Webinar | SDMIMD

Webinar by Mr. Asif K.A, Our Alumni

Mr Asif K.A., Second Vice-President, Northern Trust; and alumnus of SDMIMD’s PGDM 2007-09 Batch, was the speaker for the Webinar on topic ‘The New Normal - Making Sense in The VUCA World’ scheduled on July 18, 2020. The session covered different component of VUCA (Vision, Understanding, Clarity, Agility) and how Northern Trust has successfully managed with VUCA 2.0. Mr Asif emphasised the importance of “Agility” for organisations & individuals; and, explained the ‘Learning Agility Framework’.

Webinar on Stress Management

‘Stress Management’ the focused topic in the corporate and academic domain in this pandemic situation. The awareness about the stress, cause, different variants and how to manage it in this difficulty time is a as important as have awareness about COVID-19. Keeping this in mind SDMIMD organized webinar on ‘Stress Management’ to the first-year students of the incoming PGDM 2020-2022 on July 16, 2020 by Dr. Mousumi Sengupta, Professor – OB & HR, SDMIMD. During Q&A session, Dr. Mousumi introduced various aspects of managing stress for enhanced performance.

Webinar on Marketing of Tech Products

Mr Jaganathan Chelliah, Director – Marketing, Western Digital (India), was the invited speaker for the webinar session on ‘Marketing of Tech Products’ on July 11, 2020 for the PGDM 2019-2021. Mr. Jaganathan spoke about the importance of value mapping - specifically value migration, value disruption, value consolidation and value selling – in the context of marketing of technology products.

Webinar on Dynamics in Leadership

To acquaint students to understand and differentiate the managerial behaviour from leadership; and, to introduce the characteristics of effective leaders and ethical leadership, an online session on ‘Dynamic Leadership’ was organized on July 8, 2020 to the PGDM 2020-2022 Batch. Dr. Nilanjan Sengupta, Professor – OB & HR, SDMIMD, Mysuru, delivered the session.

Webinar on Managing Sustainably

The webinar on ‘Managing Sustainably’ organized for the incoming PGDM 2020-2022 Batch on July 10, 2020 was a curtain raiser on the issue of sustainability which is a contemporary topic. Dr. M.R. Suresh, Professor – Marketing, SDMIMD, provided insights on mainstreaming sustainability as a business concept in the form of sustainable enterprises; and introduced the concept of triple bottom line to students with relevant examples.

Webinar on Leadership

Mr Amit Kumar, Business Unit Head, L&T Ltd., Mysuru; and Chairman CII-Mysuru Chapter, delivered the invited talk on ‘Leadership’ held on July 4, 2020. The webinar helped the PGDM 2019-2021 Batch to understand the different dimensions of leadership and the speaker explained with several examples from his career.

Webinar by Mr. Niranjan Naik, Our Alumni

‘Strategic Business Planning’ was the topic for the Webinar scheduled on June 27, 2020 for the PGDM 2019-2021 Batch. The nuances of strategic business planning with live cases and examples was explained by the speaker Mr Niranjan Naik, National Sales Head - Energy and Building Solutions, Bosch India Ltd; and, President, Prerana – SDMIMD Alumni Association; alumnus of PGDM 1995-97.

Webinar on Management Information Systems

‘Management Information Systems’ was the topic for the introductory webinar held on June 18, 2020 delivered by Prof. Malathi Sriram, Faculty – System, SDMIMD. Prof. Malathi introduced to the PGDM 2020-2022 Batch, the need of Information Systems in an organization. Further, the requirement of an MIS for decision-making and the use of information system in business processes were discussed.