MBA STUDENTS AT THE UNIBIC COOKIES FACTORY, BANGALORE
2019-09-05

Workshop on Business Analytics and E-Business
2019-09-08 - 2019-09-12
Workshop on Business Analytics and E-Business (September 08, 2019 to September 12, 2019)

A ﬁve day Workshop on “Business Analytics and E – Business” for 3rd Semester MBA students was conducted in association with Makeintern & Echoes’ (IIM Kozhikode Event) from September 08, 2019 to September 12, 2019. The trainer for the 5-day program was Ms. Maneesha from Makeintern Institute.
The students were introduced to R, a programming language used by statisticians and data miners for data analysis.. Five students, selected by the trainer, were awarded the Merit certiﬁcates and given an opportunity to present business plan in IIM-Kozhikode at the Echoes’ 2019 event. This was the rarest of rare opportunity for the students of MBA.

WORKSHOP ON HR ANALYTICS AND MARKETING ANALYTICS
2019-10-18 | BNMIT Campus
One day workshop was organized on HR Analytics and Marketing Research on October 18, 2019. These two papers were newly introduced for third semester MBA HR and Marketing specialization respectively. The faculties teaching these subjects across VTU afﬁliated colleges in Karnataka attended this program. Industry experts from the ﬁeld of HR and Marketing Analytics were invited for the program.
Ramesh Sundararajan, HR Analytics Consultant, spoke about the content and details of HR analytics syllabus of VTU and explained the approach and the application of the concepts in the industry
The session on Marketing Analytics was handled by Saurabh Rishi, a Marketing Analytics Consultant. He threw light upon various marketing research and analytics carried in the industry and also briefed about various software packages available in the industry to carry out analytics.

Six Sigma Green Belt Certification from MSME
2020-06-24 - 2020-06-26
SIX SIGMA GREENBELT
SIX SIGMA GREENBELT PROGRAMS is a 24 hours training program conducted by MSME (Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprise) in our college for the department of MBA students. 35 students with 3 faculty participated in the program. The duration of course was 12 days from 03/05/2020. The program was conducted through online (ZOOM) due to the pandemic situation.
Six Sigma Green Belt certification establishes professionals’ skills on data-driven approach and methodology for eliminating defects in any process across industries. It is set of tools and techniques for process improvement. It seeks to improve the quality of the output of a process by identifying and removing the causes, defects and minimizing impact variability in manufacturing and business process. It uses set of statistical methods/tools like Analysis of variance, Regression analysis, Correlation, Scatter diagram, Control charts, etc. here six sigma defines two concepts LEAN & SIX SIGMA. Six sigma reduces the variation in standards andactual, so when the variation reduces then the standards can be reached easily. Variation occurs from special and common causes. Lean helps to reduce the waste like over production, excess inventory, over processing, etc. so LEAN SIX SIGMA helps in reducing the waste and improving the quality so that the standards are met in time. A major target of quality assurance is the minimization of error rates in order enhance patient safety. It is a method targeting zero error (3.4 errors per million events) used in industry.
APPROACH OF SIX SIGMA: –
SIX SIGMA can be approached with five different phases where the problems are identified, measured, analysed, solutions can be improved and finally controlling the process seeing that whether the process is within the control or not.

Define phase defines the project / an item / area in which there is a need for improvement. from the voice of customers, the problems are identified. VOC refers to the feedback, complaints, etc. there could be internal and external voices.
Measure phase minimizes the measurement variation. Need for identifying how much variability / tolerance can be accepted. Repeatability and Reproducibility can be analysed. Kappa measures the attribute agreement.
Analysis phase helps to identify the root causes and helps in focusing on the causes which have the greatest impact. Here tools used are paired sample T test, scatter diagram, pareto diagram, etc.
Improve phase helps in improving the ideas. Solutions to the problems. Brain storming Activity.
Control phase helps to keep improvement. Train employees to adapt new methods.

Outcome
SIX SIGMA can be used in any field like HR, MARKETING, FINANCE, etc. can be used in any kind of industry like primary, secondary/manufacturing, service industry. Six sigma benefits in professional development, analyse the business performance ahead of competitors, helps in discovering the main drivers of the problem.
This program adds the value as it is the greatest challenge for every company/industry, so certification of green belt will help facing the challenges. The concepts were very well explained through more number of examples. the process of using six sigma software (Minitab) was very well explained and the trainer was more student friendly, students were free to arise the questions and doubts were clearly solved. The tremendous effort of Teachers, Trainer and Students gave the successful end of the program.

