SPJIMR's PGDSM-MIT Program Records Stupendous Rise in Average Salary

"Two roads diverged in a wood, and I took the one less traveled by. And that has made all the difference." No one would agree more with Robert Frost than the 63 students of SPJIMR's dual degree program.

The third batch of SPJIMR's PGDSM-MIT put-up an exemplary performance in their final placements which concluded last week. As many as 21 companies participated and the first day saw 104 offers being made. In all, 145 offers were generated with the icing on the cake being the 2 international offers from ConVista Consulting (Germany) and Cedar Consulting (UAE).
The highest domestic salary was pegged at INR 15.0 Lakhs per annum. There has been a stupendous rise in average salary as compared to last year's placement season. The course has thus spawned 19 millionaires in the current batch of students.
Total Batch Size 63
No. of Companies that Made Offers 34
No. of Pre-placement Offers 33
Total No. of Offers 145
Maximum Salary (Domestic) INR 15.0 Lakhs per annum
Average Salary (Domestic) INR 10.9 Lakhs per annum
No. of Millionaires 19

Aricent, Arthur D. Little, Capgemini Consulting, Cedar Consulting, HP, IBM, McKinsey KC and Mindtree were some of the companies that participated for the first time in the placements of this unique systems management program. Other companies on campus included Cognizant, CitiGroup Global Services, Frost & Sullivan, GE, HCL, Honeywell, HUL, i2 Technologies, ICICI, Infosys, KPIT Cummins, KPMG, Mphasis, Satyam, Siemens Information Systems Ltd., TCS and Wipro for Day 1 placements. Genpact, NIIT, iNautix & Maersk Line were among the few other companies that visited on Day 2. IT consulting, strategy consulting, project management, pre-sales and business development was among the key roles offered. Almost 50% of the class of 2008 had bagged pre-placement offers soon after their autumn internships.

PGDSM-MIT (Post Graduate Diploma in Systems Management & Master of Information Technology) is a two year globally focused dual degree program in systems management awarded by SPJIMR in collaboration with Virginia Tech, USA. These placement statistics lucidly demonstrate that there is a growing demand for managers with strong business acumen along with ability to appreciate and handle technology. With this as the vision, SPJIMR joined hands with Virginia Tech and pioneered the concept of this unique dual degree program in 2004. The firm footing that the course has gained in the industry coupled with the growing trend for such foreign collaborations reinforces SPJIMR's vision to bring in international exposure and global focus to management education.

Without doubt, SPJIMR's innovative pedagogy and ingenious education model to cater to the demands of the industry are well-received. The foreign offers made this year for this course are indicative of the value of the association with Virginia Tech. In times to come, the industry, the academia and the government bodies have to come together and take up the responsibility of creating, nurturing and sustaining such promising courses. The nation's interests will be well-served if the regulatory authorities embark on a facilitating role rather than just a regulating role.

The Rampage Continues…!!

Hey people.. There has been some time since we updated the success stories of PGDSM-MITians in various B-school events across the country. Well..The wait has been worth its value in gold. Be ready to get yourself literally swept by the sheer volume of the prizes we have won with Ady, Loki and Shubham leading the pack. We have done it anywhere and everywhere. ..Following are the details:

DFL Week - Today's Speakers

We are pleased to invite you for the lectures scheduled for today, planned as part of Domain Focus Learning.

1) Speaker: Mr. Shubhjit Sarkar , Wipro
Topic: Understanding ERP and role of system managers in ERP
Venue: MIT 02 classroom
Time: 8:30 am – 9:45 am

2) Speaker: Mr. Prasanth Mohanchandran, Executive Director, Ogilvy & Mather
Topic: New Age/ Digital Advertising
Venue: MIT 02 classroom
Time: 3 pm – 5 pm

Loooking forward to your active participation.

Cheers,
PRCom

DFL Week

Eminent speakers from the industry will be addressing us on a variety of topics ranging across domains such as BFS, Insurance, Retail, Telecom, Media, Entertainment and Travel, Manufacturing and High Tech.
The lectures will be scheduled between 2nd and 8th of February.

