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National Seminar on Crafting Indian Management Strategy - Year 2004 |
National Seminar on Sustaining India's Services Revolution - Year 2005 |
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Indian Institute of Management, Kozhikode |
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Mr. Manish Gupta, Chief Technical Officer, IBM,
the keynote speaker for the event, presented IBM's perspective on the changing face of the Indian IT industry and its shift towards the higher-end of the value chain. He
underscored the point by mentioning the role played by Indian engineers in developing 'Blue Gene/L': The Fastest Supercomputer. In conclusion, he highlighted the poor quality of higher education, coalition politics and inadequate
infrastructure as the major deterrents to the industry. Mr K Harishankar, the Chief Information Officer of Hindustan Lever Limited, gave a riveting talk on how IT has been used to radically improve HLL's
supply chain. He explained how both in-house and third-party ERP systems have been used to centralize planning, improve forecasting and achieve execution excellence in HLL's supply chain, with even field sales being IT-enabled. HLL
considers the growth of modern retail an opportunity rather than a challenge, he emphasized, since collaboration through IT-based systems is easier with more tech-savvy channel partners. He praised the natural beauty of the IIM K
campus, calling it the best he had yet seen among technology or business schools, and looked forward to a continued association with the institute. "Technology is just an enabler" said Mr. Ramamoorthy, Director
of Corporate Marketing, Cognizant Technology Solutions. Talking about the paradigm shift in the business models adopted by Indian IT companies in the recent years, he said that strategic alliances and acquisitions have emerged
as the new business models. He stressed on the importance of organizations providing quality customer experience to differentiate themselves from their competitors. Mr.
Mahadevan Narayanmony, Senior Manager, Corporate Advisory Services, Grant Thornton,
spoke about Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) within the IT industry. He pointed out the recent trend of Indian IT companies acquiring foreign companies. He then talked about the motives behind M&A and stressed the importance of evaluation in avoiding failure. In conclusion, he said that M&As help IT companies to move up the value chain towards strategic partnership, either by delivering strategic advantages to them, or by helping them grow faster.
The fourth speaker of the day – Mr. Venki Sundaresan, Director, IT Group, Cypress Semiconductors – started the session with a declaration that, in India, IT is heading for a disaster. He gave two reasons for this – the rising salaries in this field (which erases India's cost advantage) and the ubiquity of IT. He briefly introduced the concept of Neo-IT, a new IT paradigm that encourages people to be 'imagineers' - those who can imagine and engineer innovations - and elucidated how it could solve this problem. Being a message simplifier and efficiency expert were as important as technical soundness for an IT manager, he asserted. Mr Somick Goswami, Head PwC TAS, South India gave an insightful discourse on the evolving nature of
the IT consulting industry and the challenges faced in managing these dynamics. Starting with the oft-quoted joke, "A consultant is a person who will
borrow your watch, tell you the time, bill you for it, and keep the watch," he nevertheless emphasized that a consultant is an agent of change, who must develop flexible, easy to implement ideas and solutions that add value to a business. According to him, consultants have to become trusted advisers who are able to bridge
the gap between business-needs and technological solutions. He finished by stressing on accountability as a major issue with new accounting regulations like
Sarbanes-Oxley and SEBI's Clause 49. This concluded a highly informative and acclaimed series of talks by some of the most experienced IT practitioners in the corporate community. The event was very well-received by
both industry and academia participants. As Ms Simeen Mirza, a first year student of IIM K remarked, "Such events give us a vivid understanding of how what we learn in books here is actually applied in the industry, and thus make
for a more complete learning experience." The event also featured two case study competitions, Cognizant Sys-o-Mania and the HCL Challenge, which had 23 of the top B-Schools in India, including the IIMs, vying for the
top honors. A team from IIM Kozhikode won the HCL Challenge, with IIM Calcutta coming second, while Sys-o-Mania was won by the same team from IIM Calcutta, with second and third place going to IIM Kozhikode and FMS Delhi,
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Source: E-mail August 13, 2006 |
Indian Institute of Management, Kozhikode |
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The seminar is organized by AbaKus, the IT and Systems interest group at IIMK. AIMS will revolve around the theme 'IT India: From Cost Advantage to Strategic Partnership'.
The seminar will focus on the current scenario in India's much heralded IT sector and evaluate the future of IT in India. Specifically it will try to address the issue of how the players in the sector should leverage knowledge
to their advantage, and move on from a transactional mode to a more strategic one. In keeping with IIMK's emphasis on industry-institute interaction, the seminar will feature eminent speakers from the industry presenting their
views. The speakers who will be interacting with participants during AIMS 2006 include:
Additionally, AIMS 2006 features two case-study competitions, "Cognizant Sys-O-Mania" and "HCL Challenge". The preliminary rounds have been conducted, with over 200 teams participating from across the
IIMs and other top B-Schools. The selected finalists will present their analysis to a panel of judges from industry and academia. The winners will receive prizes worth over Rs. 55,000.
