Great Lakes Institute of Management, Chennai hosted the 6th International Entrepreneurship Conference with the theme “Mobility with Nobility”. The conference also marked the launch of Center for Excellence in Business Analytics and Business Intelligence, inaugurated by Mr. Shankar Narayanan, Ex-Chairman, Founder and CEO - SPIME INC, Co-Founder-EmuzedInc& Co-Founder Nexus Inc, USA.
The inaugural address for the center was delivered by Mr. Vinod Muthukrishnan, CEO CloudcherryPte, Singapore. The center is one of the steps towards realizing the ‘Success to substance’ vision that Great Lakes has set for itself as it completes its 10 years of Excellence.
During the conference, a panel discussion was held where the panelist spoke on the three areas within the mobility spectrum – Social Media & rich communication experience, Web & Mobile tech and Inclusive Growth. Dr. K.C.John, Director, Center of Excellence in Technopreneurship stressed the importance of entrepreneurship and pointed out that, “In last few years India witnessed a meager employment growth rate of 2.3% only and now it is time to create jobs rather than seeking one.”
The Center for Excellence in Business Analytics and Business Intelligence has been launched with an objective to sync business studies with the emerging trends of the digital world. At the occasion a text book on Business Analytics by Dr. Tapan Panda, Professor Marketing, Great Lakes Institute of Management was releaed.
Prof Bala V. Balachandran, Founder and Dean, Great Lakes Institute of Management said, “Mobile is going to take a major change in coming years with large audience being interconnected. Envisioning this as an opportunity, Great Lakes is going to create and offer boutique courses in Business Analytics and Intelligence as a part of the management studies in contrast to traditional business studies. We are also in the process of signing an MoU with Illinois Institute of Technology for Center for Excellence in Technopreneurship, through which we plan to offer courses such as Master of Science in Technopreneurship.”Prof Bala also advised students that, ‘The world is at your hands, be a creator of job and wealth rather than being a consumer of it.”
In his address Mr. Shankar Narayanan, Ex-Chairman, Founder and CEO - SPIME INC, Co-Founder-EmuzedInc& Co-Founder Nexus Inc, USA said, “An entrepreneur should possess three important qualities and they are going by Intuition, thinking differently and building Relationships.”
In his address,Mr. Vinod Muthukrishnan, CEO, Cloudcherry said, “When Mobility, Big data, Analytics and cloud come together, then there is path breaking ideas and Business Intelligence.”
In the valedictory function, Nitin T, Paripoorna Pandey, Ashworth Vaz, Nanden Kishore of Team Parichay from Great Lakes, were awarded cash prize of Rs. 70,000 for their business plan on the event theme.
The award was felicitated under Hyperion, an annual entrepreneurship competition conducted by Great Lakes in partnership with NEN (National Entrepreneurship Network).The prize has been instituted in thememory of Narsinga Rao, alumnus of Great Lakes’ first batch-Pioneers (2004-05).
Mr. Sanjay Singh, VP & Head Engineering, GlobalLogic in his valedictory speech mentioned the essential traits of an entrepreneur such as Passion, tenacity, creativity, vision and an infectious trait to spread the idea, which make a successful entrepreneur.
Other centers of excellence of Great Lakes that provide cutting edge solutions in their respective areas are,
- Kotler - Srinivasan Centre for Research in Marketing
- Union Bank Centre for Banking Excellence
- Yale - Great Lakes Centre For Management Research
- Center for Excellence Technopreneurship [CET]
- Center for Excellence in Retail Management
About Great Lakes Institute of Management
Great Lakes Institute of Management was founded in 2004 by Prof. Bala V. Balachandran J.L. Kellogg Distinguished Professor of Accounting and Information Management Northwestern University, USA. The institute has academic alliances with Stuart Graduate School of Business USA, Yale University USA., Nanyang Technical University, Singapore and Bordeaux University to name a few.
The institute offers a flagship one year Post Graduate Program in Management besides a Two year regular Post Graduate Diploma in Management. In addition, for Executives there are 2 part time programs to choose from besides a Global Executive MBA in Energy Management conducted in association with Bauer college, Houston Texas.
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