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NMP 30 EVENT WRITEUPS (Purpose: To document the workshops, seminars & guest lectures conducted by NMP-30 batch)

1.SEMINAR ON GST - DATED 16.04.17 ....................................................................................................................... 2 

2.HOW TO CONDUCT A RIGOROUS AND RELEVANT RESEARCH - DATED 26.04.17 .......................................... 3 

3.PMI CONCLAVE – DATED 29.04.17 .......................................................................................................................... 4 

4.ESTABLISHING A WELL GROUNDED AND PROFITABLE BUSINESS .................................................................. 5 

VENTURE – DATED 02.05.17 ....................................................................................................................................... 5 

5.MANAGEMENT CONSULTANCY VERSUS MANAGEMENT – DATED 03.05.17 ..................................................... 6 

6.RISK MANAGEMENT IN A START UP AND COMPETITIVE STRATEGY – DATED 18.05.17 ................................. 7 

7.PANEL DISCUSSION ON MODI GOVT AND ITS POLICIES BY............................................................................... 8 

BW BUSINESSWORLD – DATED 19.05.17 ................................................................................................................. 8 

8.OPPORTUNITY TO COLLABORATE WITH JANHIT JAGARAN – DATED 20.05.17 ............................................... 9 

9.ROLES OF HR AND IMPACT OF AUTOMATION – DATED 24.05.17 .................................................................... 10 

10.PRICING AND CORPORATE STRATEGY – DATED 27.05.17 ............................................................................. 11 11.IT PROJECT IMPLEMENTATION – DATED 27.05.17 ........................................................................................... 12 

12.INDUSTRY TALK ON DIGITAL MARKETING – DATED 02.06.17 ........................................................................ 13 

13.CLOUD BASED AUTOMATED SALES & PARTNER MANAGEMENT ................................................................. 14 

SYSTEMS – DATED 02.06.17 ..................................................................................................................................... 14 

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1.SEMINARONGST‐DATED16.04.17 Event Date: 16th April 2017

Agenda: Upcoming GST implementation in India and its impact on businesses.

Participants: MDI Thought leader: Speaker of the Day: Prof. Sangeeta Shah Bharadwaj (Dean Executive Post Graduate Programmes) Students: NMP 30 & PGPM-PT

Mr. Arvind Prem https://www.linkedin.com/in/arvind-prem-95364b9/

Students Association Management Executive hosted eminent speaker Mr. Arvind Prem (GM – Accounts & Finance at Radico Khaitan, a highly regarded MDI alumnus. Mr. Prem, an ‘Accounts & Finance’ domain expert with 15+ years of experience, enthralled the students with his knowledge on GST and at the same time clarified doubts on its impact on businesses. He also explained about the strategic structural changes and regulation compliance required by business for GST implementation. Those 90 minutes spent by students were worth it, as lot of questions regarding the most anticipated and complex tax structure of India got answered.

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2.HOWTOCONDUCTARIGOROUSANDRELEVANTRESEARCH‐DATED26.04.17 Event Date: 26th April 2017

Agenda: Tips & Tricks on how to conduct a successful research.

Participants: MDI Thought leaders: Speaker of the Day: Prof. C.P. Shrimali (Acting Director) Prof. Radha R. Sharma (Dean Research) Students: NMP 30, PGPM-PT, FPM scholars, 50+ delegates from IIT, FMS, IIFT, IMT, etc.

Dr. V. Kumar http://www.drvkumar.com/

The Marketing Community at Management Development Institute (MDI) Gurugram, India’s leading B-School hosted marketing Guru Prof. V. Kumar, alumnus of Georgia State University (Editor-in-chief, Journal of Marketing) for conducting a faculty development program on ‘How to Conduct a Rigorous and Relevant Research’ aiming to bridge the gap between the academic rigor and industry relevance. The session also gave insight on the do’s & don’ts the researchers should keep in my mind while submitting research papers for international journals.

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3.PMICONCLAVE–DATED29.04.17 Event Date: 29th April 2017 Agenda: Present a fruitful panel discussion on ‘Challenges in Government Program Management and Synergies between Government and Private sector’, and share key insights from diverse industries. Participants: MDI Thought leaders: Visionary Guests:Prof. A.K. Jain (Chairman Student Affairs) Students: NMP 30, PGPM-PT, FPM scholars, PMI members & MDI Alumni.

