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Interactive Strategic Discussion & Book Release : “High Performance Companies : Successful Strategies from the World’s Top Achievers” by Dr. Nitin Pangarkar presented by MITSOT-MCCIA

MIT School of Telecom Management (MITSOT) in association with Mahratta Chamber of Commerce, Industries and Agriculture (MCCIA) hosted an EXCLUSIVE INTERACTIVE DISCOURSE on 15^th Feb, 2012 at ICC Tower, MCCIA, Senapati Bapat Road from 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm presented an insightful and refreshing new book on strategy titled “High Performance Companies : Successful Strategies from the World’s Top Achievers” by the internationally acclaimed author & a renowned strategist Dr. Nitin Pangarkar, Director Academics, National University of Singapore (NUS) and the book being published by John Wiley & Sons. This event proved to be an endeavor to provide a platform to the strategy makers from the Oxford of East !!! The event received a delightful response of        68 corporates and 33 academicians

Dr. Nitin Pangarkar is currently an Associate Professor and Academic Director of National University of Singapore’s MBA program. He has been teaching strategy for the past 18 years in leading universities across Asia, US, Europe and Middle East. He has published 19 Journal Articles, 3 Chapters in Books, and 4 other publications. He has previously authored 2 Books / Monographs like Business Strategy in Asia : A Casebook and Flying High in a Competitive Industry : Singapore Airlines. He has been honored with 8 honoraries like Best Paper – Asia Academy of Management, Taipei, 2008, Favorite Professor – NUS MBA Alumni, School of Business nominee for the Outstanding Educator Award, NUS, NUS Excellent Teachers, Outstanding Service Award, NUS Business School, Outstanding Educator Award, NUS Business School.

The stalwart from the industry Mr. Mukesh Malhotra, President MCCIA and MD, Wiekfield Group of Companies and from the academics Dr. C M Chitale, Dean University of Pune, Dr. Milind Pande, Project Director MITSOT and Mr. Anant Sardeshmukh, Director MCCIA, Pune graced this event. Mr. Mukesh Malhotra said, “Strategic Management is important for every company and this book has a good number of case studies which will help to attain successful results.”

Dr. Nitin Pangarkar in his interactive discourse focused on his agenda of

• Motivations
• High Performance Companies : Big picture (Content & Approach)
• Sample Chapter & Principle : Arguments & Subtleties
• & Concluding Remarks

He expressed his concerns regarding the present approaches being a Framework based approach which has no concrete implications for action action, secondly the limited degress of freedom for a decision maker, thirdly it is a dominant firm based and fourthly a less consideration to context / history.

Dr. Nitin Pangarkar presented on the key features of high performance companies being

• Principle based rather than framework based
• Ability to make day-to-day decisions
• Going behind large and high performance companies
• Considering formulation and implementation
• & Explicitly considering History : According to Winston Churchill, “History teaches us everything we need to know.”

Dr. Nitin Pangarkar believes in Six key principles for a high strategic company

• Resource acquisition : Discover diamonds among coal (to learn to appreciate). He cites Mr. Laxmi Mittal and his strategy for resource acquisition.
• Resource allocation : Build durable assets
• Overall business level strategy : small wins lead to great wins
• Innovation strategy : Integrate to innovate
• Externally driven strategic adaption
• Internally driven strategic adaption

Dr. Nitin Pangarkar says, “Simplicity is easy to follow.” He discussed on subtleties and nuances of small wins based strategy being

• A unique recipe : to find your own special recipe to solve a problem.
• Great belief in the recipe – through thick and thin
• Management continuity : to be consistent in its strategy planning
• Uncomplicated industries
• Appropriate skills
• Strong leadership

His uniqueness of the book is focus on Crisis Management by

• Customer concern & responsiveness
• Stakeholder orientation
• High degree of readiness

He demonstrated on exemplar companies strategies on the basis of

• Clearly conceived strategy defying conventional wisdom : do something different
• Careful attention to execution / implementation issues
• Long view : win the future battle, acquire wisdom to do so
• CEO / top managers set the correct example
• Management of risks : action speaks louder

Dr. Nitin Pangarkar answered several questions from the industry leaders like

Why go to the History ?

-       History teaches everything we need to know. It helps clear the mistakes we make and to invest in the best opportunities.

Comparison between in Pepsi and Coke ?

-       Coke invested in the emerging markets and improved the strategy on transportation whereas Pepsi failed in that.

How does Small wins work ?

-       (Giving the example of ITW and Boeing) he answered saying ITW knows how to make money while Boeing doesn’t.

How important is a manager ?

-       Manager is the most important of all in any industry. It is an efficient manager who disseminates work among the employees to bring an efficient output. He strategies the whole work to bring in the profits.

The approach resulted in a high profile exchange of thoughts and knowledge sharing between the stalwarts & captains of industry & the author Dr. Nitin Pangarkar.

