Vinod Gupta School of Management, IIT Kharagpur had the pleasure of hosting Mr. Arnab Banerjee, Wholetime Director, Board of Ceat Ltd and ED - Operations on 2nd March 2017 under the Vaarta series at VGSoM, IIT Kharagpur. Mr. Banerjee is an alumnus of Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur and Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta. He has over 17 years of experience at various leading Corporate & MNC organisations.
Mr. Arnab Banerjee with his vast experience base shared his ideas on formulating the right strategy for success. He emphasised on the quintessential for being successful in the corporate arena. The most important being communication capabilities. The ideas that one wishes to communicate must be simple and clearly understandable. The second one is the understanding and adapting to the value system of the organisation. There must be a clear overlap between the value system of the individual and the company for highest efficiency.
Mr. Arnab stated that the organisations should define their Big Audacious Goal and then define the strategy with the aim of winning. He highlighted that the recipe to success is to work in domains which one dislikes. Stating further, the key vitality for survival in this VUCA world is confidence and patience with diversity in all forms and teamwork being the essence of winning teams.
The session concluded with our guest focusing on the need to be adaptive to new technologies that will subsequently increase efficiency and evade the world subsequently.