Speech for Mr. Gankar

ICMCI President Dr. Aneeta Madhok, IMCI President Anuj

Bhargava, Chief Guest and our key note speaker Dr. Surinder PS

Pruthi, all delegates, ladies & gentlemen. It gives me immense

pleasure to welcome all of you to the 17 th national convention of the

Institute of Management Consultants of India. It is an honour to Pune

Chapter to host this convention after a gap of almost 5 years. Pune, as

we all know is a centre of learning. The weather is beautiful and we

have tried our best to make this convention remarkable from every

aspect. You will be listening to eminent speakers from industry,

consultancy and academia on wide variety of subjects. Dr. Dilip

Sarwate, our convention chairman, will be briefing you on the

convention theme and topics which will be covered in two days.

I hope you will agree with me that organizing a national convention

of this magnitude is not an easy task. We have limited resources,

particularly the manpower. Most of our members are busy in their

profession. The preparation of a convention begins with lookout for

sponsors without which we cannot proceed. We are fortunate to have

found support from MITCON Consultancy Services Ltd, Nihilent

Technolgies, Power Grid Corporation of India Ltd. And Indira Group

of Institutes, advertisers and of course, you delegates who made it

possible. The next task was finding appropriate speakers who will do

justice to the theme. Our team was on the job for last 3 months and

more which saw this day. There were eleventh hour cancellations and

we had to struggle with a deadline. I know that there will be few

shortcomings in our efforts and I would request you to accommodate

us with these limitations.

Once again I welcome you all and hope that you will take back good

memories of this convention. Thank you.

Speech of Dilip M. Sarwate

Dignitaries on the dais, delegates, ladies & gentlemen. I hope you will

agree with me that last two years have been particularly turbulent to

the world economies. The only superpower in the world USA in the

grip of severe recession, countries like Iceland, Spain declaring

bankruptcy and India plagues with one scandal after another, we were

looking for an appropriate theme for our convention. After doing a

small informal opinion poll, we found that a majority were worried

about the future. Everyone agreed that we are in a fast changing

world and how to cope up to these changes is top on their mind. This

brought in the theme for this convention- Enterprise of the Future-

Managing Change Successfully. Having finalized the theme, we

started identifying sectors like IT, SME, Infrastructure, International

Business, Health care and many others which are more likely to be

affected. The two focus areas which emerged were Innovation and

People Management. Having done this, finding appropriate speakers

who will do justice to the topics was comparatively an easier task.

The Time Table for two days is in your hand. We are fortunate to

have an eminent intellectual speaker in Dr. Surinder PS Pruthi who

has specially flown in from Delhi to deliver the keynote address.

There are many delegates in the audience who have specially come

only to listen to him, some being his past students from IIM

Ahmadabad. (Elaborate on the sessions over two days).

In many conventions, there is a plethora of speakers. In one session,

some time, there are 4-5 speakers. In my humble opinion, this is an

injustice to the learned speakers to give their views only in 5-10

minutes. We have avoided this. As you will see, we have only two

speakers per session and we have given adequate time to Question &

Answers. Each session will be chaired by past presidents of IMCI and

other senior delegates who I am sure will also give their benefit of

wisdom. So ladies & gentlemen, I hope you will find this intellectual

palate meeting your expectations. Thanking you.

Note for the compere (Gaurav Desai)

(At exactly 9.30 am Gaurav should take the mike and start)

Good morning Ladies & Gentlemen. The time is 9.30 am and we are

beginning the 17 th national convention of the Institute of

Management Consultants of India. As they say. Well begun, is half

done. I am Gaurav Desai, your compere of the event. I have been

given instructions to strictly maintain the time schedule. So here we

go. Before we begin, may I request all in the hall to switch off their

mobile phones or put them on silent mode. Thank you.

May I invite Mr. Suresh Gankar, Chairman IMCI Pune Chapter, Dr.

Dilip M. Sarwate Convention Chairman, Mr. Anuj Bhargava

President IMCI, Dr. Aneeta Madhok, World President ICMCI and our

chief guest and key note speaker Dr. Surinder PS Pruthi to come on

dais, please.

