MarClan -
The Marketing Club of IIM Udaipur organized the first Guest Speaker Session for this year of its continuing series,
ColloquiuM!. The talk in this session was delivered by
Mr. Romi Mahajan. Mr. Mahajan is a world renowned Marketing and Creative Thought Leader. His credentials include working as a Director of Sales and Strategy for Digital Marketing Platform Group at Microsoft and Founder-President of KKM Group et al. He was accompanied by
Mr. Kshitij Jain of
Advaiya Solutions Pvt. Ltd..
Mr. Mahajan spoke extensively on the topic "
The Marketing Panorama - Reclaiming Marketing from ROI Zealotry". Coined to what he called as "The ROMI TRAP", he elaborated on how companies' drive towards measuring and quantifying the return on marketing investment and advent of new mediums and platforms like digital and social media have been cannibalising the culture of Marketing. According to him the intuition and creativity which led to many successful and innovative marketing strategies/campaigns formulation have been compromised by the use of pseudo-science in modifying the techniques of Marketing.
The session was an interactive one and the students in attendance put in some really interesting aspects to the discussion throwing concepts backed up with examples from real world. The effects of advertisements in marketing communications as they were showcased in the traditional media in the television, their nostalgia factor and the social/digital media wave using that to encash the same effects simply took the discussions to stratum.
The various Clubs and Committees at
IIMU keep on organizing such sessions round the year to aid students in picking up the nuances of management from the industry that the speakers represent in addition to the subjects' knowledge gained in the academic curriculum pedagogy.
