stakes in the
New World Order
- Business Action for Corporate
Governance
- New Approaches to Global
Trade: Getting the Balance Right
- Transforming Organisations
through Global Sourcing
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| MPOWER’s core team -
Ali Saidi, Group Manager Strategy Deployment
and Beryl Fernandes, Executive Co-ordination,
at the exhibition stall. |
Speakers at the Global
Business Leaders Forum 2007
| Dr. Anil Khandelwal
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Chairman &
MD, Bank of Baroda |
| Dominic Barton |
Chairman, McKinsey & Co.
Asia |
| Bryan Sanderson |
Fmr. Chairman, Standard Chartered
Bank |
| K. V. Kamath |
MD & Chief Executive,
ICICI Bank Ltd. |
| R. Seshasayee |
President
CII and MD, Ashok Leyland |
| James Smith |
Chairman, Shell, UK |
| Rahul Bajaj |
Chairman,
Bajaj Auto |
| Naina Lal Kidwai |
Country Head, HSBC |
| Alexander
von Unger-Sternberg |
Chairman
& CEO, Euro-IB |
| G. Krishnan |
Chief Executive, TV Today |
| Arun Maira |
Chairman,
Boston Consultancy Group |
| Hari S. Bhartia |
Co-Chairman & MD, Jubilant
Organosys |
| T.C.Venkat
Subramanian |
Chairman
& MD, EXIM Bank of India |
| Chief Emmanual Chukwolozie
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Commissioner, National Insurance,
Nigeria |
| Dr. Mohan
Kaul |
Director
General, Commonwealth Business Council |
| Hugh Morgan |
Chief Executive, First Charnock
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| Jacques
Creeten |
Managing
Director, Fedex India |
| R. Ramanan |
Managing Director & Chief
Executive, CMC Ltd. |
| Ashank Desai |
Chairman,
Mastek |
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| Mr. Sudhir Nagpal welcoming
the guests at the MPOWER’s Power Lunch.
From left of Mr. Nagpal (standing) to his
right are, Mr. R. Ramanan - CMC’s
MD, Mr. Jayaraman from VSNL , Om Kaul –
Om Kaul Associates, Dr. Khandelwal –
MD, Bank of Baroda, (Mr. Subir Gupta, Sir
James Smith not seen in the picture), Dr.
Mario Machungo – Chairman, Millennium
BIM, a reputed Consultant |
Power
Lunch with MPOWER
MPOWER hosted a special luncheon on the 13th
of March, 2007, attended by special delegates.
Mr. Sudhir Nagpal welcomed the
guests, conspicuous among whom were, Dr. Anil
Khandelwal - Chairman & MD, Bank of Baroda
, R. Ramanan - MD & CEO, CMC Ltd., Om Kaul
– MD, Om Kaul Associates Pvt. Ltd., James
Smith - Chariman, Shell UK Ltd., Subir Gupta
- MD, Environmental Resources Management, R.
Jayaraman of VSNL, Humsa Dhir – Head of
Corporate Communications at Eicher Motors, Rishi
Bhatnagar - Consultant, Olswang, and Anita Vaidya
– Director, Zandu Pharma.
MPOWER’s movie entitled “Victorious
– Empowered Strategies at Tata Motors
– CVBU”, was showcased, interspersed
by the impeccably served gourmet cuisine. The
film is a case study of the deployment and automation
of the Balanced Scorecard at Tata Motors using
COVENARK®. The movie was watched intently
by all our delegates.
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| Delegates intently watching
the movie. |
In his keynote address, Sir James
Smith, Chairman, Shell – UK, shared his
experiences at Shell and mentioned that it had
taken the company more than four years to come
to a good understanding of the BSC process.
Sir Smith believes that the BSC
is a valuable tool to align People, Processes
and Projects with Business Strategy. He emphasized
the need for an organization’s strategic
objectives to be clear, simple and concise,
while executing the BSC.