This Valentine, Love has a different meaning for MIT School of Telecom. They Love Knowledge. The meaning of divine love is lost in revolutionary world among the youth. The concept Brilliantine was to honor and salute the intellectual and hidden talent in the students.

A quiz competition named Brilliantine was organized to reward Quiz Queen and Quiz King.  Five best performers were selected and were personally interviewed on various questions regarding Personality, Capabilities and What valentine’s day meant for them, by Dr. Sanjay Upadhayay, Executive Director, MAEER’s World Peace Center, Alandi, Pune. Dr. Sanjay Upaydhayay said, “This effort is to reward the concept of divinity in love and introduce love for personal intellectuality.” This initiative is to make the students realize that love is not just a physical attraction it is about realizing what lies hidden in one’s ability. Brilliantine to redefine superficial love with intellectual love.

If you ask yourself what is love? The answer lies in a deep study of oneself to realize the brilliance of an individual. MIT School of Telecom students believe in “Love what you do and Do what you Love.” It is a student’s persona and capability to understand the true meaning of love.

“Connect 2012″ the Annual Cultural Festival of MIT School of Telecom Management (MITSOT) was organized on the 19th of January 2012. The student community of MITSOT celebrating the occasion received thumping response & participation by the youth populace at MIT campus. Engaging compering, colourful attires, amazing dance performances, melodious songs, recitals, foot tapping, musical beats, hilarious one act plays and stand up comedy, bizarre act shows, poems and sher-o-shayari, glittering lightings and illuminations, captivity, fashion shows were the highlights of the grand event and the audience had a memorable gala evening, enjoying to their heart contents. On 20th January concluding programme and prize distribution ceremony of the cultural fest Connect-2012 took place in a grand event. Various prizes in the categories of cultural performances, game competitions and academics were ceremonially awarded to the winning students by esteemed dignitaries and guests. The center of attraction of the event was the presence of the Chief Guest of this festival, Dr. Amol Kolhe, an accomplished actor and star personality who played impressionable multifarious roles in various Marathi TV serials, theater plays and commercial cinema, who is the reigning youth icon and role model for millions of youngsters across the state of Maharashtra. The Guest of Honour on the occasion was Pt. Sanjay Deshpande, a leading versatile and creative sitar player. The introductory part and welcome address was given by Dr. Milind Pande, Director, MIT School Of Telecom Management. The august presence of the President and Chairman of MIT Group of Institutions, Dr. V.D. Karad, added grandeur to the events who shared his words of wisdom and blessed the audience. The festival was graced by the presence of several renowned corporates, who shared their valuable experiences with the students reliving their college days.

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In the quest of widening the knowledge horizons of the students MITSOT had organized a  Guest lecture by an eminent Academician from the LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS , DR. VISHAL TALWAR. Dr.Talwar has interacted with the students for almost three hours and shared his expertise in the field of International Marketing. During his interaction Dr.Talwar has contributed towards the overall personality development of the students by enhancing their knowledge about how to keep oneself updated and upgraded in this highly competitive world. Dr. Talwar  has discussed explicitly on the topic “GLOBALIZATION AND IT’S IMPACT ON THE INDIAN COMPANIES.”Consecutively this is the third exposure of an expert of International stature, provided to the students of MITSOT within three months.

Dr. Vishal Talwar works within the Dept. of Management at London School of Economics (LSE). Dr. Talwar is a Ph D from Manchester Business School . Dr. Talwar has taught diverse audiences in UK, Europe and India. In India, Dr. Talwar has been involved with corporates such as Tata, Raymond and Steel Authority of India

Dr Vishal Talwar interacting with students

Dr Vishal Talwar interacting with students

Dr Vishal Talwar interacting with students

Dr Vishal Talwar interacting with students

Mr Swapnil Mali a student of batch 2011-13 has been selected to study in UK for 1 year under  the MITSOT – Dundee University Dundee UK twinning program. Swapnil will study at University of Dundee, Uk for 2 semesters.

Project Director Dr Milind Pande, Prof. Ganesh Tannu and other faculty members wish him all the best.

On this occasion Prof. Ganesh Tannu who himself has studied in UK and taught in UK for 4 years, shared his experience with Swapnil about Dundee University and the overall academic happenings.

MITSOT wishes Swapnil success and bright future ahead.

Swapnil with Dr. Milind Pande and faculty members

Swapnil with Dr. Milind Pande and Students

We are pleased to share with you that  At 19^th Dewang Mehta Business School Award held on  26^th November, 2011 at Taj Lands End, Mumbai. The Dewang Mehta Business Award recognises talent and leadership amongst the Business School across India. The Chairman of the Jury is Dr. Prasad Medury, Partner, Amrop International and the Patron is Mr. Harish Mehta, Chairman & Managing Director, Onward Technologies Ltd. The Awards are presented in the Memory of Late Dewang Mehta.

The Jury has decided to honour Dr. Milind Pande, Project Director MITSOT  with the Business School Leadership Award.

And  MIT School of Telecom Management  will be honoured with Business School with Best Industry Interface.

