guest lecture on "Unleash your financial energy through effective plans" -4th semester MBA students
2021-06-28 10:00 - 16:00 UTC
This post was last updated on August 3rd, 2021

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.

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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
This post was last updated on August 3rd, 2021

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.

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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
This post was last updated on August 3rd, 2021
DEPARTMENT OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION

Date
3rd July to 9th July 2021

Organization
BNM INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY

Audience
Participants from Corporate and Academia

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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)
This post was last updated on August 3rd, 2021

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)
This post was last updated on August 3rd, 2021

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)
This post was last updated on August 3rd, 2021

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.

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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)
This post was last updated on August 3rd, 2021A 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)
This post was last updated on August 3rd, 2021A 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)
This post was last updated on August 3rd, 2021

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
This post was last updated on August 3rd, 2021The 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)
This post was last updated on August 3rd, 2021A 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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