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| Sir James Smith – Chairman,
Shell – UK, making a point during
his closing speech. |
The Global Business Leader’s
Forum closed with Bank of Baroda’s CMD,
Dr. Khandelwal’s speech, which was extremely
motivating. He emphasized the importance of
people, and that long-term relationships need
to be nurtured to invent and innovate.
The event inspired delegates
to create leading-edge strategies, guided by
exemplary leadership and value-based corporate
governance.
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| CMC’s MD Mr. R. Ramanan,
and a reputed Consultant reflect on the
movie, while Mr. Nagpal looks on. |
- During the week
between 11 and 15 September 2006, MPOWER sponsored
three major corporate events in the Indian cities
of Bombay, Delhi and Bangalore. A summary of
them follow:-
Competing
for the Future: Achieving World Class
Strategy Execution with Balanced Scorecard.
This event featured Dr. Robert
Kaplan, the co-founder of the Balanced Scorecard
Framework, live, in Mumbai, on 11 September
2006, at the Taj Mahal Hotel.
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| Dr. Robert Kaplan addressing
the delegates at the Dr Robert Kaplan
Seminar held on 11th of Sep. 2006, at
the Taj Mahal Hotel, Bombay. |
Here, Dr. Kaplan presented his
concept of the BSC framework and its challenges,
especially with respect to linkages and in
cascading it vertically and horizontally across
the organization. He stressed upon the importance
of the need to define strategic objectives
and in identifying and formulating critical
measures, initiatives that drive these objectives;
and most importantly, of monitoring business
performance through constant performance measurement.
Reinventing
your Strategic DNA
This was a live workshop that
Gary Hamel, the noted Management Guru conducted
in New Delhi on 12 September 2006 at the Grand
Vasant Kunj and at The Hilton Towers in Mumbai
on 14 September 2006.
Gary Hamel emphasised the need
for leaders to focus and balance their time
equally on creativity, learning and execution
to be able to evolve innovative strategies
through cohesive teamwork. To do this, he
said, leaders must be encouraged into out
of the box thinking, to thus engagement in
the purpose of the organisation, evolving
initiatives that are aligned to a common goal,
all achievable through performance measurement
and performance monitoring.
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| (l-r) Seen here in a discussion,
Mr. Ali Saidi, MPOWER’s Group Manager-Strategy
Deployment & Brand Initiatives, Mr.
Gary Hamel and Mr. Sudhir Nagpal MPOWER’s
Managing Director, at the Gary Hamel Seminar
held on 14th of Sep. 2006, at the Hilton
Towers, Bombay. |
Judgement
Calls: Developing Leaders to Compete
in a Challenging Global Environment.
At this event, Dr. Noel Tichy,
considered one of the ten most influential
people in the world, conducted a seminar upon
the development of organisational leadership
and leadership pipeline. This event was held
in Bangalore on 13 September 2006, at The
Taj West End Hotel.
Dr. Tichy emphasised the need
to build leaders who devote substantial time
developing future leaders into independent
thinkers and doers; to encourage these select
few to work cohesively and innovate Strategies
that are executed and constantly monitored
through Individual performance Measurements.
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| On a happy note, seen here
are, MPOWER’s team, Ms. Lynette
D’Souza – Executive Strategic
Support, Mr. Faraz Ahmed – Manager
Strategy Deployment, Mr. Ali Saidi - Group
Manager-Strategy Deployment & Brand
Initiatives, Mr. Sudhir Nagpal - Managing
Director, along with Dr. Noel Tichy and
Event Organizer Ms. Mal Tennekoon., at
the Dr. Noel Tichy Seminar held on 13th
of Sep. 2006, at the Taj West End Hotel,
Bangalore. |
Achieving
Perfect Performance :
At the beginning of each of
these events, the film presentation “Victorious
– Empowered Strategies at Tata Motors
CVBU” was made to the delegates. This
film, made by MPOWER, summarises the case
study of the Balanced Scorecard and its automation
at Tata Motors CVBU, the largest of such deployments
in the world, which achieved the noted business
turnaround victory at Tata Motors and also
resulted in them winning the Balanced Scorecard
Hall of Fame Award. MPOWER automated the Balanced
Scorecard at Tata Motors CVBU, and considers
the Tata victory their own.
