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| Budget Conclave 2015 |
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The Union Government presented second budget on February 28, 2015. To discuss the implication and impact of this on the Country, a Budget Conclave 2015 was held in collaboration with CII Mysore, on March 4, 2015. The key highlights of Budget Conclave 2015 was the expert analysis of Union Budget 2015 by Pricewaterhouse Coopers (PwC) and the presentation by industry leaders from Mysore region representing diverse sectors offering their perspectives on impact of the Union Budget 2015 and providing sector-specific views.
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| International Conference at Thailand |
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The International Conference on Global Business, Economics, Finance and Social Sciences (GB15_Thai Conference) organized jointly by J.A. Alpha and SDMIMD was held at Hotel Novotel in the heart of the city of Bangkok, Thailand, during February 20 to 22, 2014. Participants from more than 20 countries took part in the deliberations of the conference. The conference was inaugurated on February 21, 2015 by Dr. Alexis Sergio Esposto, Faculty of Business and Law, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia. Dr. Alexis Sergio delivered the keynote address during the inauguration and stressed upon the sustainability aspects of business and environment, and described the challenges facing the world. Dr. June Bernadette D’Souza, Professor, School of Management and Economics, Assumption University of Thailand, Thailand, was the guest of honor, and spoke about the darker issues like child labor, poverty, exploitation of women, pollution, spread of AIDS, and a lack of commitment from the organizations in maintaining the welfare of the people.
Dr. R. Jagadeesh, Professor, Operations Management, SDM IMD, Mysore, attended the conference representing SDMIMD. Dr. R. Jagadeesh delivered an invited lecture on the topic of “Operations strategies for global competitiveness” in which he described the evolution of operations strategies and illustrated how they have undergone changes in view of the changes in business environment.
In one of the technical session Dr. Jagadeesh presented a paper titled “Performance Assessment and Optimization of Global Supply Chains”.
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| Customized MDP (CMDP) for JK Tyre & Industries Ltd. |
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Customized Management Development Program (CMDP) spread over 5-batches from December 15, 2014 to February 12, 2015 was organized for 132 participants representing JK Tyres – Vikrant Tyre Plant (VTP), Mysore and Chennai Tyre Plant (CTP), Chennai. The program was designed with the objective of grooming the overall managerial capabilities of the Team Members mainly those identified as Talents / High Performers by the company.
The curriculum was jointly developed by the SDMIMD Faculty in consultation with the Management of JK Tyres considering the business challenges faced and expectations from these executives. The customized program designed for 4-days exposed the participants to all the essential areas of Modern Management comprising of modules/concepts from Finance, Marketing, Human Resources Management, Operations, Strategy, and Information Technology. Apart from the SDMIMD Faculty, the participants were also exposed to practical sessions/talks on Brand Management, Conversion Costs and Manufacturing Excellence from in-house experts from JK Tyres.
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| Young Minds Debated on ‘Freedom of Speech and Expression’ |
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‘Young minds should be courageous and confident’ was the message given to the debaters by Ms. Chaya Srivatsa, Life Coach at Infosys Mysore during her inaugural address at ‘Y. Bhagavan Memorial Debate Competition’ organized by Shri Dharmasthala Manjunatheshwara Institute for Management Development (SDMIMD) in association with Rotary Mysore Mid Town. She went down memory lane and recalled incidents from her college days as a student of Shri. Y. Bhagavan at Maharani’s College Mysore. She exhorted the young debaters to be courageous and confident on stage. The Guest of Honor Prof. N.R. Govinda Sharama, Faculty of Business Ethics & Strategy at SDMIMD shared his views on the significance of such events and wished the event success.
From the past couple of years, this event has become a platform for the best minds from leading educational Institutes actively debate over a contemporary topic. This year 60 participants from leading Engineering, Medical, Management, Law and Undergraduate & Post-graduate colleges across the state debated on topic “Should my ‘Freedom of Speech & Expression’ be absolute?” in the first round. Ms. Anitha Braggs and Ms. Nandini Srinivasan judged the participants and shortlisted Top 11 for the final round. The second round for the Top 11 finalist debated on the topic ‘Industrial and Infrastructure’ development at the cost of ‘Agriculture and Environment’ in India – Yes or No?; which was judged by Prof. B.N. Balajee and Prof. Shekar.
Mr. Venkatram Harish Belvadi from St. Philomena's College, Mysore won the FIRST place; the Christ University, School of Law students Mr. Aditya Y and Mr. Rahul Raman stood second and third respectively.. The Xaviers Institute of Management (XIM) Bangalore students Ms. Charishma Narayan and Ms. Keerthi K.M. won the Consolation Prize for securing fourth and fifth places.
Dr. R. Jagadeesh, Professor – Operations, SDMIM was the Guest of Honor for the valedictory function; Rtn. R. Venkatesh, President, Rotary Mid-town Mysore, Rtn. Mohan, the Y. Bhagavan family members, students from the host institute and rotary members were present.
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| Commencement of Faculty Exchange Program with BUiD |
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Dr. H. Gayathri, Deputy-Director, and Dr. Mousumi Sengupta, Professor – HRM, from SDM Institute for Management Development, Mysore (SDMIMD), travelled to Dubai in February, 2015, and conducted workshops for MBA students, studying in British University in Dubai (BUiD).
