Organisation Culture: Acta Non Verba The Department of Industrial and Management Engineering at IIT Kanpur hosted a seminar by Mr Tojo Jose, CHRO at Muthoot Fincorp Ltd. on the topic of organisational culture. Organisational culture is a guiding factor that acts as the genetic code of any organisation.
IMT Hyderabad, a premier b-school from the state of Telangana, took active participation to “Run for a Reason” and help charities receive much needed financial support through the Airtel Hyderabad Marathon 2017.
Dr Debapratim Purkhayastha another accolade in ICFAI CASE center as the CASE - Sexual Harassment Complaint and Fallout, won the Dark Side CASE Award. The CASE was written by Ms. Syeeda Maseeha Qumer, Prof. Debapratim Purkayastha of ICFAI Business School, Hyderabad and Dr. Vijaya Narapareddy, University of Denver. In the last three years, ICFAI Business School CASE center has won Dark Side Award twice. The other two who made into the final round of Dark Side award were from Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada.
i5 Summit, Central India’s largest entrepreneurship summit organised by IIM Indore and IIT Indore was held on 19th and 20th August, 2017. The summit began with a keynote address by Mr. Venktesh Shukla. Mr. Shukla, ex-chairman of The Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE), and currently General Partner at Monta Vista Capital and President of Foundation for Excellence talked about entrepreneurship as the way forward in India. He spoke about the opportunities available to entrepreneurs in India, such as government support and availability of capital, and stressed on finding the one thing that the company is best at, which people will pay for. He cautioned against losing sight of the big picture while focusing on granular b-plans and spreadsheets. Lastly, his piece of advice to entrepreneurs was to ‘know your customer’ by interacting with them, understanding their problems, finding out their willingness to pay for its solution and then solving their problems through the products or services on offer.
VGSoM recently had the privilege of hosting Mr. Sachin Kapoor, Business Head, LinkedIn India for a guest lecture. Having more than 15 years of work experience at leading Corporate & MNCs like Yahoo, Tech Mahindra, Bharti Airtel, Samsung and LinkedIn, Mr. Kapoor brought across a vast knowledge base to share with the batch.
The seminar began on a light note, with Mr. Anoop offering Lao Tzu’s take on forecasting and quoting Laurence Peter’s witty remarks on economists. He explained how an economist actually is involved in presenting a result oriented outlook along with the forecast of industry demand, involved in financial planning, establishes goals and analyses the market to provide well-informed guidance on the possibilities. The projections are normally done with 5-7 years of data, which helps create a holistic outlook including up-cycle and down-cycle data, including those of the competitors in the industry. For vitality of project specific projections, the data utilised can even stretch up to 20 years. However, he professed from experience that the maintenance of a certain degree of accuracy of projections is difficult beyond 2-3 years.
The Department of Industrial and Management Engineering at IIT Kanpur played host to a seminar by Mr. Rajib Roy, CEO of Quantum Spatial Ltd., who put forth an overview of how analysis of geospatial data can bring about a paradigm shift in the world of information and how its subsequent analysis can result in benefits to various organisations.
Organisation Culture: Acta Non Verba The Department of Industrial and Management Engineering at IIT Kanpur hosted a seminar by Mr Tojo Jose, CHRO at Muthoot Fincorp Ltd. on the topic of organisational culture. Organisational culture is a guiding factor that acts as the genetic code of any organisation.
IMT Hyderabad, a premier b-school from the state of Telangana, took active participation to “Run for a Reason” and help charities receive much needed financial support through the Airtel Hyderabad Marathon 2017.
Dr Debapratim Purkhayastha another accolade in ICFAI CASE center as the CASE - Sexual Harassment Complaint and Fallout, won the Dark Side CASE Award. The CASE was written by Ms. Syeeda Maseeha Qumer, Prof. Debapratim Purkayastha of ICFAI Business School, Hyderabad and Dr. Vijaya Narapareddy, University of Denver. In the last three years, ICFAI Business School CASE center has won Dark Side Award twice. The other two who made into the final round of Dark Side award were from Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada.
i5 Summit, Central India’s largest entrepreneurship summit organised by IIM Indore and IIT Indore was held on 19th and 20th August, 2017. The summit began with a keynote address by Mr. Venktesh Shukla. Mr. Shukla, ex-chairman of The Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE), and currently General Partner at Monta Vista Capital and President of Foundation for Excellence talked about entrepreneurship as the way forward in India. He spoke about the opportunities available to entrepreneurs in India, such as government support and availability of capital, and stressed on finding the one thing that the company is best at, which people will pay for. He cautioned against losing sight of the big picture while focusing on granular b-plans and spreadsheets. Lastly, his piece of advice to entrepreneurs was to ‘know your customer’ by interacting with them, understanding their problems, finding out their willingness to pay for its solution and then solving their problems through the products or services on offer.
VGSoM recently had the privilege of hosting Mr. Sachin Kapoor, Business Head, LinkedIn India for a guest lecture. Having more than 15 years of work experience at leading Corporate & MNCs like Yahoo, Tech Mahindra, Bharti Airtel, Samsung and LinkedIn, Mr. Kapoor brought across a vast knowledge base to share with the batch.
The seminar began on a light note, with Mr. Anoop offering Lao Tzu’s take on forecasting and quoting Laurence Peter’s witty remarks on economists. He explained how an economist actually is involved in presenting a result oriented outlook along with the forecast of industry demand, involved in financial planning, establishes goals and analyses the market to provide well-informed guidance on the possibilities. The projections are normally done with 5-7 years of data, which helps create a holistic outlook including up-cycle and down-cycle data, including those of the competitors in the industry. For vitality of project specific projections, the data utilised can even stretch up to 20 years. However, he professed from experience that the maintenance of a certain degree of accuracy of projections is difficult beyond 2-3 years.
The Department of Industrial and Management Engineering at IIT Kanpur played host to a seminar by Mr. Rajib Roy, CEO of Quantum Spatial Ltd., who put forth an overview of how analysis of geospatial data can bring about a paradigm shift in the world of information and how its subsequent analysis can result in benefits to various organisations.