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| Delegates showing great
interest at MPOWER’s stall at the
Dr.Robert Kaplan Seminar held on 11th
of Sep. 2006, at the Taj Mahal Hotel,
Bombay |
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| On the right, Sudhir Nagpal
– MPOWER’s Managing Director
interacting with delegates at the Dr.
Noel Tichy Seminar held on 13th of Sep.
2006, at the Taj West End Hotel, Bangalore. |
At each of the events, the speakers initiated
their seminars and spoke independently on their
subject after the film had ended.
MPOWER put up an exhibition stall at each of
the Seminars and demonstrated the successful
implementation of COVENARK® STRATEGIST and
COVENARK® ENTERPRISE. This created an enormous
interest in MPOWER's Solutions, Services and
Products.
Bringing three business gurus come together
literally a day after the other is a very rare
occurrence.
Whilst all the three of them addressed different
and apparently unrelated subjects such as leadership,
innovative strategies and BSC, it was quite
evident that each of these topics are intimately
intertwined and of critical importance in driving
the success of any business. An Organisation
must have a good leadership that encourages
the development and establishment of new leaders
by always communicating to them the leader’s
point of view. In turn, it is vital for these
developing leaders to all work together in developing
innovative strategies in a continuously fluid
and changing environment to align themselves,
their processes and their projects to their
business strategy using the Balanced Scorecard
Framework, thus engaging themselves in highly
productive and victorious effort.
As experts, we say that in driving a business,
there is no second place. Business Excellence
and Leadership is about perfection. Overall
perfection is a process that stands upon a base
of absolute balance achieved through perfect
performance.
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| (l-r) MPOWER’s team
- Ms. Lynette D’Souza- Executive
Strategic Support, Mr. Faraz Ahmed –
Manager Strategy Deployment, Mr. Ali Saidi
- Group Manager, Strategy Deployment &
Brand Initiatives, at the MPOWER stall
at the Dr Robert Kaplan Seminar held on
11th of Sep. 2006, at the Taj Mahal Hotel,
Bombay |
- ASEP
Technologies Participates in Brunei Event
ASEP Technologies is a Joint Venture between
Crown Systems, Singapore and MPOWER Information
Systems Pvt Ltd. It has taken active participation
in a one day exhibition at Dr. Robert S. Kaplan’s
International Seminar held at the ICC, in Darussalam,
Brunei on 3 April 2006.
This event was the first of its kind that was
conducted in Darussalam, Brunei. It attracted
more than 300 delegates, most of them from government
bodies. The Guest of Honour who officiated at
the opening session was the Minister of Communications
of Brunei, Awang Haji Abu Bakar bin Haji Apong.
At this event participants interested in the
Balanced Scorecard Methodology responded well
to ASEP Technologies.
Being a provider of solutions in strategy management
using the Balanced Scorecard Framework ASEP
Technologies elicited a positive response from
the Government of Brunei. In fact, ASEP’s
flagship product COVENARK® STRATEGIST is
fast gaining popularity across all levels of
management in Southeast Asia. One of the largest
Balanced Scorecard Implementations was done
for winners of the Balanced Scorecard Hall of
Fame Award Tata Motors.
- A
Seminar by Dr. Kenichi Omahe
2 December, 2005
- One
Day Seminar
Building a Strategy Focused Organisation Using
the Balanced Scorecard – Featuring Matt
Tice
6 January 2006 at the Hyatt, Mumbai
9 January 2006, at the Chola Sheraton, Chennai
This was a “First Time in India”
by the Balanced Scorecard Collaborative.
- India
Times Strategy Summit 2006
Disruptive Innovation – Featuring Clayton
M. Christensen, a renowned Guru from the Harvard
Business School, in Mumbai
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ROBERT
S. KAPLAN
Competing for the Future:
Achieving World class Strategy Execution
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