Post Graduate Diploma In Management (PGDM)
WHY PGDM
The Post Graduate Diploma in Management program focuses developing Entrepreneurship and Leadership Excellence among students. We offer Full- me AICTE approved PGDM program with specializa ons in the field of Marke ng, Finance, Opera ons and Human Resources.
The PGDM program offered by us focuses more on prac cal aspects of each field of management and entrepreneurship, leveraging the theore cal concepts. We believe in impar ng educa on that is at par with the current industry standards. Thus, in addi on to lectures from the expert faculty, the program makes use of real- me case studies and projects.
ELIGIBILITY
- Graduates with any discipline (with minimum 50% marks) from any recognized university, is eligible to apply for the Post Graduate in Diploma in Management program.
- Candidates appearing in the final year bachelor’s degree/equivalent examination can also apply for the program
- Applicants who have purchased the Application Kit will have to fill in the details required and submit the same. iFEEL will select the students on the basis of their overall performance Candidate should have appeared for CAT 2015, XAT 2016, ATMA15-16, MAT 15-16, C-MAT 2015-16 and MH CET 2016.(IIMs have no role in the admission process)
To enable personalized attention thereby providing better quality of teaching.
Pedagogy
PROGRAM STRUCTURE
iFEEL offers 2-years full-time PGDM Program, emphasizing on Entrepreneurship and Leadership development. The AICTE approved PGDM Program is spread across 8 trimesters over a period of 2-years. The first year (4 trimesters) is based on the general subjects of management. Students can choose a specialization, according to their domain of interest, in the second year.
We offer specializations in 4 subjects, namely -
- Marketing management
- Finance management
- Human resource
- Operations management
LIVE PROJECTS, INTERNSHIPS AND SEMINARS:
- We provide PGDM program accompanied by various live projects that needs to be undertaken by the students. Such project helps the students to groom their overall personality and deal with real-time business situations.
- At the end of the 1st year, we provide the students with Summer Internship Project (SIP), which is of 2 months’ duration. The SIP needs to be compulsorily undertaken by all the students. The project aims to expose students to the working environment of the corporate world and sharpen their managerial skills.
- The students get opportunity to participate in a number of seminars, during the course of the program. Out of all the seminars, each student needs to be nominate 3 seminars to be reported in their grade card.
THE CREDIT RATING SYSTEM:
- The concept of credits is used to define the weightage of a course in the curriculum. Each course has two or three credits, depending on the topics covered in the same.
- 'One Credit' connotes 10 classroom contact hours, 'Two Credit' involves 20 classroom contact hours and so on.
- We offer a total of 168 credit, for all the 69 subjects of the PGDM Program
ELECTIVE SUBJECTS:
The Elective Subjects are offered in the 4th, 5th and 6th trimester. The specific elective subject of each of the terms is indicated to the students and they need to make their choice of credits term-wise. For a particular elective subject to be offered, it needs to be enrolled by minimum 5 of the students
EVALUATION PROCEDURE:
The Evaluation Procedure for the PGDM course is based on:-
- Course-Wise Evaluation (Grade Point-GP)
- Term-Wise Evaluation (Grade Point Average-GPA)
- Cumulative Term-Wise Evaluation (Cumulative Grade Point Average-CGPA)
VALUE ADDED CER TIFICATIONS:
iFEEL’s constant effort is to present the students with a comprehensive learning experience, and provide them with unique domain-specific certificate courses:-
| DOMAIN | CERTIFICATIONNAME | CERTIFICATIONBODY |
| Marketing | Digital Marketing | DTMI |
| Finance | Banking Sector Moduleand Financial Market’sAdvanced Module | NCFM |
| Operations | Six Sigma | AIQM |
| Human Resources | Certified HRStaffing Managerand RecruitmentExcellence | Vskills |
Learning methods
- (GCL)
- Rain Lab
- Special Highlights
- i Nurture
iFEEL has incorporated various interactive learning methods in their courses to impart knowledge with unique teaching techniques for shaping the future management by creating innovative management professionals. Following are the learning methods integrated in our curriculum
- Global Citizen Leader Program (GCL)
- Rain Lab
- Special Highlights
- i Nurture
GLOBAL CITIZEN LEADER PROGRAM (GCL)
At iFEEL, students are exposed to unique learning experience; the "Global Citizen Leader" (GCL) designed by Leadership Beyond Boundaries (LBB), a global initiative by the Center for Creative Leadership (GCL), which is amongst the best educational institution in the world. GCL trains Fortune 500 companies across the globe. The GCL program provides students with leadership and innovation cultivating knowledge along with an opportunity to learn and practice skills and apply that knowledge in a real-life context.
