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Magazine of KCT Business School I October 2015
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P2In Coversation with
Mr. Rob Meikle
P6Suggestions for Administrative
Reforms
P10Governance Paradigm
P15Campus News
Public GovernanceEngaging Citizens - A Game Changer for Development
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In conversation with
Mr. Rob Meikle CIO, City of Toronto
Suggestions for Administrative Reforms
Dr.Y.S. Rajan
Governance Paradigm
Dr.S Baskar
Campus News
Editorial Team
Vijila Kennedy
Sabita Johnson
Mr.RobMeikle
Inconversationwith
CIO,CityofToronto
RobMeikleistheChiefInformationOf�icer(CIO)forthecityofTorontowhichisCanada'slargestcityandsixthlargestgovernmentandhometoadiversepopulationofabout2.7millionpeople.RobMeikleisastrategicbusinessleaderwhoisinnovativeandresultdrivenwithaproventrackrecordof20+yearsexperienceplanning,developingandimplementingawardwinningglobalbusinessandtechnologysolutionsintheprivate,publicandnotforpro�itsector.InhisroleasCIO,Robprovidesvisionaryleadershipforthedeliveryof�lexibleandintegratedinformationandcommunicationtechnologysolutionsthatenableanddriveserviceexcellence
Vijila: Thank you for delivering such a wonderful and thought
provoking lecture on City Governance to our students and also
accepting our invitation for this exclusive discussion with
some of our faculty members and senior MBA students present
here. Let me first begin by asking you Rob, as Chief
Information Officer of Brampton and currently heading
Toronto, can you share with us your role as CIO in city
governance?
Rob: CIO is a strategic business leader. The role of a CIO is to
understand critical governance principle, identify opportunities and
leverage on the technology to improve service and delivery. We can
improve the quality of life by providing basic business opportunities
and improved services. We had, in fact leveraged on Technology to
make a difference when we built the smart city- Toronto
As a CIO, I play a dual role- a strategic role and an operational role. As
a strategic business leader l need to look at what services we have
today and what we would like to offer tomorrow. How has the service
and delivery dynamics changed? How has technology changed? I was
able to work and play with Technology and also had the opportunities
to work across different cities. As a CIO, I need to focus on basic
service excellence.
With people becoming more and more dependent on technology and
applications, the operations role is becoming more and more complex.
Without technology, the operations will come to a complete halt. The
CIO's role is to also look around for opportunities and create innovative
services and also ensure the basic services are functioning.
Tharun: You have introduced many innovative service delivery
enhancements. How did you ideate and implement these
innovative services?
Rob: I listen! Whenever I meet any of the department chief's like the
Fire Chief, Transport Chief, I listen and be aware of how to deal with
different situations. Whenever there is someone struggling in an area
there is an opportunity to innovate and hence I find it easier when I
listen.2
Swaminathan: How do you implement and
execute these innovative ideas and vision?
Execution is crucial and many a time poses a
huge challenge. How do you transform these
ideas to execution?
Rob: A major part of execution is all about knowing
and understanding. Execution for me is I know my
strengths and also my people's strength. I engage
people in holistic and in realistic team. I do see a lot
of limitations too. My team is relentless at details.
They just love details and make sure everything
fits. When I have an idea I go to them and share it
with them.
According to me the execution plans have to be
created in manageable pieces or chunks .A large
vision might be broken down to manageable
chunks. If I'm able to get the people to understand
the first chunk in the context of vision then it allows
getting momentum on execution and if you
demonstrate or achieve result then it becomes
easier.
Second of all for any vision we need to understand
the governing composition. Government globally is
under financial pressure and it might not be
different in this country. I have so far not come
across any country with surplus funds and have
noticed that they struggle trying to do more with
less. What I teach my team is to always do less
with less, by focusing on three or four things and
do it well. It will yield results. Vision, execution and
result.
Vivek: Your own team and people play a crucial
role in service delivery. How did you build the
customer orientation and culture?
Rob: The keyword is culture. When I'm recruiting
staff, I look for two things one is
IQ – Intelligent quotient and secondly
EQ – Emotional Quotient.
IQ , to know how smart they are and how much
they can understand. Whereas EQ ,is to know how
much they understand the other persons'
emotions. If you are unable to understand the
other person's emotions it will become difficult to
offer good customer service. If they are not
customer oriented and team oriented then my
team is not good for serving the public.
When I took over the organization this is what I
told my people that, if they are not customer or
team oriented then one of us needs to go. My team
is less than a handful and for us, customer service
is culture. It comes through the 3 E's. Education,
Experience and Exposure. There needs to be a
balance based on the 3 E's on developing talent.
That's how we believe in creating customer
support culture.
I have a CIO score card. It covers the four areas,
where I lead the organization. When I took over as
a CIO I told that Projects Heads need to have a
project governance orientation. Four areas that I
always address in my agenda are -Talent
Management, Customer Service, Operation
Excellence and Physical Management. This allows
me to keep leading from the front and helps to
track cultural change too.
Success comes from prompt delivery of services
and utilities and as a CIO you may not be
responsible for utilities but remember you, you are
the front soldier. But the question is how do you
collaborate and ensure it is rightly distributed to
the best satisfaction?
Swaminathan: Yes. You are right. City
governance is an integration of various
services and utilities. How do you manage this
collaboration?
Rob: Collaboration is the keyword. There are
about 44 lines of businesses. Unlike the IT
department where in, they call themselves the
service provider and the others - clients. I always
look at it with the best of interest of all and call us
as partners. As a partner we deliver and work
towards the best of both our interest. So I prefer to
change the language. Partner has a different
mindset.
Changing the language changes the mindset and
culture, the perception also changes and people
work together.
Nivas Krishna: Participation of citizen in the
governance process has become an important
issue. How do you make this engagement and
participation possible?
Rob: We have a mandate for an open and
transparent government; this includes open data
Interview with Mr. Rob Meikle
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in a readable format. By open data we mean- data
which is openly available. We constantly look for
citizen engagement. Today with all the talk about
social media & networking we have become Digital
citizens. We have created opportunities and try to
engage and disseminate information to the citizen
in the digital format and for the people who follow
the traditional way we also have other traditional
medium where we publish and ensure there is
citizen participation. We have various channels
possible for engaging citizens.
We have fostered more ground for citizen
participation by engaging them in discussion
through young entrepreneur's round table,
technology round table and economic roundtable
and through other means too - like community
housing.
We are a democratic town and working towards
making an even more citizen friendly democratic
town.
Lakshmi Meera: You and your team have been
instrumental in creating Brampton and
Toronto. What are the major challenges you
faced while creating a smart city?
Rob: Major challenges arise while looking at it as
half empty, but I look at it as half full! The major
challenge is the mindset of the government. Not
everything is technology aided and smart. We need
to identify opportunities to leverage technology in
a smart city.
We have a water front and high speed broad band
internet and we look at identifying pockets and try
to get momentum in these and fill the gaps. In fact,
a lot of people were asking me as to where is the
blue print? But I work in a different way. I look at
opportunities and try to use technology to drive in
efficiency in operations excellence in the city.
In Toronto about seven years back, The Lawrence
Sea Bay was a typical shipping water front area in
an industrial suburb with warehouses used for
storing goods etc. We decided to modernize it and
are working on a water- front revitalization project.
It is not an easy work and we had to start all over. It
was about 800 hectares. The local government,
the provincial government and the Federal
government gave half a billion dollars each. We
began working with 1.5 billion dollars. We had to
revitalize it to the state of the art smart city. A
smart city needs to have high speed broadband
access to every home, every facility… We have a
high speed broad band access and that itself makes
it a smart community. This is the largest water-
front revitalization in the world. It is an overall
smart city.
Lakshmi Meera: How long does it take to make
this smart city?
Rob: It is a 25 years plan and we are already 10
years into the plan. When we speak about smart
cities it would take generations to have a water-
front, walking space, cycling space, parks,
recreational area etc. We look for organizations
contributing towards the development of the
community and to create sustainability. It has
taken some time, yet we made good progress,
social housing, small business, large business etc.
Tharun: Currently the Indian government is
focusing on developing “Smart cities”. In your
point of view what is a “smart city”?
Rob: Smart City is like a global office. But we need
to look at who is responsible for the smart city.
Firstly it is the high speed broadband access;
secondly it should be a city that strives to progress
towards increasing the quality of life of the citizens.
Thirdly, economic prosperity, social and
environment sustainability are equally to be looked
at.
Smart city for India has to be smart in ways of
leveraging technology. Improve the entire water
system and waste management system. For
instance, using technology you should be able to
get an alert saying the garbage bin is 80 percent
full and the vehicle needs to be sent to clear the
waste. The aim should be timely removal of waste
using technology.
We need to look at Water, Environment
sus ta inab i l i ty, Waste Management and
Infrastructure and Economic prosperity by creating
more opportunities.
Overall India should utilize the opportunities and
technology together to make a smart city.
Interview with Mr. Rob Meikle
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You have travelled in India and Swaminathan:
now you are in Coimbatore, which is a
developing city. If you were the CIO of this city
(hypothetically) what are the three to four
areas you would want to focus on?
Rob: Business Intelligence is a key area, followed
by analytics – The short and long term implications
of the issues I pointed to your earlier question
involve the greater risks faced by the city. The next
in line is Health, Disease and Environment – This
would be at the local, national and international
best interest. We need to look at ways to harness
the intelligence of the youth of the city and avoid
talent drain. The city needs to think differently and
utilize opportunities to foster it as a global
community.
Nivas Krishna: As a CIO what are the
technological advancements you see in city
governance?
Rob: City governance needs a combination of
technology, mobility, data and government. More
utilization of GPS in location based services, to be
focused on. The information and services in
Canada are distributed or segregated as Local,
Municipal, Provincial and Federal, but with
technological advancement, like usage of GPS, it
should be available as location based information
than having it segregated as Local government
et.al. Technology should aggregate the services.
Vivek : What, where and how can the younger
generation contribute towards public
governance?
Rob: Knowledge is Power. The younger generation
must be engaged through using knowledge.
Information is available, utilize it understand your
passion and identify the opportunities and go for
your passion and creativity. Your engagement
must be by choice, based on passion.
Vijila: Thanks Rob for sharing your thoughts and
experience on various facets of City Governance
which I am sure will bring in new perspective to
the whole gamut of city service and delivery
management. Thank you once again for spending
time with all of us in spite of your busy schedule.
Best Wishes from all of us.
Interview with Mr. Rob Meikle
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Citizen Engagement Framework
Level 1 Level 2 Level 3 Level 4 Level 5
Low level ofpublic involvement
and inuence
Inform or Educate Gather Information
Mid level ofpublic involvement
and inuence
Discuss Engage
High level ofpublic involvement
and inuence
Partner
Communications
Consulting
EngagingPartnering
Listening
SuggestionsforAdministrativeReforms
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Details for Reforms
m Details regarding changing the laws, procedures, office
orders etc. are very important. But this is one area in which
'reform' with its usual connotation of 'slow changes' would be
disastrous. There has to be a 'Total Change' ̶ immediately, all
within a span of one or two months to be effective.
m The laws identified to be obsolete and irrelevant by
Mr. HD. Shourie Committee to be 'nullified' by a single
ordinance or Bill. No point in trying to research on them or
deliberate on them. Even assuming that there are a few
mistakes, the gain is far more than procrastinating on useless
orders derived two and half centuries ago from a Colonial
Master.
m Another crucial issue is to nullify plethora of orders or
communications or O.M.'s or Dear Secretary letters sent by the
Cabinet Secretariat, the Finance Ministry etc. from 1960
onwards on various methods of functioning. Let new orders be
issued, be it on recruitment, or economy etc. with a clear
statement "In super cession of all earlier orders and
instructions in this regard". (This can be done within two
months) Nothing will be lost if a good order is nullified in this
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process. One can later insert it after deliberations.
Correspondingly instructions can also be issued
that ready reckoners like Swami's compilations
are all invalid with new orders. Let new Swami
versions come out. Today 'Yath Pinde tath
brahmande' is ruling the Government in its vulgar
form: it is a micro̶micro-rule that determines
how a ]oint Secretary, Secretary or Minister works.
Let the new rules remove the diarchy where the
Finance Ministry, Personnel are ever present, no-
responsibility-sharing Monarchies. Let the Finance
Ministry concentrate on macroeconomic and issues
fixing budgets firmly. Let Personnel concentrate on
reducing Government in a systemic form i.e. spin
off institutions to autonomy, private sector etc. or
close down with VRS.
m There are a number of items good in Fifth Pay
Commission Report. They should be accepted. Still
it has not questioned the very basis of the
organized services that have to be questioned and
changed. At least 50% of the top echelons of the
Government have to be changed with 'new
mutants', if the changes have to be effective.
