During the session the expert on board has suggested that the concept of strategy is centuries old. However, business strategy field has come into picture mainly in the last century. It was also analyzed that for the major part of the last century the focus of business strategy has been primarily on the USA, Western Europe and Japan and in their context. It is understandable because firstly, Europe has taken lead in the Industrial Revolution and USA became the dominant economic power post World War II followed by Western Europe and later joined by Japan.

In the second session they emphasized that the interest in strategy in Indian context has gained currency in last decade of twentieth century particularly post liberalization of 1991. Preliberalization, the main strategy, if any, was to get government license and serve the big lucrative Indian market. Liberalization brought not only foreign competition but also opened Indian companies to the strategic concepts and tools with the incoming of strategic consulting firms like McKinsey, BCG etc.

The objective of this FDP is to look at various aspects of teaching strategic management in the Indian context.

The workshop was divided into four different levels:
• Self harmony
• Harmony in the family
• Harmony in the Society
• Harmony in nature and cosmos

The first level concentrated on understanding co-existence of self and body, importance of right understanding, analyzing the importance of relationship and identifying the required physical facilities for self comfort and existence. This session also emphasized on role of our pre-conditionings in our day to day decisions and behavior.

The second level talked about prosperity in the family. The difference between intention and competencies of an individual was brought about in this session. Thus, the importance of right evaluation of a person’s competencies was discussed very elaborately. The nine core family values were also shared in this session.

The third level talked about extension of family’s harmony with the society. In the fourth level the importance of correlation amongst the four orders of the entire cosmos i.e physical order, pranic order, animal order, human order so as to understand the relationship of mutual fulfillment within each order. During workshop, sessions were organized on video shows, group discussions and experience sharing, thereby, giving a holistic understanding on the subject.

The session concluded with an understanding that mutual fulfillment is inherent in nature to live in harmony and prosperity. The resource persons for the session from university were Shri Gopalji, Shri Manoj Gupta, Mr. Tarique and Mr. Talaan. Around 80 faculty members from different management and engineering colleges of AKTU participated in the workshop.

The purpose of the workshop was to propagate human values to the student fraternity through faculty and thus creating sensitization amongst students for a better, value driven behavior and self development.

Around 18 middle to senior executives of various J.K. Group companies including J.K. Papers, J.K. Tyre, Umang Dairies and others attended this highly interactive full day training program. With the help of an academic discourse and practical feedback of the practicing international trade executives who attended this workshop, it was a very enriching full day discussion on the topic.

I.T.S thanks J.K. Organization and J.K. Group for providing this opportunity to conduct this training program for their selected and seasoned company executives. A number of I.T.S faculty members provided inputs and advise to make this prestigious training program successful.