Some of the leading corporate that students groups worked with as part of this program are :
In the last two years, iFEEL students have worked on Live Projects shared by Future Group, Wockhardt Foundation, Perfetti Vans Melle, Bank of India, India First Insurance and Panoramic Group. This year the companies that were part of this program iFEEL also include, Pidilite, Muthooth Fincorp, Kangaroo Kids Education Ltd., Think Why Not, Croma Retail, GNRC Hospitals among others.
- AIMS Dr. Dharni P Sinha Social Responsibility Award for the Social Impact projects at the national level and
- AIMS Innovation Award Gold Medal, for students that worked on a project involving Increasing health standards for children in local schools (Nutrition and Hygiene)
The GCL program provides students with leadership and innovation skills. Since Learning by practicing is found to be most effective, the GCL program is designed for students to apply their skills and knowledge gained from the management program and the GCL training offer the real-time corporate opportunities. By the end of this program, students are able to identify potential solutions from the several insights gathered with help of research conducted by them and having conversations with stakeholders.
- 2014 - AIMs Winner Swati Chavan & 2013 – AIMs winner Harshit Shah and team received a Gold-Medal at the National AIMS Innovation Award, 25th AIMS Annual conference 'Envisioning Management Education'.
Two projects that have received much appreciation in the GCL projects undertaken in 2013-14 include Identifying a sustainable way of growing the business in the Waste Water Treatment space in the Pune Industrial belt for ION Exchange and how to increase the use of sanitary products among women in rural India for Wockhardt Foundation..
AIMS Dr Dharni P Sinha Social Responsibility Award for the Social Impact projects at the national level and AIMS Innovation Award Gold Medal, for students that worked on a project involving Increasing health standards for children in local schools (Nutrition and Hygiene)
The GCL program provides students with leadership and innovation skills. Since Learning by doing is found to be most effective, the GCL program is designed for students to apply what they learn from the management program and the GCL training real-time corporate opportunities. By the end of the program students would have initiated research, spoken to stakeholders, gathered several insights and identified potential solutions.
2014 - AIMs Winner Swati Chavan & 2013 – AIMs winner Harshit Shah and team received a Gold-Medal at the National AIMS Innovation Award, 25th AIMS Annual conference 'Envisioning Management Education'.
Two projects that have received much appreciation in the GCL projects undertaken in 2013-14 include
Identifying a sustainable way of growing the business in the Waste Water Treatment space in the Pune Industrial belt for ION Exchange and how to increase the use of sanitary products among women in rural India for Wockhardt Foundation.
Learning methods
- (GCL)
- Rain Lab
- Special Highlights
- i Nurture
"RAIN LAB" - REFLECT, ACT, INNOVATE AND NURTURE.
Rain lab was inaugurated by Prof. Dr. Sten Ekman; PhD in Innovation Science and Management from Malardalen University in Sweden and Dr. Analill Ekman, Department of Education, Uppsala University in Sweden. Both of them are practicing experts in the area of Innovation led Entrepreneurship. It was inaugurated in the month of February 2012 during their visit to iFEEL in India.
Both of them mentor and closely work with iFEEL on Innovation and its relevance in all spheres of management.
THE OBJECTIVE
The objective of having the rain lab in the vicinity of the campus is not only to provide the students with a space where they can explore their creative minds and work on the plethora of ideas that may range from whacky to wonderful but also to give them a space where they can prototype a service or a product and implement things and hopefully come out with something sustainable and scalable. We want to give them an environment which has scientifically proven to facilitate innovation.
THE BENEFITS : B-SCHOOLS
Today, the entire world is talking about innovation and the impact that it can have on a business. "Facebook" is a classic example of Innovation in social media. Apple, Google, Tata Nano are all classic examples of businesses soaring up on strengths of innovation. A one rupee shampoo sachet was a classic example of marketing innovation.
There were times, when cost of a product determined the sales and ultimately the profitability of the business. Cheaper the cost, higher was the sales. Then "Quality" was the differentiator. That is when Japanese companies like Toyota, Sony, Honda etc became world famous.
Now, when almost all companies are equally competitive in pricing and good in quality, we believe that "innovation" would be the major differentiation going forward. Companies will either have to innovate or die. An iFEEL student would thus be benefitted by being able to adapt to innovation better or implement innovation in his or her area of work than their counterparts from other b-schools.
LEARNING OUT COME EXPE CTED
Innovation is not a function of management like Marketing, Finance, Operations etc. but it is a fruit of creative thinking and creativity emerges from everything and anything and thus it is related to all the functions of management.