Therefore running the Government with the top of
the existing structures only with IAS, lAAS, IFS etc.
have to be changed except for the Armed Services
and the Police. Also the unwritten rule that the
Cabinet Secretary should be only from the IAS
have to be changed; I am not suggesting that it is
free for all or have a raw Professor or an economist
or scientist there. There are several other options.
Today this "IAS fixation" has introduced systemic
problems. Lives, and even organizations in life, are
open-ended systems. If we close its'algorithms to a
few, it will collapse.
m Basic Principles
q System Time Constants
While the details are important it is not enough to
be after them. We will be lost, if we are after a few
small changes. That is where the earlier attempts
failed. It is not merely the case of "will". One should
understand the overall system context. First and
foremost in this case is the system time constant. I
have done several case studies which will clearly
illustrate that in the Indian-time̶rate-of
interaction the unit time is about one-year. It
takes about 7 to 10 years for any idea (on which
everybody agrees) to fructify into action. (This is
another Raj Krishna type number, we should be
worried about!).
Whether it is Cogenitrix or Tata SIA or take
anything else like our beginning to understand
WTO implications (First started around 1986 and it
came to force in 1995 and we debate not merely
Government but the elite, media etc. in 1999 when
bulk of its first phase "has come into effect" in
January 1, 2000 and most will be by January 1,
2005).
There is deliberate and urgent need to change
the time constant. What is a good number? Let us
see what Prof. Andrew Lippman of MIT has told in
an interview to the Times of India of January 3,
2000. "The rate of change of society is the function
of age at which you gain access to the dominant
technology of that time. The dominant technology
of today is computing. The rate of change of
computing is four years. A society driven by car
changes more slowly than one based on
computers".
We cannot say that we don't have so many
computers and be laid back. The external world has
it! The foreign company or government or even a
hijacker! So we cannot ignore the time constants
set by dominant technology. Let us also note that
our administrative system was designed at the
time when dominant technology was shipping and
later was adjusted to railways and telegraph. Did
we not ad jus t i t fo r a i rc ra f t , sa te l l i te
communication or fax!
The question now is: how to change the time
constant? It cannot be gradual. There has to be a
non-linear step change. The suggestion to have an
Apex Cabinet Level Committee on Administrative
Reforms is a good suggestion provided they decide
to work differently: not to look at individual rule.
Existing organization will try to make them do so,
as the Committee of Secretaries (COS) meetings
have tended to be. The GOAL of that Apex
Committee should be to reduce the time-constant
to, say a time-rate of interaction of about 2 to 3
months from one year and overall total project
completion time about 3 to 4 years from the
present 7 to 10 years.
Suggestions for Administrative Reforms byDr.Y.S.Rajan
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This means not merely clearance of files in a week
or less but decision making in 3 to 4 months
irrespective of the size of the project or issue.
For every unresolved issue (involving multi
departments) one Ministry needs to be decided as
NODAL by the APEX Committee. It should be their
responsibility to decide within 3 to 4 months (Note
the simplified new rules would exist and they need
not be engulfed in the self-made marsh of referrals
to thousands of O.M.'s etc.). If they have any
problem they can refer to the Apex Committee
which shall decide. [Note: There has to be an
understanding that those who refer too often to
the Apex Committee shall have negative marks, as
they will be empowered to decide; it is not the
diarchy of Ministry of Finance etc. sitting on
judgement on everybody!]. Decision does not
mean always accepting a proposal or saying
always yes.
If this method is followed, the productivity and
efficiency will become the inherent nature of the
system. Regarding the functioning of the Group C &
D staff they are creatures of the existing system.
They are not to blame for the inertia!
q Metasystem
The laws of nature cannot be violated, even if we
wish to. The life systems and social systems are
complex adaptive systems. We may, at a given
point of time, not know all the details of the rules or
even all the laws. The role of the sciences-natural
and social-is to discover these laws and apply
them. More complex a system is, the cause and
effect interact considerably. Notwithstanding these
complexities it is a well known cybernetic principle
that the problems or inadequacies of the
subsystem have to be solved in a system and it
cannot be solved at subsystem itself. So when the
whole system is dysfunctional; the solutions come
about by going for a meta system. The crucial point
is that the existing system has introduced crucial
institutional infirmities, which in turn have
induced individual infirmities in those who
populate those institutions; they in turn
stymie the institutions; the vicious circle has
continued for decades. The task is to cut the
vicious circle. One cannot expect those who are in
the system to do it because most of them are well
adjusted in it and are happy about it. This is not to
deny some mutants within the existing systems.
(That is the reason why some top Government
functionaries attended ICSSR meeting and spoke
freely and frankly and on specifics and there may
be dormant ones who may be activated when
opportunities arise!). In our administrative system
we have been tottering at the end of its evolution. A
few mutants inside have died or are lying low. But
no change is taking place. If we allow it as it is, it
will crash and be extinct as an evolutionary end,
result can be total anarchy or chaos, (already
appears in many parts of India!). The better
method is to help it redesign itself with new
mutants pushed into the systems in large
numbers. The change has to be total. When people
call for global tender for better governance it is
partly done jocularly or in anguish; but it also
contains a desire for external mutants. I would
suggest as suggested by Mr., KP.S. Gill that we
should empower about 1500-2000 people
(selected differently, not by the usual processes of
the existing system) with sufficient back up from
the Apex Committee and State Apexes. Also
introduce more changes in the economic sectors,
foreign affairs etc. (all aspects of governance).
Have a long tenure 6 to 7 years (long enough to
make change even with the existing time constants
but their goal should be to do changes in 4 years
and sustain it for sometime more so that things
stabilize).
But administrative change has to be Total (not
reform); all round; judiciary included; CAG etc
included. This addition of sizeable mutants from
outside coupled with mutants inside will make the
meta system, required for change. In addition,
expand their horizon of thinking so that their
exist ing system becomes small and get
interconnected with something else, thus creating
new spaces of meta systems. (Let them all be
innovative)
Administrative reforms are not merely to be
isolated to Government Ministries and their
agencies. Government had taken over in the past
the functions of education, running universities,
colleges, scientific laboratories, industries etc.
They need to be covered by administrative
reforms. If we just say they are left to themselves
and freed from Government, it is not enough. They
all have terrible "bureaucracies” of their own: for
example, academic bureaucracies are terrible'; the
hierarchies and bureaucracies in the institutions
run by scientists are also suffocating. These are
understandable as the 'system' is one and
subsystems develop their own toxic products
based on the overall algorithms of the system!
Suggestions for Administrative Reforms byDr.Y.S.Rajan
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q Resistance to Change-Provision for
protection of Change Agents
Till the change stabilizes say for a decade or so, the
change agents would require a fair degree of
p r o t e c t i o n f r o m m i s i n f o r m a t i o n a n d
disinformation. Public information and the media
are subject to various forms of manipulation. There
will be a demand for openness, which is good.
There has to be openness to avoid elitism or an
'emergency' like operation.
But we should bear in mind what the Nobel
laureate Prof. Murray Gell-Mann says in his seminal
work Quarks and the Jaguar, "Unfortunately, that
information explosion is in great part a
misinformation explosion. All of us are exposed to
huge amounts of material, consisting of data,
ideas, and conclusions-much of it wrong or
misunderstood or just plain confused. There is a
crying need for more intelligent commentary and
review".
It is easy to damn a good change agent by quoting
'convenient' portions of the advice. A super
specialist may think he or she has been slighted
and go on attack. Some may attach 'equal'
weightage to all the opinions (informed or
otherwise) and arrive at a different solution and
damn a person in the system who decided on the
earlier. Also there could be mischievous attempts
of formation and attributing malafide intentions.
The actual decision making process is more
complex. No 'objective' model exists for decision-
making given the multiple inputs. Also one should
not be trapped in paralysis by analysis syndrome.
Therefore in the final analysis, the decision making
has a certain crucial component of subjectivity. In
fact part of the reason why a bureaucrat shuttles
files is to insulate himself or herself from
accusations or audit remarks, etc. She or he
spreads the risks of decision making. Especially
when one is trying to do major change, the
'affected' parties or 'vested' interests are many and
they would like to strike.
Therefore, there has to be insulation or a saving
provision not to penalize a person for a decision
taken or advice given. There has to be no 'witch
hunt'. This is very important when the files are
opened to public. However, there has to be simple
checks for Integrity: i.e, no “pecuniary benefit" for
the person taking a decision or advising; and no
personal hatreds are involved, this mechanism for
such integrity checks has to be simple and
innovative. Not necessarily uniform all over, as the
new system evolves it will become self-correcting
over a period.
q Ability for Making Continuing Changes:
Providing for the future
So far all of us have been addressing the problems
of the past because we have a huge stock of
unsolved and ever growing problems. It is
important to address them and effect a Total
Change. Then the "hare" should not sleep.
Technologies, and businesses and therefore
societies and people would change fast during this
phase of human history. Therefore, there has to be
a constant look into the future and projection of
changes. People have to be kept informed of the
changes. Then their informed feedback will be
there to take into account the changes required to
be done. We need not cry again after 10 years or
later that our system is obsolete and is not meeting
the aspirations of people, society, business, etc,
and international needs. In such a future looking
studies and for interacting with people,
organizations like ICSSR have an important role to
play.
m On the whole, I hope an integrated set of
actions will be taken urgently taking into account
the above factors, noting that the reforms are too
serious a matter to be left to any one section alone.
Metaphorically speaking, gone are the days when
there was one major central computer processor
catering to several workstations attached to it
(subordinate to it). We are now in an era where
there are multiple parallel processing nodes (which
can process autonomous ly and a lso in
synchronism) tackling much bigger tasks than
were ever done before. Similarly there is no longer
a major database being accessed by everybody;
millions of small data bases or an information base
accessible through Intranet/Internet etc. is the
power too l ava i l ab le fo r mi l l i ons . The
administrative systems we need should be in a
manner to respect, to utilize the talents of, and to
meet the aspirations and needs of- individuals,
local groups, larger groupings and the nation while
also keeping a world view.
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GovernanceParadigm-empoweringpeople,collaborativeapproach&enhancingqualityoflife
The greatest type of ruler is one of whose existence the people
are hardly aware.
Next best is a leader who is loved and praised. Next comes the
one who is feared.
The worst is the one who is despised.
When a leader doesn't trust the people, they will become
untrustworthy.
The best leader speaks little. He never speaks carelessly.
He works without self interest and leaves no trace.
When the work is accomplished, the people say: “Amazing: we
did it all by ourselves.”
“Tao Te Ching” by Lao Tzu
What was articulated by Lao Tzu in 500 B.C (approx) is relevant
today more than ever and successful Governments across the
globe seem to recognize the need to change their practices to
meet complex challenges and stay ahead in an increasingly
competitive world.
What makes government effective?
This is among the most important questions facing any society,
because the failure of government is all too common and often
catastrophic. There are numerous examples of countries that
have been saddled by bad government policies, poor
implementation, ethical failures, and the inability of
government to change when necessary. The victims are
citizens, whose lives and livelihoods suffer.
The many failed development interventions in the 50s into the
90s spurred the introduction of other development reforms.
The “governance” paradigm was introduced and advocated by
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Dr.SBaskarholdsaMasterofTechnologydegreefromIndianInstituteofTechnology,Bombay.Anentrepreneurwithover25yearsexperienceinindustry,turnedsocialactivist.Hiscurrentinterestincludesdevelopingmodelsofalternativeapproachestogovernance.HeheadstheCoimbatorechapterofICCentreforGovernance(ICCFG)NewDelhi.Theorganizationworkstostrengthengovernancecapacityinthegovernmentandnongovernmentorganizations.ThetirelesseffortsofS.Baskar,oftheICCentreforGovernance,aimstoinvolvemarginalizedsectionsindecision-makingprocessforpromotinggoodgovernance.Havingcompletedtheindividualdatacollectionof2000streetvendorsinthecityhecreatedhistorybybringingallstakeholdersononeplatformandgavethese'voice-less'peoplethedignityofbeingheardbythetopbrassofthedistrictadministrationandpoliceforce
the United Nations (UN), World Bank (WB), Asian
Development Bank (ADB) and other international
institutions.
Governance entails a larger scope and has a wider
meaning. Though the term “governance” has been
used to refer mostly to “government,” when
correctly used, “governance” really goes beyond
government. It involves the institutionalization of a
system through which citizens, institutions,
organizations, and groups in a society articulate
their interests, exercise their rights, and mediate
their differences in pursuit of the collective good.