Webinar Lecture on "Specialization Matters- One hour guide to making an informed choice"
2020-06-24 - 2020-06-26
The Department of MBA, BNM Institute of Technology, Bangalore organized a three-day webinar series open to the first-year MBA student community on the topic ‘Specialization Matters- One hour guide to making an informed choice’ from June 24th to June 26th, 2020. A total number of 450 students across different cities of Karnataka participated in the Webinar.
Day 1 was marked for Finance specialization and the resource person was Mr. Viswanathan P, chartered accountant & CEO at Vyoma Linguistic Labs Foundation, Bangalore. He highlighted that the Finance jobs require strong quantitative aptitude, voracious reading skills, teamwork, perspective thinking ability and common sense as a prerequisite
Day 2, on 25th June 2020, was dedicated to Human Resource Management, where the guest speaker was Mr. Mohan Kumar, Practice Head at Wipro Technologies. He spoke about the IT skills and certifications students need to take up to attract better career opportunities in the area of HR
Day 3 of the Webinar was chaired by Mr. CNB Rajesh, Director and Chief Evangelist, Enleanytics. He shared his insights about career prospects in Marketing and how students should prepare themselves with the relevant knowledge, skills, and attitude

Banking and Digital Marketing
2020-08-19 - 2020-12-31
Banking and Digital Marketing
Skill Development Programme (SDP) was conducted for third semester MBA students from August 19 to 31, 2020. All the eight sessions of the SDP was to train the students to be more employable and to prepare them for the corporate world. The SDP included topics on;

Importance of Soft Skills & Communication Skills
Importance of Self Branding
Difference between Social Media Marketing & Traditional Media Marketing
Job opportunities in Marketing and Banking

The resource persons for the SDP was Mr. Raghavendra Rao, Partner and CEO, Bernay IMC and Mr. Ganesh G, Content Creation Lead, Bernay IMC, both with close to 3 decades of experience in Digital Marketing and Banking sector respectively.
The Finance SDP sessions were very informative and insightful especially for students who were apprehensive about choosing banking as their career and also for the students who were not aware about banking sector.
The marketing SDP was also very useful as students got to know the importance of contents, videos, neo targeting, digital media planning, geo targeting, etc where taught very clearly with lot of examples.
Online Finance SDP by Mr. Ganesh G, Content Creation Lead, Bernay IMC

Advanced Excel
2020-10-19
MBA department, BNMIT had organized a online SDP in the Topic “Advanced Excel” from 19th October 2020 for the 2018-20 Batch students between 9 am to 2:30 pm conducted through Zoom platform. With an idea to prepare students to take up new jobs and be Industry ready
The program was conducted by the resource person Mr. Shankar. M M, Business consultant from CARES organization. The students were trained in basic functions of excel and advanced operations covering the topics like logical functions, computation of stock returns, graphs, V lookup H lookup functions, regression analysis and application of these in Real time situations. The data set and the formula sheet were shared with students before the commencement of the SDP. Everyday assignments were given to execute the topics discussed and on the Final day a test was conducted to evaluate the students on topics covered
The overall session was very beneficial and the topics were explained in detail and doubts were cleared in the Interactive sessions. Around 65 students were benefited from the program. The trainer was very enthusiastic and gave more insights on all topics covered. Training material i.e. data sheets, PPTs, formulas were provided for reference. Every class was recorded and was shared by the co-coordinator for better understanding and future use. Feedback was collected and recorded on the last day of the session.

Skill Development Program on the Topic “REAL-TIME MARKET RESEARCH”
2020-10-19 - 2020-10-24
BNMIT in association with Skill Genix conducted a Skill development program from 19th to 24th October 2020 for the III sem MBA students. Market research is a powerful marketing tool. Today, there is a growing demand to carry it out in an intelligent, innovative and faster way. Consumers communicate at breakneck speed. With mobile phones in hand they immediately let you know what they think and experience. Creating campaigns based on a traditional market survey done months ago may be of little use today. The real-time market research is the one that would help the brand to react quickly and according to the needs of its customers.
TOPICS COVERD

Introduction to Market research
How to write business overview
Making of company snapshots
Ways to collect the information about companies
Types of company strategies
Understanding SWOT analysis