Details of today's lecture:
Speaker: Mr. Ripal Doshi, Senior Consultant, Siemens Information Systems Ltd

Topic: Developing effective IT Strategy & Management Consulting
Venue: MIT 02 classroom
Time: 2pm – 4pm

Cheers,

PRCom

Session on SSME by Dr. Jim Spohrer, Director-IBM Research

We take pleasure in inviting you for a session on SSME (Services Sciences, Management and Engineering) by Dr. Jim Spohrer, Director , IBM Research.

Date: 29th Jan
Venue: Dome 2
Time: 5.00 p.mThe schedule for the session is as follows:

1) Lecture by Dr. Jim Spohrer on Business & Socio Economic Value of SSME to ALL students and faculty members - 30 mins.
2) Proposal by Jim, Guru and Zaheer to launch and exclusive IBM Service Business Simulation Center at SPJIMR to the Executive and Academic Advisory Board of SP Jain - 40 mins.
3) Defining the scope and activities of the exclusive IBM-SPJIMR Service Business Simulation Center with Jim, Guru and the Executive and Academics Board - 20 mins.
4) Presentation of IBM SSME Education Materials and Software Tools under Academic Initiative License by Zaheer to the SP Jain Institute - 10 mins.

Profile of Dr. Jim Spohrer

CAREER HISTORY

IBM, San Jose, California (1998 - Present)

Director, Almaden Services Research (2003-Present)
- Established first services research group in IBM Research, and service science discipline
- Research Division Accomplishments (>$10M impact): CBM, IDG, BIW, EUS, SSME projects

CTO, IBM Venture Capital Relations Group (2000-2003)
- Co-founded group to establish win-win relationships with VCs, entrepreneurs, and IBM
Global Services

Functional Manager, Computer Science Foundations (1999-2000)
- Managed advanced user experience design group (HCI) as well as theory of computation
group (Theory)

Manager, USER Experience (HCI) Group (1998-1999)
- Managed web services, user-aware and context-aware information environments
(InformationInPlaces)

Apple Computer, Cupertino, CA (1989 - 1998)

DEST, Distinguished Engineer, Scientist, and Technologist (1996- 1998)
- Conceived and led Educational Object Economy (EOE) and WorldBoard initiatives

Program Manager, Authoring Tools & Titles (1993 - 1995)
- Managed authoring tools development, including SK8, Squeak, NSF/DARPA East-West
Consortium

Principal Scientist/Project Manager, End User Programming (1991 - 1992)
- Managed an co-invented KidSim/Cocoa

Senior Scientist, Business Learning Research (1989 - 1990)
- Developed intelligent multimedia learning systems: MrFixit (Boeing) and Role’m (Apple
Learning)

Verbex: Exxon Enterprises, Bedford, MA (1978 - 1982)

Senior Research Scientist (1978-1982)
- Speech recognition HW/SW based on Markov models of human speech

Cheers,
PRCom

Virginia Tech Contact Session - Dr. Steven D. Sheetz

We take great pleasure in welcoming Dr. Steven D. Sheetz.
Dr. Sheetz is an associate professor in ACIS department of Pamplin School of Business, Virginia Tech. He will be here along with us from January 28th to February 1st, 2008. He would be teaching " Advanced Database Management Systems " to the participants of PGDSM-MIT04.
His presence will indeed be a great opportunity for all participants of SPJIMR to interact and gain insight into his areas of expertise.

Spandan - SPJIMR Alumni Meet 15th December

SPJIMR annual alumni meet 'Spandan '07' is just round the corner :)

Details:
Date: 15th December 2007, Saturday
Time: 6 pm
Venue: SPJIMR auditorium, Bhavan's campus

Looking forward to meeting all PGDSM MIT seniors there!!

Cheers,
Manisha
(On behalf of PRCom)