(ADB 1995)
UNDP describes it as “the exercise of political,
economic and administrative authority to manage
a nation's affairs. It embraces all of the methods-
good and bad that societies use to distribute power
and manage public resources and problems.”
(UNDP 1997)
Cariño (2000), in her reflections on the term
“governance,” identified actors and factors that
pushed for governance. She acknowledges that
governance is not the sole responsibility of the
government per se but the role of the market and
civil society are of equal importance too and should
also be recognized. She then identified the factors
or processes that pushed for governance and some
of these are: the quest for growth and
development, the environmental movement,
globalization and consolidating peace. These are
practically the same values or virtues found in the
UN Charter. Likewise, governance promotes the
virtues of decentralization, participation,
responsiveness and accountability among others.
From “governance”, the concept of “good
governance” has emerged and became prominent
in international aid circles around 1989 or 1990. It
served as a general guiding principle for donor
agencies to demand that recipient governments
adhere to proper administrative processes in the
handling of development assistance and put in
place effective policy instruments towards that
end. When there is good governance, there is
sustainable development. Kofi Annan, in his
inaugural speech in the 1st International
Conference on Governance for Sustainable Growth
and Equity in United Nations, New York, in July 28-
30, 1997 affirms this when he said that:
“Good governance and sustainable development
are indivisible. That is the lesson of all our efforts
and experiences, from Africa to Asia to Latin
America. Without good governance – without the
rule of law, predictable administration, legitimate
power, and responsive regulation - no amount of
funding, no amount of charity will set us on the
path to prosperity. We are fully engaged in efforts
to improve governance around the world. Good
governance is indispensable for building peaceful,
prosperous and democratic societies.” Annan
concluded that “good governance is perhaps the
single most important factor in eradicating poverty
and promoting development.”
Principles of good Governance
An ADB document (2005) affirmed that good
governance is synonymous wi th sound
Development Management. They then identified
some key principles of development which may be
considered as elements of good governance.
These are:
Sustainability in all dimensions of development
of authority and resources at the Subsidiarity
closest appropriate level
Equity of access to decision-making processes and
the basic necessities of urban life
Sustainability
Subsidiarity
Efficiency
Transparency
and
Accountability
Civic
Engagement
and
Citizenship
Security
Principles
of
good
Governance
Governance Paradigm by Dr.S.Baskar
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Efficiency in the delivery of public services and in
promoting local economic development
Transparency and Accountability of decision-
makers and all stakeholders.
Civic Engagement and Citizenship
Security of individuals and their l iving
environment
Reinventing Government
Recognizing the need for devolution of power to
the closest appropriate level (principle of
subsidiarity) the 74th Amendment of the
constitution was brought forth by the Government
of India and the City Administration was
recognized as a third tier of Government. With
greater devolution of power, a mission mode,
policy driven and outcome focused planned
development program with reforms in Governance
as an over reaching objective, Jawaharlal Nehru
Urban Renewal Mission (JnNURM) was launched
by the Union Government in the year 2004.
Building 100 smart Cities is yet another initiative
by the present Government in urban development
with performance based funding as incentive to
drive growth.
Reinventing Government provided ten concepts
through which public entrepreneurs might bring
about massive governmental reform principles
that has remained at the core of the new public
management. These are the following:
1. Catalytic government: steering rather than
rowing
2. Community-owned government: empowering
rather than serving
3. Compet i t i ve gove rnment : i n j e c t i ng
competition into service delivery
4. Mission-driven government: transforming
rule-driven organizations
5. Results-oriented government: funding
outcomes, not inputs
6. Customer-driven government: meeting the
needs of the customer not their bureaucracy
7. Enterprising government: creating rather than
spending
8. Anticipatory government: prevention rather
than cure
9. Decentralized government: from hierarchy to
participation and teamwork
10. Market-oriented government: leveraging
change through the market
The present Government while replacing Planning
Commission with a new body NITI Ayog devolves
more power to the States in planning and greater
allocation of financial resources. More progressive
States in turn are expected to give greater role for
cities in planning its infrastructure and economic
development needs.
Excerpts from the Cabinet resolution on NITI Ayog
read:
” The people of India have great expectations for
progress and improvement in governance,
through their participation. They require
institutional reforms in governance and dynamic
policy shifts that can seed and nurture large-scale
change.”
“Governance, across the public and private
domains, is the concern of society as a whole.
Everyone has a stake in ensuring good governance
and effective delivery of services. Creating Jan
Chetna, therefore, becomes crucial for people's
initiative. In the past, governance may have been
rather narrowly construed as public governance.
In today's changed dynamics – with 'public'
services often being delivered by 'private' entities,
and the greater scope for 'participative citizenry',
governance encompasses and involves everyone.”
The Urban Challenge
Our cities are rapidly urbanizing. Cities have
become engines of growth. The share of cities
contribution is set to rise from 58% presently to
75% of GDP in 2030. People migrate to cities
primarily in search of employment and economic
activities besides better quality of life. Therefore, a
city for its sustainability needs to offer economic
activities and employment opportunities to a wide
section of its
residents, regardless of
their level of education,
skills or income levels.
In doing so, a city needs
t o i d e n t i f y i t s
comparative or unique
Governance Paradigm by Dr.S.Baskar
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advantage and core competence in specific areas
of economic activities and promote such activities
aggressively, by developing the required
institutional, physical, social and economic
infrastructures for it and attracting investors and
professionals to take up such activities.
Building a sustainable built environment
represents a significant responsibility for all of us.
Our decisions today will define the heritage of the
future. How do we ensure that they will reflect the
values and beliefs of the people who live here, work
here, and play here?
Cities are huge opportunities
“Cities are sources of innovation, of creativity. They
can be the drivers of prosperity and better living
standards for the whole country”
Helen ClarkAdministrator, UNDP & former P.M New Zealand
These complex challenges of today must be met
with a 'new' way of working, where we can draw on
ideas from across disciplines and fields of inquiry to
reach a deeper understanding and unlock
opportunity. An integrated approach to shaping
the future of our city will drive enduring change
and create a profound legacy for future
generations.
Addressing the complexity of contemporary urban
challenges requires an elevated level of informed
engagement, which is carefully curated and
established, yet also open and truly participatory.
People want to participate in decisions, which
affect their city.
Rapid and vital transformation is underway in the
public conversation about urban policy reform,
acknowledging that the evolution of a city is the
result of countless decisions by its many residents.
Evolving Roles and Innovative Leadership
An extraordinary city doesn't happen by chance.
Creating a city that is valued and significant to
those who use it requires shared aspiration, robust
discourse, bold vision and leadership and a guide
for achieving the outcomes we desire.
Our goals and values can't be determined
unilaterally, but are the result of many voices,
reflecting multiple experiences, emerging
conversations about our aspirations as a
community. Engaging the public indecision making
and planning has become a greater priority in
transformative contemporary governance. For
these reasons an effective
integrated design strategy for city renewal is
founded on broad and catalytic engagement.
A city that is authentic, inclusive and innovative is
an inspiring place to be. But how do we know that
our decision makers and professionals, whose
work and actions affect the urban environment,
will make the right decisions?
We need to recognize that these decisions are at
their best when Governments are engaged in
mature dialogue with their citizens. The role of
experts and professionals is crucial to translate a
vision. Such consultation provides the opportunity
for all stake holders to comment, state their goals
and contribute to the initial vision on the basis of
evidence and expert knowledge.
Managing Change
“Change is inspired, not imposed, by building upon
good practices from within government and in the
private sector - and identifying agents of change
and champions in the process of reform.”
Professor Laura LeeFormer, Adelaide Thinker in Residence
T r u s t b e t w e e n
governments and citizens
are essential for good
g o v e r n a n c e a n d
participation. In order to
build trust, governments'
need to communicate in a
transparent way about
Governance Paradigm by Dr.S.Baskar
past and future dec is ions and act ions.
Governments however, should not only inform but
also involve citizens. The ideas and opinions that
they put forward in pol icy-making and
implementation processes, provide valuable input
for improving the quality of local policies and
services.
Therefore the questions to be answered are:
How can we create a Vision that seeks highest
quality outcome and builds confidence through
shared aspirations?
How can we develop integrated Urban Strategies
to translate the Vision into broader outcomes?
What are the different steps for communication
and participation in the policy process?
How do we build technical, financial, managerial
and collaborative capacities to ensure the required
level of performance to achieve desired outcomes?
How can local Governments increase social and
financial accountability towards their citizens?
And how to promote integrity and transparency?
Generative Cities – the future
The future belongs to what are known as
“Generative Cities”. Generativity is a broader
property of systems that denotes the capacity of
agents within them to connect to others and
produce unanticipated, innovative outcomes and
change.
These cities will be driven by empowered citizens,
ubiquitous technologies and policies that enable
the actors of the generative city to collaborate on
boundary – breaking projects that redefine the
way we live, work and play.
Governance Paradigm by Dr.S.Baskar
“Success of democracy is impossible without
participation of the people”
-Hon'ble Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi
In a democratic system, citizen participation is one
of the key components of decision making process.
MyGov- External website that opens in a new
window is an innovative platform launched to
ensure citizens' engagement in decision making by
the Government so that the ultimate goal of "Good
Governance" for building India is achieved. This
initiative is an opportunity for citizens and well-
wishers from across the world to share their views
on key issues directly with the .
Hon'ble Prime Minister to empower the citizens of
India to contribute towards Surajya.
The platform encourages citizens as well as people
abroad to 'Discuss' and 'Do'. There are multiple
theme-based discussions on where a wide range of
people can share their thoughts and ideas. Further,
any idea shared by a contributor will also be
discussed on these discussion forums, allowing
constructive feedback and interaction among
participants.
The platform has been divided into various groups
namely Clean Ganga ; Green India ; Job Creation;
Girl Child education; Skill Development ; Digital
India; Swachh Bharat. Each group consists of
online and on ground tasks that can be taken up by
the contributors. The objective of each group is to
bring about a qualitative change in that sphere
through people's participation.
Source : http://india.gov.in/spotlight/mygov-
citizen-participation-towards-good-governance
MyGov -Citizen Participation towardsGood Governance
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CampusNews
LeadershipTraining & Alignment
StudentsusingtheLowRopesatBreakthrough StudentsontheHighRopeatBreakthrough
Learning Management System - MOODLEThe Learning Management System MOODLE was
launched at KCT Business School on August 19,
2014. Moodle a learning platform that enables to
create courses, activities and communities online
was launched. Moodle supports synchronous and
asynchronous communication for groups, one-to-
one messaging and opportunities to share
reflections and comments.
Moving beyond static, organization-led e-learning
using Moodle modules enables to create engaging,
social, collaborative activities. Moodle is installed
on a server and is accessed by student users round
the clock using their web browser – Google
Chrome, Internet Explorer, and Firefox.
ACADEMICS
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169 Students of I MBA Batch 2014-16 had the
regular Outbound Training at Breakthrough,
Anaikatti in three batches in the month of
September 2014.The objective of this Leadership
Training & Alignment program is to expose the
students to experiential learning in areas of
leadership, team work, situation handling,
confidence building. Students are put through
rigorous training on low ropes & high ropes, which
helps them to set goals, make decisions & take
responsibility for their decisions. The learning
outcome of this program is
m Personal Development
m Working effectively in a team
m Synergizing to improve performance
m Change Management
m Self- Realization
Local Market Visit
Batch 2014-16 visited various Coimbatore based markets in order to learn about the local markets. It helped
them to gain market knowledge on market structure, pricing strategies, competitive strategies, product
varieties, logistics, inventory management, wastage disposal. They explored the challenges and problems
faced by the vendors. Fish market, Flower market, Fruit market, Scrap market, Vegetable market, Wholesale
Cloth market, Uzhavar sandhai, Grocery market, Sunday Cloth market were few markets visited by the
students.
Studentsofbatch2014-16atawholesale�ishmarket StudentsexploringthelocalmarketsinCoimbatore
Uses of Qualitative Techniques
The students of II MBA specializing in
Marketing were introduced to the various
qualitative techniques used in Consumer
Research studies.
The students were asked to visit Himalaya
Face Wash Blogging site at
http://shoppingescapades.com. Then the
students were asked to form a tag line for the
face wash based on the comments in the blog
spot. Later student teams checked for the
comments given by people for their own
chosen brands and worked out new tag lines
after analyzing the comments from the blog
spot. The teams came out with new taglines.
The tag lines were presented and peer
evaluation was done based on the clarity,
relevance and innovation.
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Real TimeOnline Share Trading
The Centre for Finance launched the Real Time Online
Share Trading Workshop (ROSTP) 2014 for batch 2013-15
on October 8, 2014. Thirty three students enrolled for the
ROSTP and participated in the program. ROSTP is a year-
long application-oriented learning initiative whereby the
studentsʼ invest Rs.5, 000 of their personal money in the
stock market. ICICI Direct Limited is the trading and
banking solutions provider for the ROSTP 2014. The
learning from the finance elective courses are expected to
come handy for the ROSTP participants in investment
decisions.
