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IMA Insights

IMA India"s Podcast offers insights on the Indian economy, politics, business environment and functional areas for CXOs and senior management.

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7:12

Tata Motors: Reinventing in Crisis by Adit Jain

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2025/09/04

Tata Motors has learned to treat disruption as a forcing mechanism. Product disappointments such as the Nano and the Indica, exposed not only poor design but also structural weaknesses in quality control and consumer insight. By 2016 the rot was visible, as market share eroded, customer trust waned and internal morale sagged. The company responded with urgency. The turnaround playbook was rooted in recognising crises not as aberrations, but as catalysts for reinvention. Adit Jain in conversat...

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9:19

MicroStimuli and the Future of Influence

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2025/08/20

In an era where consumer attention is increasingly fragmented and fleeting, marketing must pivot from persuasive monologues to precise behavioural interventions. At a recent India CMO Forum session in Delhi, Biju Dominic, Chief Evangelist at Fractal Analytics and a pioneer in applying neuroscience to consumer strategy, challenged conventional models of influence. Drawing on two decades of work with global brands and behavioural science labs, he argued that marketers must stop appealing to the...

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10:30

Passing the Baton: Legacy, Leadership and Art of...

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2025/08/19

The world today is in a state of flux - geopolitical tensions, economic volatility, trade wars and environmental crises are converging into an unrelenting storm. In such a landscape, running an enterprise is no longer about operational excellence alone, it’s about human resilience. The role of a leader has fundamentally changed. From being a figurehead or coordinator, the modern leader is now omnipresent, emotionally available, environmentally aware and prepared to manage failure at mul...

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11:58

Building a Sustainable and Ethical Business with...

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2025/08/19

Sustainability and ethics are no longer optional 'nice to haves’ but an essential element of long-term business success. Today’s organisations must go beyond minimising their environmental impact and actively integrate ethical practices and sustainability into their core operations. Avery Dennison, a global leader in materials science and digital identification solutions, is at the forefront of this transformation. By optimising labour and supply chain efficiency, reducing waste and driving s...

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11:48

Business Ethics as Driver of Organisational Success...

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2025/08/14

The pressure of delivering strong results quarter after quarter can tempt even the best companies to be myopic on ethics and fair business practices. Sometimes, this gives rise to the sort of scandals that can destroy the very foundations of a business. While some may view 'fair practices' as resource-draining and growth-impeding, companies that adopt a values-based approach to ethics and compliance gain a long-term competitive edge in the marketplace. At recent combined sessions of the India...

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6:44

The CHRO to CEO Story with Ashish Srivastava

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2025/08/14

According to Spencer Stuart, 87% of CHROs today are active participants in CEO succession planning – a powerful signal that boards increasingly see HR leaders as strategic stewards of enterprise leadership. As the CHRO role expands beyond functional excellence into business transformation, culture-building and digital foresight, it is becoming a credible springboard to the CEO’s office. At a recent India CHRO Forum session in Delhi and Mumbai, Ashish Srivastava, Managing Director o...

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16:05

Evolving from Data-Rich to AI-First Enterprises: A...

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2025/07/30

Despite years of digital transformation, most enterprises remain stuck in what might be termed a ‘digital slum’: a maze of dashboards, siloed systems and disconnected analytics. They are data-rich but insight-poor, paralysed by complexity and unclear on how to translate their massive data reservoirs into real business value. At a recent India CEO Forum session in Mumbai, Dr Shailesh Kumar, Chief Data Scientist at Reliance Jio, laid out a comprehensive blueprint for becoming an AI-first enterp...

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9:27

Strategic Synergy in CFO-CHRO Partnerships with...

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2025/07/30

In an era of increasing organisational complexity and rapid market shifts, the partnership between CFOs and CHROs is more critical than ever. Strategic synergy between Finance and HR fosters resilience, driving sustainable growth and cost efficiency. A well-integrated Finance-HR collaboration enables companies to navigate economic uncertainties while strengthening workforce engagement. At a recent India CHRO Forum session in Bangalore, Abhishek Gupta, Myntra’s CFO, and Govinda Raj MK, its CHR...

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13:48

The Supreme Court’s BPSL Judgement: Key Lessons and...

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2025/07/30

The Supreme Court of India recently ordered the liquidation of Bhushan Power and Steel Limited (BPSL) under the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (IBC), marking a significant development with wide-ranging implications for Corporate India. The case highlights critical issues around procedural rigour, finality in insolvency proceedings and the scope of judicial intervention. At a recent IMA India CFO Forum session, Tine Abraham, Partner, Disputes Practice and Mohammed Shameer, Partner, Disputes Pr...

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17:16

Compensation Outlook 2025 with Amit Otwani and...

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2025/07/30

Compensation is a critical lever for attracting, retaining and motivating talent. In a shifting economic climate, getting it right has never been more important. At a recent IMA India CHRO Forum session in Mumbai, Amit Otwani, Associate Partner and Kavitha Venkatachalam, Director at Aon Human Capital Solutions (HCS), shared insights from Aon’s latest Salary Increase and Turnover Survey. Drawing on global and Indian macroeconomic trends, the discussion explored FY25 increments, pay-for-perform...

