Happy Birthday Subir!!

Here's wishing Subir Mitra many many happy returns of the day!

Amdavad Calling!

Two teams from PGDSM MIT 03 had made it to the final round of IIM-A Confluence ‘Managing Nations’ case contest.

• Team Advitiya - Shireen, Marietta, Saikumar Swamy, Saurabh Mantri, Ankur Joshi and Sonaal Bangera
• Team Aarohi – Anamitra, Partha, Sukanya, Shruti, Moon and Ganga

The results are out!

First Place: SPJIMR - Team Advitiya

Second Place: IIM-A

Third Place: SPJIMR - Team Aarohi

The other teams in the final round were IIM-C, FMS and IIFT.

Cheers,
Ganga

TAPMI Young Biz Leader Contest - Selection

Somansh Bansal has made it to TAPMI's "Young Business Leader Contest"! TAPMI & Infosys are the joint sponsors. 15 contestants from top B schools are participating in this event. YBL is scheduled to be held from 1st to 3rd December 2006. Shine on Somansh!!

IIM-A Confluence - Selection (team Advitiya)

Shireen, Marietta, Saikumar Swamy, Saurabh Mantri, Ankur Joshi and Sonaal Bangera have been selected for the final round of the Managing Nations case contest on 'the state of elementary education in Ahmedabad'. The final presentation would be during Confluence, on 26 th November at IIM-Ahmedabad. Hearty congrats!! Book your tickets asap...













The results page is at
http://www.iima-confluence.com/sessions/manations/case2_results_rules.php

The final battle will be fought among -

Team Name	Institute
JOSH	IIFT, New delhi
Aarohi	SPJIMR
Advitiya	SPJIMR
11:59:59	IIM Ahmedabad
Acumen	FMS, Delhi
Theteamwhichsoldtheworld	IIM Calcutta

Cheers,
Ganga

IIM-A Confluence - Selection (team Aarohi)

Anamitra, Ganga, Sukanya, Moon, Partha and Shruti have been selected for the final round of the Managing Nations case contest on 'the state of elementary education in Ahmedabad'. The final presentation would be during Confluence, on 26 th November at IIM-Ahmedabad.













The results page is at http://www.iima-confluence.com/sessions/manations/case2_results_rules.php

The competition looks something like this -

Team Name	Institute
JOSH	IIFT, New delhi
Aarohi	SPJIMR
Advitiya	SPJIMR
11:59:59	IIM Ahmedabad
Acumen	FMS, Delhi
Theteamwhichsoldtheworld	IIM Calcutta

Cheers,
Ganga

SCMHRD-Neev '06 - Selection (Mavericks)

It has been a wonderful day for PGDSM MIT 03! Flashnews..now from SCHMRD-Neev'06. Javed and Tarun Gupta (team Mavericks) have been selected for the final round of "Measure for Measure" to be held on 25th November at SCMHRD. Their paper was about HR case study analysis. Hearty congrats!!!




Cheers,
Ganga

Flashnews: IIM-A Confluence - Selection! (Spandan)

Rohit Upadhyay, Parijat Kumar and Parag Mukherjee (team SPANDAN) have been selected for the final round of the Managing Nations case contest on Gujarat Gas. The final stage would be during Confluence, on 24th November at IIM-Ahmedabad. Congrats guys!
The url for the result page is http://www.iima-confluence.com/sessions/manations/case1_results.php

The battle lines are drawn...

Team/ Team Leader	Institute
Raghuram KS	CEIBS
Lokesh Chaudhary	ESADE
Barry Neal	SAID
Parijat Kumar	SPJIMR
Kartikey Singh	XLRI
Anurag Khetan	IIMA
Atisha Banjare	IIMB

Cheers,
Ganga

Flashnews from IIM-A Confluence - Waitlist

Chandan, Guru, Major Bappaditya and Adi K (team Zion) are in the waitlist for the final round of the Managing Nations case contest on Gujarat Gas. The final stage would be during Confluence, on 24th November at IIM-Ahmedabad. Way to go, guys!!

Cheers,
Ganga

Workshop on APICS Certification

Guest Lecture by: Mr. Pradeep Khetan (CPIM, APICS certified)

On 30th September we had arranged a guest lecture by Mr. Pradeep Khetan, head of APICS Indian Chapter. He discussed and clarified the concepts of SCM and Operation Management.
Objective of the workshop was to discuss -

• What is APICS?
• What is Operations Management?
• CPIM Certification
• What is SCM?
• CSCP Certification
• CPIM/CSCP must for ERP/SCM/Operations Management career
• APICS-Consulting/Manufacturing firmsFuture of Operations Management/SCM

Mr. Khetan gave a holistic view about how APICS Certification helps an Individual to grow in the organization. He emphasized more on IT/Service industries. Further, he talked about the organizations that are in SCM consultancy and implementation. Some of the big players are Atos Origin, Accenture, Bristlecone India Ltd, Cognizant, Cap Gemini Ernst & Young Consulting India Pvt Ltd, Genpact, Datamatics Ltd, IBM Global, Infosys Technologies, I2 technology, L&TITL, Oracle India Pvt Ltd, PCS, QAD, SAP, Satyam, SSA Global Ltd.

