Functional Area: IIM

MDP: Communication and Presentation Skills – January 2020

Date: January 13 -17, 2020 Effective oral and written communication skills have frequently been identified as prerequisites to managerial success. Research on recruiter’s perceptions about the qualities that they look for in an applicant, have identified oral and written communications skills at the top of their list (Powell & Jankovich, 1998: Moody, Stewart & Boltlee,…

MDP: Excellence in Managerial Communication – December 2019

Date: December 09 – 12, 2019 Communication is not only about employing good language and its refined usage, but also is about the strategic planning to be undertaken for each and every communication episode keeping in perspective audiences, objectives, context, alternative media of communication and choices of technique and style. We will introduce the concept…

MDP: Business Analytics for Strategic and Tactical Level Decision Making – December 2019

Date: 16 – 20 December 2019 Myths and promises surrounding Business Analytics galore. Success and failure stories of analytics ventures are visible across organizations. Real experts as well as self-styled experts keep sermonizing about the subject. The uninitiated get confused if it is a panacea, yet another hype, or something that requires informed attention. The…

MDP: Creating High Performance Organisations – February 2020

Date: 24 – 28 February 2020 Organizational excellence is a concept that goes beyond financial performance. Further, even when the financial perspective is included in assessing the performance of organizations, it envisages long term sustained performance rather than short term gains. High performance organizations pursue and achieve excellence from the perspective of all stakeholders that…

MDP: Excellence in Corporate Training – February 2020

Date: 18 – 19 February 2020 Research from the fields of cognitive science and education have much to offer corporate training programs. Specifically, training programs can be made more effective and efficient if trainers apply concepts of learning such as encoding, spacing, interleaving, and chunking in the design and delivery of training programs. Further, to…

MDP: Accelerating Your Leadership Journey: The Leader As Coach – February 2020

Date: 03 – 05 February 2020 In the modern era, leadership has moved beyond the professional running of an organization. In today’s volatile, chaotic, complex and networked society where external business partners are growing and gradually outnumbering internal employees, leaders need to bring new levels of expertise, credibility, trust and values that go toward the…

MDP: Advanced Leadership Programme – January 2020

Date: 20 – 24 January 2020 Human spaces speak to us. Articulated for a particular function or purpose, spaces communicate what is worthwhile, meaningful and acceptable within their boundaries. Spaces are structured to welcome certain patterns of action and response, but not others. Human spaces can also control us, although it is not what we…

MDP: Strategy and Leadership in VUCA World – January 2020

Date: 16 – 18 January 2020 Changing business environment, the VUCA (Volatile, Uncertain, Complex and Ambiguous) world and globalization are putting more challenges before the business leaders than ever before. While in Emerging markets, growth opportunities exist, the CEOs/CXOs and other business leaders are constantly working on finding out more innovative ways to strengthen competitive…

MDP: Organizational Excellence Through Leadership – December 2019

Date: 16 – 18 December 2019 Organizational excellence means the whole gamut of corporate management and the way the entire organization is run and, creating a world-class organization in the process. The programme aims at providing insights into the multiple routes, paths and drives which have been created by world-class organizations in successfully reaching the…

MDP: Machine Learning with Business Applications – February 2020

Date: 24 – 29 February 2020 Machine learning algorithms are part of artificial intelligence (AI) that imitates the human learning process.  Machines are more powerful than the human brain at analysing data and gain insights about the business.  Machine Learning (ML) algorithms have applications across various industries and different functional areas.  The primary objective of…

MDP: Predictive Analytics for Business Forecasting – January 2020

Date: 06 – 11 January 2020 The past few decades have witnessed growing adaptability of analytical forecasting tools in the corporate sector. This may be attributed to increase in the complexity, competitiveness and the rate of change in the business environment. The objective of this programme is to present a comprehensive view of the various…

MDP: From Data to Decisions – December 2019

Date: 09 – 13 December 2019 There is ever-increasing popularity of data and model based decision making in the business world. This programme is designed to equip the participants to identify appropriate analytics methodology depending on the problem objective, to carry out and properly interpret the results of the statistical analysis. While step-by-step instructions would…

MDP: Building, Nurturing and Managing Brands – February 2020

Date: 05 – 07 February 2020 One of the earliest applications of branding was branding cattle. In modern times, branding started in right earnest with P&G’s efforts in the 1930s. When Nestle bought confectionary company Rowntree, it paid 4.5 billion dollars not for the latter’s plant and machinery or infrastructure but its brands like Kit…