Are you a willing to explore new avenues? Do you want to expand your purviews? Do feel that you have a potential in you which you can showcase to the world?
Answer to all the above questions can be given in a single word – Avenues!
What is Avenues?
Avenues is the International Business festival of IIT Bombay organized by Shailesh J. Mehta School of Management. It is a potpourri of management events targeted at the budding managers and combines learning with fun. Avenues attracts participation from Business Schools across the globe and also from corporates.
Why Avenues?
Avenues will provide a plethora of opportunities to you: a platform for you to demonstrate your talent, a means to enrich your management exuberance. It will offer you unconventional but effective exposure to real-world issues. Here are five reasons why you should participate in Avenues:
1. Showcase your talent: A unique opportunity for you to hone your business acumen. The flagship events along with domain level events bring an opportunity to you to expand your knowledge and demonstrate your talent specific to some domain.
2. Realise your dream: When it comes to learn something beyond bookish knowledge, in real life challenges, we identify our interests in a much better and effective way. This might help you to understand your competency and reshape your future goals accordingly.
3. Awaken the entrepreneur in you: If you have a dream of staring your own business and have a b-plan, Avenues brings to you the best opportunity. Our flagship event Navonmesh offers you a unique opportunity where you will be able to present your idea in front of industry leaders and if your idea is promising, you might receive funding.
4. Challenge yourself: “Competition journey is a process, not an end point.” Hence success or failure is just another step of learning. So whether you win or lose any particular competition, Avenues will provide you ample opportunity, the opportunity to challenge yourself. So whatever may the outcome be, it will definitely contribute to your continuous learning process.
5.Test your strategies/ ideas: You can test your skills of strategic thinking by taking part in Nirvikriti or IPL Auctions. The best part is you can judge your ideas in a risk free environment where you are able to collect and incorporate feedback from peers and professionals.
‘Avenues’ is one of the avenues to test your business acumen, develop competency and nurture your talent. It will be an enriching and stimulating experience that allows you to apply your knowledge to a specific, practical problem. If you are ready to innovate, improvise and implement, ‘Avenues’ is the best boulevard you can get!
- Sabyasachi Pal, Student, SJMSOM IIT Bombay