RealTimeOnlineTradinginprogressforstudentsofBatch2013
JSW ANGADI2014 - Trade Fair
KCT Business School, organized JSW ANGADI 2014- a trade fair by the students of Center of Marketing on
October 17& 18 , 2014.
JSW ANGADI 2014 is the third edition of the trade fair and this year's theme was ECO_CHIC - Environment
Friendly and Trendy. This is an event which is ideated, planned and organized by the MBA students of KCT
Business School. Each year Angadi hones the knowledge and skill of the students in three ways – One, it
nurtures the entrepreneurial spirit of the students through investments and running a small business.
Second, it develops the marketing skills of the students through positioning their products, understanding the
competition, promotion schemes and pricing. Thirdly, it advances the event management skills of the
students.
The title sponsor for Angadi 2014 was Jindal Steel Works (JSW), Co-sponsor was Balamurugan Bronze Arts
Works, Salem, Voucher sponsor was Mukil's Donut World and Radio sponsor was Radio City. There were 31
stalls and 100 plus products of leather, apparels, handicrafts, accessories, games and food.
Shri.ShankarVanavarayar, Joint Correspondent of KCT visited the stalls and appreciated the students of KCT
Business School for this exuberant venture .The event turned out to be a great success with more than 6000
footfalls at the exhibition ground.
ACADEMICS I FACULTY I RESEARCH I COLLABORATION I STUDENT WORLD I OUTREACH INITIATIVES
Focus Group Discussion
Focus Group Discussion was conducted for the II MBA
Marketing students of Batch 2013-15 for the
Consumer Behavior course, to understand the buying
motives, perception & personality that influence the
purchase of Mobile phones & Watches. Fourteen
students using Apple Iphone & Fast Track watches
from first years were shortlisted as customers, for the
conduct of Focus Group Interview.
The Organizers discussed various aspects of buying
behavior of the customers of Apple Iphone & Fast
Track Watches to assess the buying motives. The
session provided a practical exposure to the
participants to associate various theoretical concepts
of Motivation, Perception & Personality to describe the
individuals.
CFO Interview Presentation The finance students of Batch 2013-15, visited
different Corporate houses like Roots, Uthaman & Co,
Shakti Finance, SETC and few more and had an
interview with the Chief Finance Officer. A
questionnaire was prepared for the interview. On
November 10, 2014 the teams made their
presentation, about the profile of the company, the
profile of the CFO and strategies adopted by the
company with finance perspective. This also helped
them to know about roles and responsibilities
performed by the finance officer.
ACADEMICS I FACULTY I RESEARCH I COLLABORATION I STUDENT WORLD I OUTREACH INITIATIVES
UnderstandingPerceptions
Understanding Perceptions and how they are formed
is an important part of knowing human behaviour at
work. In this regard, a video documentary of the book
"The Secret" by Rhonda Bryne was telecast to the
students as a part of the Managing Organizations
course on November 10, 2014. This enabled the
students to understand the law of attraction and how
perceptions can impact and influence one's lives.
Pricing Strategy is an important concept which
plays a crucial role in efficient distribution of
resources in a market system. The concept
was explained to the students of Batch 2014-
16, with the help of a classroom activity. A sale
of stationery and a few household items of
various brands procured and sold through a
small retail set up by a few students. The rest
of the students were given specific directions
by the course instructor to buy as instructed. A
few were asked to be brand specific, a few
were asked to be price conscious and a few
were asked to book train and flight tickets.
After the purchase, the students were asked to
discuss on the various elements of a market,
number of players (sellers and buyers) in the
market and the pricing strategy adopted by the
flight operators, Indian Railways and FMCG
companies. Subsequently, the students were
briefed on the various pricing strategies used
by companies quoting experiences from the
activity. Various strategies right from cost
based pricing to skimming price to bundle
pricing and penetration pricing were explained
to them.
Pricing Strategy
ExperientialLearninginPricingStrategywithstudentsofBatch2014
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Debate sessionA debate session on “Is Money a motivator” was
held on November 6, 2014 for students of
Batch 2014-16. The class was split into two
groups. One team discussed how money is a
motivator for most of the workforce and how
employees shift for a marginal increase in
salaries. Students brought real life examples of
how money is not a motivator for different
employee groups who focus on learning,
achievement, and challenges in the workplace.
Job satisfaction, they said is the primary factor
that enables an employee to perform.
Market Visit Presentation
On November 15, 2014, Batch 2014-16 made
their presentation on the markets they visited.
The teams gave presentations on the markets, its
structures, pricing, logistics, storage, demand
and supply conditions etc. Part of the session
focused on rural visit presentations. The teams
made presentations on the impact of Mahatma
Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee
Act (MGNREGA) on the livelihood of village people
and its adverse effects over agriculture.
StudentsofBatch2014doingtheirpresentationonRural&LocalMarketvisits
ACADEMICS I FACULTY I RESEARCH I COLLABORATION I STUDENT WORLD I OUTREACH INITIATIVES
Tree Planting 100 Saplings of different varieties were planted
in Chinnavedampatti village as part of the CESR
activity of Centre of HR. 39 students actively
participated and felt happy by their small
contribution to the environment.
TreeplantinginprogressatChinnavedampattivillage
Service Marketing
Two innovative pedagogies were used in service
marketing course. CCAE (Comprehensive
Concept Assessment Exercise) which looked into
concepts of services marketing and its application
in real-time; Facebook Marketing - here students
took a real service organization product and
marketed the services using Facebook by
creating and promoting a Facebook page, the
organizations included SMS hotels, Hotel
Haribhavan, Pizza Republic, Breakthrough,
Connect My Trip, Yolo Restaurant, The Bright
Dawn Bakery, Grasp Clothing etc.
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Power of Working in TeamsAs MBA students it is important for students to
understand the power of working in teams. Most
organizations today give importance to Self
Managed teams at work. In order to get the
students to understand group dynamics an activity
was conducted in the class. The activity created a
sales scenario, and every team was in charge of
sales. Opening a sales deal, making a sale and
closing the sale was incorporated with various
rules and constraints in the market environment.
The activity clearly identified the different group
formation strategies of forming, storming,
norming, performing and adjourning.
ACADEMICS I FACULTY I RESEARCH I COLLABORATION I STUDENT WORLD I OUTREACH INITIATIVES
CEP - Community Engagement Project
As a part of I year program of MBA, the students
were involved in a Community Engagement
Project. The objective of the project was to provide
opportunities for the students to develop their
capaci t ies to become par t ic ipat ing and
contributing citizens and to prepare them for
effective participation in community affairs in a
diverse society through promotion of social and
economic justice. The project was carried out
between I& II semester
The project themed "You can Make a Difference
was carried out in groups in association with a NGO
for a period of 1 week (The teams will be in the field
from February 22-27,2015 - 40 hours) in various
areas like Village Development Program, Village
Cleanliness, Skill Training Program for youth, Basic
Communication development program for school
children, self-awareness and self-assessment skills
training program ,HIV Awareness Program, AIDS
fundraising event, Crèche Visit by students and
helping the children in crèche, Organizing Camp
like eye camp, diabetic camp, Drug and Alcohol
awareness camp etc.
ACADEMICS I FACULTY I RESEARCH I COLLABORATION I STUDENT WORLD I OUTREACH INITIATIVES
Certication Programs Conducted
September
26-29, 2014Business Analysis ValueBASE
November 1 -
December 07, 2014Tally ERP 9.0 Certification
M/s. Indra Institute of Education,
Coimbatore
2013-15
2014-16
September -
December 24, 2014
Performance Management
System and Certificate on
Psychometric testing
Human Resource Development
Centre, New Delhi 2013-15
April 10- 11, 2015 Lean Six Sigma Yellow BeltJuran Academy (P) Limited,
Chennai - Juran, Connecticut; USA2014-16
Date Theme of Workshop Certifying Body
August 22-23, 2014 Certified Recruitment Analyst Consultant, Chennai
August 18-21, 2014 Lean Six Sigma Green Belt
Certification ProgramASQ Certified Six Sigma Black Belt
August 18 -20, 2014 International Logistics Confederation of Indian
Industry- Institute of Logistics
Batch
2013-15
2013-15
August 18 - 23, 2014 Corporate Taxation Institute of Computer Accountants2013-15
2013-15
August 22, 2014 Info session on SAP eDrishyaa IT India Pvt. Ltd., Cbe2013-15
September 6, &
November 1, 2014Laws Relating to
Industrial Relations Consultant, Coimbatore2013-15
Massive Open Online CourseThe II MBA HR students have undergone courses
on Massive open online course platforms like
Ed X and Coursera between August and
November 2014. The courses enrolled were
related to Leadership, Innovation, Learning,
Writing Skills, and Global Business Environment.
The courses were offered by Case Western
Reserve University, University of Maryland,
University of Minnesota and University of
Lausanne. 31 students completed the MOOC
courses successfully. This initiative was as a part of
the Course on Training and Development, which
comprised of a component on E learning. Hence
students were encouraged to experience and
benefit from the online learning, enabling them to
understand the e-learning environment, the
effectiveness of the Instruction modules,
comprehend the learnability of a global audience.
This served as a real time experience for students
that will help them in undertaking e-learning
capsules offered in corporate and will also improve
their self regulated learning skills.
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Workshops Conducted
Date Facilitator Topic
August 16-17, 2014Relations Institute of
Development, Coimbatore Transaction Analysis 101
August 22, 2014Suresh ShanmugamBusiness Solution Manager
Payoda Technologies
Agile Practices in Software
Projects
September 1, 2014Praveen Udupa Business Analysis Practitioner
ValueBASE
Introduction to Business Analysis
Batch
2013-15
2013-15
August 27, 2014Jeganathan PCEO,
Energetic Byz Plus
Event Management 2013-15
2013-15 &
2014-16
October 8, 2014N.TirunavukarasuBusiness Partner & Proprietor
ICICI Direct Limited & M3moneymanager
Online Trading through ICICI
Direct Online Trading Software 2013-15
October 15, 2014P.Suresh KumarMentor & Director (Research)
Knowledge Business School.
Research Paper Writing 2014-16
October 25, 2014
Kirupa Priyadarshini MAssociate Professor,
KCT Business School R.Sridhar BabuLead- Corporate Relations,
KCT Business School
Enhancing Interview Skills
IV year
BE -ECE
Dept.KCT
November 11, 2014K.AnnamalaiDirector,
Annamalai Capital Services (P) Limited,
Technical Analysis for Equity
Market Investments 2013-15
November 12, 2014Ram Kumar Equity Analyst,
Akshaya Investment
FOREX Trading 2013-15
November 13, 2014. Dixon A.KProfessional Trainer,
I Sharp Academy
How to Crack Banking Exam 2013-15
November 15, 2014
Maria Jude AntonyDeputy Manager Learning and
Development,
Elgi Equipments
FOREX Trading 2013-15
November 24, 2014Jayakumar BharadvajCoordinator of Fine Arts Centre,
Kumaraguru College of Technology
Indian Ethos in Management
November
25 & 26, 2014
Rashaad Hussain/S ShivaCenter Manager /
Academic Coordinator,
ICA Infotech Pvt Ltd
Reading and Analyzing
Annual Reports
2014-16
2014-16
Cyber Law and Intellectual
Property rights 2014-16 November20, 2014
S.N. RavichandranActivist of Coimbatore Cyber Crime cell
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Date Facilitator Topic Batch
February 5 & 6, 2015Vinodh KumarSenior Trainer, EBSCO Services,
Chennai
Review of Literature using
EBSCO
February 17-20, 2015
Gupta D KProfessional Trainer
Mr. Vijay SinghProfessional Trainer
All India Management Association
(AIMA) New Delhi
AIMA 'CHANAKYA'
Business Simulation Game
2014-16
2014-16
February 23, 2015Kirupa Priyadarsini MAssociate Professor & Centre Head -HR,
KCT Business School
Designing Survey InstrumentDept of FT,
KCT
Selling Skills 2014-16 March 3, 2015Sumant BakshiAdviser,
MYRA School of Business
March 07, 2015
Ravi KCFO,
Roots Group of Companies, Coimbatore
Narendran TVice President (Finance and Administration),
Aqua Group
Vijayaraghavan RHead - Finance
Sakthi Excellence Academy,, Coimbatore
Anantharamakrishnan KPartner
Annamalai Associates, Chennai
Union Budget 2015 2014-16
Jugaad Innovation and
Frugal Innovation 2014-16 April 9, 2015
Navi Radjou / Jaideep PrabhuAuthors
April 22, 2015
Anitha JAssociate Professor,
GRG School of Management
Kirupa Priyadarsini MAssociate Professor & Centre Head -HR
KCT Business School
Multivariate Analysis for
Business Research 2014-16
Compensation and Benefits 2014-16 April 24, 2015Kalpana SaiConsultant
Cognizant Technologies
April 25-26, 2015
Soudhadakar ElumalaiSenior Business Analyst
Flipkart.com
Asan Kumar SankaralingamBusiness Analysis Advisor,
Dell Global Analytics, Bangalore
Business Analytics 2014-16
April 27, 2015Lakshmi Meera BLAssistant Professor, Centre of Marketing
KCT Business School
Negotiation Skills2014-16
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Dening the DestinationThe yearly, Annual Planning meet of KCT business School was held from June 22-24, 2014 at Nature Vision
Resort, Anaikatti. A group of 16 faculty along with 6 newly recruited faculty were part of the planning meet.
