BP Business Desk
To compete the future challenges, the country’s business needs to focus on the fourth industrial revolution and at the same time such technology should not be used for which business industry may fall behind.
Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce and industry Dhaka (MCCI) president Nihad Kabir make this statement while speaking at a business talk on Human Centric Business Innovation and Process Design organised by MCCI along with Bangladesh Brand Forum at its Gulshan office in the capital on Friday.
Nihad Kabir emphasized the need to incorporate human centric approach in business processes and designs, especially with the approaching 4'h Industrial Revolution She also urged to be careful in filtering out innovations which are less beneficial for business. She expressed that being a factor-driven economy, Bangladesh would benefit from gradually becoming an efficiency-driven economy. At the end, she assured of MCCI s wholehearted support for all activities geared towards embracing human centric processes and practices in business.
Dr. Newton Howard Professor of Neurocomputati on, Neurosurgery and Mathematics, University of Oxford and Dr. Amer Farid, Director Market Business, UNICEF Norway also speaks at the event.
Dr Howard mentioned that the brain was the main capital that any person could have, and how s/he utilized it made all the difference. He also stated that in this age of the Internet, everyone literally had equal opportunities to learn. Finally, he emphasized that technological consolidation in the right hands could be very useful.
Dr. Farid's talk on “Sustainable Innovation and Business°. He mentioned that Bangladesh needed to utilize its huge population. He also stated that innovation was vital to the country's growth and, in particular, pointed out how agro-tech could benefit from innovation in Bangladesh.
Among others, members of Boards of Directors, Managing Directors, senior officials of different organizations, former Presidents f MCCI, and a group of university students attended the business talk.