Sh. Manoj Gupta (Director PMI-NIC) Sh. Pritam Singh (President PMI-NIC) Sh. Sharat Sharma (Director-Operations DMRC) Sh. D.K. Ojha (Director (IMPD) MOSPI) Sh. Iqbal Singh (Head Nokia Networks) Sh. Anil Pathak (Director Engg. HARMAN India)

The excitement and vigor of the entire conclave ran right through the seminar. Highlighting Leadership and Strategies followed in current complex scenario, panelists discussed the Program Management Challenges and innovative solutions adopted to achieve seamless execution of mega project in different sectors (Railways, Power, Petroleum, Coal, Telecom). One of highlight of the conclave was detailed discussion on ground level challenges faced during Delhi metro project implementation and techniques used to implement a successful metro plan that helped DMRC embrace a positive reputation. Notable leadership theories that evolved over the years and Leadership traits that Program Managers today need were topics of keen interests among the participants.

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4.ESTABLISHINGAWELLGROUNDEDANDPROFITABLEBUSINESSVENTURE–DATED02.05.17 Event Date: 02nd May 2017 Agenda: Insight into the startup eco-system of India. Participants: MDI Thought leaders: Speaker of the Day: Prof. Leena Ajit Kaushal (Faculty, MDI Gurugram) Prof. Rupamanjari Sinha Ray (Faculty, MDI Gurugram) Students: NMP 30 Batch

Mr. Jyoti Prakash Gadia (MD, Resurgent India Ltd, New Delhi) https://www.linkedin.com/in/jyoti-prakash-gadia-85ab583/

NMP-30 batch were very enthusiastic about the opportunity they got to interact with the talented and experienced financial consultant, Mr. Jyoti Prakash Gadia, Managing Director, Resurgent India Limited, New Delhi. He immediately reflected a character of utmost humility that helped the students to connect with him in a better fashion. Mr. Jyoti took the students down the memory lane of his experience of starting up a company. He described how conviction armed with goodwill & commitment can take a person a long way. He discussed with the students how, where & when to apply the knowledge gained from the MBA course content in the real world. He also gave an insight to upcoming future trends in India. For those gravitating towards the start-up route, Mr. Gadia discussed about current startup ecosystems and suggested to remember ‘affordability’ factor while making decisions.

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5.MANAGEMENTCONSULTANCYVERSUSMANAGEMENT–DATED03.05.17 Event Date: 03rd May 2017

Agenda: Research & Analysis based discussion on Management Consultancy 

Participants: MDI Thought leaders: Speaker of the Day: Prof. Sangeeta Shah Bharadwaj (Dean Executive Post Graduate Programmes) Prof. Atmanand (Dean, Consulting, Admissions, MDI-M Affairs, MDI-Jammu & New Initiatives) Prof. Veena S. Iyer (Chairperson, International Relations & Summer University) Students: NMP 30 Batch

Prof Andrew Sturdy(Head of Department of Management and Chair in Management, University of Bristol) https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrew-sturdy-9b77261/

Mr. Andrew Sturdy, the great academician and renowned management consultancy author graced his presence in MDI, Gurugram during his India tour. He interacted with the students and gave insight on management consultancy in today’s world while explaining how management consultants are in demand where lot of things are getting automated and as a result how the managerial role is becoming redundant. He talked about what an organization expects from this role and what all challenges are to be faced. Students interested to get into consultancy roles in future got to know the current trend in this area. It was a great session on a topic where there is no standard roles & responsibilities and an area of profound interest among MBA graduates, which is constantly evolving.

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6.RISKMANAGEMENTINASTARTUPANDCOMPETITIVESTRATEGY–DATED18.05.17 Event Date: 18th May 2017

Agenda: An Insight into the startup eco system in India.

Participants: MDI Thought leaders: Prof. Neelu Bhullar (Faculty, MDI Gurugram) Students: NMP 30 Batch

Speaker of the Day: Mr. Akash Agrawal (Advisor to executive board of Great Market Aggregator Pvt. Ltd.) Mr. Amit Singal (CEO at Sainergie Consultants)

The students of NMP-30 batch got a chance to interact with the dynamic duo of Mr. Amit Singal and Mr. Akash Agrawal. Mr. Singal mesmerized the students with his start up stories. He explained how one needs to be constantly agile and innovative to mitigate any kind of risk. He also informed the students about his company’s new venture into healthcare domain. Meanwhile, Mr. Akash explained the nuances of competitive strategy in the startups in a competitive world. Both of them emphasized how one should not forget basic human values while rising up the ladder in career

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7.PANELDISCUSSIONONMODIGOVTANDITSPOLICIESBYBWBUSINESSWORLD–DATED19.05.17 Event Date: 19th May 2017 Agenda: B-school students sharing the views on performance of Modi Government in the past three years with media. Participants: Students of National Management Program, MDI. Alok Ranjan Pradhan Ankur Sharma Ashish Kejriwal Chinmaya Biswal