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17:20

Sustainability in Action with Vishwa Bandhu Bhattacharya

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2025/07/30

Sustainability is now a critical imperative for businesses and societies alike, and understanding the prime forces driving this agenda is more important than ever before. From global trends and technological innovations to corporate leadership and evolving policy frameworks, the sustainability landscape is rapidly transforming. This podcast explains the tangible benefits of embedding sustainability into business practices and discussed how businesses can navigate the complex terrain and...

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14:41

Smart Industry Innovation for the Future with Rainer...

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2025/07/30

Global investment in smart manufacturing is accelerating, with India emerging as one of the world’s most dynamic markets. As industrial ecosystems evolve, the focus for businesses is shifting from whether to adopt smart technologies to how to scale them effectively. At a recent IMA India CEO Forum session run in collaboration with the EDAG Group, Rainer Wittich, CEO, EDAG Production Solutions, Arnab Roy, CFO, Maruti Suzuki and Rajat Verma, Founder and CEO of LOHUM, explored the advancements d...

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27:07

The Q1FY26 CHRO Dialogue in Mumbai with Naveen...

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2025/07/30

As AI reshapes the business landscape, CHROs are being called upon to cut through the noise and lead with clarity. This episode brings together two compelling conversations from IMA India’s recent HR sessions. In the first, Naveen Narayanan, Global Head of HR at Biocon Biologics, outlines the CHRO’s evolving role in embedding GenAI into workforce strategy—bridging capability gaps, reframing talent models and redefining value creation. The second session delves into the growing shift from role...

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15:35

The Risk-Ready CFO

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2025/07/29

In an age where volatility is not the exception but the norm, CFOs are being called upon to lead with strategic clarity and operational resilience. At a recent India CFO Forum session in Delhi, two seasoned leaders – Dev Tripathy, CFO of Philips (Indian Subcontinent) and Amit Agarwal, Executive Director and Group CFO of DCM Shriram – unpacked the practical imperatives of risk readiness. Their message was unequivocal: the CFO’s role must expand beyond compliance and control to one of co-piloti...

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13:22

The Q1FY26 CHRO Dialogue - Mumbai

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2025/07/29

At our recent Q1, FY26 CHRO Dialogue session in Mumbai, we explored two important subjects: the role of culture in business transformation; and skill-based hiring in today’s rapidly-evolving landscape. Leading discussions during the first session, and moderating the conversation in thesecond, open-house-style session was Sanjay Menon, Managing Director of Publicis Sapient India and Global Head of Service Lines for SapientRazorfish. The attached podcast summarises these discussions, but...

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6:26

CMO Open House B2B Lead Generation

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2025/07/11

In a landscape where complexity defines the norm, B2B marketers are under increasing pressure to deliver growth through precision, adaptability and measurable impact. At a recent India CMO session, run as an open house moderated by Manish Sinha, CEO of Zamun Services, senior marketing leaders explored the evolving architecture of lead generation, a domain where content strategy, sales alignment and intelligent targeting converge. The discussion underscored a clear shift: from cha...

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9:23

The Reskilling Imperative

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2025/06/18

In an era defined by exponential advances in generative AI and automation, Finance functions face both, unprecedented opportunities and existential challenges. At a recent online session of the CFO NxT Forum, Madhavan Hariharan, who comes with three decades of experience spanning strategic leadership at CK Birla Group, senior roles at Philips and governance responsibilities at Galaxy Surfactants, framed AI not as a distant novelty but as a present-day force reshaping financial operations, rep...

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12:10

India's Position in an Uncertain World with Suhasini...

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2025/05/29

Eleanor Roosevelt once said, ‘Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.’ In an era increasingly dominated by personalities and passing controversies, it is essential to refocus on enduring ideas and transformative events. This is especially true in the post-2020 world, where a series of global shocks has fundamentally reshaped geopolitics. In response, India’s foreign policy is being fundamentally recalibrated. From managing a volatile border with Ch...

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4:20

US Trade Tariffs by Adit Jain

IMA Insights ·

2025/03/31

The emergence of US tariffs as a policy tool, is a decisive shift in global trade and indeed the liberal world order, which facilitated the emergence of Asia’s tiger economies. Once dismissed as a temporary measure, tariffs are now rooted in a broader economic agenda that merges protectionism, domestic manufacturing and geopolitical influence. For companies, this carries far-reaching implications, shaping inflation, growth and production strategies. At the start of the year, mark...

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4:16

Consumption and Travel by Adit Jain

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2025/03/31

In the discussions that your columnist has had, over the course of the past couple of months, with IMA Forum Members, it was evident that urban consumption has begun to taper. As it happens, the trend really became apparent several quarters ago. Still, consumer goods companies are likely to record annual revenue growth between 5% and 8%. But that is largely on account of higher prices rather than larger volumes. Analysts have offered various explanations such as greater inflation, poor ...

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