'Industry Engagement'
Engage with Industry
Our PGPM programme is carefully tailored to meet real-time industry requirements, thus leveraging your experience. Regular inputs from members of diverse industries will help keep you abreast of current practices, emerging trends, areas of focus and career tracks. A strong representation from the industry on the Advisory Board of the programme provides a further boost to industry engagements.
The process is a continuous augmentation of your career graph through:
Guest lecture series
Industry led courses
Alumni Mentorship programmes
Course of Independent Study (CIS)
Panel Discussions
Industry Academia conclave - Samavesh
Samavesh
Today’s Leaders Meet Future Leaders
Samavesh, which is Hindi for "assimilation", is an annual conclave organised by the participants of SPJIMR's Post Graduate Programme in Management (PGPM). Samavesh brings together industry and academia to discuss contemporary business issues and address some of the important questions prevailing in today’s business environment.
Business leaders from various domains share their experiences with the academicians and students on various current trends and discuss the evolving business landscape.
Over the years, Samavesh has grown to become an important annual event in the SPJIMR calendar. The conclave has witnessed distinguished business leaders across domains visit the SPJIMR campus and share their insights into real world business problems.
In 2017, Samavesh was held on May 19 and 20, at the SPJIMR campus
Guest Lectures
Theory Meets Practice
Industry interactions are a unique part of SPJIMR pedagogy wherein participants regularly interface with top professionals to stay current with the upcoming trends and disruptions in the corporate world. Experts from varied industries are invited to share their domain knowledge through guest lecture series and workshops. This is an opportunity for the participants to break the routine of classroom sessions to interact and exchange information.
Course of Independent Study (CIS)
Course of Independent Study (CIS) is a unique and unconventional method of industry engagement along with academia. It represents an opportunity for the participant to explore a topic in depth in his area of special interest by working as a consultant on a project or an assignment with the industry. It makes possible the integration of several fields of study in searching for the solution for a real time industry problem/project. For an empirical work, it provides valuable experience in the research process in the definition of a problem, in the search for relevant data, in the analysis of the data and in deriving the conclusions and implications of the data for the problem under study.
CIS provides participants with a unique opportunity to augment the domain based knowledge that consolidates on the participant’s work experience along with the learning from the programme.
Participants work closely with the industry in solving real-time problems, thereby getting a new perspective on business practices.
Coffee with PGPM Alumni (CoPAL)
Coffee with the alumni is set as an informal mentoring platform, which brings together the current participants and alumni for a purposeful and rewarding discussion session.
The alumni provide counselling support, job search advice, interview tips, case study pointers and career guidance to the participants, based on their unique experience and skills. Sharing of knowledge keeps the participants connected to the innovation that defines SPJIMR, and plays a crucial role in building a dynamic and enduring community.
Such CoPAL sessions have been a big morale booster for the participants, especially for placements preparations.