Industry delegates and management students are invited to attend the event. For further details contact: - Dr Saji Gopinath,
Contributed By:-
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Source: E-mail August 10, 2006 |
Indian Institute of Management, Kozhikode |
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Cognizant Sys-o-Mania
is a case study contest designed to test the mettle of budding managers in a typical IT industry scenario. It's a test of one's skills in identifying new opportunities, formulating entry strategies and charting growth trajectories for a business. The case study can be downloaded from the event website,
www.iimk-aims.com. 1st Prize: Rs.15,000 Timelines Last date for submission: 29th July 2006. In HCL Challenge
, the objective is to address the business problem a prospect - a Leading Mobile GSM/3G Services Provider of UK - is facing in the most efficient way, considering the existing constraints. Participants are to assume the role
of one of the offshore IT vendors and address the problem according to the strengths of the chosen vendor. They then have to consider all the concern pain points and come out with an offshore/onsite delivery model which will take
care of all the practical problems the prospect is facing. 1st Prize: Rs 15,000 Timelines Last date for submission: 3rd August 2006 |
Source: E-mail July 29, 2006 |
Xaviers Management of Bhubaneshwar (XIMB) |
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To gain a better insight into this, Ashwamedh
an initiative by the Operations Management group of Xaviers Management of Bhubaneshwar (XIMB), also called X~Ops was scheduled on 12th August 2006. The topic of this year's discussion was "Operational Excellence in
Service sector: Key to sustaining India's competitive advantage". This was a symposium of great minds at work. The various activities entitled to be included in this year's event were e-discussion, panel discussion, quizzes, et
cetera. The guests of honor were Commodore Dilip Kumar Mohapatra (TCS), Mr. Vijay Narsapur (Transworks), Mr. John Mathews (HDFC Asset Management) and Mr. Samson David (Infosys). Needless to say, this list itself shows how the best
firms in the services sector lent their voices to help the young minds at one of India's leading B-Schools, XIMB, get this valuable insight into the inner workings of that sector. Commodore Dilip K. Mohapatra of
TCS said that India's emergence as a top global player in the service sector is rather paradoxical. He went on to add that post independence, the country embarked on a journey of establishing democracy, society building and
economic development. While it generates only 2% of global GDP, despite having 17% of the world's population, and the country's per capita income standing at 3000 USD per year, one of the worlds lowest, the country has been
recognized as the world's 12th
largest economy. In recent years, the main economic driver for the country has been the wide availability of human capital rather than the limited, financial capital. Sustaining India's competitive advantage on an even-playing field in a flat world would not be an easy task. In order to beat the emerging competition from close competitors like China, Mexico, Ireland, Poland, Canada and South Africa, the country must embark up on seamless strategies to leverage comparative advantages of its lead players through value creation and innovations, global mergers and acquisitions, through concentration of related industry, increase productivity through massive infrastructure development. A balanced growth of its agriculture, manufacturing and services sectors would be needed to sustain each other.
Mr. John Mathews of HDFC Asset Management was the next to speak. According to him, fast and cut throat competition is what keeps us on the edge. Customer expectations have to be met at all times and in a consistent
manner and if one can achieve this, it is a testimony to all the levels of delivery in the entire value chain. He pointed out to the audience that while stepping out from the virtual world to the real world, one must remember that
the customer is always the king and there is no place in the market for a business that does not have a cutting edge service component. An able entrepreneur must always strive to build businesses that are truly world class. These
businesses should be points of constant discovery and surprises for the customer. Brands that have generation value should be the focus of every businessman. For maintaining operational excellence one must thus have a combination
of true leadership, state of the art systems, highly trained and motivated staff, a participatory process of management, and an extremely efficient organizational network. He went on to add that there are no road maps for
organizational success. It is experience, awareness and learning that define what an organization grows to become. In his opinion, in the future it will be the ability to manage change that will determine a particular business'
operational excellence. He concluded by saying that India is recognized today for a variety of reasons and this race will be complete only through the empowerment of its people, possible by intellectual enquiry and relentless
pursuit of excellence. Mr. Vijay Narsapur, VP Operations at Transworks, who was the penultimate speaker, highlighted the lack of operational excellence in the IT sevices sector in India and how this could be
brought about. He focused on the service sector in the Indian IT Industry and proposed a model to reach excellence in operations as opposed to mere management, which is the current scenario. He mentioned how the services sector was
rapidly gaining importance in different economies around the world and then went on to talk about how excellence was imperative in this industry. Customer experience and reliable delivery continue to be key areas among service
providers and they are the areas requiring reliable models delivering excellence. Traditional Operations management as followed in the manufacturing sector has very well defined parameters of quality and established systems to
maintain the required standards. The IT industry too has deterministic processes and quality models stress on the right process to attain high standards. The ITES sector on the other hand is totally different because quality here
would be more probabilistic, since human beings cannot be made to behave in a consistent or repeatable manner. He then pointed out the characteristics of various excellence models for the ITES industry in India which included world
class training, development of specific expertise, compensation as a function of results and behavior, more transparency in goal setting and much more. He concluded by mentioning the various reasons as to why organizations stray
away from excellence. Samson David associate VP & Head of delivery, Infosys Technologies ltd., the final speaker of the evening, brought home the hot issue of 'Operationalizing innovation in a flat world'. He
highlighted the point as to how a business can improve upon its odds and achieve operational excellence by providing goods & services to the customers at a price which is competitive. He said that any innovation that brings in
some new technology operates on the basis of product life cycle which needs to be renewed once the elastic maturity phase is reached or else it reaches its end as the technology becomes obsolete. Operationalizing innovation can
help a company harvest the benefits of innovation and and separate it from the herd. This kind of innovation which is based on the market forces, leads to a new growth phase and creates the vector of differentiation. A product or a
service which is an innovation today is a commodity for future and this makes innovation and change even more crucial for survival-though not mandatory because survival in itself is not necessary. He concluded by emphasizing on the
fact that technology and software have become ubiquitous to an extent that any difference sought will depend largely on the nucleus of creativity and innovation. The symposium was indeed a success as it provided a
platform for the young innovators and managers-in-the-making at XIMB to feel the shade of stalwarts of the thriving service sector. The question-answer session that followed the primary discussions were a testimony the level of
understanding gained by all those lucky enough to have been a part of the audience. In the end, it can definitely be said that this confluence of expertise, matched with the brilliance of the speakers was mesmerizing enough to have
suitably enlightened all those involved with this great event called Ashwamedh. |
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