CII will be partnering with the State Government for overall economic development of the State and to facilitate initiatives that will catalyze grassroots level developments.
The 5 point agenda will include Skill Development, Growth of the IT industry in the State, Enhancing MSME competitiveness in the State through capacity building, Boosting Food Processing including enabling the Tea industry to move up the value chain and facilitating healthcare delivery. Continue reading
Gopinath Shanmugam, Lead Consultant – ERP for CII’s Session on Achieve CyberSecurity Together
In today’s civilization Internet is an increasing element of day to day activity. In particular children and youth, for whom social networking is one of the most popular activities, has opened the security threat matrix adding to the challenges of online internet experience. Protecting them from cyber space malice adds to the woes of cyber-paternalism, and cyber-libertarianism opening up issues related to national cyber security spectrum. Continue reading
Calling Out to all those interested in cyber security and wish to convey their thoughts
CII is organising a conference on ‘ACT – Achieve CyberSecurity Together’ on 13 July 2013 at Hotel Hilton, Chennai, and coinciding with this, we are reaching out to those who might be interested to contribute articles on Cyber Security
All articles will be compiled and circulated to all the delegates, senior officials and participants from the Cyber Security sector.
Your article should imbibe any one of the below listed topics:
Submission: We would like you to maintain the limit of 500 – 600 words and send a brief profile of the author with photograph. The paper needs to be forwarded to the undersigned on or before 30st June 2013 by email.
The conference will analyse the identified Problem: “Internet” = a hostile network like the wild-west WITHOUT a sheriff!
The objective of the “Achieve CyberSecurity Together (ACT)” – with a theme “Face Cyber Threats & Challenges” is to discuss greatest emerging cyber treats across the nation. The challenges, technological gaps and necessary research directions related to cyber security, as well as the best suited instruments to implement the tasks.
Please contact us directly if you have any questions on 044 – 42444555 / dhwani.shukla@cii.in
Please note: plagiarism & a paper without proper references & sources will not be accepted.
Family businesses in India are witnessing more and more women are taking over companies
Today women are fast taking the place of sons in running the family business empire. According to the American Family Business Survey, the number of female CEOs has doubled every five years since 1997. The survey indicates that more than 24 percent of the businesses currently have a female CEO or president, up from about 5 percent in 1997. The growth should continue as 31% of those surveyed indicated that they may have a female successor.
More and more daughters are also inheriting the family business in India. An Indian School of Business (ISB) paper on ‘Women in Family Business’ points out that currently women entrepreneurs make up about 10% of the total entrepreneurs in the country. This percentage is growing every year and is likely to reach 20% of the entrepreneurial force in India in the next few years.
In India the trend of daughters inheriting family businesses picked up steam after 2005 when the Hindu Undivided Family (HUF) succession norms were amended and girls were allowed to inherit equal shares in family businesses. The Hindu Succession (Amendment) Act of 2005 removed gender discrimination with regard to inheritance in Hindu joint families. Previously, only the male line, to great-grandson, had inheritance rights.
Perhaps the biggest change in the past couple of decades has been the increasing importance of educational qualifications. A growing emphasis on education has helped to raise the status of women in family businesses. Many have also worked abroad before returning home to take up jobs with the family business. Education and exposure have led to greater societal acceptance of women participating in family business. A few are also foreign educated waiting in the wings for winning top jobs in their groups.
Prof K Ramachandran, of Hyderabad-based Indian School of Business (ISB), was quoted in the media saying that “There is a huge change in attitude toward girls, with the number of children in any family coming down. Families sometimes have only one or two girls. I do not say that it is new found love for daughters but realization of an opportunity to share parental wealth among all children independent of gender.”
However, women today are challenging the stereotype assumption that men are the best and most qualified candidates for taking over the family business.
Speaking at the CII-FBN India Chapter XV International Convention on Family Business held in New Delhi recently, Dr Annelie Karlsson, Executive Director, FBN Sweden, said, daughters are becoming more and more influential in the family businesses. “Despite young male members to take charge of the business, many of the young female members are becoming the heads of business,” she concluded.
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