Mr. Khetan is very much eager to help us in arranging guest lectures from various industries. Following are some of renowned personalities in the IT industry who are APICS certified:

• Mr Vivek Marla, CPIM, Senior Director, Oracle India Pvt Ltd
• Ms Mythily Ramesh, CPIM, VP & Business Head, Wipro Ltd
• Mr Satish Kumar Das, CPIM, Chief Security Officer, CTS (I) Ltd
• Mr K L Bhaskaran, CPIM, CSCP, General Manager-Logistics- TCS
• Ms Shalini Sinha, CPIM, Asst VP, Genpact
• Mr Sriram K Moorthy, CPIM, VP, Supply Chain Services, Genpact
• Mr Sameer Khetarpal, CPIM, Asst VP-Operations, Genpact
• Mr Prasad Akerkar, CPIM, CSCP, Practice Head - SAP Logistics, Larsen & Toubro Infotech Ltd
• Mr Vijay P. Motwani, CPIM, Country Manager, SAP Indonesia
• Mr Chandrasekhar Kaza, CPIM, CSCP, Senior Manager-Capgemini Consulting

There are five Exams one has to give to get APICS CPIM certified. The five exams are –

• Basics of Supply Chain Management
• Master Planning of Resources
• Detailed Scheduling and Planning
• Execution and Control of OperationsStrategic Management of Resources

2006 Exam Dates for CPIM are:

Exam date Form filling deadline

• March 11, 2006 January 15/ January 22, 2006
• June 17, 2006 April 22 / April 29, 2006
• September 23, 2006 July 29 / August 05, 2006
• December 02, 2006 October 07 / October 14, 2006

He also discussed about Certified Supply Chain Professional exam. A CSCP certified professional is supposed to have in depth knowledge in four domains:

• Supply Chain Management Fundamentals
• Building Competitive Operations Planning and Logistics
• Managing Customer and Supplier Relationships
• Using Information Technology to Enable Supply Chain Management

It was a very informative session and helped the participants of PGDSM MIT to get initiated about SCM. Also, helped us understand how SCM facilitates the processes in organizations.

Cheers,
Amit Kumar

Pinch Hit: Winning streak continues..

PGDSM MIT beat PGDM by a whopping 88 run margin. Arvind made a splendid 28 runs and garnered 2 wickets. Nitin scored 22 with some impressive stroke play and took 2 wickets. Arvind was declared Man of the Match.










Scorecards - Courtesy: sCuLpToRs 06

Cheers,
Ganga

Fine Leg: PGDSM MIT record big win over PGP1

PGP1 won the toss and elected to field. PGDSM MIT sent the cherry all over the field. Apna shek..Abhishek Ranjan made a fluent 38. A dubai sheik gifted him a yellow SUV for his remarkable debut of the season...













Arvind finished the match with a splendid bowling figure of 5-14. Arvind was declared Man of the Match. His Audi Avant has run into customs problems!



Scorecards - Courtesy: sCuLpToRs 06

Kurukshetra – Do you have it in you to be the last one standing?

Our experience: The Journey from Mumbai to Bhubaneswar and then back to Mumbai

Bahuth lambi chowdi kahani hai… I shall try my best to present it crisp…

12th October 2006 10:30 pm
2 days before the start of our diwali vacations… I somehow managed to get my tickets booked earlier and had reached home by that time…

Tring Tring… Amit calling…I ended up waking everyone up at home when I let out a shriek… “Woooow thts a good news… Our paper got selected!!”

1st November 2006 04:30 am

Terribly tired and deprived of sleep, we somehow managed to catch a Taxi at that hr to airport… Worse state was Amit’s after receiving the much dreaded b’day kicks from those victims who were literally waiting for this day to come..Ganga and I managed to catch some sleep onboard… But poor Amit could neither sit nor stand with his seat belts tied. Vishal was fultoo engrossed in his new hobby. Shooting clouds from inside the flight.

08:30 am : We reached Kolkatta. Managed to get a taxi after some 20 odd mins. Decided to take a short tour of Kolkatta. The taxiwala agreed to take us to a place for breakfast, wait for us there, take us to places around and finally drop us at Howrah by 1 pm. We went round and round almost half of the city (via Park street) of Kolkatta in search of breakfast. Our states went to the worst from worse. At last by 10:30 we found a Haldiram’s outlet. From there we went to Victoria memorial and then visited the famous bridges of Kolkatta and finally landed at Howrah at 1:20 pm. Had a hurried lunch and boarded our train to Bhubaneswar at 1: 35 pm.


