Travelling Soldier

Last friday, neethi from marketing club managed to bring in Mr.Mehmood Khan,Global leader innovation process at Unilever to deliver a talk at MBS. Typically, most speakers do not engage audience and try to avert sensitive topics during the lectures ( atleast thats what I observed here..at MBS). But Khan was from a different league who literally hits the nail’s head and mostly on sensitive topics and some controversial ones too…!!!

After the lecture talk, we had some interesting conversations on emerging retail sector within India or other emerging countries. And if allowed, I can say we had some sort of tough questions bowled to him and he did answer them very well. His forte of answering questions revolved around "Value Chain","democracy" and "Economic reforms in India"

A quick summary of topics we covered in the post-official talk -

Microfinance, MicroRetailing, Kirana store, Rytu bazaar, Rural development, Young population, literacy, Unilever in India, HLL, and ofcourse Manchester MBA’s

tIn the end, he offered us to meet him in London..

About Mr.Khan

Mehmood Khan is Global Leader of Innovation Process Development at Unilever. For Mehmood, what has become prevalent in innovation is the issue of sustainable value creation. Unilever’s award-winning approach to this has seen Mehmood take all stakeholders into account in the product lifecycle. No longer are Unilever solely thinking about the internal players within the product lifecycle. Rather, Mehmood now considers all stakeholders who were previously not involved, such as suppliers, customers and universities in driving Unilever’s innovation process. This presentation will see Mehmood showcase the specifics behind this approach, and how it is enabling Unilever to grow as a business. Kudos to marketing club, who are way ahead of other clubs and have done second most memorable event..!! (earlier they were able to bring in TESCO’ Chief for a talk).