Impact of Changing Global Marketing Strategies on Inclusive Growth

Date: 8 Feb 2014 | Time: – 12:15 PM – 2.15 PM

• • Dynamic changes in the global marketplace have increased opportunities for marketing strategy standardization due to the convergence of cross-national market segments. An oversimplified understanding of the complexities of this convergence could lead to ineffective global marketing strategy execution. This session focuses on multi-level institutional approach to address level-based convergence effects necessary to understanding market segment and its influence on global marketing strategy. A model of influential level effects on global marketing strategy is developed having implications for global marketing academics and practitioners.

• • Focuses on the international marketing of services and the need for service marketers to be aware of barriers to international marketing unique to the service sector, as well as of management strategies for overcoming such barriers.

•  Explores managerial implications of Changing Global Marketing strategies on Inclusive Growth.

Financial Inclusion and Inclusive Growth

Date: 8 Feb 2014 | Time: – 3:00 PM – 5:00 PM

• • The Indian economy is the fastest growing economy of the world. The major drivers of the growth acceleration are demographic dividend, greater domestic and international competition, sharp increase in total factor productivity, the blossoming of entrepreneurship, and India’s acceptance of globalization. But this is the bright side of the coin. The other part is dark – where we find increasing inequalities in distribution of income and wealth. The urban regions are growing rapidly but the growth of rural regions is stagnant.

• In India about 400 million people accounting for more than 36 percent of the population still live below the poverty line. The Session focuses on Financial Inclusion and Inclusive growth i.e. “an opportunity to restructure policies to achieve a new vision based on faster, broader based and inclusive growth. It is designed to reduce poverty and focus on bringing the various divides that continue to fragment our society.”

Financial Inclusion and Inclusive Growth

Date: 8 Feb 2014 | Time: – 3:00 PM – 5:00 PM

• • How can the government facilitate the speed and the direction of structural transformation that can translate into inclusive growth?

• • The close linkage with the global economy has thrown up major challenges, the primary one being “to ensure inclusive growth” .The primary goal is how to achieve equitable economic growth.

• This session focuses on the increasing ties with the global economy that have thrown up major challenges for the Indian economy “to ensure inclusive growth”.

Emerging trends in Finance: Mapping the way ahead

Date: 9 Feb 2014 | Time: – 9:30 AM – 11:30 AM

• • Globally, financial services have always been on the forefront of change, be it innovation in products, mergers and acquisitions, or technology. India’s case is no exception to this rule. The country’s financial sector reforms have energized the entire gamut of financial services in the Indian market even as globalization and internet technologies are redefining the rules of the game.

• Based on a careful consolidation of authoritative and thought-provoking papers written by an array of experts, this session focuses on finance and business professionals the “big picture” of where financial services are headed in the new millennium.

Human Resource Planning and Development

Date: 9 Feb 2014 | Time: – 11:45 AM – 1:30 PM

• • Organizations that have effectively implemented competencies on a corporate-wide basis have ensured that there is an appropriate project management, governance and accountability framework in place to support the development, maintenance and revision/updating of the competency profiles to meet changing demands.

• • Can an organization develop and nurture talent engagement as a two way relationship between the employer and its employee?

• • How companies can best plan, select and implement development strategies for the entire talent pool to ensure that the organization has both the current and future supply of talent to meet their strategic objectives?

• The session focuses on the pattern of planned human resource deployments and activities intended to enable the organization to achieve its goals.

Challenges and opportunities for Global and Local Competitiveness

Date: 9 Feb 2014 | Time: – 11:45 AM – 1:30 PM

• • Investing in strategic alliances enabling businesses to gain a competitive advantage through access to partner’s resources, technologies and capital essentially building a solid workforce to deliver a prosperous economic future.

• The session will address the global and regional trends in business competitiveness including strategies for economic growth.