10:30 pm : Finally we reached XIMB. Pleasant weather was welcoming and so was our assigned buddy Pradyum of XIMB. Xburns (campfire and a tug-of-war for students of XIMB) was going on when we entered the campus which was filled with greenery. Well laid roads and planned buildings – We were comparing what ever we saw there with our SPJAIN campus. Our Mess, Bistro and classrooms – Thinking about them was reassuring. :-)

The day finally got over and we managed to catch the most awaited sleep after the longest day. For Amit it was one hell of a B’day.

The next day simply passed with our preparations and a panel discussion in the evening on the topic “ Indian Steel sector- The way ahead ”.

3rd November 2006 12:00 am:

Ganga's B'day.. Had lotsa fun singing and dancing. We jus posed as if we are kicking him and took snaps. :-)

3rd November 2006 08:30 am

ENTERING GURUKUL

The D day dawned. It was a sense of pride indeed for me to be there competing against the likes of IIM ABCK, XLRI, MDI, TAPMI and XIMB. After wishing each other good luck we took different ways to our respective venues.

I was totally blank that morning. No fear… No tension…No expectation…No anxiety… Blank means blank… We were told as soon as we entered that we would be presenting first. First mover’s advantage proved to be a disadvantage. The projector did not co-operate. With few hits here and there we got it working. I tried to crack a joke in the meantime and somehow got the judges smiling. Finally we started again with a Good Morning to all.

Our presentation was finally over and with every team coming up on stage the competition grew fierce. After couple of hours results were out. Ganga and Vishal (MarkVeda) progressed to Chakravyuh, the next round. The competing teams in MarkVeda being equally strong all the four teams were qualified to the next round. Amit and I stood first in OpVeda and it was indeed rewarding for the efforts that went into the making of the paper after much research and survey.

Here ends the first part of the kahani…

4 of us were rejoicing as we entered the next round.
What happens next? What awaited us in CHAKRAVYUH?
How much more memorable did Ganga's B'day become?

See ya soon with more interesting parts of our AdVeNturous trip.

Cheers!
Sukanya.

SPJIMR in Venice!

Flashnews folks..from SCHMRD-Neev'06. Divya Dhankar and Vinit Parekh have made it to the waitlist in the event "Merchant of Venice". The topic of their paper was "Farmer's Fresh Dilemma". Check out the results page at http://www.scmhrd.edu/neev06/results.htm

The result page is a forest of I's and M's and X's and N's...You have done us proud.

Cheers,
Ganga

Make a wish

sweet smell of cake on ya face…

dancin’ flame on the candle that says..

moments wid friends are much like here-caught-now-flew butterflies..

gonna miss ‘em as the years pace..

- freshly brewed and dedicated to pgdsm mit 03!

Cheers,
Ganga

Dr. Balci has arrived

It is a great pleasure for the students and faculty of PGDSM MIT to extend a warm welcome to Dr. Osman Balci. Dr. Balci is the professor of Computer Science, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia.Dr. Balci will be here with us from 13.11.06 to 17.11.06. He will be teaching ‘Software Engineering’ to PGDSM MIT 03 participants.


Cheers,
PRCom

SPJIMR Tops Gurukul..Pierces Chakravyuha

Hello guys! A big hi from the 4 of us here in XIMB campus, Bhubaneswar. 20 shortlisted teams (likes of IIM ABCK, XLRI, XIMB, MDI, TAPMI) were on campus for the presentation round of Gurukul. 16 teams were going to make it to Chakravyuha. We gave pretty decent presentations. Sukanya and Amit topped Gurukul in Ops. 2 out of 4 teams in Ops did not make it to next round. A fierce competition in Marketing arena meant all the 4 teams progressed to the next round.

Chakravyuh consisted of 6 games that tested us in areas like entrepreneurship, inventory planning, sales & marketing. We had to go to the real market without our wallets and mobiles. We sold real products and service packages at a markup. We created games on the fly…made people play them in market area. We did infrastructure planning for a business. The feeling that we got when we earned every rupee of profit was unparalleled. 5 teams from IIMs, 5 from XLRI, 4 from XIMB and 2 from SPJIMR were present in this round. SPJIMR garnered first and second places. Vishal and yours truly stood first while Amit and Sukanya came a close second out of 10 teams that progressed to Kurukshetra. 6 teams were knocked out.

10 teams are getting into Kurukshetra battle tomorrow. It is a cross functional business simulation game. We need to set up and run a business for 6 financial years. More on this tomorrow.


Missing you all.. 'Band of Boys' were here this evening. We danced with two of them. There is a JLT party going on right now here...@ 1.30 am! Spirits are high! Hic hic hurray…

Cheers and bottoms up,
Ganga