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New Delhi: From the
significance of liberal arts in education to the challenge of
reconciling unemployment and efficiency ; from comparisons between
India and China to the issue of brain drain; from creating locally
ingenious solutions that can be translated globally to
entrepreneurship. Speakers and students avidly discussed
leveraging India's unique position in the global context at a
dialogue held at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Delhi.
The message that rang clear was that change will be the only
constant. "We have before us a global construct where chaos will
be a given, where innovation will drive the markets and where a
model for sustainability will have to come out of shared visions
and goals."
Two eminent speakers, Soumitra Dutta, professor of business at
Technology at INSEAD, France and Dean Designate of Cornell
University's Johnson Business School of Management and also an
alumnus of IIT Delhi, and Wilfried Aulbur, managing partner ,
Roland Berger Strategy Consultants, India fired the imagination of
young students on how to leverage their talent and education to
co-create a more inclusive and better India.
Soumitra Dutta highlighted two prompts for innovation:
"technological push", where new technologies create whole new
industries, and "market pull", where existing technologies are
cleverly combined to create viable market solutions. Dutta argued
that in order to maintain ground on the global stage, India should
increase investment in original research, development, and
production of new technologies.
Dutta stressed the need for India to increase investment in
original research, development, and production of new
technologies.
Aulbur said businesses will need to adapt from having a global
presence to being globally integrated. Finally, highly effective
operating models must be designed to manage the transformation
into a more agile, flexible, and efficient engineering
organisation.
InDialogues, organised by design and strategy firm Ideaworks, is
an initiative to bring together a cross-sectoral group of leaders
who hold a range of viewpoints. "Dialogues work because they bring
different kinds of people together around relevant issues and
create a space that enables constructive conversations. Dialogues
entail partnerships which create the necessary framework for
positive change," Amit Shahi, CEO & Co-founder, theIdeaWorks,
said.
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