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PrESIdENT'S
MESSAGE
Dear AIMA Members
Congratulations on the 67th Foundation Day of All India Management Association (AIMA), which is also the National Management Day, and many thanks for your sustained commitment to the organisation and the cause of building management capability in the nation.
The past year has been one of recovery and change for AIMA, as the Covid pandemic finally retired and the economy reopened fully. However, there was no time to celebrate, as new economic disruption and distress arrived because of international conflicts, inflation spike, monetary policy reversals around the world, radical technological change and a general anxiety about unforeseeable upheavals.
During the past year, AIMA returned to working from office and it resumed physical activities and revived global engagements. In the past few months, nearly all major AIMA events have been physical, including the National Leadership Conclave, Managing India Awards Night, National Management Convention, Annual Convocation, Global Procurement Summit, the Regional Management Conclave (held in collaboration with participating Local Management Associations), as well as the current 67th Foundation Day and 17th National Management Day. In addition, AIMA’s hugely popular management and leadership Retreats were also resumed in Goa.
Even as AIMA has resumed and revived its physical programmes, it has continued to enhance and refine its digital capability. The digital infrastructure and expertise acquired during the pandemic is being used to engage with and serve its stakeholders through multiple channels. The digital initiatives in education, testing, events and the internal processes have been consolidated and AIMA is continuing to extract the benefits and flexibility that online solutions offer.
On the international front as well, several initiatives were revived and resumed in their physical avatars. During the past year, AIMA recommenced its US-India Conference in California and organised a CEOs visit to the Silicon Valley after a long, two year Covid induced interruption. The Global Advanced Management Programme (GAMP) in the US was also revived and attracted good participation. AIMA partnered and participated in the Horasis India Meeting in Vietnam and the St Gallen Symposium in Switzerland. AIMA also took a delegation to Dubai Expo where Indian CEOs could interact with their global peers and local policy makers. Soon after the Foundation Day, there will be a CEO visit to another innovation hub of the world, Israel.
This year also saw the completion of AIMA's 3-year presidency of the Asian Association of Management Organisation (AAMO). Unfortunately, due to the travel restrictions in place at the time, all AAMO initiatives
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