MORE INSIGHT ABOUT TOPICS

Why research? to understand the market trends like restraints, challenges where you can overcome within short period of 3-5 years, drivers like persons, tools required for the smooth running of business.
To understand the impact of the new government regulation and pandemic. Yes, pandemic has affected the economy. Increase of unemployment, supply chain problems, etc.
The market research is done in every domain like ICT, Food & Beverage, Semiconductor & Electronics, Healthcare, Aerospace & Defense, etc.
You can become a researcher, research associate, senior research associate, research analyst, etc.
We cannot just add any sort of information while writing the company profile/business overview, right? yes, first we should mention the official name of the company, mention the business segments the company operates, if this information is not available, we can write the revenue of the company. Mergers / acquisitions if any. The service provided if it is a service company, the brands of the company.
Company snapshot is an overview of financial analysis at least of three years, the business revenue mix, geographic revenue mix. How to gather this financial information? If it is a public company use. gov is a website where later you can type the company name and check for annual reports. If it is a private company you can check in owler.com
There are organic and inorganic strategies. Mergers & acquisitions come under inorganic strategies. How to write a company strategy? Mention the company name, kind/type of company, what is the strategy & why it is done. Now how to gather the information about strategy? one thing is you can google it , but for more appropriate information we can check in press release section in the company website. It might be at the top right corner/downside. Most of the private companies, small companies might not have this press release section.

Learning OUTCOMES

The SDP gave more insight about how to find the appropriate information related to the company.
How important to write a business overview.
How market research will help us to plan the strategies for the companies.
The importance of market research in setting up a new business.
Opportunities in this particular field.

Orientation Report MBA 2020-2022
2021-01-18 18:00 - 2021-01-22 19:00 UTC
BNMIT, Department of MBA, had organized an orientation program for the new batch of MBA from 18th January 2021 to 22nd January 2021. The objective of the orientation was to provide the newly joined students a glimpse of activities, facilities available, action plans, skill sets expected from them etc. About 107 students attended the program.
Three external guest speakers were invited to orient the students on the roles and responsibilities of MBA students through a few soft skill areas such as Motivation and goal setting, Transformation (Parivarthan) and Expectation management.
The brief profiles of the external speakers are as mentioned below:

Jayasimha has a rich experience of over 25 years in conducting experiential and life improvingworkshops to participants from different walks of life,Corporates, Colleges, Schools and many more.He specializes in an area that dwells on managingone’s mind and attitude, a key attribute to anindividual’s success. He has delivered more than8600 Presentations, Workshops, Seminars andMotivational Talks all over the country. He has beencontributing to the NIEedition of Times of India for over 13 years.
PreejaSreedharis aLeadership Coach at Mu Sigma Inc., Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India, and is specialized intraining Corporate in the area of BEHAVIORAL SKILLS for the past twenty-two years. She has been instrumental in conceptualizing and conducting quality programs for the entry level, middle and top-level professionals. She is associated with a leading Organization as a capability development Coach. She is also a certified PoSH Trainer. (Ministry of Women and Child development)
Adarsh Basavaraj popularly known as “The Coach” because of his column, “Coach Calling” with the New Indian Express (edex) is one of the youngest motivational speakers with a rich experience in the field of life coaching, behavioural training and assessment. He comes with a decade of experience handling different roles as a behavioural coach, Management development consultant, Instructional design expert, Learning and development consultant, Psychotherapist to renowned organizations like Randstad, Jones Lang Lasalle, BHEL, Power grid corporation, New Indian express group, Yokogawa, Titan industries, Danlaw and many more.

While the external guest speakers highlighted the importance of the course through topics such as motivation, goal setting, transformation, managing expectations etc., the In-house faculty oriented the students about the academic requirements of the course as per VTU, curriculum contents, rules and regulations, training and placements, cocurricular and extracurricular activities, Clubs and Committees, infrastructure facilities available for the students etc.
Inaugural program(23-01-2021):
To welcome the new batch of MBA and M Tech, an inaugural program was organized on 23rd January 2021, Saturday.
Shri. PB Kotur, who is currently working as Head – Global Freshers Engagement Program at Wipro Limited was invited as the chief guest. He is also a Global Goodwill Ambassador, Author, Educationist, Global Talent Transformer, Motivational Speaker, Keynote speaker and a corporate leader.
Shri. Narayan Rao R. Maanay, Secretary, BNMEI, Shri Ashok R. Maanay, Joint Secretary, BNMEI, Prof. TJ Ramamurthy, Director, BNMIT, Dr. SY Kulkarni, Additional Director, BNMIT, Prof. Eshwar N Maanay, Dean, BNMIT, Dr. Krishnamurthy GN, Principal, BNMIT, Heads of various departments, teaching and non-teaching staff witnessed the program along with thefresh batch of students and their parents. The program was conducted following Social distancing protocols of Covid 19.
The program began with an invocation song performed by “Team Kalabhageerathi”, the cultural club of BNMIT.
Dr. L Vijayashree, Prof.& Head, New Gen IEDC delivered the welcome speech, after whichthe dignitaries formally inaugurated the program by the traditional lighting of the lamp.
Shri Ashok R Maanay, Joint Secretary, BNMEI congratulated the students for choosing BNMIT for their professional study and wished them all success to not only gain knowledge, but also to contribute to the society as citizens of the nation.
The program was interspersed with a medley ofmusical performances bythe team “Kalabhageerathi” who performed a melodious group song and Ms. Bhuvana, student of 1st Semester, MBA who rendered a soothing performance of Angklung, an Indonesian instrument.
The Presidential address was given by Shri Nararayan Rao R Maanay, Secretary BNMEI. Sir emphasised on enjoying the learning process and skilling oneself not just to secure jobs, but to create employment for others and contribute towards nation building.
Dr. Mukund Sharma, Prof. & Head, MBA department, introduced Mr. PB Kotur, the chief guest of the program, who was then felicitated by the dignitaries on the stage.
Mr. Kotur advised the students to use technology for knowledge acquisition, collaboration and communication. He congratulated the students for choosing BNMIT as their place of study where the leadership demonstrates values and ethics through their actions. Mr.Kotur highlighted the three I’s highly appreciated in the corporate- Initiative, Innovation and Integrity. He also emphasised on the need for having excellent communication skills whereby one can communicate both the content as well as the intent.
All the dignitaries addressed the gathering highlighted the importance of Management education in present day and the need for developing their skills to reach greater heights.
The program concluded with a Vote of Thanks by Dr. P A Vijaya, Prof. & Head, ECE Department, and the National Anthem after which the students and parents were invited to partake the refreshments arranged for them.

