ISME, Bangalore Celebrates its First Convocation Day

ISME, Bangalore Celebrates its First Convocation Day

It was really an experience to see such people discussing. The discussion stressed on the necessity of talent management these days which include recognizing, attracting, selecting, retaining, managing succession and changing organization culture. Emerging

areas of talent management are: Talent appreciation, potential enhancement, acquisition of talent and knowledge management.

Second Panel discussion was chaired by Prof. A. K. Chaudhuri from Indian Statistical Institute and Prof. Athikal, Course Coordinator, ISME, was the repertoire for the discussion. The topic of discussion was "Contributing Factors for Performance of Organizations". The panelists were Mr. Dilip Shetty from HDFC, Mr. Mohan Sharma from Aylus Network, Mr. K. P. Shetty from City Info Services, Mr. P. Thiruvengadam from Deloitte, Mr. N. K. Palta from HAL.

The discussion enlightened us regarding superior performance of a particular organization in comparison to the organizations within the same industry can be attributed to number of factors. They laid emphasis on managerial experience vs. managerial proficiency, new initiatives like BPR, six sigma, lean, etc., and also on performance matrix. This gave the students an insight about the performance vs. command vs. experience vs. initiatives.

The second panel discussion ended up and lunch started soon after.

After lunch, the convocation was called on with the permission of Chairman, ISME by Prof. R. G. Tagat. During the course of the convocation ceremony, the PGPM Certificates were awarded to the students of Batch 2007. The achievements and the future plans of ISME included construction of an auditorium and introduction of new courses in the field of IT Management, adding more number of classrooms and further increasing the student strength to 120 students.

Further, Mr. Nitin Garg Director, ISME congratulated all the students for their work towards building the ISME family. The students of passing out batch took oath to abide by the values and culture imbibed in them by ISME. He announced the launching of an alumni website. The annual report by the Director was followed by the awarding of PGPM Certificates, Black & Green Belt Six Sigma Certification to the students along with certificates for different achievements in fields like best in academics, president, general secretary, secretary of various clubs, campus associate, etc., by the chief guest, Mr. Girdhar Gyani. This was followed by address by the chief guest. In his speech, he congratulated the passing out batch and discussed a lot about the quality aspects in the education system these days. Further, Mrs. Pallavi Jain, Director Admissions, ISME gave a word of thanks and congratulated the passing out batch. The program ended with national anthem and with the permission of Chairman, ISME, the convocation was closed.

This day was the first convocation of ISME and the college aims to get much success in the years to come.

Concluded.

Contributed by -
Utsav Kumar,
International School of Management Excellence, Bangalore.

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