OW/SSA/SPA: Rajasthan

PLAN OF ACTION

Sem II

By now students are aware of the corporate terminology, functioning and performance but only academic knowledge. It’s a time to enter the practical part where implementation with proper information becomes essential. Thus make them hunt for information should be the integral part of OW/SPA/SSA exercises.

Purpose: To understand the corporate concept, essence for the corporate style of working, corporate requirements, customers focus.
Corporate Study – Track for practical information.

Process: List of corporate/ industry/ businesses in functional form within a city.
Design team exercises to fulfill the purpose
Brainstorming among faculty members
Inspire students by focusing on the need for OW/SPA/SSA
Ensure meeting deadlines & facilitate communication

Payoffs: Ensures better performance at SIP


Sem IV

By now students are aware of the corporate culture, style of working etc. It’s a time when river is going to fall into the ocean, to dissolve its own identity as a student. Thus strive hard to come out with a new professional identity in this ocean of corporate world. Increase in intellectual property for better performance should be the integral part of OW/SPA/SSA exercises.

Purpose: To understand the concept of leadership, value of time management, sharpening of presentation skills & negotiation skills.
Enhance Intellectual property – Art of survival with splendid performance.

Process: List of corporate/ industry/ businesses in functional form within a city.
Develop, design & deliver exercises to fulfill the purpose (More of SPA/SSA)
Brainstorming among faculty members
Inspire students by focusing on the need for OW/SPA/SSA
Share features v/s benefit exercise of SPA/SSA with corporate/industry/businesses
Ensure meeting deadlines & facilitate communication

Payoffs: Ensures developing true professionals


Thus Sem.II is more of a hunting process for preparation and Sem.IV is to survive in adverse situations with progressing mode.


Regards,

R K Sharma
Regional OW Coordinator
Rajasthan
Mobile: 91 9351605836

OWO - PLAN FOR SEM II & IV – INC THANJAVUR

1. OW equips the students to manage stress and uncertain environment of professional life, perfect communication by improving written and oral skills, observe and inculcate leadership, gauge the organizational situation, adopt analytical skills, and brand building. As far as the operation workout is concerned, we the Thanjavur team members planned together well defined operation workout exercise in an integrated manner well in advance for the entire semester-II &IV. But as the II –year students have to do live projects as well as MT-II for this semester, which consists of only 12 weeks period, we have limited the number of operation work out exercise to 5 or 6 instead of 12 to enhance quality owo, and to develop these owo into live projects / or MT-II in future. . To improve the credibility of their work, four hours has been allotted in between sessions, for owo, to both I & II year students in the following manner, i.e. 2 hours for data collection, 1hour for report preparation and 1 hour for report presentation. Every weekend, that is on Friday ( for first year ) and on Saturday ( for second year) , by last hour,i.e., 4.15 to 5.30 all the Faculties join together will evaluate Operation Workout report & presentation and we are maintaining separate OWO attendance report also. With the aim of getting premium placements in their key functional areas i.e. finance and marketing, we directed the students to do their research work in the following organizations.

1. Religare
2. HDFC
3. Reliance Mutual fund
4. ING Vysya
5. ICICI Prudential
6. Reliance petroleum
7. GE Money

As far as I year students are concerned , they were already given owo in small organizations like, restaurant, departmental stores, jewellery shop, consumer durables showroom and one Short paying Assignment in ICICI Prudential , so as to enable the students to get exposure in collecting the data, report writing and presentation. Now, with the aim of preparing the students to meet their SIP requirements, we directed I year students to do their owo in well reputed organizations.

OW PLANS AND STRATEGIES OF INC PONDICHERRY

ICFAI NATIONAL COLLEGE
PONDICHERRY
Plan-of-Action/Strategies in the direction of Sem II For Operation Work Outs
(Moving towards SIP)

 Operation work outs are designed as integrated ones with a single title
 Concepts from all the courses are stressed in accordance with the given title
 Students are to go out and meet the people of various companies and sectors and learn to gather information for future Corporate Exposure
 Two Sessions are assigned in a week to carry out their field work for their Opr. work outs.
 A Questionnaire should be prepared by the students and get it corrected before going out for Field work
 The Opr.work out is designed in such a way to create a Brand Awareness of ICFAI National College
 The students should bring back the proofs after visiting their company
 The Operation work out Reports should be submitted within the week
 Students should present their Oral Presentations on Their Opr.Work out every Saturday before all the Faculty Members