Each centre presented their targets achieved vis- a –vis goals set in 2013-14 and also presented their goals for
the ensuing academic year. Centres also envisioned their plan for 2020. Keeping in mind the adage, “All work
and no play makes Jack a dull boy” there were activities involving games & trekking too.
Laurels & Accolades
M a r y C h e r i a n , w a s
awarded the "Sen ior
Educator & Scholar" Award
f r o m t h e N a t i o n a l
F o u n d a t i o n f o r
Entrepreneurship
Development (NFED), for
her significant contribution
to teaching & research on
the occasion of Teachers
Day September 5, 2014.
Lakshmi Meera B L has been
elected Charter President for the
Coimbatore chapter of Women
Entrepreneurs Forum. The
women entrepreneurs' forum
chapter was inaugurated on
August 9, 2014.
Our hearty congratulations to Nalini P on receiving PhD
for her thesis on the title “ Consumer Awareness on
Environmental Issues and its Impact on Purchase
Behaviour of Green Products”
FACULTY
Our hearty congratulat ions to
Gokilavani R , on receiving PhD for her
thesis on the title “Impact of Service
Quality on Customer Satisfaction in
State Bank of India in Coimbatore
District “
Teacher's Day Awards Galorem On the occasion of Teacher's Day- September 5, 2014-the faculty & Staff of KCT Business School were duly
recognized under different categories. Vijila Kennedy, Nedunchezhian VR , Mary Cherian, Sangeetha S,
Poongodi B, Mohanamani P, Latha A for Publication in International Journals during 2013-14
m Kannan V was recognized for "Working Maximum number of hours in the campus during 2013-2014” on
September 5, 2014 during the Teacher's Day celebrations.
m Sarasvathi TA & Senthil Prakash P along with Boobal Achuthan, bagged the II prize in Connexions, on
September 5, 2014 during the Teacher's Day celebrations.
m Sabita Johnson won the I Prize in Article Writing.
Faculty enhance their knowledge & skills
Kirupa Priyadarsini M and Kannan V were a part of the faculty mission on “Learning Best Practices” at
LMW – Advanced Technology Centre (ATC), Ganapathy, Coimbatore (for Manufacturing Excellence) and Roots
Industries Limited, Thoppampatti, Coimbatore (for HR Best Practices)' organised by CII on July 04, 2014.
Poongodi B attended a one day Faculty Development Program on “Techniques and Advances of Effective
Teaching" at Velalar College of Engineering and Technology, Erode on July 18, 2014.
Poongodi B attended a one day conference on "Next Generation Indian Agriculture" organized by CODISSIA
during the 14th Edition of AGRI INTEX 2014 in Coimbatore on July 19, 2014.
Deepa M attended a Faculty Development Program on “Emotional Literacy for Personal & Professional
Success” at PSG –IM on July 26, 2014.
Mary Cherian, Sangeetha S , Nalini P, Priya Dharshini A, Lakshmi Meera B L , Kaarthiekheyan V , Senthil Kumar
A attended a talk show with Role model Entrepreneur Mr. Kumaravel, Cofounder & CEO, Naturals Unisex
Salon & Spa, on “Learning Best practices in Managing Franchises Businesses” on August 13, 2014 .
Lakshmi Subramani attended a five day Faculty Development Program at IIM- K on “Technology Enabled
Teaching Methods” from August 19-23, 2014.
Kirupa Priyadarsini M and Senthil Kumar A attended a program on “SPSS Online Training Portal” conducted by
SPSS Inc & VIT Business School on September 02, 2014.
Gokilavani R and Senthil Prakash P attended a two day outbound training on “Building High Performance
Teams for Senior Faculty of Higher Education Institutions” conducted by CII Coimbatore on September 9 &
10, 2014.
Kaarthiekheyan V attended a one day workshop on “Writing Effective Research Papers & Drafting Winning
Research Grant Proposals for Funding” sponsored by Computer Society of India on September 20, 2014
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Kaarthiekheyan V and Hemanalilni R attended a talk on "Legal Literacy Program in relation to Cyber Law" on
September 26, 2014.
Mary Cherian, Poongodi B and Latha A attended a workshop on “Art of Getting Research Funding and
Publishing Research Papers in Social Sciences” at Kongu Engineering College, Perundurai on
September 26, 2014.
Nedunchezhian V R, Kaarthiekheyan V, Hemanalini R, Deepa Manickam and Sarasvathi T A attended a two
day Faculty Development Program on "Case Method Teaching" organized by Case Research Society of India
and Madras Management Association at Chennai on October 10 & 11, 2014
Sarasvathi T A attended a Faculty Development Program on “Redefine Data Analytics with Big Data” at PSG
College of Technology, Coimbatore from October 29-30, 2014
Lakshmi Meera B L attended a refresher course in “Advance Negotiation Skills “by ISB, Hyderabad at
Bangalore on November 5, 2014.
Gokilavani R attended a five day Faculty Development Program on “Imparting Soft skills for Success and Life
skills for Survival”, conducted by NIT, Trichy from November 24-28, 2014.
Nalini P participated in a Faculty Development Program on "Econometrics for Management Research" in IIM-K
campus from December 01-05, 2014.
Poongodi B participated in a two day international conference on "Innovations in Agriculture: Ways Forward"
organized by Institute of Economic Growth, New Delhi in collaboration with International Food Policy
Research Institute, Washington DC in New Delhi on December 4 & 5, 2014.
Priya Dharshini A attended CII's Young Indians – Coimbatore Chapter's 'Innovate 2014' held at Coimbatore.
The theme of the conclave was “Build Innovation and Creativity “, on December 11, 2014
Lakshmi Meera B L participated in the two day finishing school on “Mentoring Skills for faculties” at IEDC,
Dayananda Sagar Institutions, Bangalore organized by NEN, Bangalore on December 19 & 20, 2014.
Senthil Kumar A and Mohanamani P, participated in a three day Faculty Development Program on “Panel Data
and Time Series Econometrics” organized by Amrita School of Business, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham,
Coimbatore from January 06-08, 2015
Nalini P participated in Faculty Development Program on “Data Analysis for Business Modeling" at Velalar
College of Engineering and Technology, Erode on January 8, 2015.
Hemanalini R, Sangeetha S, Mary Cherian, Sarasvathi T A and Nalini P, attended a one day National Seminar
on “Business Analytics for Decision Making”, organized by Department of Management Studies, Sri
Ramakrishna College of Engineering and Technology, Coimbatore on March 13, 2015.
Lakshmi Meera BL attended a four day Lean Six Sigma Certification Program organized by Infocareer, Chennai
from April 3-6, 2015.
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Kirupa Priyadarsini M,
Latha A & Mohanamani P
Understanding Research Methods
University of London
Kirupa Priyadarsini M & Vijila Kennedy
Vijila Kennedy
Vijila Kennedy
Vijila Kennedy
Kirupa Priyadarsini M, Latha A, Mohanamani P
& Jaisankar S
Sangeetha S
Mohanamani.P
Hemanalini R, Jaisankar S & Deepa Manickam
Better Leader. Richer Life
Inspiring Leadership through Emotional Intelligence
Enhance your Employability Skills
Assessment & Teaching of 21st Century Skills
Questionnaire Design for Social Survey
GSE2X: Leaders of Learning
Leading Strategic Innovation in Organizations
Advanced Competitive Strategy
Creativity, Innovation & Change
Foundations of Teaching for Learning 1: Introduction
Unethical Decision Making in Organizations
On Strategy: What Managers Can Learn from Philosophy – Part 1
University of Pennsylvania
Western Reserve University
University of London
University of Melbourne
University of Michigan
HarvardX -Harvard University
Institute For Strategy, Technology And Organization,
Munich School Of Management, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat Munchen
Pennsylvania State University
The Common Wealth Education Trust's
University of Lausanne
Ecole Centrale Paris
Vijila Kennedy
Vijila Kennedy
Vijila Kennedy
Vijila Kennedy
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Vijila Kennedy
GSE1x: Unlocking the Immunity to Change: A new approach to
Personal Improvement
Harvard University
Vinayagasundaram R
Sangeetha S & Latha A
Sangeetha S
Mary Cherian
Gamification
Advertising and Society
Introduction to sustainable Development
New models of Business Society
Project Management : The Basics for Success
The Data Scientist's Tool Box
Applied Regression Analysis
Wharton – University of Pennsylvania
Duke University
Columbia University
University of Virginia
The Ohio State University
Sangeetha S
Hemanalini R
Mohanamani P
University of California, Irvine
John Hopkins University
Mary Cherian organized a demo on Pearson's Learning Management System(LMS) on August 12, 2014. The
session was conducted by Mr. Ramesh Shankaran, Sr. Business Development Manager, Pearson Education.
Efficiently Using and leveraging IT is one of the
strategic imperatives of KCT.BS's vision 2020.
A team from TCSiON was at KCT Business School
on November 18 and 20, 2014 for a demo.
Faculty members were introduced in detail to the
Learning Management Solution and CMS which
had HR solution & Academic back end support
solutions organized by Centre of Systems.
Workshops organized
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A two day Semester Reboot Camp was organized for the
faculty of KCT Business School on January 13 & 14, 2015.
The objective of the camp was to reaffirm the core values
KCT BS, individual goals and to plan on academic PEO's, with
emphasis on using technology and differential pedagogy.
Semester Reboot Camp
Faculty lend their expertiseto the outside worldHemanalini.R was an adjunct faculty at Texila
American University for the academic year
2014-15 from June 19, 2014.
Mary Cherian was invited as an academic expert
for an academic workshop conducted for the
faculty of the Nehru School of Management,
Palakkad, Kerala State on July 9, 2014.
Mary Cherian is the marketing advisor for a group
of KCT students working on a Marketing Plan for
the new TATA ZEST car for Sakthi Motors, Madurai
from August 2014.
Poongodi B delivered a guest lecture on Indian
Rural Economy at TIPS Global Institute,
Coimbatore on August 4, 2014.
Kirupa Priyadarsini M served as a resource person
for a one day Faculty Development Program on
"Research Analys is us ing SPSS" at the
Management Department of G R Damodaran
College of Arts and Science, Coimbatore on
August 11, 2014.
The Centre for Operations organized a Workshop
on Supply Chain Management for working
executives in manufacturing organizations and
faculty members on March 25, 2015. The main
objectives of the program were to provide the
participants with an understanding of the basic
concepts and tools and approaches for managing
supply chains and to enable them to develop an
awareness of the advancements in the
management of supply chains and its implications
on profitability of an organization.
The facilitators of the workshop included
M.Gurunathan, Senior Counsellor, CII – Chennai
and R.V.Mohan, General Manager, Supply Chain,
PRICOL, Coimbatore. The program included case
studies and examples from service, manufacturing
and other industries and were discussed through
live examples and videos. The sessions were
interactive and application oriented. About eleven
from in and around Coimbatore participated in the
program.
Workshop on Advancements inSupply Chain Management
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Kirupa Priyadarsini M served as a facilitator for a
session on Dream Team which was organized as
part of the Orientation Program 'Swagatham' 2014
by the Department of MCA, KCT.
Vijila Kennedy was a resource person for the
Student Association inaugural in Nehru College of
Management.
Lakshmi Meera B L was the guest speaker at
PSGR Krishnammal college, where 120 students
from the entrepreneurship cell participated in a
s e s s i on on C r ea t i v i t y i n Bu s i n e s s on
September 9, 2014.
Poongodi B delivered a guest lecture on Agriculture
and Farm Mechanization at TIPS Global Institute,
Coimbatore on September 12, 2014
Nedunchezhian V R was the external expert for a
Ph.D Doctoral Committee meeting held at
Dr. SNS Rajalakshmi College of Arts & Science on
September 25, 2014.