I invite Mr. Suresh Gankar, a veteran from industry turned

management consultant, Chairman IMCI Pune chapter to

welcome the delegates and speakers. I would like to make special

mention that Mr. Gankar has turned 80 only last week and still he will

put youngsters to shame with his energy. I present to you Mr. Gankar.

(Mr. Gankar speaks)

Thank you very much Mr. Gankar. I now invite Dr. Dilip Sarwate,

past national president of the IMCI, entrepreneur, management

teacher, management consultant, author of 23 management books in

English & Marathi and Convention Chairman to come and share the

agenda for next two days. Dr. Dilip Sarwate

(Dr. Sarwate speaks)

Thank you very much Dr. Sarwate. Now I would like to invite the

young and dynamic national president and the host of the 17 th

national convention Mr. Anuj Bhargav. Mr. Bhargav is an IT

Professional. Having had a stint with TCS, He started his own IT

Consultancy organization under the name of Secure Matrix.

I would request him to talk about IMCI, its mission and his vision for

the IMCI. Mr. Anuj Bhargav.

(Mr. Anuj Bhargav speaks)

Thank you very much Mr. Bhargav. The world apex body of

Mangement Consulting professionals is ICMCI, International Council

of Management Consulting Institutes, India was the first Asian

country which was admitted to ICMCI 17 years back. Mr. Walter

Vieira was the first Indian who became the world president some 10

Years back. I feel proud to inform that once again the honour of

becoming the world president of ICMCI has been conferred to India.

Dr. Aneeta Madhok is the first woman President and the second

Indian to become the world President of ICMCI. Dr. Madhok after a

successful career in academics with Narsee Monji Institute of

Management now has her own consultancy organization under the

name of Open Spaces. I take pleasure in inviting the ICMCI world

President Dr. Aneeta Madhok to tell us about the world scenario on

management consultancy and the role played by ICMCI. Dr. Madhok

please.

(Dr. Madhok speaks)

Thank you Dr. Madhok. With the preliminaries over, we now come to

our main event for which many of you are anxiously waiting, that

is to listen to the inaugural address of the one of the most popular

speaker in mangement in the country, Dr. Surinder PS Pruthi. I would

request Convention Chairman Dr. Sarwate to introduce Dr. Pruthi to

the audience.

(Dr. Sarwate introduces Dr. Pruthi and invites him to deliver his

inaugural speech)

(Dr. Pruthi speaks)

Thank you very much Dr. Pruthi. I am sure that your mesmerizing

speech will linger for a long time in the memory of this august

gathering. Thank you Sir, once again.

Now it is the time for tea/ coffee break. I invite all the audience to

join for a hot cup. We will reassemble in the hall after 15 minutes to

begin our technical sessions. Thank you.

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We negin with our first technical session. May I invite on the dais, Mr

Mohan Shahani, Chairperson for the session, speakers Mr, Minoo

Dastur and Dr. Dilip Sarwate. (They come on the dais)

Mr. Mohan Shahani is the past national President of IMCI. His

consultancy experience is in Organization Development. Mr. Minoo

Dastur is a veteran from IT Field, He is founder Director with

Nihilent Technologies Ltd. Dr. Sarwate has already been introduced

to you. Before I hand over the mike to the Session chairman, I would

request all the speakers to pay attention to the time table so that we

maintain the schedule. Thank you very much. Over to Mr. Mohan

Shahani.

( The technical session gets over after the concluding remarks of the

Chairperson)

Thank you Mr. Mohan Shahani, Mr. Minoo Dastur and Dr. Dilip

Sarwate. As a token of our appreciation, we would like to present a

memento to speakers of the first session. May I invite Mr. to

honour Mr Mohan Shahani with a memento and later Mr. Shahani to

honour the two speakers. Thank you very much.

We mow break for lunch and reassemble for the next session exactly

in one hour. Enjoy the food of Hotel Le Meridien.

In similar fashion, the other sessions progress.