Inauguration of 1st Sem PG classes
2021-01-23 18:00 - 19:00 UTC
Sri. P B Kotur, General Manager, Wipro Technologies Ltd. was the chief guest for the offline inauguration of MBA and M.Tech programs at BNM Institute of Technology. He congratulated the management and students for their courage in organizing the inauguration program. Sri. Kotur advised the students to use technology for knowledge acquisition, collaboration and communication. Education 2.0 is all about having passion to learn, passion to accept, will to win and power to change you. He congratulated the students for choosing BNMIT as their place of study. The leadership at BNMIT demonstrates the values and ethics through their actions. Through such powerful communication, the students are given the opportunity to imbibe these etiquette. Listening and communicating effectively are very important skills. Learn to communicate the intent as well as the content. The three I’s highly appreciated in corporate are Initiative, Innovation and Integrity. Sir, paid rich tributes to Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose by hailing him as the true icon of all young Indians who stand up for the cause of the country.

Analysis of Union Budget 2021
2021-02-05
The “Analysis of Union Budget 2021” session was organized by the department of MBA BNM institute of technology on 05 February 2021 at the auditorium of BNMIT, Bangalore between 10:00 am to 11:15 am, to understand the key highlights of union budget 2021. Resource person was CA.N.NITHYANANDA who is a well-known Chartered Accountant and founder of NITHYANANDA AND CO.

The session gave the overview of the project to be undertaken by the government and the related finance deficit and tax structures. The budget emphasis on the economic reforms which encompasses on pillars which is a major sector of economies.

Health and Wellbeing :- Has been taken a major portion of the budget this year with an incremental of 137% to the previous year budget.

India will spend 23 lakhs crore on health care. An amount of Rs 35000 crores will be spent on covid – 19 vaccines as a part of above.
The new centrally sponsored scheme “PRADHAN MANTRI ATMANIRBHARSWASTH BHARAT YOJANA” with an outlay of INR 64,180 crore over 6 years will be running alongside the National Health Mission.
To strengthen the nutritional content the supplementary nutrition program and the “Poshan Abhiyan” and the launch of “Mission Poshan 2.0”.
Urban Swachh Bharath Mission : focus on complete sludge and waste water management, segregation of garbage, reduction in single use plastic, etc., with a total financial allocation of Rs.141678 crores over a period of 5 years from 2021- 2026.

Capital and Infrastructure Reforms:-Budget secondly concentrate more on infrastructure reforms

Atmanirbhar bharat – PRODUCTION LINKED INCENTIVE(PLI) scheme is proposed to launch to provide an employment opportunities.
MEGA INVESTMENT TEXTIAL PARKS( MITRA): Will be launched to setting up 7 textile parks .
NATIONAL MONETIZATION PIPELINE AND NATIONAL RAIL PLAN FOR INDIA 2030 : To create future ready railway ready system by 2030.

Financial Reforms:

SECURITIES MARKET CODE: Proposed to be introduced to conflate SEBI Act.
FDI limit in insurance sector increased from 49% to 74%.
ASSETS RECONSTRUCTION COMPANY LIMITED AND ASSETS MANAGEMENT COMPANY is proposed to be setup to takeover stressed debts and dispose it to the suitable investors.