Nedunchezhian V R was the guest speaker in Sasi
Creative School of Business addressing a session
on Accounting on September 27, 2014.
Kirupa Priyadarsini M served as a resource person
for a guest lecture on "Instrument Design for
Surveys" for III year B.Tech students of Fashion
Technology, KCT on October 16, 2014.
Kirupa Priyadarsini. M helped students from the
Fashion Technology Department, KCT on project
development of designer wear with an inspiration
from fishing line.
Kirupa Priyadarsini M and Sridhar Babu R ,
facilitated a workshop on Enhancing Interview
Skills for the final year students of KCT-ECE
Department on October 25, 2014.
Senthil Kumar A facilitated a workshop on
Fundamentals of Financial Accounting for students
of M.Kumarasamy College of Engineering, Karur on
October 27, 2014.
Mary Cherian was the resource person for a guest
l e c t u r e on “Ca se S t udy Ana l y s i s and
Interpretation-Valdac, Brazil” for I &II M.Tech
Apparel Technology students of KCT on
October 31, 2014.
Lakshmi Meera BL was a resource person for a
F a c u l t y D e v e l o p m e n t P r o g r a m o n
En t r e p r eneu r s h i p o r g an i z ed b y PSGR
Krishnammal College for Women, Coimbatore on
November 11, 2014.
Hemanalini R, participated as a panel member in
the Alumni Talk at GRGSMS on the topic
"Challenges for Higher Education in India" to
commemorate the National Education Day on
November 11, 2014.
Kirupa Priyadarshini M conducted a half a day
workshop on Data Analysis using SPSS Refresher
Program at Bharathiar School of Management and
Entrepreneur Development, Bharathiar University
on the November 25, 2014.
Mary Cherian has been selected as a Board
Member of the Workforce Magazine- Business
Intelligence Board - for the year 2015. Workforce
Magazine is a US magazine and is published by
MediaTec Publishing Inc
Jaisankar S delivered a lecture on the topic “Over
View for Stat ist ics for Management” at
Anna University Regional Centre, Coimbatore on
December 13, 2014.
Nal in i P del ivered a specia l lecture on
“Entrepreneurial success stories and qualities” for
Bio-chemistry and Micro-biology students at Sri
Ramakrishna College of Arts and Science College
for Women, Coimbatore on December 19, 2014.
Swaminathan S delivered a lecture on “How to
Manage a Large Project” for the students of Post
Graduate Diploma in Design Engineering for Oil &
Gas Industry on December 24, 2014.
Kirupa Priyadarsini.M was the resource person for
a guest lecture on “Emotional Intelligence” at Sri
Amman Institute of Management and Research on
January 9, 2015.
Hemanalini R was the keynote speaker, in an
International Conference on Applied Research in
Engineering and Management, conducted and
organized by Professional Group of Institutions,
Sulur on February 28, 2015.
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Lakshmi Meera B L facilitated an Entrepreneurship
Awareness program at CSI Bishop Appasamy
College of Arts & Science, Coimbatore for under
graduate students from BBM department on
March 3, 2015.
Lakshmi Subbramani, facilitated a session on
"Research Design and it's process" organized by
the Department of Research and Development of
Park College on March 7, 2015.
Mohanamani P was the resource person for a guest
lecture on ”Changing Paradigm in International
Financial Management with special focus on
Capital Budgeting" at Department of Management
Science, SNR Sons College, Coimbatore on
March 9, 2015.
Dr. Vijila Kennedy, was the Chief Guest for the
inaugural of the Intercollegiate meet- Bizmines'15
at Bishop Appasamy College of Arts & Science,
Coimbatore on March 10, 2015.
Lakshmi Meera B L facilitated an Entrepreneurship
Development program at Department of Textiles
and Apparel Design, Bharathiar University,
Coimbatore on March 17, 2015.
Poongodi B was the resource person for a guest
lecture on “Forecasting Demand for Effective
Managerial Decisions” organized for the BBA
students of Rathinam College, Eachanari on
March 19, 2015.
Nalini P was the resource person for a guest lecture
on “Digital Marketing -A tool for Business Success"
for students of BBA in KS Rangaswamy College of
Arts And Science (Autonomous), K.S.R Kalvi Nagar
Tiruchengode on April 1, 2015.
Sridhar Babu R and Gokilavani R, were facilitators
in Train the Trainer – to train Faculty Members on
Placement training activities at Sakthi Institute of
Information & Management Studies, (SIIMS),
Pollachi on April 9, 2015 .
Poongodi B was the resource person at
M.Kumarasamy College of Engineering, Karur for a
one day workshop on Statistical Analysis using
SPSS on April 11, 2015.
Nalini P, chaired a session at the 3rd National
Conference on Business Paradigms for Emerging
Indian Economy organized by Department of
Management Studies at Erode Sengunthar
Engineering College, Erode on April 17, 2015
Kirupa Priyadarsini M served as a Member of the
Board of Studies for the Business Management
Department at PSGR Krishnammal College for
Women, Coimbatore on April 27, 2015.
“Appreciation can make a day -even change a life.
Your willingness to put it into words is all that is
necessary" - Margret Cousins
The faculty and administrative team at KCT BS,
had the openness, the time and the words as well,
for experiencing the joy of appreciation, which was
a weeklong celebration from November 24- 28,
2014 The event, styled "Colleague Appreciation
Program" brought out the goodness and helped in
demonstrating, trust, recognition, achievement
and belongingness, the core values of KCT
Business School. The five days were celebrated
with members appreciating their colleagues for
their qualities, their contributions, for the support,
and encouragement. The appreciations were sent
through mails, messages, watsapp texts, and also
as post its, by sharing a meal , a cup of coffee,
treasure hunts trips, and gifts bringing a smile on
every ones' face. The event was an initiative from
the Centre of HR.
Faculty Club Initiatives
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Knowledge & Information Sharing Session (KISS)In these sessions faculty share capsules of knowledge from various domain
Sarasvathi TA
Personal Branding using LinkedIn
August 13,2014
Hemanalini R
Life Coaching and Parenting
October 14, 2014
Sarasvathi TA
How to write a blog
October 16, 2014
Priya Dharshini. A
Work Life Balance
November 7, 2014
Swaminathan S
Internet Revolution … What Next
November 15, 2014
Latha A
Plagiarism Checker
November 29, 2014
Kaarthiekheyan V
Legal Literacy program on Cyber Law
and Security
October 28, 2014
Kirupa Priyadarsini M
Succeeding in MOOC courses
November 15, 2014
Sangeetha S
Newspaper - Best Friend for
Management Teachers
November 29, 2014
Mohanamani.P
Bit Coins
March 12, 2015
Nalini .P
Writing Proposals for UGC Funding
March 12, 2015
Vinayagasundaram.R
Green Technology Ideas for Home
April 16, 2015
Jaisankar.S
Quiz in MOODLE
April 16, 2015
Poongodi B
Genetically Modified Organisms (GMO)
April 17, 2015
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Shadow Program - knowledge dissemination with peers
Deepa Manickam
Emotional Literacy for Personal and
Professional Success
October 8, 2014
Kirupa Priyadarsini M & Senthil Prakash P
Understanding Business processes
through typical Case Studies
October 10, 2014
Senthil Kumar A & Kirupa Priyadarsini M
SPSS Online Training Programme (SOTP)
October 14, 2014
Mary Cherian , Poongodi B & Latha A
Art of getting Research Funding
October 29, 2014
Kannan V & Kirupa Priyadarsini M
Best Practices for
Manufacturing Excellence
October 14, 2014
Neduchezhian V R, Hemanalini R,
Kaarthiekheyan V, Deepa M, Sarasvathi T.A
Teaching through Case Methodology
October 28, 2014
Nalini P
Econometrics for Management Research
February 27, 2015
Senthil Kumar A & Mohanamani.P
Panel Data and Time Series Econometrics
February 27, 2015
Lakshmi Meera BL
Advance Negotiation Skills
March 11, 2015.
Nalini P
Case Writing
March 5, 2015
Vinayagasundaram .R and Jaisankar.S
Make in India
April 16, 2015
Kannan V and Vinayagasundaram.R
Supply Chain Management
April 16, 2015
Research Scholars Meet
S.No Resource Person Subject
1Dr.Kirupa Priyadarshini M.Associate Professor
Address on the sample size required,
data types and dimensions required,
and the depth of the literature survey
required for SEM
2Dr.Subha MV.Associate Professor, Anna University
Review of Literature: Styles of Writing
3Dr.Anitha J.Associate Professor
GRG school of Management Studies
Art of writing and publishing
scholarly articles
The research forum of KCT Business School meets regularly every month on the third Saturday. The
objective of the research scholars meeting aims at sharing of information and ideologies. This year the forum
has launched b:ok (bytes of knowledge) where knowledge relating to research areas is disseminated for half
an hour on varied topics relating to research.
Date of Forum
September 20, 2014
October 18, 2014
November 15, 2014
4Dr.Jaisankar S.Associate Professor,
Centre of Operations Problem Identification
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Dr.Chitra K.Director,
Department of Management,
Sri Ramakrishna Engineering College
Designing Survey Instruments
6Dr.Kirupa Priyadarsini M.Associate Professor,
KCT Business School
Adapting and Using Validated
Instruments in Social Science
Research
February 21, 2015
March 20, 2015
April 18, 2015
RESEARCH
Publications by Faculty1. Hemanalini R & Madhumathi S (2014)
published a paper titled “Skill Gap Analysis
and Training Effectiveness of Employees"
in Indian Journal of Applied Research, August
2014 Issue. Impact Factor : IJAR 2.1652
2. Senthil Kumar A & Sowmiya A (2014)
published a paper titled "Comovements
between the Indian and Chinese stock
markets – an analytical study”, in Golden
Jubilee International Conferences at PSG
Institute of Management, Coimbatore during
August 07-08, 2014, p52. PSG Institute of
Management, PSG Centre for Advertising &
Communications, Vol.1/Issue 1, August 2014
3. Poongodi B (2014) published a research
paper titled “A perceptual study on the
constraints in adoption of e- commerce
practices” in International Journal of
Advanced Information Science and Technology
(IJAIST) with the ISSN 2319:2682, Vol.28,
No.28, P.No.70-77, August 2014 .
Impact Factor : 3.564.
4. Nedunchezhian V R and Selvaraju K
(2014)published a paper titled “Work
Deviance of IT Sector and Non IT Sector –
A Comparative Analysis” in Indian Journal of
Applied Research(IJAR)with ISSN-2449-
555X,Vol.4,Issue-9,September 2014.Impact
factor :2.165235
5. Poongodi B (2014) published an article on
"Price Dynamics and the Fortune of Indian
Tomato Farmers" in Kisan World - A Journal
of Agriculture and Rural Development Vol.41
No. 9, ISSN 0971-9229, September 2014
6. Nedunchezhian V R and Hemalatha K ( 2014)
published a paper titled “Testing on Weak
Form Efficiency & Volatility of FMCG sector:
The evidence from National Stock
Exchange” in International Journal of recent
and Innovation Trends in Computing and
Communication (IJRITCC) with ISSN-2321-
8169, Vol.2, Issue-9, September 2014
7. Vijila Kennedy and Shamina H (2014)
published a paper titled “Examining the
P r o f e s s i o n a l C o m m i t m e n t o f
Academicians across Meyer and Allen's 3D
Model” in Trans Asian Journal of Marketing &
Management Research (TAJMMR)with ISSN-
2279-0667,Vol.3,Issue-9, September 2014.
Impact factor :SJIF=4.289
8. Jaisankar S (2014) published a book titled
“Quantitative Techniques and Operations
Research” published by Excel Books Private
Limited as study material for Indian Institute of
Materials Management. September 2014
9. Sangeetha S and Chitra K (2014) published a
paper titled "Assessment of Credit Risk and
Financial Sustainability of Select Indian
Microfinance Institutions– An Empirical
Study" in European Journal of Economics
Finance and Administrative Sciences, Issue
67, Page numbers: 106-124, August 2014.
