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CBC to host Global Business Leaders Forum
 

Indiantelevision.com Team

(8 March 2007 1:00 pm)

 

MUMBAI: The Commonwealth Business Council (CBC) and the Bank of Baroda have teamed up to host the Global Business Leaders Forum (GBLF), from 12 and 13 March in Mumbai. With over 300 business leaders from emerging and developed markets the event will provide a forum to discuss ways to strike new partnerships and build organisations for the future.

The eminent speakers include Shell UK James Smith, Asia McKinsey chairman Dominic Barton, Bajaj Auto India chairman Rahul Bajaj, First Charnock, Australia chief executive Hugh Morgan and Shanduka Group, SA executive chairman Cyril Ramaphosa, who will discuss the theme - 'Changing Paradigms: Building Organisations for the Future.'

An official announcement stated that the forum will explore the current dynamics and implied opportunity and threats for emerging and developed markets. What is at stake in India, China and other growing economies? It will also address global economic imbalances.

CEOs will present case studies from organisations in emerging markets that have been transformed and reinvented continuously to become high-performance global companies and chalk out ways to build organisations for the future.

At the GBLF, corporate chiefs from Canada to China will discuss new competitive challenges and explore new partnerships. "These challenges will make companies review their strategies, beliefs and principles. Transformation and innovation are becoming the key factors that companies face in both emerging and developed markets. It will be an opportunity for firms from emerging markets to explore new partnerships," said CBC director general Dr Mohan Kaul.

Speaking about the Forum, Bank of Baroda chairman Dr Anil Khandelwal said, "It is clear that future business activities will be fuelled by emerging markets. So, business leaders from emerging markets have to get together and brainstorm to outline new paradigms. Interactive learning is a new capital that we should continuously build because it's through mutual learning that a new world will be created."

He added that emerging markets have a lot to contribute as they come from a difficult past and have new confidence and resurgence. "BoB has decided to partner with the CBC because we believe that CBC is doing an immensely useful work by bringing business leaders from the Commonwealth countries to tackle new challenges and our bank, India's international bank, is in a resurgent mode which aims to fuel this economy."

 
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