Asian Institute of Family Business (AIFB) is a first generation entrepreneur’s thought leader approach to addressing the vacuum that is in the market for an exclusive research driven institute dedicated to the cause of advocacy and education in the ‘Family Business’ and Entrepreneurship sphere focused on enabling the transition of family firms from startup to fledgling and then to corporate levels by fostering a deep understanding of the nature and potential of the fast changing technology and the qualitative shift the firms need to make for successful transition from one stage to the other. Hence the programs and all other activities of AIFB are being designed to provide entrepreneurs and owner-managers, spanning across generations and businesses, the benefit of efficient technology management and sharing a common platform, where businesses in various stages of their lifecycle – embryonic to growth to maturity - to share their experiential learning backed by research driven data that provides veracity, fortifies and concretises their intuitive mental models and decision making strategies.
Pedigree
AIFB has a formidable parentage in Globsyn – India's first 'IBM Centre for Software Excellence'; the pioneer of the Knowledge Finishing School SystemTM in India; the only institution to seamlessly blend together 'Infrastructure' and 'Institution'; the first Indian software organisation to bring dedicated business networking to India and giving to the technology training industry – YSM, the only technology training product to date that brings together 'technology', 'management' and application skills into a single, back-to-school, curriculum. With a history of innovation, Globsyn, setup Globsyn Business School (GBS) in 2002, as India's first 'Corporate B-School'. With two sprawling campuses in Kolkata and Ahmedabad.
AIFB Programs
Being designed as an institute to dedicatedly cater to the needs of Family Business, irrespective of their size, the entire ethos of its programs and offerings would be unlike any of the programs currently available. More importantly the curriculum for AIFB programs apart from being developed to promote ‘hands-on’ learning, where individuals are exposed to the nuances of running their own businesses or interpreting data from their own businesses, are exposed to research and data of both similar and dissimilar firms of varied sizes to help businesses in various stages of their lifecycle – embryonic to growth to maturity - to share their experiential learning backed by research driven data that provides veracity, fortifies and concretises entrepreneurs/family business professionals intuitive mental models and decision making strategies. In fact, family business education is not about doing an MBA, but it is an MBA turned upside down.
Long term programs
- Post Graduate Programme in Family Managed Business Administration (FMBA)
- Post Graduate Diploma in Innovation & Entrepreneurship
Specialist Family Business Clinics (short term programs)
- Succession Planning
- Family Governance
- Sibling partnership
- Cousin Consortium
