Guest Lecture Series

To help the PGCET aspirants prepare for their exams, the Department of Business Administration, BNM Institute of Technology, had organized a 2-day online training “eMBArk– 2022” on 16 th and 17 th of November 2022. The training program covered the basics of all four sections of PGCET, which are General Knowledge, Quantitative ability, English proficiency,
Logical reasoning and general intelligence. The entire program was hosted on Microsoft Teams platform for convenience of the participants. The training started with addressing by Dr. Mukund Sharma, HOD, followed by strategies to crack PGCET. Ms. Zeenath K J, Mr. Rishi Ranjan, Ms. Usha Rani and Mr. Santhosh K V were the trainers involved. The trainers discussed various topics from each section that are important from the perspective of PGCET exam. More than 150 MBA aspirants registered and took benefit of the program. The participants felt that the program was helpful and appreciated the initiative of BNMIT.

Faculty Development Programme on ‘Tableau and Power BI for Effective Data Management’ was conducted by Department of Business Administration from Nov 10 th to Nov 14 th , 2022, through online mode. The objective of this FDP was to equip teaching fraternity with functional knowledge of the two popular data analysis and visualization tools – Tableau and Power BI. The FDP was conducted by resource persons from the training institute ‘Business Toys Pvt. Ltd.’, Bangalore.
The first session on Day 1 was about Fundamentals of data analytics and data science by Mr. Omkar Raikar. Trainer gave an overview of building blocks of data analytics and explained the relationship between data analytics and data science. He emphasized on the fact that understanding the business and its operations is key to become a successful data analyst and data
scientist. Trainer explained how each data can tell a story about the business and one must learn the art of storytelling through data. He explained the difference between categorical data and continuous data. The 3 econdd session was by Mr. Manikanta Prasad who demonstrated the features of Tableau, a Business Intelligence software application by Salesforce Inc. USA. Trainer used real time data to demonstrate the various features of the application. The data was shared with the participants
beforehand so that participants can work on the application along with the trainer. Data visualization, Strategy Building and Dash board preparation were aspects covered during this session. Advanced concepts of Tableau were covered during Day 2 with the help of a various data sets related to business. Participants learnt about various metrics and dimensions, deriving new
dimensions from existing data, parameters and calculated fields and advanced dashboards. In the following session, participants worked on a project through which they learnt the entire cycle of dashboard preparation – getting the data ready, data transformation, identification of KPIs, designing dash board layout, building functionalities and user acceptance testing. Sessions on Day 3 was about ‘Power BI’ an interactive data visualization software by Microsoft. Mr. Sagar Chadha was the resource person who started the session by explaining the difference between Tableau and Power BI. After giving an overview of the application and its basic features, trainer shared few sample datasets with the participants. Trainer demonstrated the various functionalities of the application with the help of datasets and participants were asked to work on it simultaneously. Following are the aspects covered during the day – Step approach to building BI report, types of visualizations, plotting charts, plotting complex charts using
calculated fields, sets filters, connecting charts on dashboard, colour scales and dimensions and building dashboards. An assignment was given on Day 4 to build a business dashboard and participants were asked to complete the assignment using Power BI tool. First session on Day 5 was conducted by Mr. Ashwin, who begin the session by reviewing the assignment submitted by the participants. Discussion was held about the solution to the assignment and how it can be improved. Q&A session was the last session and all the trainers answered questions raised by participants on various aspects. Trainers also explained how management students can make use of Tableau and Power BI to build their skillset. Trainers provided details of few free online resources through which students can learn these tools and improve their employment prospects.

MBA department, BNMIT in association with Skillgenix conducted an SDP in the topic ” REAL-TIME MARKET RESEARCH” from 19^th to 24^th October 2020 for the 2019-21 batch student.

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 COVERED

MBA department, BNMIT had organized an 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 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 was shared with students before the commencement of the SDP. Every day assignments were given to execute the topics discussed and on the Final day a test was conducted to evaluate the students on topics covered

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.

The Department of Business Administration had organized an orientation program for the new batch of MBA students from January to 22nd, 2021. The objective was to orient the students on the following aspects – Facilities available to the students at the institute, Learning Resources, Student Clubs, Extracurricular and co-curricular activities conducted by the Institute, Code of conduct to be followed by students, Covid-19 protocol, MBA Course Structure, Internal Assessment Process, Examination System, Training and Placement Support. These aspects were explained in detail by the internal faculty members.

The orientation program also included many skill building activities such as – Goal setting, Motivation, Managing expectation, which were conducted by external trainers – Mr. Jayasimha, Mrs. Pooja Sreedhar and Mr. Adarsh Basavaraj.