Jan 2 - KOLKATA, India - India’s next batch of aspiring managers are gearing up for the first step towards achieving their goals as the CAT (Common Admission Test) 2006 results are all set to be declared on Tuesday. Of the 180,000-plus students who sat for the exams this year, only some 1500 will finally make it

March 13 - KOLKATA, India - Kharagpur Nebraska, it is part of him. Students, teachers, delegates et al - all of them. All experts, to varying degrees on the subject of management in the various disciplines. She: an insignificant Manish Tripathi, passing, managers and volunteers IOC Mumbai Tiffin Box Suppliers Association (MTBSA), in short, a head honcho of the famous dabbawallas Mumbai.

When he solved the secrets of 116-year-old Supply Chain Management dabbawallas logistics, students and teachers, engineers and management services of IIT Kharagpur heard enthumansiaste attention.

Thus, a delegation of 39 people, a visiting professor at the University of Nebraska, Omaha, USA, which is the Vinod Gupta School of Management (VGSOM) at the IIT, Kgp. Indeed, this modest dabbawallas extensively in “Gandhi topi” have perfected a system that has earned, Six Sigma, a notation of Forbes, which indicates that the error rate is only one in 16 million transactions ! No wonder, even if slowly fancy MBA professionals have loudly these dabbawallas teach them that one or two!

Every day, 5004 dabbawallas, including four women, leading some of 2 lach dabbas average apartments and offices, with a total area of 60-70 km. You use a coding system for unique identification of the dabbas and use of the extent of the network of trains in Mumbai’s local as their primary mode of transportation. That’s a cool lach 4 transactions per day, with a turnover of about Rs 30 crore per annum.

The main features of their supply chain - 0% of fuel, 0 percent participation, 0% disputes, and 99999 percent to 100 percent customer satisfaction. “During the last 116 years, we will never have a strike, given that every human being is a shareholder of the operation. For us, the strike means suicide,” said Dr. Tripathi.

For dabbawallas have both the tools of Six Sigma and ISO certification, these certificates mean anything. Indeed, the Six Sigma certificate is clearly collecting dust in the cupboard. “Everything that we take care of consumer satisfaction,” says Tripathi. Indeed, if Prince Charles has expressed interest in a meeting with them, he told the Church Gate, so that his reading of delivery were not affected. And Virgin Richard Branson, boss really traveled with them to provide its employees dabbas!

Although dabbawallas still think, quite simply, and they have now started booking through SMS commands, and a website, to familiarize themselves with the changing times.

And their management mantras? Mr. Tripathi has outlined a number of points of the agenda. Maintaining operating costs as low as possible to maintain the investment costs to a bare minimum, your customers never deviate from your core competencies, the organization horizontal extras for fault tolerance and to know the impact of the failure, there were only a few points we raised.

While all yet come away impressed at the end of the meeting, foremost, students from the visit of the delegation from the University of Nebraska, who have never seen or heard of an organization I. “It is fascinating to see a store, where everyone has the same work. It is very unique,” said Andrew Elliot

March 14 - KOLKATA, India - Kharagpur Nebraska, it is part of him. Students, teachers, delegates et al - all of them. All experts, to varying degrees on the subject of management in the various disciplines.

She: an insignificant Manish Tripathi, passing, managers and volunteers IOC Mumbai Tiffin Box Suppliers Association (MTBSA). In short, a resident of the famous dabbawallas honcho Mumbai.

When he solved the secrets of the 116-year-old Supply Chain Management dabbawallas logistics, students and teachers, engineers and management services of IIT Kharagpur heard enthumansiaste attention.

Thus, a delegation of 39 people, a visiting professor at the University of Nebraska, Omaha, USA, which is the Vinod Gupta School of Management (VGSOM) at the IIT, Kgp.

Indeed, this modest dabbawallas extensively in “Gandhi topi” have perfected a system that has earned, Six Sigma, a notation of Forbes, which indicates that the error rate is only one in 16 million transactions ! No wonder, even if slowly fancy MBA professionals have loudly these dabbawallas teach them that one or two!

