As always, you professionals are faced with the problem of deciding whether or not to join higher education or remotely via the campus mode. They asked the settings in different perspectives.

As an engineer, you have decided, in the field of materials management, which is encouraging. As fresh diploma, you need to examine the program at regular intervals with the Indian Institute of Materials Management (IIMM)

It could be graduation diploma in regular Materials Management (GDMM), which is managed by the Human Resource Development Ministry for the purpose of obtaining staff to senior posts and services in the central government. At the end of the program, you can exercise, as an MBA (Material Management) as a regular / student correspondence lateral entry into the system, which lasts one year. Under this plan, you’ll be able to make a mark. MP Bhoj Open University is recognized by the UGC, IAU (Association of Indian Universities) and AICTE and, therefore, there is no discomfort in monitoring the course by IIMM. In Bangalore, you can contact the Indian Institute of Materials Management, 304, 3rd Floor, Mittal Towers, No. 6, MG Road, Bangalore-560 001 Tel: 25327251/25327252.

More than 500 teams and 3,000 participants across the country have participated in Indian Institute of Management Bangalore (IIMB) Annual Management Fee Festival, Vista, 2004, held on 5-7 November.

Participants included the management of students, academics and practitioners in this field. This year was the conclusion Publishing Strategise - Performance - Innovate anthology with the last three form the theme of this year’s events.

The festival saw the introduction of a new idea for the promotion of innovative enterprises in the country and also a year so far in the council unerprobten. NS Raghavan Cell to learn, an incubation period of the cell IIMB, innovation launched Exchange, a marketplace for ideas on the event.

For the first time the concept of Distributed Consulting has been experimented with Live case. Open Source or distributed Consulting aims to use resources such as the various talents of students and professionals to submit an upcoming event, with innovative strategies for participating companies. This year, the National Kidney Foundation, Singapore, Cavin Kare Kanbay and its problems, in the form of cases and participants were invited to analyze and solutions.

The event was a loudspeaker Series titles with Dr Bhaskar Chakravorti, partner, Monitor Group, Dr Anji Reddy, founder, Dr. Reddy Laboratories, and Mr. Som Mittal, World Wide Head, Application Services, Hewlett-Packard.

Other events included games in the areas of marketing and finance paper presentations, a company set business strategy and a quiz. XLRI, Jamshedpur of all was declared the winner and was at the age of Vista Trophy.

Vineet Mittal, President and MD, Stream International Services, reveals to Priya Jain his determination to follow a different track.

Vineet Mittal

Vineet Mittal is not a man who gives into the stream of things. A successful entrepreneur, the 31-year-old President and Managing Director of Stream International Services, has lived by two beliefs—first, to commit only what you can deliver and secondly, to achieve and constantly improve on expectations.

Born and brought up in North Kolkata, he had a close-knit relationship with his family. He was rebellious and naughty as a child but managed to get things done his way. Though not the brightest student, he was hardworking and focussed. His confidence and persistence has defined his destiny. As children we all dream to be a part of fairytales and the bedtime stories. But the story that Mittal’s father told him shaped him as a human being.

The story was about a child who accompanies his father to a circus. As the duo is half-an-hour early, the father decides to take the child around the circus to look at the circus animals. The boy is moon-struck looking at the giant elephant. But is even more stunned to look at the tiny chain tied around the elephant’s back foot. He rightly asks his father, “Dad this elephant is big enough to break this small chain. Why doesn’t the elephant free himself?” The father replied, “It all depends on this elephant’s social conditioning. This chain is being used to tie this elephant since he was a baby, at that time, when the elephant must tried to break it but he couldn’t because he was not strong enough. Today even after the elephant is grown up he is conditioned to believe that he will be unable to break the chain.”

So Mittal decided never to give up and fight back all challenges. His learning from the family business along with his engineering and management education laid solid ground for his pursuits. After his engineering from the National Institute of Technology (NIT), Mittal entered the Internet business at VSNL, which exposed him to the vast opportunities in the integration of technology and commerce. At VSNL, he was instrumental in planning and execution of India’s largest ISP and international telecom. However, as the trends moved towards the dotcom business, Mittal took a very different path.

