TRANSITION PROGRAM – OPERATIONS
Introduction to Semester 3 & SIP experience and Career Opportunities and Progression Networking
- Dr Sandeep Nemlekar and Dr Kamlesh Tiku
Following points were discussed by professors on the said topics,
- Students were asked about their SIP experience. Students gave both positive and negative feedbacks about their Summer Internships.
- Comparison was made between year 1 and year 2 of our MBA program regarding academics.
- Sir gave introduction about the subject’s students will be learning in semester 3.
- List of extra courses which are necessary will be shared by sir after entering semester 3.
- A session on how networking will fetch different career opportunities.
- Some effective tips to use LinkedIn was shared by sir.
- How to make first impression when we talk to someone in corporate meetings was also shared by sir.
Campus to Corporate - Prof Hemant Kale
Following points were discussed by professors on the said topics,
- How important it is to manage self before managing others?
- Self-learning is a continuous process which continues till the end.
- Changes in our skill set as we move from campus to corporate.
- Changes in our behavioural skill Set-We as leaders, we as professionals, we as a dependable employee, we as a functional expert.
- Importance of good body language.
- SWOT of ourselves.
- Sir had encouraged us to learn 10 new things in next 10 months which will be helpful for our corporate life.
- We had carried out an exercise we had to rate ourselves on different skills we are already having or we need to develop.
- Importance of leadership.
- Re-calibration and reinvention of self.
Workshop on strategy - Prof Hemant Jog
Following points were discussed by professors on the said topics,
- Why strategy is required?
- Changes due to Covid-19 pandemic.
- Why revisit the strategy?
- We made a small presentation on Vision, Mission, PESTEL analysis, Porter’s 5 force analysis and made BCG matrix of a company.
- How to identify risks and look at the best and worst case scenario?
- Red ocean strategy and blue ocean strategy.
Supply Chain and its relation to pandemic - Prof Balashankar Ramdasg
Following points were discussed by professors on the said topics,
- “Supply chain is only as strong as its weakest link”
- Constraints of supply chain.
- Supply chain causing problems during,
- Justinian Plague.
- Black death.
- The Spanish flu, 1918.
- Corona Virus.
- Transportation as a vector.
- How stopping movements of men and material can be stopped in spreading the disease.
- Mitigation strategies.
- Maritime Shipping
- Air transport.
- Road and Rail transport.
A System Approach - Prof Ravindra Kale
Following points were discussed by professors on the said topics,
- Overall integration of business, management and enable process.
- Output Program: Production Management.
- Business Process Cycle.
- Management processes are present in each business process.
- Cross functional approach in business.
- Cascading effect, policy deployment.
- McKinney’s 7 “S” model.
- Balanced score card.
- Linkage between management process.