Druva Jyoti Das Himanshu Tiwari Nishit Garg Ritu Mathur

Shashank Kumar Umang Rastogi Vivek Sivaramakrishnan

Media Coverage: Business World

MDI students shared their opinion on their outlook that Modi government is on right path, and with more time, it can succeed in its mission. By means of discussing few policies in detail, students deliberated as to how the government is trying to help various sections of the population and also the population at large. Participants discussed key government initiatives such as “Skill India” and “Make in India” to evaluate how government is trying to achieve long term goals of providing sustainability to the people. Students showcased their depth of understanding of government initiatives while discussing Demonetization and changes in FDI norms in various sectors. Although they do expect the government to do more on political challenges such as Kashmir issue, rehabilitation and land reclamation issue apart from support to startups under “Make in India”. Students sighted that the Modi Government, if given sufficient time, will be able to meet its mission.

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8.OPPORTUNITYTOCOLLABORATEWITHJANHITJAGARAN–DATED20.05.17 Event Date: 20th May 2017 Agenda: Create an awareness in the society about the need to change and inspire young future business leaders to think for the betterment of the society. Participants: MDI Thought leaders Visionary Guests Prof. A.K. Jain (Chairman Student Affairs) Prof. Avanish K. (Chairperson Public Policy) Students: NMP 30 Batch

Mr. Prakhar B. (Youth Alliance, NGO) Mr. Vivek K. (Gandhi Fellowship, NGO) Mr. Vaibhav Limaye (Tough Hope Consultancy)

Media Coverage: Miss. Priyanka & Mr. Lavish - Dainik Jagran

Janhit Jagran is a social awareness program incubated by ‘Dainik Jagran’ and the event was hosted by Student Welfare Committee of MDI, Gurugram to promote much needed thought leadership to contribute towards social entrepreneurship. Interactive sessions and motivational talks by eminent speakers on ‘One’s journey to social responsibilities’ inspired everyone present. Case study based workshop with prime focus on the challenges faced by social entrepreneurships added to the audience’s enthusiasm. MDI students responded to essence of Janhit Jagran Program and its Saat Sarokar areas: Educated Society, Water Conservation, Managing Population, Poverty Eradication, Women Empowerment, Environment Conservation, and Healthy Society with great enthusiasm & vigor and presented creative solutions to the concerns such as ‘Poverty eradication among Third Genders in India’, ‘Healthy & Happy Childhood through Sports’, Reusability of Pharma products for a better environment’ & ‘Easy accessibility to healthcare centers’.

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9.ROLESOFHRANDIMPACTOFAUTOMATION–DATED24.05.17 Event Date: 24th May 2017 Agenda: Discuss about the current trends and disruptions that talent management sector faces. Participants: MDI Thought leaders Speaker of the Day: Prof. Sangeeta Shah Bharadwaj (Dean Executive Post Graduate Programmes) Prof. Janendra K. Jain (Chairperson NMP & EM)Prof. Kapil Kanwar (Chairperson Placement) Students: NMP 30 Batch

Mr. Dilpreet Singh, VP & Head – HR, India & South Asia, IBM

The key take-away from the interactive guest lecture, was that the “Human Resources” is an indispensable part of any Organization. In order to demand productivity and innovation from its workforce, the organization has to continuously listen and understand the demands coming from the various quarters of the organization.

According to Mr. Singh, there is a pressing need to address this massive problem and IBM has accepted the challenge of immersing itself into the COGNITIVE ERA, i.e. to teach machines to understand human problems. The entire big data, accessed and created by the employees of IBM through ERP is analyzed via cognitive applications. The word power is analyzed, compared with similar words of previous era and the effects of policies are deciphered. Where learning and skill is concerned, the cognitive technologies learn the employee’s way of gaining knowledge and will feed them similar content in the preferred format. The cognitive technology has proved to predict better than humans, which has helped IBM to save more than $300 Mn worldwide.