EBSCO, Scopus Impact Factor: 0.213
Annexure NO: II (September 2013 Version)
10. Poongodi B (2014) published an article on "A
Perceptual Study on the Constraints in
Adoption of e-Commerce Practices among
the Farmers of Composite Coimbatore” in
the book titled "New Perspectives in Indian
Management" published by Himalaya
Publishing House Pvt. Ltd ,ISBN: 978-93-
5142-664-6 in 2014
11. Vijila Kennedy & Juliet Gladies (2014),
published a paper titled “ Performance
M a n a g e m e n t S y s t e m & F a c u l t y
Engagement :An Empirical Study in Higher t hEducation Institutions” in the 15
International Conference on Advances &
Challenges in Global Business, Management,
Economics, Tourism & Information Technology
organized by Research Development
Association & Research Foundation at
Pondicherry, November 21&22,2014
12. Nedunchezhian V R and Premalatha K (2014)
published a paper titled “Analysis of
Performance Efficiency of Selected Public
S e c t o r B a n k s i n I n d i a t h r o u g h
Intermediation Approach” in International
Journal of Current Research, Vol-6, Issue-11,
pp.10363-10367, ISSN: 0975-833X,
November 2014
13. Senthil Kumar A and Kulothungan.M (2014)
published a paper titled “Profitable
Investment Opportunities Using Technical
T r a d i n g R u l e s i n t h e I n d i a n
Pharmaceutical and Realty Sectors”, in
International Journal of Emerging Technology
& Research, Volume 1, Issue 7, pp.145-154.
ISSN (P): 2347-6079, ISSN (E): 2347-5900,
Nov-Dec, 2014. (Impact Factor: 0.997)
14. Kirupa Priyadarsini M and Divya G (2014)
publ ished a paper t i t led “Exploring
Re l a t i o n s h i p b e t w e e n Pe r c e i ve d
Investment in Employee Development,
Satisfaction, Commitment and Stay
Intent” in the conference proceedings of the
3rd International Conference on Managing
Human Resources at the Workplace on
December 5& 6, 2014 at SDMIMD, Mysore
India. ISBN: 978-93-83302-01-7
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15. Senthil Kumar A and Srividya V (2014),
published a paper titled "Stock Markets
Inter-linkages among the Two Largest
Emerging Economies of Asia – the Case of
India and China", in International Journal of
Economic Perspectives (ISSN: 1307-1637)
Volume 8, Issue 4 (December 2014), SCOPUS
Impact Factor: 0.282 (2012). Anna
University Chennai Annexure - II journal
16. Senthil KumarA and Srividya V (2014),
published a paper titled "Co-integration
among the Stock Markets of India, USA
and Japan", in International Journal of
Economic Research (ISSN : 0972-9380)
Vol.11, No.1-2 Part-III, 2014. Anna University
Chennai Annexure - II journal
17. Lakshmi Meera B L (2015) published an article
titled “ Lean Communication” in SIEMA
monthly magazine, January 2015
18. Vijila Kennedy and Juliet Gladies J(2015),
published a paper titled "Performance
M a n a g e m e n t S y s t e m & F a c u l t y
Engagement :An Empirical Study in Higher
Education Institutions" in Journal of
Management Outlook, July-December 2014 -
Vol 4, Issue 2, Print – ISSN 2231-1769
19. Vijila Kennedy (2015), published a paper titled
"Impact of Institutional Environment on
Career Success of Faculty in Higher
Education Institutions" in International
Journal of Management(IJM)– January 2015 -
Vol 6, Issue 1, Online - ISSN 0976-6510 Print
- ISSN 0976-6502 Impact Factor (2014) -
7.22
20. Sangeetha S & Ambrose Arvin, published a
paper titled " Determination of Expected
Loss and Credit Risk Using Basel Ii's
Internal Rating Based Approach (IRB)
"International Journal Of Engineering
Research and General Science VOl.3, Issue 1,
January- February Edition, page 1161-1165
ISSN 2091-2730. Impact Factor of 3.843
21. Nedunchezhian V R & Hemalatha K (2015),
published a paper titled " An Analysis of
Weak Form Efficiency in Sectoral Indices: A
Study with a Special Reference to National
Stock Exchange in India" in Indian Journal
Of Applied Research VOl.5, Issue 3 , March
2015, page 197-200 ISSN 2249-555X
22. Nalini P (2015) published a paper entitled
"Consumer Awareness on Environmental
Issues and its Impact on Consumer Green
Product Purchase Behaviour" in the Book
proceedings under the theme Evidence Based
Management 2015(ICEBM 2015) organized by
Department of Management Studies, Birla
institute of technology & Science, Pilani
campus, Rajasthan on March 20-21, 2015, Vol
2, ,page 151-158, IBSN: 978-93-84935-18-4
23. Sangeetha S and Chitra K (2015), published
their research paper t it led " Indian
Microfinance Institutions - Are they
Financially Sustainable? - An empirical
study in Book proceedings under the theme
Evidence based Management practices in
Economics & Finance. The paper was
published by Birla Institute of Technology &
Science, Pilani, Rajasthan on March 20-21,
2015. Vol 1, Pages: 233-241. ISBN: 978-93-
84935-18-4
24. Kaarthiekheyan V and Sarasvathi T A (2015),
published a paper titled “Leveraging Social
Media Platforms for Market Development”
in the book proceedings of the International
Conference on 'Make in India – The Road
Ahead' jointly hoisted by Gandhigram Rural
I n s t i t u t e o f M a n a g e m e n t , M a d r a s
Management Association, National Institute of
Personnel Management and National ISTE
chapter conducted at Vivekananda Institute of
Information and Management Studies on
February 27, 2015. Pages: 193-197; ISBN:
978-81-910601-0-2
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25. Nedunchezhian VR and Nemavathi K S (2015),
published a research article titled “A
Comparative Study of Inter-Day and Intra-
Day Volatility Using Nifty” in International
Journal of Current Research, Vol 7, Issue 03,
March 2015 ,Pp.14112-14115, ISSN: 0975-
833X
26. Nalini P and Muruganandam Duraiswamy
(2015), published a paper titled “Students
Attitude and Preference on Marketing
Strategies of Business Schools” in
I n t e r na t i ona l J ou rna l o f E x c l u s i v e
Management Research , Special Issue-April
2015,Pages 216-222,Online:ISSN 2249-
2585,Print:ISSN 2249-8672. Impact factor-
5.76
27. Sangeetha S and Divya R (2015), published a
paper titled "Dwindling Crude Prices and Its
Upshot on Oil Exploration and Refining
Companies' Scrips", in ZENITH International
Journal of Business Economics & Management
Research ZIJBEMR, Vol.5 (5), MAY (2015), pp.
164-174, ISSN 2249- 8826. Index
Copernicus Value of Journal: 5.19. Impact
Factor ZIJBEMR is 4.134
28. Vinayagasundaram R & Kannan V (2015)
published paper titled 'Implementation of
Lean Manufacturing Practices and its
Impact on Productivity in Coimbatore
Foundries' in International Journal of Modern
Engineering and Research - Volume 5- Issue 5,
May 2015 – pp;62 - 69 ;ISSN - 2249- 6645
(Impact factor 1.227 by AQCJ and IC value
5.09 by Index Copernicus)
29. Nedunchezhian V R & Hemalatha K (2015)
published paper titled “ An Analysis on Weak
Form Efficiency of CNX IT- The Special
Evidence from National Stock Exchange”
in SS International Journal of Business and
Management Research (SSIJBMR)- Volume 5-
Issue 3, May 2015 – pp: 12 - 20 ;ISSN -2231-
4970
30. Nedunchezhian V R & Sivaraam Duraisamy
(2015) published paper titled “ A study on the
Impact of GDP Per Capita on Global
Competitiveness Index” in International
Journal of Engineering and Management
Research (IJEMR)- Volume 5- Issue 5, May
2015 – pp: 1 - 14 ;Online ISSN -2249- 2585,
Print ISSN-2249-8672. Index Copernicus
Value of Journal: 5.86
31. Mary Cherian (2015) published paper titled
“Determinants of Store Choice in Grocery
Retailing” in International Journal of Asian
Academic Research – Journal of Social Science
& Humanities (AARJSH)- Volume 1- Issue 35,
May 2015 – pp: 357 - 369 ; ISSN-2278-859X
32. Kaarthiekheyan V & Sarasvathi T A (2015)
published paper titled “Social Media
Platforms for Market Development: A
study among MSME Enterprises in
Coimbatore “ in International Journal of
Science, Technology and Management Volume
4- Issue 5, May 2015 – pp: 61 - 66 ;Online
ISSN -2394- 1537
33. Vijila Kennedy and Sahana A(2015) published
a paper titled “Assessing the Pedagogical
Competencies of Affiliated B-School
Facu l ty Members Us ing Pr inc ipa l
Component Analysis” in International
J o u r na l o f Commer c e , Bu s i n e s s &
Management (IJCBM),Vol.4,No:2 , April 2015,
pp. 1150-1155 ,ISSN 2319- 2828
34. Vijila Kennedy and Sahana A(2015) published
a paper titled “ An Analysis of Competency
of Management teachers in Using Different
Teaching Methods in Affiliated Colleges in
Bengaluru” in IOSR Journal of Research &
Method in Education (IOSR-JRME),Vol.5,Issue
3,Ver1 , May-June 2015, pp. 8-16 ,e-ISSN
2320- 7388,p-ISSN 2320-737X
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35. Vijila Kennedy and Sahana A(2015) published
a paper titled “Analysis of the Influence of
Demographic Factors on the Cognitive
Domain of B-School Faculty in Bengaluru “
in Research Journal of Commerce &
Behavioural Science Method in Education
(RJCBS),Vol.4,No:7,Ver1 , May 2015, pp. 32-
40 , ISSN 2251- 1547,Impact Factor 0f
RJCBS 3.139
36. Vijila Kennedy and Sahana A(2015) published
an article titled "A Competency Model for
Determining the Profile of B-School
Faculty in Bangalore “ in Transforming
Management Education for Sustainable
Tomorrow , by AIMA All India Management
Association in association with Excel Books
,May-June 2015, pp. 57-66 , ISBN 978-81-
8323-105-3
37. Viji la Kennedy and Sahana A(2015)
“Competency Mapping of Management
Faculty as a Tool for Sustainable
Development” in Sustainable Development,
Chapter- 7, Research India Publications (RIP)
May-June 2015, pp. 81-93, ISBN 978-93-
84443-03-0
38. Kirupa Priyadarsini M and Divya G (2015)
publ ished a paper t i t led “Exploring
Re l a t i o n s h i p b e t w e e n Pe r c e i ve d
Investment in Employee Development,
Satisfaction, Commitment and Stay
Intent“ in 3rd International Conference
proceedings on the Managing Human
Resources At the Workplace. ISBN: 978-93-
83302-01-7
39. Kirupa Priyadarsini M and Nithyagowri P
( 2 0 1 5 ) p u b l i s h e d a p a p e r t i t l e d
”Effectiveness of 360 Degree Perceptual
Approach in School Education” in TRANS
Asian Journal of Marketing & Management
Research . Vol-3; Issue.6; pp-14-22;
ISSN: 2279-0667
40. Kirupa Priyadarsini M and Nithyagowri P
(2015) published a paper titled “A study on
the influence of HR practices on teacher's
perceived organizational support –
Udumalpet “in International Journal of
Research in IT, Management and
Engineering", ISSN 2249-1619,Volume
5,Issue 4,April 2015,page no.39-48, Impact
Factor:5.309
41. Kirupa Priyadarsini M and Divya Muthusamy
(2015) published a paper titled “A study on
Organ iza t iona l S i l ence based on
Demographic Profiles” in International
Journal in Management and Social Science
I S S N : 2 3 2 1 - 1 7 4 8 , Vo l u m e 3 - I s s u e
4,,(April2015)page 557-566, Impact factor-
3.25
42. Priya Dharshini A and
Chandrakumarmangalam S (2015) published
a paper titled “Ant Colony Optimization for
Competency Based Learning Objects
Sequencing in e-Learning “ in Elsevier
Journal of Appl ied Mathematics And
Computation 263, , May 2015 – pp: 332 - 341 ;
ISSN-0096-3003 .
43. Poongodi B and Bogarappu Nikhil (2015)
published a paper tit led “Impact of
MGNREGA on Sustaining Agricultural
Labour - A Case Study” in The Journal of
Ag roeco l ogy and Na tu ra l Resou r ce
Management (JANRM), with Print ISSN 2394-
0786 pub l i shed by Kr i sh i Sanskr i t i
Publications, New Delhi, in Vol.2, No.2,
44. Lakshmi Subbramani and Arivazhagan G
(2015) published a paper titled ”Need for
Emotional Intelligence and Creativity
among B-School Students to Survive in the
Competitive Market” in European Journal of
Commerce & Management Research
(EJCMR),Special Issue 1, pp. 272-277.
