As the newly elected President, what are your roles and responsibilities and what are your plans for AIMA ?
It is a privilege to lead AIMA, which is the apex body for developing management excellence in the country. As its new President, my primary responsibility it to strengthen the organization, upgrade its existing activities and to align its capabilities to serve the emerging needs of Indian management.
My plan for AIMA is focused on the theme for this year - Leadership in the age of disruption. As innovation and technology disrupts existing businesses, how should leadership cope with this rapid change and succeed. This is the big issue of our times. This can come by various studies, interaction with innovators, evaluation of impact and reorienting business strategy. We need nimble fast moving enterprises to succeed with a new management architecture.
AIMA is developing its research and technological capabilities and expanding its global footprint. We founded the India Case Research Centre earlier this year and it should start producing Indiafocused case studies very soon. I would like AIMA’s digital education, training and testing portfolio to grow and become the preferred resource for students and companies alike. Creating more international platforms for intellectual exchange between Indian and foreign business leaders would be another priority. I would also like to see greater collaboration between AIMA and the local management associations in fostering management excellence in the regional business clusters. for many decades, AIMA has focused on developing India’s global competitiveness during the new millennium. AIMA has established an Advanced Management Programme in the Silicon Valley in partnership with Haas School of Business and it regularly sends delegation to international leadership conferences organized by Horasis and St Gallen University.
In addition to expanding overseas activities, AIMA has added to its portfolio of domestic flagship events. It has created India’s only peer management awards in the form of the Managing India Awards and it has set up National Leadership Conclave as a platform for dialogue between the government and the industry managing the economy.
Recently, AIMA has expanded its portfolio of services to the industry and the students. Apart from The India Case Research Centre, another major mile stone for AIMA has been setting up the Management, Entrepreneurship and Professional Skills Sector Skills Council or MEPSC. Another feather in AIMA’s cap has been its second office in Delhi – inaugurated by the President of India, Pranab Mukherjee.
The future roadmap for AIMA is clear. The organization will continuously develop its capability to help Indian management turn disruption into opportunity. It will focus on management research, technology and globalization and strive to become a leading management think tank in the world.