Arun M. Kumar

  • Coffee breaks with wife help KPMG India CEO get through long workdays

    The Economic Times – Panache29-Oct-2020 SynopsisArun Kumar shares how he made time for hobbies despite a demanding schedule. While remote working and video conferences have taken away the delight of in-person meetings, they have made person-to-person or small group conversations more focused, believes Arun Kumar, CEO, KPMG in India. “The social distancing caused by remote…

  • Companies with a vision & purpose have fared better in pandemic: KPMG India Chairman Arun Kumar

    The Economic Times26-Oct-2020 Synopsis“A crisis is a time when a company’s sense of purpose and values are tested. At such a time, employees and customers look for authentic leadership that is empathetic, transparent, honest and committed to a higher purpose,” Kumar told ET. Mumbai: The Covid-19 pandemic should also be viewed as an opportunity not…

  • Economic policy needs to make job creation its primary focus: Arun Kumar, CEO, KPMG India

    The Economic Times26-Oct-2020 SynopsisThe KPMG CEO, who was also part of the Obama administration (2014), in an interview with ET’s Sachin Dave said that the policy makers should focus on building healthcare, education, urban assets and digital connectivity in the next few years. COVID pandemic may be a huge crisis but India shouldn’t waste it,…

  • Message from the virus: Our individual security and welfare cannot be divorced from the collective

    Times of India24-Oct-2020 The Covid-19 crisis has highlighted, around the world, the need for national resilience in the immediate context of the pandemic. Equally, it draws attention to humanity’s global interdependence that is critical both to short-term security in areas like health and medicine and to long-term prosperity through trade that supports employment. Indeed, the…

  • Arun Kumar On KPMG India CEO Outlook Survey & India’s Growth Prospects | Restarting India

    CNBC-TV1807-Oct-2020 As COVID19 accelerates the digital shift, Indian CEOs identify tech disruption as the biggest risk to biz. A KPMG poll shows how the pandemic has changed the risk perception across India Inc. Shereen Bhan talks to Arun Kumar of KPMG India.

  • Mantram Beach

    Amazon.in07-Oct-2020 In this book, Arun Kumar offers a seer’s moving testament of hope in a time of precarious relationships, political upheaval, and Environmental degradation. In the title poem, ‘mainstream beach’, the rhythm of the ocean salves the suffering mind; in ‘the family’, like refugees from the storm, we enter a serene Sanctuary; in ‘shwedagon Pagoda’,…

  • COVID-19 impact | CEOs shift focus to digitisation, supply chain and new work realities, finds KPMG report

    Moneycontrol News07-Oct-2020 Majority identified “lack of skills and capabilities in IT” as the most significant challenges in the CVODI-19 impacted world Representative Image (Image Source: Reuters) Company chiefs in India are realigning their strategies to focus on key emerging trends related to digital transformation; supply chain; environmental, social and governance (ESG) programmes; and new work…

  • CEOs in India realigning their businesses with the ‘new normal’: KPMG report

    The Hindu BusinessLine07-Oct-2020 19% CEOs in India expect earnings of their companies to either remain flat or decline; 89% would continue to build on the use of digital collaboration, communication tools Klynveld Peat Marwick Goerdeler (KPMG), one of the leading providers of financial assistance, carried out two surveys in order to explore the key challenges…

  • A Sustainable Healthcare Architecture for Kerala

    CII Virtual Kerala Health Tourism Summit 202017-Oct-2020 As prepared for delivery This once-in a generation crisis has brought opportunities and lessons across a wide array of topics. Right at the top of this list is healthcare.   Government hospitals in both urban and rural areas, and primary health centres (PHCs) and community health centres (CHCs)…

  • Nandan Nilekani: Imagining India

    11 April 2009 In the opening chapter of Nandan Nilekani’s Imagining India, The Idea of a Renewed Nation, (The Penguin Press, 2009), the author reminisces on a primary architect of modern India, Jawaharlal Nehru. As one belonging to the same generation as Nilekani, I relate to how Nehru’s vision shaped for our parents and thus for…