Students Receiving Award on behalf of MITSOT

Dr. Milind Pande, Project Director MITSOT awarded with the Business School Leadership Award

The award is in recognition of leadership, development, innovation and industry interface of Business school.

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MITSOT has got A4 ranking in Indian Management’s (Business Standard Publication) Survey of top B Schools in West India.

MITSOT has organized a series of lectures on Telecom Management by A well known faculty of Telecommunications Prof. Dr.  Suresh Borkar from Illinois Institute of Technology(IIT), Chicago from 19^th  to 23^rd of December, 2011.

Prof Suresh Borkar

About Dr. Suresh Borkar – the Eminent Faculty

Dr. Borkar is currently a member of the faculty in the Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) department at the Illinois Institute of Tech (IIT), Chicago.  He is also a Senior Principal Investigator with Roberson and Associates, a technology and management company based in Chicago, USA. Previously, he was with Alcatel-Lucent (ALU) as the Director for Customer Management for 3G Wireless systems. He was also the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) and Managing Director, Tata Lucent Telecom Joint Venture and Lucent India Inc. during 1997-2000. He has carried out technical leadership roles in product management, architecture, development, and customer management in Computer and Networking systems, Wire line Switching systems, Data systems, and Wireless systems.

Dr. Borkar has been an organizer, moderator, and presenter at conferences and panel discussions on WiMAX, VoIP/Next Generation Networks (NGNs), and India Telecom. He received his B. Tech. in Electrical Engineering from IIT Delhi (India) and M.S. and Ph. D. in Electrical and Computer from Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago.

Various Initiatives are being taken to have academic collaborations with well known Universities in The United Kingdom. MITSOT endeavors to have tie-ups with Abertay Dundee, Coventry University, Northumbria University, The University of York,University of Birmingham, University of Derby.

Dr. Milind Pande With Professor Grahame Wright, Pro Vice-Chancellor International and Director of Recruitment, University of Abertay Dundee,UK

Dr. Milind Pande With Mr. John Hartwright, Head of Recruitment and Admissions, NewCastle Business School, Northumbria University, UK

Dr. Milind Pande at University of Derby,UK

Dr. Milind Pande at Coventry University,UK

MIT SCHOOL OF TELECOM MANAGEMENT, Pune
and
MAHRATTA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INDUSTRIES AND AGRICULTURE, Pune
have jointly organized a two days Management Development Program “Telecom-From Market Development to Operations & Management”.

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The program is specially designed for Telecom & IT services and product companies. This Program is targeted to equip managers and engineers in the industry with the market and process expertise to achieve business success. The focus is on successfully carrying out roles and responsibilities in context of concept and market development to revenue realization. The learning ensures the development of world class effective, productive team, to execute and operationalize strategies. The program provides the innovative skills to leverage tools, techniques, and processes effectively to deliver outstanding results for the customers.

Content

The program addresses workings and dynamics of how successful Telecom and IT services and product companies operate – from concept and market development to revenue realization. Application of the key concepts of product management, systems engineering, architecture development, system design, site testing, performance optimization, network operations and management, and customer management are addressed. Coverage also includes development of knowledge for ensuring and enhancing the end to end quality and strategies for progression along the Quality Maturity Model.

About Dr Suresh Borkar – the Eminent Faculty

Dr. Borkar is currently a member of the faculty in the Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) department at the Illinois Institute of Tech (IIT), Chicago.  He is also a Senior Principal Investigator with Roberson and Associates, a technology and management company based in Chicago, USA. Previously, he was with Alcatel-Lucent (ALU) as the Director for Customer Management for 3G Wireless systems. He was also the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) and Managing Director, Tata Lucent Telecom Joint Venture and Lucent India Inc. during 1997-2000. He has carried out technical leadership roles in product management, architecture, development, and customer management in Computer and Networking systems, Wire line Switching systems, Data systems, and Wireless systems.Dr. Borkar has been an organizer, moderator, and presenter at conferences and panel discussions on WiMAX, VoIP/Next Generation Networks (NGNs), and India Telecom. He received his B. Tech. in Electrical Engineering from IIT Delhi (India) and M.S. and Ph. D. in Electrical and Computer from Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago.

Who should attend?

Managers and engineers engaged in defining strategies, developing markets, operationilizing decisions, carrying out development and testing, implementing solutions in the field, and managing networks and customers. The learnings will enable participants to take informed decisions, contribute to the career growth of engineers and managers, enhance productivity and enable creation of high performance teams.

Date & Time:

DEC 16^th & DEC 17^th, 2011

Time: 9.30 AM TO 5.30 PM

Venue:

ICC Trade Towers, B-Wing,

MCCIA, 5^TH Floor,

Senapati Bapat Road,

Pune 411016

Contact No: +91-9923473030 / 9763723580

Registration fee:   Rs. 2500/- per delegate from Academia

Rs. 3500/- per delegate from Corporate

Rs. 1500/- per student delegate

Note:   Fees include Course Material, Media CD, Lunch & Refreshments.