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10.PRICINGANDCORPORATESTRATEGY–DATED27.05.17 Event Date: 27th May 2017 Agenda: Elaborate upon current price management trends in the various industries and strategies adopted by industry leaders such as Schneider Electric to remain price competitive in the market. Participants: Students: NMP 30 Batch

Speaker of the Day: Mr. Amit Bhatia, Sr. Manager, Schneider Electric https://www.linkedin.com/in/amit-bhatia-08435113/

Mr. Amit Bhatia, delivered a guest lecture on the topic "Price Management". He explained how companies are using the analogy of valuating the price of a product in a company and also gave knowledge on factors determining change in price of a product in this competitive market. Mr. Bhatia enlightened students with the tools being utilized for the determining price, gave insight on topics like Delta Pricing, Price waterfall, pricing power, and further through his intellectual deliverance he connected Knowledge gained in class room study of Microeconomics with the actual Industrial trend in Pricing Management. This interactive session helped students update themselves with the current trends and practices in pricing strategies generally adopted by big Conglomerates. Students now look forward to meet more such personalities through the guest lectures and learn from them.

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11.ITPROJECTIMPLEMENTATION–DATED27.05.17 Event Date: 27th May 2017 Agenda: IT project implementation. Participants: MDI Thought leader: Prof. Anjali Kaushik (Faculty, MDI Gurugram) Students: NMP 30 & PGPM-PT

Speaker of the Day: Mr. Vijay Sethi (CIO, Hero MotoCorp) https://www.linkedin.com/in/vijay-sethi-43a52759

Students Association Management Executive organized a Guest Lecture by Mr. Vijay Sethi, CIO, Hero MotoCorp. Mr. Sethi has more than twenty-five years of experience in manufacturing industry & consulting environment. Rated as India's Best CIO, he has won several prestigious recognitions including CIO of the year, CIO Hall of Fame, Super League CIO, Champion CIO, Global CIO, Global CIO Hall of fame, ICON CIO, India’s Top 5 Most Respected CIOs, Best CIO, India’s Best IT Manager, Cloud Pioneer, CIO Grandmaster, BI Mastermind and many others. The session was quite interactive where various types of projects based on complexities were discussed. Mr. Sethi described the ideal scenario for each of them and what all are the challenges one faces while executing them in real life. He gave some tips and insights on how to avoid commonly made mistakes in large IT projects and inspired the students to think like leaders and not managers while planning & executing a project.

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12.INDUSTRYTALKONDIGITALMARKETING–DATED02.06.17 Event Date: 02nd June 2017 Agenda: Understanding digital marketing through question-answer session. Participants: MDI Thought leader Speaker of the day Prof. Leena Ajit Kaushal (Faculty, MDI Gurugram) Students: NMP 30 Batch

Mr. Manish Vij (Co-Founder, CEO and Director, SVG Media Pvt. Ltd.) https://www.linkedin.com/in/linkmanishvij/

It was an opportunity worth cherishing for the students of MDI NMP-30 to be able to interact with a pioneer in the world of digital marketing and the magician of the art - ‘entrepreneurship’, Mr. Manish Vij. Looking at the inquisitiveness of students, Mr. Manish, cast aside the formal presentation session and structured the event into a pure Query-Resolution one. He seamlessly wove topics such as ‘our dependence on digital media’, ‘challenges in pursuing entrepreneurship’, ‘his journey through the realms of startup world’, ‘his organization’s contribution’, ‘examples of cognitive and automotive abilities of today’s marketing tools’, ‘importance of challenging status quo’ into a beautifully structured knowledge-yarn.

Mr. Manish expressed his whole-hearted interest in mentoring students of NMP-30 on topics of brand building and digital marketing. Thus the next digital innovation seeds were sowed, lets await the revolution!

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13.CLOUDBASEDAUTOMATEDSALES&PARTNERMANAGEMENTSYSTEMS–DATED02.06.17 Event Date: 02nd June, 2017 Agenda: Endeavors made by successful organizations for attaining business goals through sales automation and creating growth oriented ecosystem through partner enablement. Participants: MDI Thought leader Speaker of the day Students: NMP 30 Batch

Mr. Antarpreet Singh (CEO & Co-Founder – Mydigitalblocks & Lincfast) https://www.linkedin.com/in/antarpreet-singh-518a601/

An industry stalwart and entrepreneur with vision, Mr. Antarpreet Singh shared the importance of getting mind share of external stakeholder in today’s complex business. Sharing his experience of accomplishing diversified clientele he explained, in depth, the importance of bringing contemporary channel partners on common platform. Candidly sharing his experience with Japanese companies, he explained how successful Partner Ecosystem is to be created and nurtured to attain long term benefits. Laying key emphasis on Sales Automation for ensuring organization’s better profit margin he introduced the audience to the current and future trends explaining the current tools such as SAAS and cloud based technologies used in the successful organizations. One of the key take away for audience was that future success of business will depend on how effectively organization enable their business partners attain better efficiency and help customer fulfill their needs on the go.