Boom Shankar strikes the right chord

Here's the story of a band that has mastered the fine art of managing music - The success story of Boom Shankar, SPJIMR's very own band!
(Article featured in DNA)

SPJIMR wins TATA Crucible 08 (Indore Leg)

SPJIMR family extends heartiest congratulations to Siddharth Natrajan and Vijay Pillai (PGDM particpants) for winning the Indore Leg of the TATA Cruible 08!

Visit http://www.tatacrucible.com/campus/report2008/indore.html for more details.

bhavITva – Disruptively Innovative!

1st March 2008
This year, the theme for bhavITva, the annual Information Management conclave of SPJIMR, was ‘Disruptive Innovations and their role in redefining the technology and business landscape.’ Mr. K. Ananth Krishnan, Chief Technology Officer, Tata Consultancy Services was invited for an interactive guest lecture with the students of SPJIMR on 15th January 2008. The topic of the session was ‘Changing business environment forcing Indian IT companies to innovate.’ This discussion provided the backdrop for bhavITva 2008.

bhaITva 2008 was held in partnership with NASSCOM and IAMAI. BizTech2.0 was the media partner. The keynote speaker of eNNOVATION was Mr. Ninad Karpe (MD, Computer Associates, India & SAARC). Guest presentations on a variety of innovation related issues were given by Mr. Abhay Gupte (President, ITO, EDS India), Mr. Ravi Trivedy (Executive Director, KPMG) and Mr. Rajdeep Sahrawat (VP and Head of Innovation Initiative, NASSCOM). The guest speakers were later joined by Mr.Vishwa Kiran (VP, R&D, Accenture India) and Prof. Oscar D’Souza (Faculty, SPJIMR) for a panel discussion. The panel discussion was moderated by Mr. Ivor Soans (Managing Editor, Enterprise Technology, BizTech2.0).

bhavITva 2008 saw the launch of IMZine, the annual IM magazine published by SPJIMR along with ‘IM The Guiding Spirit’ mentorship programme for its PGDM Information Management participants. bhavITva 2008 was successfully conceptualized, planned, managed and executed by the Strategic Business Unit for Information Management (SBU-IM) team at SPJIMR comprising of participants of the PGDM program of SPJIMR.

Arthasankalp - SPJIMR goes gaga over the Union Budget

29th February, 2008

The Economic Forum 07 continued the SPJIMR tradition of screening the Union Budget live as a part of the committee’s flagship event Arthasankalp. The D-day was preceded by a series of ‘Knowledge Transfer’ sessions and daily sector-wise updates. When the countdown for the telecast had begun, an audience quiz was just right to set the tone and the standard for the live telecast. While the budget was being telecasted on-the-spot highlight interspersed with SENSEX data were projected to dynamically capture the market sentiments on the budget.

To take the endeavor forward a panel discussion for a post budget analysis was organized on 2nd March 2008. The discussion was moderated by Ms. Mini Menon (Senior Editor and Head of News Features - UTV). The esteemed panel constituted of Mr. Sandeep Shanbhag (Personal Finance), Mr. S. Naren (Head Equity- ICICI Prudential), Ms. Ashima Goyal (Professor - IGIDR) and Mr. Jiban Mukhopadhyay (Ex Economic Advisor - TATA Group). Various insightful points about oil bonds, loan waiver for the farmers, taxes etc. were raised and critiqued in the discussion.

Such innovative ways of disseminating practical knowledge has helped the participants keep abreast with the economic dynamics that have been shaping the country. The Economic Forum did a great job at spreading awareness about the budget and came close to achieving its mission statement ‘Connecting to the world of Economics.’