Mr Sudeep Nair, Global Head for the Strategic Business Transformation Unit at Jardine Lloyd Thompson(JLT) India addressed the participants of IIM Indore PGP at Mumbai on 23rd February 2014. He shared his thoughts on the topic “Consulting in the IT Industry”. The interaction was very informative with a lot of insights being shared about the consulting domain.
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Final Placements for IIM Ahmedabad concluded recently, with all 378 students achieving placements by the third cluster. The summer placements at IIM Ahmedabad had been equally impressive, in terms of the sheer number of marquee names, and the number of students hired by these names on campus. IIM A has repeated its blockbuster performance during finals. Accenture Strategy Consulting hired 18 students at the final placements, and BCG hired 15 students. All these are figures for the PGP programme.
School of Inspired Leadership (SOIL) launched a special scholarship scheme to salute the spirit of the sacrifice of late Capt. Vikram Batra, Param Vir Chakra, for his actions during the 1999 Kargil War. ‘Captain Vikram Batra Scholarship Scheme’ will enable defence personnel who had to take premature release on medical grounds, to avail upto 100% scholarship on the program fee. Meritorious children or spouses who are graduates with some relevant experience, irrespective of family income could get upto 25% scholarship on the program fee.
In line of its continuing efforts to serve the society around it the ECoBiZ Club of IIM Shillong organised the 3rd blood donation camp on 22nd February, 2014.
As the acquisition of Nokia by Microsoft is coming through, Nokia has converted most of its product line to Windows Phone. The strategy behind this acquisition by Microsoft was to test whether Microsoft wanted to own make its own devices. A business model similar to what Apple has been implementing: successful Integration of the hardware and software design.
Banking, Financial Services and Insurance (BFSI) emerged as the largest recruiter in the recently concluded summer placements conducted at IIM Shillong.Despite a 10 per cent increase in batch size, the successful trend from the previous year continued to be prominent.