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Dr. Gayathri offered a workshop on “Business Negotiation Skills’’, and, Dr. Mousumi conducted a workshop on “Self-Management”. This was a part of the MoU between BUiD and SDMIMD regarding exchange of Faculty for academic activities. In turn, Dr. Elango Rengaswamy visited SDMIMD in March 2015 to held a workshop on International Business.
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| Alumni Corner |
| Promising start-up by Alumnus won First Place at Innopreneurs 2015 |
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SDMIMD alumnus Mr. Subramanya Rao (Subbu) of PGDM Batch 2007-09, the founder of Discover Dollar has won the First Place in Innopreneurs 2015. DiscoverDollar (http://www.discoverdollar.com/) has designed a portal that can help consumers to reach at the current right price for a product on the basis of comparisons of all available price marks. Subbu has won a cash prize of Rs. 50000 and appreciation from the event organizers for the innovative idea in tapping the power of data analytics for fair pricing of consumer goods.
Innopreneurs 2015 is a national idea project competition organized jointly by innovations firm Lemon Ideas and the entrepreneurship cell of Institute of Management and Technology (IMT), Nagpur.
It may be recalled here that Discover Dollar has been listed among Top 20 Most Promising Retail Software Companies as per CIO Review 2015; Won the “Anthah Prerana -2014” award jointly conferred by TIE Bangalore, IIM Bangalore & Govt. of Karnataka - Youth Affairs in December 2014; and SAP has awarded this innovative idea as “Top 5 Most Innovative Solution” in the event organized at Orlando, Florida in June 2014.
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| Upcoming Events |
| March 2015 |
| 20th Annual Convocation |
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The 20th Annual Convocation ceremony of the SDMIMD's flagship program - Post Graduate Diploma in Management (PGDM) - is scheduled on Friday, March 27, 2015 at Institute campus. Shri R. Seshasayee, Executive Vice Chairman, Ashok Leyland Ltd., will be the Chief Guest and will be delivering the convocation address.
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| April 2015 |
International Symposium on Emerging Trends In Social Science Research, Chennai - April 3-5
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Workshop on HR for Non-HR Professionals -
April 9 & 10
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Finance for Non-Finance Professionals -
April 23-25
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| August 2015 |
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4th International Conference on Emerging Trends in Finance & Accounting - August 21 & 22
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| Guests on Campus |
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Mr. Sundar, Associate Vice President, Education and Research, Global Education Centre, Infosys, Mysore addressed the students on 7 February 2015 on the topic “Ethical practices in IT” as a part of the course “Ethics and Values in Management”. He gave insights as to how People, Process and Products are the components of ethical process in IT and illustrated it with a case study of Infosys. He elaborated on the value systems at Infosys, C-Life, which is an acronym for Client value, Leading by example, Integrity and Excellence. The talk was followed by a lively question and answer session. Some of the students took this opportunity to interview him as a part of Activity Based Learning cell.
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Ms. Swarna Gowri, a consultant in the area of learning and psychological development held a day-long workshop for the benefit of students who have undertaken a project on “Impact of Yoga on emotional intelligence of management students” on 8 February 2015. The activity based workshop introduced the students to the concept of emotional intelligence, purpose of life, role of emotional intelligence in interpersonal and intrapersonal skills and how Yoga helps developing emotional intelligence. The workshop was very well received.
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| Recent Publications by Faculty |
Jagadeesh, R. (2015). Performance Assessment and Optimization of Global Supply Chains. International Conference on Global Business, Economics, Finance and Social Sciences, SDMIMD and J A Alpha, Thailand, February 20-22. [ISBN: 978-1-941505-22-9] |
S. Jayakrishnan, Rekha D Chikhalkar & Chaudhuri, Ranjan. Understanding Private Label purchase in Breakfast cereals and Snacks.International Conference on Trends in Retailing and Branding, FICCI Tamil Nadu and University of Madras. |
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| Students Corner |
| SDMites became Certified Qimpro Champions |
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Mr. Prateek Jain & Mr. Vishal Vaswani of Batch 2014-16 have won the Qimpro Champions League Competition and successfully completed five Challenges to earn the title of "Certified Qimpro Champions". The Qimpro champion’s league is an initiative that focuses on seeding Quality and Innovation concepts and practices in budding college students.
The discovery-based learning through a series of engaging challenges expects performance from systems, processes, teams, and individuals to be better, faster, cheaper, and different. On successful completion of all five challenges, SDMites have earned this award -Certified Qimpro Champion – a signature for basic Quality and Innovation.
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| Short Movie on Atrocities of Women by SDMites |
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Vishnu A.A. and Kushal Swain of PGDM 13-15 batch have made an attempt to speak about the atrocities many women suffer since birth throughout their lifetime, in a musical short movie. The movie addresses the dark clouds that still loom over the Indian society even in this age and time about female foeticide.
The movie is made open to public in Youtube @
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
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| Recent Publication by Student |
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Mr. Srinidhi K of PGDM 14-16 Presented paper Growth of Kannada Cinemas using ICT at National Conference on New Age Communication and Media seminar organized by Centre of Management Studies, Jain University, Bengaluru on 2nd February 2015. |
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