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OPUS 2005: The Operations Seminar at IIM Kozhikode
Mr. Narayan Rajagopalachari, Vice President, Global Consulting Services, i2 Technologies dealt with the topic "Driving Agility in an Enterprise". He talked about how the organization that has the ability to thrive in a continuously changing and increasingly complex market would be the leader of tomorrow.
Mr. P. Ravindran, Senior Supdt, Dept. of Central Excise, and adjunct faculty at the CII Institute of Logistics, was the next speaker. He very candidly discussed VAT & Supply Chain Management, with all their benefits and pitfalls, especially from government and tax agencies' point of view. Through lots of anecdotes and real-life examples of various companies and countries, he illustrated the different architectures and implementation methods of Value Added Tax. He said that if a philosophy of management is followed, it should be followed all the way, not halfheartedly. The importance of paperwork, with its associated constraints, and the need for widespread monitoring in case of a VAT implementation was analyzed. Mr. G. Ramesh, Head of Knowledge Organization group, Take Solutions, talked about "SCM: Challenges and the Road Ahead". Through a highly interactive session laced with personal recollections from his own life, he gradually took the participants through an evolution of SCM. He said that markets shouldn't exist just in the perception of managers, but in the real world, and should be properly tested for their demand levels. He took the audience on an engaging walk through various examples of competent and shoddy SCM implementations. OPUS 2005 also featured a case study competition named "Opstimum". The preliminary round had been conducted earlier, with wide participation from top B-schools across the country. The selected finalists presented their solutions to a panel of judges from the industry and academia. Mr. Aditya Suresh and Mr Krishnan R of Great Lakes Institute of Management placed first. The second place was jointly awarded to the teams from IIM Ahmedabad and SP Jain Institute of Management and Research. Contributed by - |
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