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`Manufacturing sector needs visionary leaders'

Yashoda Sampath

Training programme for senior managers likely in June next year

CHENNAI: Manufacturing in India will not be able to develop beyond a certain point without visionary leaders, according to Shoji Shiba, former professor of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Tuskuba University in Japan.

The "Visionary Leaders for Manufacturing" training programme, to be launched in conjunction with the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), IIT-Kanpur and IIM-Calcutta, is expected to begin in July 2007.

The goal is to produce 200-250 visionary leaders in three years through a skill-based training system.

Seven two-week modules will be split up by six-week practice sessions, when the students return to his or her company to do "homework" until the next module.

In an interview with The Hindu , Shiba said the students would be mostly lower-level senior managers, who would motivate employees, be functionally effective and solve problems. The goal of the programme is to enable these managers to create new business opportunities, focus on society at large and anticipate problems.

Each module would address a variety of topics, including total quality management, financial tools, supply chain management and Indian context.

Focus would be on adapting India's current way of management, which has three strengths: spirituality, a holistic view of the environment and a larger concern about society than companies abroad.

Indian faculty members would be invited to visit factories in Japan in June to study the manufacturing techniques. Japanese faculty members would deliver lectures during the 18-month training course.

The Japanese embassy has been requested to fund four new laboratories to be built on the college campuses, and publication and conference costs.

The Indian Government will be responsible for operational costs.

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