SPJIMR Alumni Network

Dear Alumni, Welcome to the SPJIMR Alumni Connect, a monthly connect to the various programs, events and services of the S.P Jain Institute of Management and Research and its Alumni Network This month onwards we are starting with the "Life Long Learning" Initiative for you on the Alumni Website. As the first part of this initiative, there will be current and relevant articles on different management topics for your reading.

Program Updates

Grow Your Business Program commencing January 20, 2011 Grow Your Business (GYB) is a management development program for first generation entrepreneurs and decision makers in their current business venture facing the challenges of rapid growth. The Grow Your Business program provides the knowledge, skills and attitude required for entrepreneurs to encash the enormous opportunities available in today's business environment. This program enables them to fast- track their venture for profitable growth. The program design combines both short term and medium term benefits. Key takeaways of GYB program: • Growth Plan document which is actionable and fundable • Toolkit containing user-friendly formats for better decision making For more information Click Here or mail to cera3@spjimr.org The special program fees for GYB Program is Rs. 40,000/- (against Rs.60,000/-) Program if the fees are paid not later than January 5th, 2011.

Start your Business Program goes National The Center for Entrepreneurship Development (CED) seeks to equip aspiring entrepreneurs with the knowledge, skill and attitude to launch a successful start-up. This is done through a variety of electives for SPJIMR students as well as open public program called "Start Your Business" Program (SYB) launched in 2006. Over 160 participants have been guided and encouraged to shape their business ideas to start-up ventures . Over 30 have launched their ventures by now. In order to reach a wider base of aspiring entrepreneurs, SPJIMR has tied up with Reliance Webstore Ltd., a part of Anil Dhirubhai Ambani group to offer a SYB-Blended Learning Program. (SYB-BLP)The program will partly be conducted at SPJIMR and state-of-the-art Reliance World outlets. Reliance World offers 235 Virtual Classrooms in 104 cities and towns across India. The course has been designed to combine advantages of direct faculty to participant interaction and distance learning through virtual classroom. The program will commence on January 15th, 2011. For more information please Click Here . Please circulate this information in your network. SPJIMR Alumni are entitled a special program fee of Rs. 50,000/- (against Rs.75,000/-) for SYB-BLP Program if the fees are paid not later than January 1st, 2011.

Did You Know About...

SPJIMR Academic Conclave, January 13-15, 2011 The SPJIMR Academic Conclave provides a unique platform for the best minds across the globe to converge and ignite ideas as well as solutions for several burning issues that organizations today are faced with. This year, the Conclave will entail six strategic events over a span of three days – January 13 to 15, 2011. The themes to be deliberated upon include: • Operations Management Symposium – “Green Supply Chain: A Cost Burden or Cost Benefit” • Finance Conclave – “India in the outbound investment bus – Frameworks for Financing and Structuring International M&As” • Information Management Conclave – “Web 3.0 era – How the next evolution in web will change the Business Landscape” • Consulting Symposium – “Seeking Competitive Advantage through M&A” • Marketing Effectiveness Conclave – “Making Marketing Accountable: Metrics for Measuring Marketing Effectiveness”. Another important feature of the conclave is the SPJIMR Marketing Impact Awards (SMIA) currently running in its 7th year • HR Symposium – “Managing human assets in changing business environment” The Conclave has gained significant traction over the last couple of years. Several speakers of repute have graced the event in the past. Key speakers in the forthcoming Conclave include: • Dr. Dezso J. Horwath Dean, Schulich School of Business • Dr. Nirmalya Kumar Professor of Marketing, Director of Centre for Marketing, and Co-Director for Aditya V. Birla India Centre at London Business School • Mr. Santosh Desai MD & CEO Futurebrands India Ltd. • Mr. Richard Rekhy Head of Advisory, KPMG India • Mr. Sushil Agarwal CFO, Grasim India Being a part of the SPJIMR Academic Conclave will enable the participants to: • Generate, share and seek validation of their ideas and opinions from eminent panels of experts • Appreciate the best practices identified and adopted by organizations • Network and build contacts with successful professionals from across the world SPJIMR invites the Alumni Community to be a part of this engaging and exciting experience. More on the SPJIMR Academic Conclave 2011 comi-ng up shortly at http://conclave.spjimr.org/

Workshop on Component Business Modeling As a part of SPJIMR-IBM SSME centre activities, a 6hrs workshop on Component Business Modeling (CBM) has been scheduled on Thursday 16th December 2010. The details of the workshop are as below: Date: 16th December 2010 Time: 11:00 am to 4:00 pm Venue: SSME Lab, SPJIMR Campus Conceptually CBM is a generic way to approach any business (Finance, IM, Ops, and Marketing etc). It represents the entire business in a simple framework that fits on a single page. It is an evolution of traditional views of a business, such as business unit, function, geographic or process. After a comprehensive analysis of the composition of each business, we map these individual building blocks, or components, onto a single page, which gives a view of your entire business. CBM is a core IP of the IBM consulting practice. The company typically charges a fair amount of fee to the industry participants in a similar workshop. However, since this workshop is organized by the SSME center, there will be no training fee charged to the participants.

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December 18th 2010, Saturday	SPANDAN - Annual Alumni Meet at SPJIMR Campus Mumbai
January 13-15th 2010, Thurs-Sat	SPJIMR Academic Conclave, Mumbai

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