IRMA – an Analysis

I got some time today to check the IRMA  website their courses, placements and the student profiles.

 

Without doubt, I would say this is the best school for the aspirants want to be the leaders in rural management/policy making.

 

Avg age looks like 22-24. Max exp is around 7. Surprisingly, there are very less IT guys in the batch.

 

The max salary offered for last year batch was around 9.26 lakhs/anum.

 

This is a sector focused program and looks good for fresh graduates or for the individuals with below 3 years work experience.  There is no ‘lateral’ placement as such, but branding and selling is up to the individuals.

 

Also, the typical MBA courses have also started on ‘inclusive growth’ and ‘social entrepreneurship’ so people with 6+ experience may like to go for such programs.

Bamboo at the Rooftop

Just  saw this on Kiruba’s weblog  (http://www.kiruba.com/labels/Tree%20planting.html).

 

This can be an option for my balconies as well. Need to check out on this.

I have to search for the bamboo shoots J

IBEF

Ref: http://www.ibef.org/aboutus.aspx

 

From the site: India Brand Equity Foundation (IBEF) is a public-private partnership between the Ministry of Commerce and Industry, Government of India, and the Confederation of Indian Industry. The Foundation’s primary objective is to build positive economic perceptions of India globally. It aims to effectively present the India business perspective and leverage business partnerships in a globalizing market-place.

 

Check this out regularly!!

Product Management

Google Product Manager:

Below are good links to understand the role:

 

http://futurevc.blogspot.com/2007/09/who-is-google-product-manager.html

 

Excerpts:

What are the key skills that successful Product Managers at Google have?

In my perception, most PMs at Google have to be good at (in no particular order)

1. Managing immense complexity ( a direct result of the mixed structure here at Google)

 

2. Influencing people, a trait that needs credibility, communication skills, and a people-skills

 

3. Making decisions. One needs to be able to decide, take responsibility for those decisions and live with it

 

4. Something that is different from the rest. Have to have something special in terms of achievements in their background. This is especially true for the generalists who can’t necessarily distinguish themselves on uber-sector-specific-experience. That special sauce could be starting one’s own company at some point, MBA from a top B-school, or some such thing. Something which helps differentiate you from the rest in some way

 

5. Extremely good understanding of the Internet services landscape and opinions on everything form state of online video market to new mobile business models to future of search

 

6. A passionate self-starting personality helps. Self-starting especially because no one seems to tell you what to do out here, yet everything seems to be doing the things they need to do

 

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http://goodexperience.com/2002/10/interview-marissa-mayer-produc.php

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http://www.pluggd.in/2007/04/blogs-that-every-product-manager-shouldhtml

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http://www.goodproductmanager.com/

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Eric Case’s web log: http://weblog.vedana.net/

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http://it.toolbox.com/blogs/productmgt

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Wednesday, August 06, 2008

Prakash and Mandakini Amte get Magsaysay Award

Thursday, 31 Jul

 

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/India/Prakash_Amte_wife_win_Magsaysay_/articleshow/3310576.cms

Just heard about this and got to know some more about Baba Amte.

http://mss.niya.org/people/baba_amte.php