Other Reforms:

AGRICULTURAL INFRASTRUCTURE FUND will be made available to APMC’s
Fresh and substantial investments in developing modern fishing harbours.
National Education Policy will be continued.

Budget also made an amendment to “DIRECT TAX LAWS” –

Exemption for senior citizens (75 years or more) from filling income tax returns having income from pension and bank interest.
National Faceless procedures proposed for income tax Appellate Tribunal and dispute resolution committee.
Deduction towards interest paid on loan availed for purchase of affordable housing projects extended till 31 March 2022.

Budget also propounded a key amendments made to the “Companies Act and LLP “:-

Small company are amended to increase the share capital to Rs.2 crores
NRI arepermitted to open one person company with a condition to stay in India for a period of 120 days in a year or more.

Introduction to Product Management & Entrepreneurship
2021-02-06 18:00 - 19:00 UTC
A guest lecture on “Introduction to product management & entrepreneurship” was conducted for 1st semester MBA students on 6th Feb 2021. The speaker Mr.Kartik Suryanarayan, a Product Manager, experienced in B2B, Enterprise Tech, Product Strategy, and a model gave an insightful session to the students.
The curtain raiser was with a video of Beethoven’s 9-Chicago symphony orchestra- Riccardo; to explain how Mr. Riccardo had multi- sync with all the musical instruments to create a beautiful melody similarly product managers sync departments to achieve the goal.
The speaker decides to conduct an activity; The topic was “know your product.” Then he divided the whole class into 5 groups and asked for volunteers from each group, instructed the group to discuss and select the problem which common people face in their day to day life. He also mentions elements which should be discussed among the members of the group, they are: – solutions of the problem, advertisement, channels, customer segments, cost structure and finally revenue of product and services.
The topics chosen by students were; traffic problems, misuse of technology, pollution, the rise of petrol prices, and garbage issues.
He asked students to brainstorm within the group and present their ideas. He listened carefully to the presentation; on the spot, Mr. Kartik explains the positive and negative aspects of the product and services.
He started to note down the points in the lean canvas model where he was jotting down the problem and possible solutions. Lean canvas model is feasible for new products and to develop new markets for existing products business canvas model can be used.
He conducts this activity, so the student can understand the way, the product manager or entrepreneur should plan to succeed. Students were very enthusiastic and energetic throughout the session.

guest lecture - “Networking and negotiations"- 2nd semester MBA students
2021-06-19 10:00 - 19:00 UTC
A guest lecture on “Networking and negotiations was conducted for 2nd semester MBA students. The speaker Mr.Yogeshvaran brings in diverse commercial experience from strategic sourcing, procurement, consulting, negotiations, contract management.
Currently, he is working in NAM, a Shell Joint Venture as Supply Chain Lead for Completions and Well Interventions based out of Netherlands and responsible for strategic contracts, driving creative solutions that deliver value across the Supply Chain.

The speaker started with the introduction and explained the process as follows

What is a networking ?
How do I start networking?
How to negotiate with the people?
How do I manage the networking?
What makes a good networking?
Wrap up

He related the topic of everyday examples where students could understand it easily by using terminologies related to networking and negotiations even he gave many examples of real life situations, stories and scenarios. Later the speaker asked students about the opinion about networking and negotiation. Many of our seniors shared their own experiences about how important networking is especially after the MBA.
He conducts this activity/polls, on metimeterso the student can understand how to handle people about networking and negotiating. Students were very enthusiastic and energetic throughout the session.

guest lecture on "Unleash your financial energy through effective plans" -4th semester MBA students
2021-06-28 10:00 - 16:00 UTC
Date
28TH , June , 2021

Organization
BNM INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY

Audience
4th semester Students

Total Participants
48

Profile
Dr Sharan Kumar Shetty brings in diverse financial experience from strategic sourcing, procurement, savings, investments, financial management.Currently, he is an Ideator and founder of capital advisors (startup firm) Member of Board of Studies & Editorial Board Member of International Publications.

Report
A guest lecture on “Unleash your financial energy through effective plans” was conducted for 4THsemester MBA students.
The speaker started with the introduction and explained the process as follows

What is a savings and investing?
How to invest to build wealth?
What are the precautions in stock market?
What are the precautions in stock market?