The Advantages of the Integrated Operation Work out

 Students learn the Course concepts at a stretch
 They learn to apply their mind with various concepts in a company
 The analytical skills are better exposed in an Integrated Opr.Work Out as their Multi tasking Abilities increase
 The core details of a particular company and the challenges in a concerned sector is better understood by Integrated Opr.Work outs
 The Operation work outs develop their communication skills, confidence and Adaptability which are the key components for achieving in SIP
 Time management skills are developed and the students learn the value of time


Example of an Integrated Opr.work out MBA-SEM II(2007-09)


Topic-Study the Business Trends of LG with reference to Air conditioners reinforcing the given concepts


MM-I - marketing Techniques to boost the sale
QM -Correlation between the discount offer and the buying behaviour
of the customer
FM-I - Calculate Profitability Ratios
OB - Organizational structure an LG outlet in Pondicherry
ME - Position of LG in competitive Market
AM - Cross sectional Analysis of LG wth Onida,and Samsung
IT - Create and Analyse Data using queries and generate forms and
Reports in Access Database
SS-I - Report Writing Skills



ICFAI NATIONAL COLLEGE , PONDICHERRY
Plan-of-Action/Strategies in the direction of Sem IV For Operation Work Outs
(Placement Orientation)
 The titles are given as Integrated ones for facilitating the students to complete their work within their assigned week
 Operation work outs are designed especially for Orientations in Banking, Finance ,Insurance, FMCG, ITES and Consumer Durables
To help students for Final Placements
 The students are asked to go in teams and present the reports individually
 The students are given two hours for weekly operation work outs
 The students should go out to collect the information with a questionnaire and that should be corrected from the Faculty and SST.
 The work should be completed and submitted within the assigned time
 The oral presentation has to be finished on every Saturday before all the faculty members and the CH.
 The reports should be submitted to all faculty members with all concepts mentioned
Advantages of Integrated operation workouts
 Students are enhanced for their interviews
 Concepts are analyzed by the students and they learn the inter relationships of the concepts
 A time bound project makes hem fit for the Corporate
 The details of the company are better registered in their minds
 The SWOT of the Sector makes the students well equipped for their Future Career
 Life skills like Adaptability, Decision making, Interpersonal skills are enhanced by the field work
Example of an Integrated Operation work out MBA SEM IV(2006-08)
Topic-A study of Business Environment of Novel Net ware in
Pondicherry
SFM -Firm's Business Environment
SHM -Organizational Design Dimensions
(size, technology, environment, goals and structure)
MKW -Importance of Knowledge Workers-
Understanding workers
BE - Importance of Ethics in Business
BS II - Key success factors of the strategies
WM - Asset Allocation of the company
CB - Analytical Process of Customer Care
SDM - Sales Forces structure of the company
Soft Skills IV - Report Writing and Oral Presentation

Sharpening Period - Semester II & IV

Once upon a time there were two wood cutters. In a competition first woodcutter took 6 hours to cut 10 trees. The second woodcutter took 10 hours and cut 6 trees. The latter was obviously surprised at the performance of the former. The second woodcutter was wondering, “I have worked hard and for more duration. I did not even take rest. Even then how could you cut so many trees in so short a time?” The first woodcutter answered, “Altogether I took 3 hours to sharpen my axe while you did not sharpen your axe even once. Without a sharper axe how can you perform better”.

Our students are into II and IV Sem. These are crucial semesters for them. Because II Sem students are preparing for SIP and IV Sem students are preparing to get into the corporate. If they do not sharpen their skills and knowledge they are not going to do better either in SIP or in their first job.

Operational Workouts have been crucial tools in bringing the corporate and the students closer. At this crucial period the faculty members must be very much focused on the sector preferences of the students for their SIP and Jobs. Preferences should be in proper alignment with the knowledge and ability of the students. Automobile sector may not work for a student who says, “I am crazy for bikes”. Just craze may not take a person long. Adequate knowledge about the sector is very important. The only way to ensure this is to assign the students with the Operation Workouts which are related to their related sector. By doing these exercises their way to the jobs or SIP companies would be easier and focused.

