Competitive Solutions
The Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) enables businesses to strengthen their competitiveness through a comprehensive portfolio of training programmes, consulting, advisory, assessment, and capability-building solutions. Designed to address the evolving needs of industry, CII's Competitive Solutions help organizations enhance operational excellence, strengthen leadership, foster innovation, adopt global best practices, and build resilient, future-ready enterprises.
At the heart of these initiatives is CII's robust network of Centres of Excellence (CoEs), Technology Development Centres (TDCs), and Skill Development Centres (SDCs). These specialized institutions serve as centres of knowledge, innovation, and implementation, offering industry-focused research, technical expertise, customized interventions, and capacity-building programmes. Together, they support enterprises of all sizes—from startups and MSMEs to large corporations—in improving productivity, adopting emerging technologies, enhancing workforce capabilities, and achieving sustainable growth.
Working in close partnership with industry, government, academia, and international institutions, CII delivers practical, outcome-driven solutions across a broad spectrum of domains. These include business excellence, quality, manufacturing, digital transformation, green business, energy efficiency, sustainability, logistics and supply chain, food and agriculture, water management, design, intellectual property, innovation, entrepreneurship and startups, leadership development, employment and livelihood, and skill development.
Through collaborative initiatives, benchmarking studies, advisory services, customized learning programmes, industry platforms, and specialized centres, CII empowers organizations to improve performance, build future-ready capabilities, and enhance their global competitiveness while contributing to India's sustainable industrial and economic growth.
Centres of Excellence
Thirteen Centres of Excellence, forged in partnership with leading corporates, drive competitiveness in key domains across the country
Technology Development Centres
Knowledge & Innovation PPP Institutions
CII, through facilitative partnerships with the Central and State Governments, nurtures a culture of technology development and innovation in Industry, and in
the larger socio-economic milieu.
Skill Development Centres
In consonance with the national mission of making India
the Skills Capital of the world, CII is working with Central
and State Governments, Industry and Institutions, to
build a multi-faceted ecosystem at the grassroots to
help India leverage its people resource.
- CII Skill Training Hubs in Chindwara (Madhya Pradesh), Bhiwadi (Rajasthan) and Balasore (Orissa)
- Skill Gurukuls at the district level, in partnership with PARFI (Pan IIT Alumni Reach for India)
- Sectoral Skill Councils in partnership with the National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC)
VLFM Initiative
CII's Visionary Leaders for Manufacturing
(VLFM) Programme aims to create locomotive
manufacturing companies in India, by developing
leaders who can leverage their learnings in their
company's ecosystem, as 'Champions for Societal
Manufacturing'. Since its inception in 2007, the programme, supported by the Japan International
Cooperation Agency and the National Manufacturing
Competitiveness Council, India, has developed
1000+ leaders from more than 330 large, medium
and small manufacturing enterprises.