“We have a well-established family business, but I wanted to test my potential and was adamant to go forward with my passion. Being from a traditional marwadi family I faced a lot of resistance in the beginning. But they decided to give me a chance. I asked them to give me five years to prove my ability and assured that if I am not successful I will return to join them,” says Mittal. Luckily there was no looking back for him.

He adds, “In the beginning we faced problems due to immaturity in business but we soon learnt to meet up with changing situations. I proved to the society that I have the calibre to achieve what I wish for.”

Offering remote services from a low cost destination was a model that few companies had adopted in the early 2000.

He founded Infowavz India, a business processing outsourcing company, in February 2000, with his best friend Zia Shiekh, who is also his support system.

In April 2004, HIG Capital’s portfolio company, ECE Holdings, merged three industry leaders in the contact centre outsourcing market: Stream International, ECE and Infowavz.

Mittal believes that to be a successful company it is important to focus on people, processes and technology. To streamline the processes of the company, Stream got itself an ISO certification.

He realises the importance of human development, which reflects in the company’s employee training programme, which is based beyond functional work-based tools.

Mittal thinks that learning is successful by doing, not listening. Through visual plays, role-plays and operational learning, Stream’s employee training programme encompasses a “positive life” and work-life balance philosophy that provides them with life-long benefits.

In his opinion, “People are the heart of the organisation while we are just the facilitators, people provide us the revenues.”

He thinks that the employees should know what is expected of them and they should be given the right incentive. He says, “It is important to measure the right matrix. What gets measured gets delivered, and what gets rewarded gets repeated.”

Amendments to focus on work culture and new challenges for leaders, the Global Business Operations program SRCC, YOU, who recently organized a symposium an annual national day. Held in Vigyan Bhawan, the theme of the symposium 2004, was the “Business and Sustainable Development, change the scenario and new challenges.” There is a reflection on the various dimensions of globalization, which may be linked to greater success.

The chairman of ITC YC Deveshwar at the same time he stressed that the impact of humans on the ecosystem. He said: “The economic progress, in conjunction with altitude environmental and social as sustainable development.” He spoke of three types of business models - one east, where the company pursues the goal of increasing the Shareholder Value, the second, where the goal of society is increasingly Shareholder Value, with respect for the judicial and economic regulation and, finally, the third is in the company, the shareholder on the value and the publication of the commitment and cultural values.

Others on the podium at the opening of containing Abhijeet Sen, a member of the Planning Commission; LC Gupta, the capital market reformer and former director of SEBI, Vinay Bharat Ram Shri Ram group and DK Mittal, President Exercise principle of SRCC. Digvijay Singh, former chief minister of Madhya Pradesh has been another excellent players in the symposium. It examines the concept of accountability of responsibility, based on the experience first hand will receive during his tenure.

Talking about the importance of entrepreneurial skills, the director of the Indian Institute of Foreign Trade, Prabir Sengupta, said: “The structure of pedagogy in the management of schools should contribute to the promotion of entrepreneurship to students. ”

Key speakers from different sectors have shared their experiences and analyses on topics such as: - investment in infrastructure: trends and emerging issues, sales strategies for Mr. NK Indian Corporate investment for competitive advantages, finance and international marketing : Opportunities and challenges, strengthening the rural India and recycling, Director of the emotional health at work, free movement of global human resources and the role of ethics in social development.

In recent years, India has undergone enormous economic progress, but progress in traps in the form of air, water, noise and soil pollution. On the positive side, large-scale degeneration of the environment has many opportunities in another branch of the art - the environment. Today, the environment, engineers have an important role to play in providing security guards for the environment.
According to the assistant professor, environment, Indian Institute of Technology in New Delhi, AK Mittal,”graduates and postgraduates in the fields of environmental engineering have a variety of options in the form of openings in the Industry, stations Sewage in environmental management planning and public sector enterprises.”They are regarded as analysts within the framework Pollution Control Board and the State Pollution Control Boards, at he added.
Yes, what kind of context, is doing research on specialized high schools, while admitting students in this branch of art? Mittal bemerkte”Environmental IITS engineering branch in New Delhi, Kanpur, Kharagpur, Chennai and Delhi offer programmes of M-Tech-level, but only for those at the B-Tech in civil engineering. In addition, M-student technology programmes have been approved by Graduate Admission Test in Engineering (GATE).”
The IIT-Mumbai M-Tech offers the program in environmental Engineering Through a division known as Centre for Environmental Science and Engineering.”Most institutions of higher technical education in the country offer Undergraduate programs in terms of technical environment.
Regarding compensation, Mittal pointed out,”In the normal case, the environment, engineers start with a salary between 10000 and R 12000 R in the public sector organizations, but it could be higher the side, if a member of the private sector. In addition, consultancy firms in other countries to recruit engineers on the environment for various environmental projects.”
Not only that, there are opportunities for students Master of Science and even Ph E-programmes in the fields of environmental engineering of the USA of U.S. and European universities, “said Mittal.