He suggested the books (Mad money journey & Rich dad poor dad)
Wrap up:
He related the topic of everyday examples where students could understand it easily by using terminologies related to investments and savings even he gave many examples of real life situations, stories and scenarios. Later the speaker asked students about the opinion about investments and savings of money. Many of the students shared their own thoughts about how important investing is, especially after the MBA.
He conducts these activity/polls; on clearing doubts so that student can understand how to handle money about earning and spending them wisely. Students were very enthusiastic and energetic throughout the session.

guest lecture on “HR Strategies in IT Industry”- 2nd semester and 4th semester Students
2021-07-03 10:30 - 16:30 UTC
Date
3rd July,2021

Organization
BNM INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY

Audience
4th semester & 2nd semester MBA students

Mode of Guest Lecture
Online through Microsoft Teams

Total Participants
108

Profile
Ms. Harshitha has an experience of 10 years in TCS. She started working as a performance management specialist and is currently the program manager in Leadership and Diversity space. She has won the award for best HR in 2019.She is continuously engaged in CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility) Initiative of TCS.

Report
A guest lecture on “HR Strategies in IT Industry” was conducted for the MBA students of 4th semester and 2nd semester. This lecture was delivered by Ms. Harshitha Bapat and was scheduled to start at 12:00 pm through online mode. She began her lecture with introduction about various HR strategies and emphasized more on being cognizant and vigilant while taking strategic decisions as an HR professional.
The Speaker started with explanation of diversity and inclusion and its importance in the IT sector. She gave insights about the following HR strategies:

Red and Blue Cup (Engagement in critical work)
Attrition and Retention;

The strategies used for retention purposes are mentoring, individual development plans etc.

Resource Management;

It includes up skilling, vendor management, realization etc.
She suggested a Book -6 Thinking Hats by Edward de Bono
To Wrap Up:
She threw light on various diversity programs like that of: women specific, people with disabilities, people from different background, community and how proper inclusion of such diversified personnel leads to much better productivity. She gave crucial and real-life HR examples from TCS itself and students were able to understand the situation in a better way by sharing their own thoughts and perspectives regarding the same. By the end of the session students were given chance to clarify their doubts and the guest lecture ended by feedback from Dr. Neetha Mahadev and other students. The lecture was a great success. It helped the students to know about use of HR strategies and its impact on the working of company.

Faculty Development Programme on “The Art of Effective Online Teaching for Management Faculty”
2021-07-03 18:00 - 2021-07-09 19:00 UTC
DEPARTMENT OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION

Date
3rd July to 9th July 2021

Organization
BNM INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY

Audience
Participants from Corporate and Academia

Report
THE SHOW MUST GO ONLINE
Faculty Development Programme on “The Art of Effective Online Teaching for Management Faculty” was conducted by the Department of Business Administration in order to equip teaching fraternity in Management education to adapt to new and innovative ways of teaching management concepts and its applications to real world scenarios in a creative manner with the aid of new age technology.Eminent speakers from the industry and academia held engaging sessions.
The session on Day 1on “Enhancing the effectiveness of Online teaching using technology”,was handled by Mr.Santosh Hombal, Business Development Manager at eAbhyas Info solutions, who gave an insight into the context of Online teaching, how to engage students with compelling content using various communication tools as well as content sources and creation tools.
The session on Day 2 was on “AdaptingDesign thinking in online teaching-learning process” chaired by Mr. Vijeth Rao, Design Lead of Leadsquared, who shared the basic premise used in design thinking, the use of various laws applicable in the design industry and its applicability to online teaching.
The session on Day 3was on “Teaching through Gamification”, handledby Dr. Manu Melvin Joy from CUSAT, who held a demonstrated discussion on immersive learning experiences, Gamification, Game based learning, and Game thinking
The session onDay 4 entailed“Creativity in Case-based teaching methodology”conducted by Mr. Mohit Shetty, HRBP, Infoblox, who gave an insight into the classic case study method and the more engaging podcasts, video commentary and documentaries, new editorials and blogs. He also spoke about creating case study content and the online resources that can be used.
On Day 5, there were two sessions –“Mastering Online Pedagogical delivery at Wiztoonz Academy”, engaged by Mr. Mahesh Ravi, Creative Head, Wiztoonz Academy of Media and Design, who ledthe participants through an experience of the various communication, content creation and student management tools used at Wiztoonz Academy and“Innovations inOnline Assessment and Evaluation” by Dr. L Vijayashree, Professor and Head, New Gen IEDC who shared using simple online tools like padlets, content creation platforms like blogsites, Microsoft sway, XMind etc. and conducting situation analysis, roleplays, one-minute papers, one sentence summaries and so on online

Guest Lecture on ‘Product Promotion and operations Management’
2021-12-04 11:00 - 13:00 (Asia/Kolkata)
Date
04 Dec 2021