Thus:
• Sector preferences of the students must be noted by the faculty members
• Students of IV Semester should be given the OW’s which involve the analysis of the companies and sectors, since; they have already gone through SIP.
• Students of II Semester should be given OW’s which are like ground works before they get into SIP.
• SPA’s are still one step ahead for the II Semester students, they would be able to work on target based assignments and to earn performance based incentives

Let’s work together to help the students in sharpening the axes. One semester’s sharpening can take them long way.

Naveen Kumar HC
Trainer-Soft Skills
Icfai National College, Malleshwaram, Bangalore

ANKUR as Ice-breaker

At the time of launch of ANKUR, that marked a gateway to what INC means to offer every management education aspiring student, Mr.Gopinath, Manager-Training announced to all

..."Management education is primarily an art of 'facilitating minds'. If right energy in a participatory format is facilitated, young minds areconfigured to a preparatory frame.

Let us start the NEW BATCH SEM 1 with a Big Bang event!

To mark the auspicious occasion, T&P in collaboration with Academics, Marketing, Accounts and Projects Department is enabling all INC Centers in staging a day-long Management Fest titled Appreciation ofNew Key Interventions in Learning (ANKUR 2007) at the respective INC Centers on 02 July 2007. Ankur is the culmination of the Preparatory sessions from 18 June and a curtain raiser for the mainframe of the Management Program.

This was followed in toto at all Centres, with tremendous student participation.

INC Aluva with guidance from RO Kochi has not missed this opportunity, and converted this moment into an opportunity to evolve an Operation Workout exercise for Semester I students. Let us listen to what they like to say in making ANKUR as the first ground to learn about OW, and its contribution to reinforcing classroom learning.

The beauty of MBA programme lies in the fact that it is the only professional course which gives equal emphasis on the skills and academia for a student. When it comes to INC, the same beauty gets graceful with the continous training of students where they are taught to apply the theory in practice. The message was visibly transmitted to the fresh batch of INC- ALuva with the operation workout on ANKUR.

When the objective of operation workout was told to the new students, they were a bit puzzled about how they can apply the theory in practice when they are only on the edge of finishing up the first chapters of various subjects and don’t know anything about the industry. But they were quite enthusiastic about ANKUR. Almost each one of them was involved with one or the other competion.The same students were in high spirits when along with ANKUR, they finished their OW on the same.

The OW was a collaborative one. All the Faculty Members who taught sem 1 provided the topic which is already taken for them in class. The details of the given topics are as follows:

Faculty Name: Mr.Nandakumar Menon
Course: MM 1
Target Concept: The 4 Ps of marketing , Importance of different utilities
Relevant chapter: 1st -Introduction to marketing

Faculty Name: Ms. Sudarshana Manoj
Course: OB
Target Concept:Role of leadership and motivation in Management Meet
Relevant chapter:General

Faculty Name: Mr.Shibu PJ
Course:FA
Target Concept:The preparation of Trial Balance, Journal entry, Balance Sheet and ledger
Relevant chapter: Capter 1-Accounting for Managers

Faculty Name: Deepak George
Course: El
Target Concept: An analysis of Team work for Ankur program
Relevant chapter:General

Faculty Name:Ms. Manisha Pillai
Course:FM
Target Concept:The role of a Finance Manager
Relevant chapter:Capter 1-introduction to Financial management

The topics of Marketing and OB were aligned with the “product launch” and “Collage”
The softskills topic was to analysis the relevance of team work, an integral part of MBA. The topics for FM and FA were streamlined with the finance available with ANKUR and how the money was utilized. The interest of the students was well reflected in the report and PPT presentations prepared by them. It was indeed a difficult task for Faculty members to choose the best one.

ANKUR - the Day Long management fest and the resultant OW based on the same, is indeed an ice-breaker, for it meant breaking the past mind-set of students [viz listening to lectures and taking down the notes], preparing them for challenges ahead of them as part of INC, and initiating them to realize how theory could be verified with a touch of reality.

INC Aluva [RO Kerala]

Regards,
T&P, INC-HQ