NEW DELHI: It’s Delhi University at its classic worst. Two entrance exams, both conducted by DU, are scheduled for the same day.

At the receiving end are the students, who have now approached the controller of examinations for help. Those affected include aspirants for the masters in financial control programme - conducted by DU’s financial studies department - and the global business operations programme, which is offered by the Shri Ram College of Commerce (SRCC). Both are specialised post-graduate courses, with the entrances scheduled for January 23. And neither of them is willing to budge.

aid Muneesh Kumar, head of department, financial studies: “We had announced the dates more than two months ago, in fact, in October. This was before SRCC came out with its announcement. Besides, theirs is a college and can change the dates, we can’t.” It’s an argument that SRCC principal, D K Mittal is also peddling. “It’s not in anyone’s interest to change the date at this stage, it will only create more confusion.”

When asked why the matter wasn’t resolved earlier, Mittal said: “Such things happen. After all, there are a large number of institutes that conduct entrances. Some are bound to clash.” But within the same university system? While the SRCC principal refused to comment on it, Kumar said: “Ideally speaking, those interested in the GBO programme should not sit for the MFC course anyway.”

Caught between the two are students like Gaurav Srivastav, who has applied to both the examinations. “It is not just the money that will be wasted. It also means I am being denied an opportunity,” he said. In fact, some students have even applied to the controller of examinations for help. Admitted Kumar: “We did get a letter from the controller of examinations about the clash in exam dates. We have sent a reply stating our inability to change the date.”

Symbiosis students at the Institute of International Business to discover the effectiveness of advertising posters in Pune
Kalindi Kokal

* Over 88% of the billboards in Pune use English to communicate its messages.
* Only on the wall posters and highways around the effective use of technology in light.
* Words are privileged on the visual posters on the walls to negotiate, the message, even if the images are supposed to be more efficient

These are just some of the results of a survey on the outdoor advertising, by the students of the Symbiosis Institute of International Business. The adoption of the observation, technology, research, a group of ten students from the first year of data collection of more than 300 posters on the walls of 32 sites around the city.

“The main objective of this study was to see how the media effectively billboards and posters are in Pune,” says Saurabh Mittal, one of the students. As began as a project is happening in the investigation that in a very comprehensive and very detailed, “says the team. “What if we believed that the IPO with him, so that any advertising agency or other potential investors, in Pune, who knows exactly where and how to advertise, and make sure sure they are reaching the right target, “declares Sumit Sharma, another student of the first year batch.

According to these students, this medium has not been used to achieve maximum in the city. “The study of the demographics of a place is a sine qua non for advertising in this area, and, in any case, has not been observed anywhere,” said Mittal, citing the example of the Hinjewadi is absolutely packed house billboards. “The disposable income is high, and a lifestyle or luxury Showroom products eligible for advertising, but we see little if any of these messages,” he says.

Then there’s the low level of repetition in the billboards, the other, of this project. “In addition, the sites are not being properly removed. For example, in places such as appliances Balwant Chowk (ABC), advertising in shops and ABC itself, “says Sharma.” These were the maximum posters in other areas, they attract a wider audience , “he adds.

Regarding the nature of the presentation, Varun Goel, another member of the project team, said: “We have a lot of publicity around the services offered, but many prefer the use of words to images, even if images tell the story better. For example, at a traffic light, a viewer to collect much more qualified by an illustration, even though it does not have time to the whole message.

Recalling his experience through the scope of this project is more than six months, the students say that the most difficult part was setting objectives. “If you do not have the right, the whole project can go off,” says Goel.

Right from the definition of “Pune” in the terminology of marketing, to understand what the word from Horten, the students spent the maximum, refine the basis of their study area. “It was effective with regard to the study on market research know, in practice, the meaning - and we are confident the matter is now,” said Sharma