Octaware Technologies had organized a guest interaction
with Prof. Ranjan Das at its Mumbai Development Center on 14th December, 2011.
Prof. Das is a celebrated professor of Strategy Management at IIM-Calcutta and
has his own specialist MBA training program in Strategy Management.
Prof. Das
was in Mumbai on a visit for some high profile meetings and leveraging the
personal contacts of Mr. Aslam Khan, President Octaware Technologies, an
interactive session was arranged for the staff at the Octaware Development
Center in Mumbai. It is very rare that one gets to interact with such a sought
after personality and share their experiences and organizing such a session was
an enriching experience for the Octaware staff which was well appreciated by
all of them.
(Professor Ranjan
Das interacting with the Octaware Mumbai Team)
Prof. Das who is a Master of Strategy shared his ideas
about how he envisages an organizational environment, where each and every
person thinks like an entrepreneur. Where the employees do not behave just as
performers but are thinkers as well. He shared various examples of corporates
such as Microsoft and back home of the IPL Team ‘Kolkata Knight Riders’ as to
demonstrate how clear the leaders are there in their vision and how well it is
translated across the team. He emphasized upon the fact that in order to
out-perform in today’s competitive environment just being a good performer is
not enough until and unless you start thinking like a Business person, that’s
when one start thinking about how one can influence the revenue stream of the
organization and usher in positive growth not only for himself but the
organization as well. That’s when one can come up with ideas on how to optimize
the process, increase productivity and explore new channels of growth within
oneself, within the department, within the organization and with the customers.
Prof. Das said that investment in education is the
smartest investment ever
and it sure will give greater returns in the long run. Even if a person is
involved in the technical field as an employee, he will surely grow someday to
manage a team as such he needs to learn the art of Management. Further as
suggested that every employee needs to start thinking like an entrepreneur, as
a business person as such he needs to equip himself/ herself with adequate
business education and that’s where a Post-graduation in Business Management
helps fill that lacuna and helps develop an employee as a wholesome manager.
(Octaware Team
members listening to Prof. Das with rapt attention)
As an insight, Prof. Das himself runs his own academy of
Management studies going by the name of “TSA” = The Strategy Academy and his
vision is to create 1 lakh MBA’s at least from his own institute. And he has
engrossed himself wholeheartedly to achieve that mission of his. The success of
his vision can be gauged from the fact that even participants from overseas are
enrolled in his management programs.
This is a
first of its kind concept (for MBA) started by Prof. Das in order to implement
his vision.
The USP of his institute is the “Fixed Time – Anywhere” concept of
learning which is very advantageous for those executives who wish to do an MBA
but have the paucity of time to go to a dedicated MBA class. They can log-in
from anywhere to connect to the live –online sessions by expert professors from
IIMs and much acclaimed Universities, twice a week. (260 hours), These are 2
Years programs (MBA/ PGDBM) for such professionals.
(Prof. Ranjan Das
with the Octaware senior Management Team)
Prof. Das also runs a lateral program as MBA in Strategy
Management which is an extensive one-year program developed specially for MBA’s
with min. of 5 years work experience who are somewhere at a mid-management
level where they would be starting to implement strategies. This is a
one-of-its-kind program which is not available in India not even in the IIMs.
But Prof. Das wants to bring his profound vision and extensive experience for
the masses to take advantage and develop a ‘cut-above-the-rest’
As they
say “Be The Best, Have A Cut Above the
Rest”
