Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow today announced its fourth six months General Management Programme for Defence officers. This 24 weeks General Management Programme is the fourth in a series of such programmes being organized for Defence officers, and the first at NOIDA campus. The programme is open to both short service commission officers and others. The programme was inaugurated today at the NOIDA campus by the Major General, SG Chatterji, VSM, Director General, Resettlement.

The response to the first three programmes conducted by IIML was a huge success with all 49 officers of the first programme and 60 of the second getting good job offers. The third batch, which is undergoing placements right now, is also witnessing a slew of great offers. This year after applying the selection criteria 59 Defence Officers from all three branches of the Armed forces have been selected for the programme. Out of the 59 Officers, 7 candidates are Lady Officers.

“Management education to defence personnel contributes to providing defence officers a second career choice after retirement. But the larger role in the national interest is to prepare a disciplined and responsible citizen to play important roles in today’s competitive business scenario” say Prof. NK Gupta & Prof. SC Bansal, Program Directors.

The Indian Armed Forces carefully selects Officers and continuously trains them in the art, science and craft of WINNING. Every year, hundreds of these Officers retire, with rich experience in learning, critical reasoning, objective decision making, creative thinking, leading and motivating people, running organisations and managing projects. The aim of the programme is to capitalize on these skills of the officers and optimize them to suit the corporate world’s requirements.

As in the past, the fourth programme is also expected to generate an enthusiastic response from the corporate world and given the intense nature of the programme it is sure to equip the participants with the necessary skill set so very essential to conquer the corporate world.

The objective of the GMP is to provide the participants with a basic understanding of the managerial systems and processes. The programme has been designed to provide the defence officers with basic functional inputs in subjects such as accounting and finance, decision sciences, organizational behavior, human resources management, communication skills, marketing, strategy, information technology and business environment.

The idea is to familiarize the officers with the requisite analytical tools and techniques; and develop a holistic perspective and global mindset to understand issues of an enterprise.

Source : prurgent.com

The QS World MBA Tour, the world’s leading series of career and education events, will organize a one-day fair for aspiring MBAs in the capital tomorrow.

The MBA fair will be held at the Hyatt Regency (Ring Road) in New Delhi tomorrow between 2 pm and 6 pm.

More than 30 B-Schools from across the globe including Toronto -Rotman, IE Business School, Bond, Cornell-Nanyang, Ashridge Business School, Hult, U21 Global, Durham and ESMT will participate in the MBA fair.

The London School of Business & Finance, the only UK based institution to offer dual programmes combining an internationally recognised MBA or MIB with ACCA, CIM, CIMA or CFA qualifications, will also be a part of the MBA fair.

Participants of the QS World MBA Tour, which will visit 50 cities in 32 countries this year, include 17 of the top 20 US business schools and all of the leading European business schools.

The fair will provide students a chance to interact with the leading international business schools and short-list the best option available to them.

Nunzio Quacquarelli, Managing Director of QS told NNE, “It is the perfect chance to make an impression face-to-face with the very people reading your application forms, and that is invaluable to gain an edge in this tough field. The QS World MBA Tour provides the best step in the application process, the opportunity to ask intelligent, tailored questions on topics like personal fit, career opportunities, school specializations and financial aid.”

More : indiaedunews.net

Hewlett-Packard announced India, the development of its campus on the Move “initiative today to promote their products and solutions portfolio, under the earth the first educational institutions.

As part of the initiative, HP, while running a series of roadshows, including coverage of the main cities of New Delhi, Mumbai, Pune, Chennai, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Salem, Trichy and other regions.

Talking about the initiative, P Raghuraman, Country Manager - Business Notebooks, Hewlett Packard, India said: “We agree with HP, the gap between what industry and academia who teach. Thanks to our success “Campus on the Move” initiative, we hope that with major universities across the country, improvement of school curricula so that they can to meet the needs of industry. ”

Under this initiative, HP offers the retail window for educational institutions for the implementation of information technology infrastructure, laptops, desktops and workstations, simple option of leasing measure After-Sales and Support. Many institutions have benefited from the implementation of “Campus with a wireless laptop with students to learn from anywhere on campus.

In recent years one of laptops, HP has delivered some of the most prestigious institutions such as symbiosis of India, Wellingkar, Manipal, Amity Business School, IIPM, Kalinga, Xavier’s Institute of Management, Sri Mahavir Jain, etc.

Hewlett-Packard, India’s Roll-out “Campus on the Move” initiative for the year 2006 to promote its products and solutions portfolio in the country schools.

As part of the “Campus on the Move ‘, HP, while running a series of roadshows, including coverage of the cities of New Delhi, Mumbai, Pune, Chennai, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Salem and Trichy, among others.

Under this initiative, HP offers the retail window for educational institutions for the implementation of information technology infrastructure, laptops, desktops and workstations, simple option of leasing measure After-Sales and Support. Many institutions have benefited from the implementation of “Campus with a wireless laptop with students to learn from anywhere on campus.

P. Raghuraman, Country Manager, Business HP laptops, India, said: “We at HP, recognizes the gap between what industry and academia who teach. Thanks to our success,” Campus on the Move “initiative we hope to reach a major universities across the country, improvement of school curricula so that they can to meet the needs of industry. ”

In recent years one of laptops, HP has delivered some of the most prestigious institutions in India, as symbiosis, Wellingkar, Manipal, Amity Business School, IIPM, Kalinga, Xavier’s Institute of Management, Sri Mahavir Jain, etc.

Indian Institute of Management Bangalore (IIMB) in partnership with financial programming Technologies (India) Ltd (FTIL) today announced the “Vista Wars Online 2006″, a series real-time online games, a spin-off Online Vista, the largest management Summit executed by a B-school in India.

The spin-off online Windows Vista, 2005 has seen enormous success, as many as 1.2 million visits before and during the summit. Vista Wars Online 2006, the first event Commodities Trading in India, the breadth of its scope of the same thing.

The games and simulations online Wars will aim of the exhibition in the world of raw materials, trade in currencies and other asset classes, Jignesh Shah CMD FTIL said, kicking off online games.

MCX, a group of companies FTIL “CommXpert” exercise online commerce, the participants in relation to a ring in the world of raw materials, he said.

After an online test participants, “said Shah, it is to simulate a tour trade in raw materials, followed by an analysis of trading strategies by the participants, which decides the winner of this event.

“The event provides great advantages of learning experimental and generate enormous enthusiasm about this part of the rapid growth in India’s financial markets,” he said.