GIFT’s 3rd National Annual Paper Presentation Contest Held at DMS-IIT Delhi

GIFT’s 3rd National Annual Paper Presentation Contest Held at DMS-IIT Delhi

The Third National Annual Paper Presentation Competition of GIFT society Students’ Forum was organized in Department of Management Studies, IIT Delhi on October 27, 2007. The GIFT (Global Institute of Flexible Management Systems) Society has been organizing this event for past three years as a platform for B-school students and

practitioners from the industry to share their views in the area of Flexibility and Change Management. This year the theme of the competition was "Building a Resilient Organization". The theme has been selected in the context of growing need for risk modeling and contingency planning in the organizations and the issues confronting in this regard.

The competition was open for all the B-school students and working professionals with more than 2 years of experience. The institute received 31 entries from various B-schools - IIM Bangalore, IIM Calcutta, S. P. Jain, NITIE, FMS, MDI, DMS-IIT Delhi, IIFT, IMI, SCMHRD and other reputed institutions. The corporates participating in this event included SBI Capital, Knowledge Management Systems and NTPC. After a scrutiny process, 7 papers were short listed for final presentation.

In the Keynote Address, the Chief Guest of the function, Mr. S. B. Khare, Deputy Director General, BSNL, shared his views on resilience by defining it as 'the capacity of a system, potentially exposed to hazards to adapt, by resisting or changing in order to reach and maintain an acceptable level of functioning'.

The President, GIFT, Prof. P. K. Jain, related the theme with the financial considerations of a company in evaluation of a project with varying levels of sales, capacity constraints and thereby applying sensitivity analysis in the decision making process. The Founder President, Prof. Sushil, emphasized on the pressing need for the building of resilience and invited the B-schools and corporates for the promotion of GIFT society as a medium to convey the message strongly.

The paper presentation session was a grueling session with participants from FMS, NITIE, S. P. Jain, SBI Capital, DMS-IIT Delhi and IMI, Delhi. The presentations were evaluated by Dr. Shyam Sethi, former Vice-President, Kelvinator India Ltd., Mr. Siddarth Tiwari, Ad-word Manager, Google, Mr. A. K. Garg, Chief (Technology), Corporate Exploration Centre, ONGC.

Mr. Uttam Thakur and Mr. Rajdeep Mittal from NITIE got the Ist prize, while Mr. Sumit Singh Gandhi and Mr. Vikash Choudhary of S. P. Jain, Mumbai were the happy winners of the Runners’ up prize. The principal sponsor of the event was ONGC, and the associate sponsors were Punjab National Bank and State Bank of India.

Concluded.

Contributed by -
Puneet Bansal,
Media Cell,
Department of Management Studies, IIT Delhi.

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