Innovation guru Dr Vijay Govindarajan to address NMIMS Seminar

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Amit Agnihotri
Columnist & Author, MBAUniverse.com
Updated on July 21, 2016
Leading management guru and author of celebrated bestseller Ten Rules For Strategic Innovators : From Idea To Execution, Dr Vijay Govindrajan will conduct a program on ‘Strategy as Creating the Future’ at Mumbai’s NMIMS University on August 1.

This seminar is part of the ‘Executive Seminar Series’ organized by NMIMS.

Introducing the seminar, NMIMS says, “We now live in an era of almost constant change. This seminar will also focus on learning how to improve the company's capacity to be a strategic innovator and to enhance society by commercializing valuable new products and services based on new business models. It also offers tools and concepts that you need to implement and strategies which lead to innovation and growth.”

Dr Govindarajan is a faculty member at the prestigious Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College, USA, and is recognized as a leading business strategist. He focuses on teaching corporations to build breakthrough businesses while simultaneously sustaining excellence in their core business -- which was the subject of his new book Ten Rules for Strategic Innovators, published by Harvard Business School Press. He advises companies like AT&T, Boeing, British Telecom, Hewlett-Packard, The Home Depot, IBM, J.P. Morgan Chase, PriceWaterhouse Coopers, Wal-Mart and many more.

Dr Govindarajan has been named in a series of lists by influential publications: “Outstanding Faculty” in BusinessWeek's Annual Guide to Best B-Schools; “Top Five Most Respected Executive Coaches on Strategy” by Forbes; “Top Ten Professors in Corporate Executive Education” by BusinessWeek; and “Eight Leading Executive Advisors” by Wall Street Journal Online. He received his doctorate and his MBA with distinction from the Harvard Business School. Earlier, he was part of the faculty at Ohio State University and Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad; he also served as a visiting professor at Harvard Business School & INSEAD, France.

The NMIMS Seminar is designed for general managers, strategic planners, management consultants and marketing managers who are responsible for developing business strategies in their organization. Website www.nmims.edu has more details about participation.

From a humble beginning in 1981 as a management institute with 4 full-time faculty members, NMIMS has now a University with 7 Schools, with over 100 full-time faculty members, and over 2,000 students enrolling each year. Its seven schools are: School of Business Management, Mukesh Patel School of Technology Management and Engineering, School of Pharmacy and Technology Management, School of Distance Learning, School of Architecture, School of Science and School of Commerce.