Every day, 5004 dabbawallas, including four women, leading some of 2 lach dabbas average apartments and offices, with a total area of 60-70 km.

You use a unique coding system for identifying dabbas and use of the extent of the network of trains in Mumbai’s local as their primary mode of transportation. That’s a cool lach 4 transactions per day, with a turnover of about Rs 30 crore per annum.

The main features of their supply chain - 0% of fuel, 0 percent participation, 0% disputes, and 99999 percent to 100 percent customer satisfaction. “During the last 116 years, we will never have a strike.

For us, the strike means suicide, “said Tripathi. Dabbawallas For those who have both Six Sigma and ISO certification, these certificates would mean

Jan. 15 - KOLKATA, India - national telecommunications regulator, Training, plans for the implementation of the Carrier Access Code (CAC), to customers the freedom to choose the service provider for long-distance calls, according to the Government The prospect of a plan for India on the PSU Des telecommunications operators.

“We can go further Carrier Access Code for long-distance calls and international (ISD). But we expect the announcement of the government concerning India, One,” Training chairman, Pradip Baijal told journalists in the city on Saturday . He was participating in the Business School’s ICFAI top of the 2006 strategy.

The government had earlier announced that India A plan for the telecommunications giant PSU BSNL, but it is still a final decision on it, while the private operator Reliance Infocomm has already, the scheme enables its customers for calls n ‘anywhere to any mobile phone in the country Unlike - 1 per minute. Baijal said, it is expected that the other players to follow the face of intense competition in the telecom circle.

Training has also concluded a consultation paper on the validity of the life of the systems are different mobile operators and service to the decision within a month, he said.

The lifespan of the validity of the plans announced by service that was formerly under the control of coaches, looking for indications of the regulatory authority of the costs, revenues from transport and service companies.

Training said the lifespan of the validity of the pricing plans announced recently by a number of mobile operators, underline the following topics: the long-term viability and sustainability of these projects, regardless of their useful life can exceed the balance of the licence period of the operators and if not, in their different plans for the applicable period.

He also raised questions about what would happen to the plans in the event that major changes in the transport sector and models of InterConnect regime of user charges.

Jan. 18 - KOLKATA, India - Following the announcement of the partnership with Kolkata-based Globsyn Business School, on Wednesday, from the University of Glasgow Business School (UGBS) seeks its expansion in India footprint.

The UK-based Management Institute is in discussion with local business schools, including the Indian Institute of Management (IIMs), strategic partnerships for the implementation of joint programmes academic research, teachers and exchange students. UGBS is also evaluating options for setting up a campus in Indian joint venture (JV) with a local partner.

“As part of the university plans to India, China, Latin America and Eastern Europe, UGBS explore opportunities to increase its presence in India. The British Council helps us to choose Private and business establishments for government-funded academic strategic alliances, “says Mr. Angus Laing, Chief (High School of Economics and Management), University of Glasgow.

Mr. Laing was in conversation with journalists on Wednesday following the disclosure of details of the Alliance Globsyn. How will the partnership, students take the Globsyn two-year Post Graduate Diploma in International Business will have the opportunity to study Msc in International Business or Msc and marketing at the International UGBS campus credit on the basis of sharing.

UGBS is also in discussion with the opportunity to explore IIMs, joint research activities. “We are planning joint research projects on information technology by SMEs and entrepreneurship in India. We are also interested in a campus in India in a joint venture with Indian partners. We are currently regulatory framework, the GOI for them, “said Laing.

Mr. Laing, said a high-level delegation from the University of Glasgow, it is intended for officials to understand the legal issues. “The delegation is likely to visit India at the end of the year,” he added.

Indeed, UGBS has recently signed a letter of intent with China’s Sichuan University, here its first overseas campus JV. “We have a very fruitful for both sides a partnership with four institutions in China, and we hope that the same model to replicate in India,” said Mr. Laing.

More than 20 percent of students are UGBS’s from India to attend management courses. While the management of the Faculty ranking among the 62 business schools worldwide, the fourth oldest British university has been ranked in the Top Ten in the UK for the quality of their teaching.