Ms Annapurna A is the Director of Human Resource at Inspirage. She shared insights into her journey as an HR leader, the current trends in the industry and the future of HR with IIM Shillong's Human Resources club usHR.
IIM Kozhikode, a proud member of the older IIMs is one of the most premier institutes of India. If you are a B-school aspirant, I am sure you know everything about its ranking and placement statistics. But a college is much more than that. Let me shed some light on things you MIGHT not be knowing about IIMK –
All the late nights and early mornings finally paid off. With lots of expectations and excitement, I stepped into IIM Ranchi and it was like a dream come true for any MBA – HR aspirant like me. I knew it was not going to be a fairy tale and I will have to work very hard to live up to the college expectations. I made sure to do a lot of research about the Institute before coming here as I did not want to appear out of place amongst my new classmates. I was already overwhelmed with the kind of cooperation I was getting from my seniors to adjust to the new settings. But when I finally reached the hostel there was a thing that particularly caught my attention. In the mess area, I could find these stickers saying – ‘Clean Plates’, ‘Save water’, ‘Be responsible’ etc. Upon doing a little bit of research I learned about UNGC PRME.
A Student Exchange Programme aims to bring a little more knowledge, a little more reason and a little more compassion into world affairs. Keeping the same spirit in mind, IIM Ranchi’s MBA Programme provides an opportunity for students to learn about business practices in various countries through the Student Exchange Programme (STEP) and/or study trips.
FINERGY, the Finance Club of SIBMB, is the one way stop to multiply your knowledge in the field of Finance and Investment, through synergy and collaboration. It is a club that is open for all finance enthusiasts, be it about sharing financial insights on stock markets or discussing the implications of the macroeconomic factors that govern the financial markets, it ultimately leaves you with a passion and greed to learn more about the dynamics that are involved in the business environment of India, and the world.
Somewhere around 2016, my conservative parents and their siblings started sensing the ideological rift between them and us. My cousins and I were 20 somethings with voice and we stopped nodding our heads at every regressive comment made at someone else's expense.
When I landed an Internship offer from Stellar Value Chain Solutions in early April 2018, I was excited to venture into the city of dreams-Mumbai for this invigorating, yet challenging opportunity. On the first day of my internship, I was introduced to the founder of the company, VP-Process Excellence and Solution Design Team members for a briefing of my deliverables. To gain a better understanding of the flow of information and material throughout the Supply Chain, I visited the warehouse situated at Uran in the outskirts of Mumbai. The problems related to uncertainty and variability in demand were clearly apparent along the way. Taking the entrepreneurial path, I decided to visit some of the efficient warehouses, to take in the best practices and strategize on improving the Supply chain at Stellar Value. Combining my prior experience with the classroom learning at IIM Udaipur, I inculcated a series of regressions, number crunching, and statistics in parallel to heuristic ways to improve the productivity and streamline operations. Backed by numbers and reasoning, I was able to do justice to my learning and propose solid recommendations to the organizations. In the last few days of my internship, I prepared a plan for Warehouse Inventory keeping and defined a streamlined work breakdown structure and warehouse processes.