Organisation
BNM Institute of Technology

Audience
3rd Sem MBA students

Total Participants
110

Profile of the speaker
Mr. Swaroop S is a National Retail Operation Manager at Hindustan Lever Limited. He has completed his Bachelors of Business Management specialized in HR from Oxford College of Business Management Bangalore and MBA specialized from SJCE Centre for management studies Mysore. His area of expertise includes Marketing operation, Sales and Retail operation. He has worked in the FMCG sector for more than 10yrs

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A guest lecture on ‘Product promotion and operation management’ was conducted for the 3rd Sem MBA students by Mr. Swaroop S.
The speaker began his lecture with a live example from the industry – how actual product promotion takes places and how operation management works in HUL. The Speaker explained students on how fundamental knowledge of business operations plays an important role in any field of business management. He gave the following insights of a business-

Sales and marketing: How to evaluate the existing market developments, trends & collate information to develop business.
Retail operations: Importance of Product demo- How to adopt a suitable discipline in pricing and discounting physical presentation of products and place. How can managers decide about which product should be presented to which customers and at what time.
He gave an insight of how HUL worked at the time of covid pandemic and how they diversified their production from necessity products to hygiene products (sanitizer, hand wash etc.)
Production promotion was explained with various promotion tools and method to use this tool effectively in order to place the product in customers mind for a long time. The Speaker gave an idea about how mystery shopping takes place. Speaker also highlighted the importance of having the right attitude to grow in one’s career and being flexible. He gave few real- life examples of strategy and clarified questions raised by students.

Guest Lecture on ‘B to B Marketing Research’
2021-12-11 11:00 - 13:00 (Asia/Kolkata)
Date
11 Dec 2021

Organisation
BNM Institute of Technology

Audience
3rd Sem MBA students

Total Participants
110

Profile of the speaker
Mr. Mahim Sharma brings in over 20 years of experience across IT, Security and BFSI sectors in senior roles across regions, including seven years with Oracle India, and five years at Wipro Technologies.
Mr. Mahim has worked with Startup’s building Component software for Financial Risk Management, and at other product companies like Intellect and 3I. He has delivered lectures as visiting faculty @ NIBM, Pune. Mr. Mahim currently runs a consulting firm, concentrating on Strategy and Advisory.

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A guest lecture on ‘B2B Marketing research’ was conducted for 3rd Semester MBA students by Mr. Mahim Sharma.

Speaker began the lecture highlighting the importance of fundamental skills ‘LSRW’ – Listen, Speak, Read and Write and explained how this helps in marketing. Speaking about research in marketing, he said while evaluating existing market, there are two types of doing research:
· Problem identification
· Problem solving

While developing a business, how to do research is important. Speaker explains the steps to follow while doing research. Speaker described the case study of Namma Metro to make students understand the marketing research concepts. Metro planners used cluster method to find research solutions and designed root maps.
The Speaker then threw light on Business to Business takes place and how they work. Speaker described various elements in B2B commerce such as Demand forecasting, Buyer decision, Supply, Distant channel, Buyer benefits and supplier benefits.

Guest Lecture on ‘Problem solving and ideation’
2021-12-16 14:00 - 15:00 (Asia/Kolkata)
Date
15 Dec 2021

Organisation
BNM Institute of Technology

Audience
3rd Sem MBA students

Total Participants
75

Profile of the speaker
Mr. Guru Prasad is an alumnus of BNM Institute of Technology. He started his career at ANZ bank and has a working experience of 5 years in various departments. He was also part of Aegis Limited as a Team Lead before returning to ANZ in Home loan department.

Report
A Workshop on ‘Problem solving and ideation’ was conducted for the MBA students of 3rd semester.
The Speaker started explaining about how ideas are generated in a working environment. Following are the excerpts from his talk-
● Necessity is the mother of all innovation (how necessity creates a need to generate ideas about any issues or problems)
● Every problem has an equal chance of getting a solution to it
● How companies manage to sell any product even at the time of Covid-19 pandemic
● Change is the constant thing in the world and how the preference of people changes about any problem or idea generation
Speaker provided an insight on various idea generating programs by companies and how they capitalise by identifying the fact that people are ready to pay to satisfy their basic needs (e.g.: flip kart and amazon).
By the end of the session students were given chance to clarify their questions and queries.

Felicitation to FCD holders
2022-09-16 08:00 - 17:00 (Asia/Kolkata)
A Talk on “Roadmap for Industry Readiness” was held as a part of distribution of awards for students who had secured First Class with distinction in their first semester. The guest speaker for the occasion was Mr. Mohan Kumar, Practice Head, Wipro Ltd on 16th September 2022. Speaker spoke about the importance of skills and certification for management students in order to enter the industry. Speaker shared certain facts and figures about various job opportunities for management graduates and gave insights about what do companies look for when they hire freshers.
The guest talk was followed by distribution of mementos and certificates to fifty meritorious students, who had secured First Class with Distinction in the first semester.

