For the first time in the last two years, Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Udaipur Hosted the offline opening ceremony of the 10th batch of its ‘One Year MBA – Global Supply Chain Management (GSCM) program’ and the third batch of ‘One Year MBA – Digital Enterprise Management (DEM)’ program for the academic year 2022- 23,
In his welcome address, Prof Janat Shah, Director, IIM Udaipur said, “Due to COVID-19, it is for the first time in two years that I am welcoming you all to offline sessions this year. It’s a pleasure to be back in class; For a premier management institute like us, face-to-face learning will always be the key learning mode.”
He said, “Our institute has completed ten years of its transformational journey. Right from the beginning, we have envisioned an institution of global repute with a high degree of integrity, transparency, global recognition, international ranking, consistency and an overall commitment to excellence. One of the important pillars of IIMU is its research focus. For an academic institution, knowledge creation is critically important, and the future will be a research-driven world. We, as an institution, wish to be at the forefront of academic research. We have carved a niche in research by being ranked 4th in a row for three years in the UT Dallas Business School Research Ranking of Indian B-Schools. We have an ambitious ‘Vision 2030’ where we want to rank in the top 100 rankings of UT Dallas where we currently have no institutions from our country.”
Addressing the upcoming batch, Kamesh Mullapudi, Managing Director, Deloitte Consulting (US-India), Chief Guest at the opening ceremony of the GSCM program, said, “The introduction of digital and technology in management studies was the need of the hour and IIM Udaipur Been in the forefront of this. The recent pandemic that has engulfed the world has exposed complexities in the management and maintenance of supply chains. Even the impact of conditions in other countries, such as the Ukraine war and supply chain disruption, have forced supply chain professionals to think about the increasingly important roles they play. The importance of digitizing analysis and operations has become important.”
At the inaugural ceremony of the DEM programme, Chief Guest, CP Gurnani, CEO & Managing Director, Tech Mahindra said, “The agility shown by responding to the needs of global supply chain management and digital transformation, is the way the institute has integrated industry practitioners. has done. Academic education is phenomenal. Digital and business transformation are two sides of the same coin.
He concluded by saying “It’s all about your agility and not your age; it’s all about your learning and not your degree.” He also added that, “Anyone can be successful if one can predict the future and be relevant in the future, whether that future is quantum computing, Web 3.0, the metaverse or blockchain. It doesn’t matter who. It’s the technology that solves the business problem, rather the fact that you learn to explore the possibility of solving business problems digitally.”
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