PROF BALA SHANKAR AUTHOR SENTHIL RAMANI ACCENTURE V RANGANATHAN EX-E&Y PARTNER FRIDAY, 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM | MMA MANAGEMENT CENTER "The Twelve Habits of Smart Skill-Building" SEP 9 2022 CLICK TO JOIN Partner
The concept of lifelong learning is challenging the old school maxim of frontloading all education. We are seven billion people and have a purpose. As knowledge and skill become the core ability where humans are not in competition with machines, we should be interested in analysing how we use old skills to do new tasks? Or learn, nurture and sustain new skills? What habit patterns help us embrace skill transformation as second nature, like a ‘skill-spider’? That’s the premise of this book.
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Human improvements have always been the backbone of inventions that advanced mankind. These were based on both knowledge and skills that we gained from time to time. From basic skills like cooking food, communication and practical learning, to making simple tools, language, scientific and industrial and social skills is the long road travelled by humans. Never before in the past decades has the topic of skills received as widespread attention and debate as now, with dominant opinion equating success with upskilling or reskilling - and failure with stagnant skillsets. We have since introduced machines, and this has changed the scope and source of inventions. The machines did some of our jobs better, faster, and provided relief from the tedium. We carried on the invention further to areas where humans faced barriers in terms of time, distance, complexity, etc. In this period, human skills became subordinate to the human-machine combination. So, we started sharing the source of progress.
6:00 PM Welcome Address Q&A Session 7:25 PM Vote of Thanks Gp Capt R Vijayakumar (Retd), VSM Executive Director, Madras Management Association Prof Bala Shankar Management Consultant Mr N Ananthaseshan Managing Director, Carborundum Universal Ltd Mr Senthil Ramani Senior Partner, Chief of AI and Innovation, Growth Markets, Accenture Mr V Ranganathan ex E&Y Partner and Chartered Accountant Launch of the book Overview of the book & Address by the Author 5:15 PM Registration & High Tea Author in conversation with Special Invitees p r o g r a m m e
Prof Bala Shankar Published Author, Global Leader and Account Director with experience in Strategy, Sales & Marketing across Asia. USA and Europe. Outstanding results achieved in New Markets, Regional scale up, Professional Team building, Mergers and in Private Equity environments. Managed accounts like Unilever, P &G, Henkel, J & J regionally/globally. Established a large educational institution and actively pursuing compelling opportunities in Education space. Specialties: Customer segmentation, Customer retention strategies, Long term customer value strategies, Account Planning and Account Management. New ventures and Education Management.p r o f i l e
Ananthaseshan joined CUMI as a Graduate Engineering Trainee in 1986 and has been with CUMI ever since.
Mr. N Ananthaseshan is a Masters in Materials Science from IIT, Kharagpur and holds a Master’s Degree in Applied Science from PSG Technology, Coimbatore. He currently serves as the Managing Director of Carborundum Universal Limited (CUMI), an INR 3,300 crore Company with 29 manufacturing sites in 8 countries. CUMI is listed in the National and Bombay Stock Exchanges and is a leading materials science solutions company that is a market leader in Abrasives, Industrial Ceramics and Electro Minerals.
Ananthaseshan has played a key role in many of the Mergers and Acquisitions, including Volzhsky Abrasives Works (Russia), Foskor Zirconia (South Africa) and recently PLUSS Advanced Technologies (India), Rhodius Abrasives and Awuko Abrasives in Germany.
Before taking up the position as the Managing Director, he has served as President Abrasives and Business Head of the Electro Minerals Division. Ananthaseshan possesses vast experience across business verticals of CUMI and is currently on the Boards of Volzhsky Abrasives Works (Russia), Sterling Abrasives, Wendt (India), Foskor Zirconia (South Africa) and is the Chairman of Murugappa Morgan Thermal Ceramics.
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Ananthaseshan loves dogs, is fascinated by Technology, and delights in reading, travelling, playing tennis, cricket, and spending time in Nature.
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Started the career in General Insurance Corporation. Had worked in a premier group based in Chennai in different capacities and was General Manager (Group taxation) for five years . Handled complex assignmentsbothforthecorporategroupandforthepromoterfamily.
V. Ranganathan holds a bachelor degree in commerce (Madras University), a chartered accountant and a companysecretarybyqualification.
Has a total experience of over four decades in public sector, private corporate sector and in consultancy startingfrom1978.
V Ranganathan
WasveryactivelyinvolvedwiththeMadrasChamberofCommerceforover35yearsandwithCIIandFICCI aswell,servingonvariouscommitteesatdifferentpointsintime.
HasanadvisoryrolewithaPEfirmandaprivateboutiquecorporateconsultancyfirm. Was a visiting faculty for over two decades in the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad on the subjectofcorporaterestructuring,mergersandacquisitions.
Has addressed and chaired sessions on taxation, corporate law, accounting and governance related subjectsinvariousprofessionalconferencesatallIndialevelorganisations WritesonsubjectsofcorporategovernanceinHinduBusinessLine,Moneylife.in.
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Workedinconsultancycumulativelyfor23yearsandwaswithErnst&Youngoverseeingdifferentoperations in a span of two decades across south India. Had led and executed critical assignments across industries and sectors and had conceptualised and carried out complex corporate reorganisation under the companiesActandSickIndustrialcompaniesAct.Hadaspecialfocusonentrepreneurledcompaniesand advisedthepromotersonvarioussensitivegovernanceissues.Hadworkedonkeyforeigninwardinvestment drivenprojects. Presently, an independent director in four public companies and serve as audit committee chair in two of them.Chairofauditcommitteeofanot-for-profitwithGovernmentofIndiaaskeypartner
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Leading high performing, cross-platform, multinational teams has awarded him stars and scars, because that’s the bond when incubating innovation. Because industry convergence is no longer just for disruptors. AI and innovation will lead growth markets to value and sustainability.
He is deeply passionate about unlocking the promise of artificial intelligence across public and private institutions, creating value from data and delivering transformative impact for our clients… He shapes and executes the Data and AI business for Accenture within our Growth markets, spanning 8 markets from the Middle East, China, India, SE Asia, and Japan to Australia, Africa and Latin America.
Senthil Ramani
Over the past years consulting for his clients, have been fortunate to have worked with amazing clients, who have had ambitious goals to achieve. In partnership with them, he has executed over 15 digital transformation programs at scale, with a team of over 2000 and enabled the clients to deliver profits over $1.6B USD. Using AI and automation to create new businesses and business models, he had enabled them to extract value out of data for positive organizational and transformative impact.
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