On 27th August 2014, Vinod Gupta School of Management, IIT Kharagpur, witnessed one of the most scintillating speeches ever thanks to the Ex-President & CEO, Industrial Solutions and Intelligent Platforms, GE India, Mr. Ajay Kumar.
Mr. Kumar earned his B.Tech in Electrical Engineering from IIT, Kanpur and a MBA from FMS, Delhi. Mr. Ajay comes with 37 years of corporate experience, both in India and international. He has worked and lived in UK, France, Hong Kong, Singapore for around 12 years and has travelled extensively in Asia Pacific region, US & Europe. He has recently retired as the President & CEO, Industrial Solutions & Intelligent Platforms, GE India and is in the process of starting his Independent Consulting & becoming a Certified Executive & Business Coach.
Initiating his lecture, he talked about his cross cultural experiences at various countries in Europe and US, their heavily client driven services. He spoke about the MNCs in US having clear vision, goals and objectives. He said that they have a very methodological way of doing things. Indian MNCs do have a methodological way of functioning but they need a lot of learning from the MNCs in US. He then talked about the effectiveness of the matrix system of organizational design by quoting very innovative and easily perceivable examples. He spoke on how important it was for any MNC to induct and retain their clients.
Mr. Ajay then pointed out that we need to recognize good employees but its best to recognize the employees who are not good at work. He emphasized that people management skill is one of the most critical of all skills that the workforce at MNCs need to possess. He said that it was important to effectively persuade our employers into assigning us the field we’re good at. He felt that value addition has always been the essence of customer attraction.
According to him, aligning our thought processes with industries is the most important thing to do when we hit the markets as fresh B-school grads. He also gave us an insight on what to expect in an MNC environment and the skills we need to develop before we get into one. He glorified various competitive scenarios in an MNC culture and received a lot of interactive feedback from the students.
In conclusion he then urged students to diversify their career by job rotation to reach at the highest level. He urged students to build a future roadmap of their career and he also gave a lot of his own experiences to help student build their own career roadmap. With this, a very insightful session organized at Vinod Gupta School of Management ended on a pleasant note.
Comments
IIMsSuckLikeIndiaXD
Yes you nailed it! CAT sucks! I know people with 99%tile and above average acads not even getting calls from new IIMs LUL! I advise everyone to stay from this trap of IIMs and CAT - its a waste of time :)
17 Mar 2017, 03.46 AM
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Akshat Maheshwari
You sound like someone who scored really badly in it and is just spreading the hate.
20 Aug 2018, 01.51 PM |
Sudheer Kumar M
hey! i was recently laid off from a startup. i have 1.5 years work experience. would it still have an adverse effect if i don't give priority to job search but instead prep for cat?
17 Mar 2017, 09.28 AM
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Akash Choudhury
It won't affect you if you definitely want to do your MBA contingent on a few things. CAT is not that tough an exam hence you cannot explain a year's worth of time solely spent on CAT preparation. This will only work if you build your profile in the direction in which you want to do your MBA . Finance ? Get a CFA lvl1. Marketing ? Get some digital marketing or branding courses. Ops ? Get a six sigma certification. Start a blog. Record your experiences. Because that is how you will stand out. More importantly that is how you will grow and MBA is all about growing yourself.
23 Mar 2017, 02.35 AM |
Sarath s
first of all i dont have a job to begin with..i completed b.com and have no job...my 10th and 12th marks are in 70s and i only have 60% in bcom.and i am seriously preparing for CAT.is there any reason for me to even dream about joining in IIM if i am aiming to score more than 99 percentile?
20 Jul 2017, 04.06 PM
ganesh menon
hey there mba aspirant here ddd d f f d
This guy is literally the best writer.
23 Jun 2018, 11.05 PM