The students are encouraged and guided to work on their ideas and to come up with an innovative process or product along with strategies that are feasible enough to create sales. Thus, students get to learn the different functions of marketing like finance, operations, marketing etc, by incorporating the knowledge with innovation. Hence, they get to channelize their creativity and apply their laws of management at the same time.
A typical 'rain lab' project would make a student learn the process of innovation by actually having to innovate on a thought or an idea. The project will also give them an entrepreneurial experience as they would have to make a profitable business out of their idea. Thus, they would get the practical experience of the various functions of management and understand the finer nuances of the same and the close proximity that the functions have to each other.
The entire experience will take the students on an entrepreneurial curve that will make them understand the challenges of the startup ventures. This will test their true potential as innovators, entrepreneurs and leaders.
Learning methods
- (GCL)
- Rain Lab
- Special Highlights
- i Nurture
iFEEL has the philosophy of deciphering knowledge by focusing on the creation of a true learning environment for the students. In order to achieve this, the Institute encourages the use of a wide range of pedagogical methods and strongly emphasizes experimentation for further innovation. Case tudies, role-plays, participant presentation, use of computer software, simulation and games, lecture-cum-discussions are among the teaching methods commonly used. Individual and team learning is equally emphasized.
Equal importance is assigned to conventional classroom learning and field research. Students are encouraged to carry out projects in their course, based on fieldwork and/or computerized databases. Industrial visits help the students to experience and appreciate live industrial problems.
This multi-disciplinary approach helps in the creation of knowledge pool and all round development to produce result oriented managers. A variety of seminars are organized by students and faculty members during the academic session. There is a strong belief that true management education goes beyond the boundaries of classrooms.
Broadly the Learning system has 3 Layers
1. Academic: The academic layer provides the conceptual base required across various subjects.
2. Professional: The professional layer applies practical skills and industry experience.
3. Personal: The personal layer provides coaching and mentoring to every student individually.
INURTURE - C ORPORATE C ONNECT PR OGRAM
The Orientation program at iFEEL spread over a fortnight brings about interaction with various corporate leaders, entrepreneurs and persons from various walks of life.
OUR LEADING PR OFESSIONALS
- Sanjay Jog, Head HR - Reliance Retail
- Amit Chincholikar, Group Vice President, Management Development - Tata Sons Ltd.
- R. A. Sankara Narayanan, General Manager - Bank of India
- Jacob F. Dalevi, Artelius, HR Centers of Expertise - Accenture India
- Vishal Anand, Head Mumbai - AMUL
- Dr. Neil Sequeira, Director HR - Hinduja Hospital
- G. R. Venkatesh, Head - People Office, Retail Businesses - Future Group
- S. Venkatesh, MD & CEO - Goli Vadapav
- Prerna Langa, Country Head - YES Foundation Group
- A. K. Anandeshwaran, General Manager, Bank of India
- Supriya Bambawale, Global Marketing Head - Vanity Case Group of Companies
- Suman Rajaram - Vedanta Academy
- Dhananjay Bansod, President, People & Strategy - Leighton Welspun Contractors Pvt. Ltd.
- Jiggy George, Founder & CEO - Dream Theatre Pvt. Ltd.
- Carl Mendez, Director - Performers Platform
- Deepesh Bakhru, Asst. Vice President - TCS e-Serve International Ltd.
- Prakash Iyer, Vice President - Franchisee India
- Ashish Desai, Head Retail Banking, Member of Management Board - First Rand Bank
- Ganesh Shanbhag, Founder & CEO - SMS Financial Services Pvt. Ltd.
- S. K. Datta, CFO & Head-Treasury at Private Equity - India Value Fund, IFAPL - Bank Of India
- Pradeep Lokhande, CEO, Rural Relations
- Suchitra Surve, Director - Growth Centre
The students are encouraged and guided to work on their ideas and to come up with an innovative process or product along with strategies that are feasible enough to create sales. Thus, students get to learn the different functions of marketing like finance, operations, marketing etc, by incorporating the knowledge with innovation. Hence, they get to channelize their creativity and apply their laws of management at the same time.
A typical 'rain lab' project would make a student learn the process of innovation by actually having to innovate on a thought or an idea. The project will also give them an entrepreneurial experience as they would have to make a profitable business out of their idea. Thus, they would get the practical experience of the various functions of management and understand the finer nuances of the same and the close proximity that the functions have to each other.
The entire experience will take the students on an entrepreneurial curve that will make them understand the challenges of the startup ventures. This will test their true potential as innovators, entrepreneurs and leaders.
