Tamil Nadu prepares govt agencies to meet its industrialisation vision

CHENNAI: Tamil Nadu’s industries ministry is conducting a two-day workshop for its core team to prepare them for the new wave of industrialisation and to tackle rising competition from other states in garnering business investments.
Around 30 senior leaders from TIDCO (TN Industries Development Corporation), SIPCOT (State Industries Promotion Corporation) and TIIC (TN Industrial Investment Corporation) will be part the workshop on design thinking conducted by tech company Intellect Design Arena’s School of Design Thinking on Tuesday and Wednesday (Aug 21).
The workshop, kicked off by state Industries minister M C Sampath, aims at shifting the team’s style of working from being compliance and regulatory oriented to engaging with the private sector as their customers.
The one-of-its kind workshop for government officials was initiated based on special requests by the Tamil Nadu government and is in the form of interactive sessions without any lectures.
“The workshop is a step toward taking the industries department to the next-level in order to adapt to the changing world with high levels of competition between various states to attract industries,” Sampath said.
The workshop aims at building on TN’s existing status of being a highly industrialised state, he added.
“We have the highest number of establishments in the country with around 37,720 industries, and we want to make Tamil Nadu a role model state for industrialisation in the country,” the minister said.
Arun Jain, chairman and MD, Intellect Design Arena, and founder, School of Design Thinking, said the concept of design thinking is well developed in the West and is all about customer-centricity. “The workshop will help our officials think big and look at the entire world as a market place,” he added.
The sessions will be focused on making the government bodies more stakeholder-focused and preparing them to take forward Tamil Nadu’s next vision of industrialisation.
The members of the core leadership team of TN's three key industry promotion agencies are all part of the two-day residential workshop being held at Intellect's 8012 FinTech Design Centre at Siruseri Chennai.