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Inauguration of the 2 Batch of
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PGPEx Program(2020 - 22)

organizations for remaining connected with their stakeholders.
She spoke of the need for organizations to leapfrog from
incremental, silo-based inventions to radical, organization-wide
innovations, to be impactful. She drew upon the ASSURED
innovation concept of affordability, scalability, sustainability,
universality, rapid implementability, excellence and
distinctiveness in character as vital for survival and success of
organizations. She also referred to the “Infinite Change”
concepts of Arvind Eye-care, that have several management
lessons built-in. She urged the students to develop, apart
from Intelligence Quotient and Managerial Quotient,
Emotional Quotient too, for dealing effectively with colleagues
at their workplace.
The second batch of the two-year Post Graduate Program for Experienced
Professionals (PGPEx), leading to the award of the MBA degree of the Professor Chandrasekhar, Director, spoke about the rapid
Indian Institute of Management Visakhapatnam was inaugurated on 05 strides the Institute made in a short span of five years and the
Sep. 2020, Teacher’s Day, by Professor (Ms.) Karuna Jain, Professor of importance of learning and leadership being indispensable to
Technology & Operations Management of the School of Management, IIT each other, as is widely acknowledged. He urged the students to
Bombay. Prof Jain was earlier, the rst woman director of NITIE, Mumbai, make best use of the world-class facilities and resources
a famous business school under the Ministry of Education, Government of available at the Institute. Professor Sriranga, the Program
India. Twenty-eight students enrolled into the program. Chair highlighted the salient features of the Program. Professor
Kaveri Krishnan introduced the batch. Prof Vinay Ramani
Prof Jain, in her address, spoke about the role of technology in the proposed a vote of thanks. Ms. K Shilpa Raju, Mr. J Murali
transformation of organizations and how today’s corporations and their Krishna and Mr. Abhishek Maiti of the 1st Batch stood first,
personnel need to be agile to adapt to change. She referred to the second and third respectively in the Director’s Merit List and
works of Padma Vibhushan Dr Raghunath Mashelkar, the former DG were presented with awards.
of CSIR, in which he emphasized on the importance of three ‘E’s viz.
Renewable Energy, Sustainable Environment and Productive
Employment as the determinants of the success of future
organizations. Describing the four levers that Dr Mashelkar
propounded, Prof. Jain spoke about STEP – Social Engagement,
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