Mr. Mohan Kumar speaking on the occasion

Ms. Ramya, topper of the batch, receiving the award from Mr. Mohan Kumar

Guest Lecture on Personal Branding - ‘Gamify Yourself’
2022-09-21 11:30 - 17:00 (Asia/Kolkata)
A guest lecture about personal branding and use of digital media for branding was held on 21st Sept for first year MBA students. Mr. Sourabh Mandal, Alumni of IIM-B, Consultant and Product Manager for Electric vehicles, was the Resource Person. Mr. Sourabh illustrated the importance of personal branding for a professional through various stories and examples. Besides importance of how one portrays oneself offline, the speaker also mentioned importance of presenting oneself professionally on online platforms such as LinkedIn.

Mr. Sourabh Mandal, during the session ‘Gamify Yourself’

FDP on Tableau and Power BI for Effective Data Management
2022-11-03 21:00 - 2022-11-07 23:30 (Asia/Kolkata)
Date
3-11-2022

Organisation
BNM Institute of Technology

Profile of the speaker
Sri. Manikanta Prasad VP- Strategies and Operations Business Toys and Sri Sagar Chadha Data Scientist Basal Analytics

Symposium on “Specialization matters”
2022-11-15
The Department of Business Administration, BNMIT had organized a symposium “Specialization matters” on 10th Sept 2022 in order to help students wisely choose their specialization in the second year of MBA.
Four speakers were invited to speak about four different specializations offered by BNMIT- Banking and Finance, Digital Strategy and Applied Marketing, Human Capital Management and Business Analytics.
The session began with a talk by Prof. Vaishnavee Eishwar Maanay, Head-Media, BNMIT who highlighted the importance of keeping an open mind and clarity in mind before opting the specialization.
Mr. Mohith Shetty highlighted various job opportunities available for students interested in Human Capital Management. Mr. Supriyo Guharoy spoke about ‘Digital strategy and Applied marketing’ specialization. He gave various inputs to the students related to de-materialization, digitalization and few marketing concepts which the students must be familiar. Mr. Anthony L Preetham and Mr. Shivakumar spoke about Business Analytics explained about the three main pillars of business analytics i.e. people, process and technology, followed by importance and opportunities in Analytics. Mr. Vivek Gangadhar, who spoke about ‘Banking and Finance’ Specialization explained the benefits and opportunities in the area of finance. He also highlighted various certification programs that are necessary to pursue career in the area of Banking and Finance.

Mr. Mohit Shetty speaking during the symposium about Human Capital Management as specialization

A session on Business Analytics during the symposium

Guest Lecture - ‘My Story - Motivational Session by Successful Entrepreneur’
2022-11-26 11:30 - 12:30 (Asia/Kolkata)
A guest lecture on “My Story – Motivational Session by Successful Entrepreneur” was conducted on 26th Nov 20222 through online mode for MBA students by in association with Institution’s Innovative Council. Mr. Vikas Appaji was the resource person for the session.
Mr. Vikas is completed his Executive Program in Business Management from Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta (IIMC) and B.E. (Computer Science) from Bangalore University. Vikas Appaji started his career at Philips India Ltd., Bangalore in year 2002 as Software Engineer, Magnetic Resonance Data Archiving and Connectivity Team and he resigned in the year 2022 as Senior Project Manager in Strategy and Transformation Office. After 20 long years of career at Philips he started Sambramaa Services in the year 2021.
The Speaker started with important points that benefits every student’s progress such as, to make our ‘presentation’ successful, we must provide clarifications and conclusions. He also emphasized that students should find out what suits the needs of the customer.
Mr. Appaji said one should always look for efficient solutions for the problems faced by the society. However, each problem is different and not every situation can be supported by common tools. There will be specific solutions or technology tools that supports different situations. He also cautioned against setting too ambitious deadlines since deadlines are typically based on information available at the start of the product development cycle, they leave little room for unforeseen problems and can unfairly burden your team with the feeling of failure if not met. Online tools provides “just in time” information that gives an immediate answer to a question about a specific window, dialog or field. One should be grateful for what they have in their life and celebrate the present. Remove the fear of failure from your heart, child in you can break up the fear in you. Always do not compare you with others, compare yourself with yourself. Speaker also asked students not to be greedy as our greed can turn is into corrupt and dishonest human beings and must restraint ourselves from becoming that. Our needs should be limited and our wishes should be in control.

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