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1. Jaisankar S presented a paper titled
“Inventory Management for FMCG
Products using Simulation” at the
International Conference on Sustain,
Transform & Transcend, held at PSG Institute
of Management on August 7- 8, 2014
2. Senthil Kumar A and Sowmiya A presented a
research paper tit led “Comovements
between the Indian and Chinese Stock
Markets – An Analytical Study” at the
Golden Jubilee International Conferences at
PSG Institute of Management, Coimbatore
during August 07-08, 2014
3. Lakshmi Meera B L presented a paper titled
“Map the Relationship of Lean SCM
Pract ices on Green Supply Cha in
Management Practices – A Case study “at
the 5 th Internat ional conference on
D e v e l o p m e n t Po l i c y o r g a n i z e d b y
Avinashilingam University, Coimbatore and
The Institute of Finance Management,
Tanzania held at Avinashlingam University
Coimbatore on August 21-22, 2014
4. Kirupa Priyadarsini M and Divya G presented a
paper on "Exploring Relationship between
Perceived Investment in Employee
Development, Satisfaction, Commitment
and Stay Intent” at the 3rd International
Conference on Managing Human Resources at
the Workplace on December 5 & 6, 2014 at
SDM IMD, Mysore, India
5. Senthil Prakash P and Anitha J presented a
paper on "Environmental Factors and Job
Embeddedness : A S tudy on the
Relationship with Locus of Control as
Moderator" at the 3 rd International
Conference on Managing Human Resources at
the Workplace on December 5 & 6, 2014 at
SDM IMD , Mysore, India
6. Viji la Kennedy presented a paper on
“Antecedents of Institutional Commitment
in Higher Educational Institutions “at the
3rd International Conference on Managing
Human Resources at the Workplace on
December 5 & 6, 2014 at SDM IMD, Mysore,
India
7. Mohanamani P presented a paper on "A Study
on Causal Relationship between Foreign
Institutional Investments, Stock Market
and Exchange Rate in India." at the second
International Conference on Business
Analytics and Intelligence (ICBAI) held at
Department of Management Studies (DoMS),
Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore on
December 18- 20, 2014
8. Sarasvathi T A and Raveendran presented a
paper on “ A Study on the Adoption of Cloud
Based ERP Solutions for Analyzing the
Reasons for Poor Acceptability among the
I n d u s t r i e s i n S o u t h I n d i a ”
a t the In ternat iona l Conference on
In fo rmat ion Sys tems Research and
Teaching (ICISRT-2014) held at the Indian
Inst i tute of Management, Indore on
December 22-23, 2014
9. Mohanamani.P presented a paper on
"Corporate Social responsibility in Indian
organizations" in the National Conference
on "New Age Solutions for Managing
New Challenges" at Berchmans Institute
of Management Studies, St. Berchmans
Co l lege, Changanacherry, Kera la on
January 15 & 16, 2015
10. Vijila Kennedy presented a paper titled
“Impact of Institutional Environment on
Career Success of Faculty in Higher
Education Institutions” at the International
Conference on Advanced Management-
Challenges in Knowledge Era (ICMA 2015)
organized by Jamal Institute of Management
,Jamal Mohamed College, Tiruchirapalli, Tamil
Nadu on January 8 & 9, 2015
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11. Kaarthiekheyan V and Sarasvathi T A
presented a paper titled “Leveraging Social
Media Platforms for Market Development”
at the International Conference on 'Make in
India – The Road Ahead' jointly hoisted by
Gandhigram Rural Institute of Management,
Madras Management Association, National
Institute of Personnel Management and
National ISTE chapter conducted at
Vivekananda Institute of Information and
Management Studies on February 27 , 2015
12. Sangeetha S and Divya R, presented a paper
on "Consortium loans and its effects on
NPA with Special reference to Kingfisher
Airlines " in the National Conference on
Emerging Trends in Financial Market Strategic
Challenges, opportunities and Operational
Issues held at Kongu Engineering College,
Perundurai on March 6, 2015.
13. Nedunchezhian V R and Thirunavukkarasu A ,
presented a paper titled “Study on Service
Loyalty of Air l ines Frequent Flyer
Passengers” in the Global Conference
on Managing in Recover ing Markets
(GCMRM 2015 : CONFLUENCE OF GLOBAL
STRATEGIES) organized by MDI Gurgaon on
March 11-13, 2015
14. Sangeetha S presented a research paper titled
"Indian Microfinance Institutions - Are
they Financially Sustainable?- An Empirical
Study” in the International Conference on
Evidence Based Management at Birla Institute
of Technology & Science, Pilani, Rajasthan on
March 20-21, 2015.
15. Nalini P presented a paper titled "Consumer
Awareness on Environmental Issues and
its Impact on Consumer Green Product
Purchase Behaviour" in the International
conference on Evidence Based Management
2015(ICEBM 2015) organized by Department
of Management studies, Birla Institute of
Technology & Science, Pilani campus,
Rajasthan on March 20-21, 2015
16. Nalini P presented a paper titled “Students
Attitude and Preference on Marketing rdStrategies of Business Schools” at the 3
National Conference on Business Paradigms
for Emerging Indian Economy organized by
Department of Management Studies at Erode
Sengunthar Engineering College , Erode on
April 17, 2015
17. Sangeetha S presented a paper titled
“Dwindling Crude Prices and Its Upshot on
Oil Exploration and Refining Companies'
Scrips” at the National Conference on Indian
Business Management at Sri Ramakrishna
Institute of Technology, Coimbatore on
April 25, 2015.
18. Sangeetha S presented a paper titled “Impact
of Pre & Post Budget Announcements and
Its Implications on Stock Returns for the
Study Period (2005-2015)”at the National
Conference on Indian Business Management
at Sri Ramakrishna Institute of Technology,
Coimbatore on April 25, 2015. The Paper was
selected as the Best paper in the conference.
19. Poongodi B presented a paper on “Impact of
MGNREGA on Sustaining Agricultural
Labour – A Case Study” at the International
Conference on Agriculture, Food Engineering
and Environmental Science- Sustainable
Approaches (AFESA-2015) organized by
“Krishi Sanskriti” at Jawaharlal Nehru
University on May 9-10, 2015
20. Kirupa Priyadarsini M and Praveen Kumar T
(2014) presented a paper titled ” CSR and its
performance -a stake holder perspective
with reference to selected public sector
banks in Chennai ” at The 9th Yale - Great
Lakes Research Conference at Great Lakes
Chennai on December 29, 2014
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COLLABORATION
ACADEMICS I FACULTY I I COLLABORATION I STUDENT WORLD I OUTREACH INITIATIVESRESEARCH
An Executive Development Program on Project
Management Professional, PMP Certification was
organized by the Centre for Operations at KCT
Business School for working
professionals in service and
manufacturing firms. The
program objective was to
impart knowledge and skills
essent ia l for a project
manager on successfu l
completion of projects.
The program was structured
with four modules starting
from November 15, 2014 to
January 10, 2015. The
program covered the Project
Management terminologies,
global standard for project
management, fundamental
practices needed to achieve
organizational results and excellence in the
practice of project management.
Project Management Professional (PMP) Certication
Executive Development Program
21. Hemanalini R (2015)presented a paper titled
“Analysis of Socio economic issues of
women employees' in tobacco industries-
with reference to women bidi workers in
Tamil Nadu” at the Global Conference on
“Managing in Recovering Markets “GGMRM,
organized by Management Development
Institute, Gurgaon on March 11-13, 2015
22. Priya Dharshini A (2015) presented a paper
titled “Role of Cloud in Integrating
K n o w l e d g e M a n a g e m e n t a n d
E Learning System” at the International
Conference on “Advances in Computing,
Control, Communicat ion, Automation
and Structural Engineering “ACCCAS, in
Al-Ameen Engineering College , Erode on
April 10-11, 2015
23. Lakshmi Subbramani (2015) presented a
paper titled “Role of Intelligence and
Creativity in the Academic Achievement
among B-School Students” at the National
Conference on “ New Age Solutions for
Managing New Challenges “,organized by
Berchmans Institute of Management Studies,
Kerala on January 15-16, 2015
24. Lakshmi Subbramani (2015) presented a
paper t i t led “Need for Emotional
Intelligence and Creativity among B-
School Students to Survive in the
Competitive Market” at the National
Conference on “Managing Turbulence in
Business “organized by Adithya School of
Business on February 21, 2015
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KCT.BS conducted a 6 months Customized
Executive Development Course on Management &
Leadership for Aries Agro Limited, Mumbai. This
course was conducted for 60 mid career executives
of Aries Agro Ltd pan-India, who are aspiring to
grow, learn and progress along the experience
curve.
The Executive Development Program was uniquely
designed to the needs of Aries Agro Ltd which will
run in 3 Modules.
Module 1 is residential, conducted at KCT.BS from
May 4-16, 2015 focused on Fundamentals of
Management and Leadership. This module was
packed with lectures, discussions, group work,
field visits, extra-mural training and experiential
learning. To build in holistic development for the
participants, yoga, meditation, sports and other
activities were included.
Module 2 is on -site, where the participants will
carry out a Field Study in their domain from
June 1 - December 1, 2015 and the study will be
guided by the faculty of KCT.BS and the executives
of Aries Agro Ltd
Module 3 is residential, to be conducted at KCT.BS
from December 19 - 28, 2015 focuses on
Management and Leadership - Advanced Level,
wh i c h i n c l u d e s p r o j e c t p r e s en t a t i o n ,
implementation of new management techniques
and bringing changes & transformation in the
organization.
ACADEMICS I FACULTY I RESEARCH I I STUDENT WORLD I OUTREACH INITIATIVESCOLLABORATION
Management & Leadership
Management Development ProgramBuilding Excellence at Work Place
The III edition of the Management Development
Program on "Building Excellence at Workplace"
started on July 23, 2014 with Mr.Niranjan.P, Country
Head Cameron Manufacturing India inaugurating
the program. The week long intensive program
focused on bringing out the best in the participants.
There were 30 participants who took part in the
program. The sessions revolved around self,
interpersonal and organizational context. The
facilitators for the program were from across
Tamil Nadu, sessions on yoga, the human face of the
ACADEMICS I FACULTY I RESEARCH I I STUDENT WORLD I OUTREACH INITIATIVESCOLLABORATION
organization, workplace ethics etc., were well
received by the participants. The week long
program also had outbound sessions that
facilitated the members to work in teams and
enhance their working styles.
The IV edition of the Management Development
Program on “Building Excellence at WorkPlace”
was organized from December 10- 17, 2014 for
the IV batch of middle level managers of Cameron
Manufacturing (India) Pvt Ltd. It was a weeklong
intensive program to build the behavioral skills of
the participants. The inaugural session had special
guests, Mr.Wayne Finger VP- HR from Houston and
Ms.Dawn Brady, Director HR from Singapore.
In the inaugural address Mr.Wayne discussed
about how the vision/mission/values system of
any organization gets its credit when it gets
instilled in the minds of its members. With this
note, he was able to set the context to the
participants about the program. Ms. Dawn Brown,
in her address to the participants reiterated on an
interesting career path model of 2x2x2. i.e., one's
career flow path should encompass 2 functional
r e s p o n s i b i l i t i e s , 2 l o c a t i o n s , a n d 2
regions/geographies. She urged everyone to be
open to such possibilities in their organization
Optimizing Productivity throughLean Six Sigma
The Centre for Operat ions organized a
Management Deve lopment Program on
Optimizing Productivity through Lean Six Sigma
for working professionals in manufacturing
organizations on December 10 & 11, 2014. The
program was facilitated by Mr. Johanan A Daniel,
Senior Consultant, Six Sigma Master Black Belt,
Coach, Trainer and MD Juran Academy(India). The
main objectives of the program were to introduce
the participants to the concepts of Lean, Six Sigma
and Lean Six Sigma methodologies, to provide
information on how to select and conduct Lean Six
Sigma projects and to introduce the tools and
techniques of Lean Six Sigma.
ManagementDevelopmentProgramonOptimizingProductivitythroughLeanSixSigmaforworkingprofessionalsinmanufacturingorganizations
Marketing Training for
Frontline Staffs of India Post
KCT Business School conducted training on
marketing skills for 286 employees of Department
of Post, Government of India as a part of Project
Arrow. KCT Business School equipped the
employees of India Post through soft skill training
in relation to marketing for better customer
services. The training series conducted in six
batches commenced on January 30, 2015. The
training was conducted based on two different
themes: “Managing the services” and “Managing
the customers”.
Excel for Insurance Professionals
A Management Development
training on Excel basic and Excel
fi n a n c e a p p l i c a t i o n w a s
o r g a n i z e d f o r i n s u r a n c e
professionals by Centre for
Finance and Centre for System
on September, 20 and 26, 2014.
TrainingonExcelbasicandExcel�inanceapplicationforinsuranceprofessionals
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A training program was conducted for
supervisors working in manufacturing
units located in SIDCO, Kurichi,
Coimbatore on Lean Tools partnering
with Coimbatore SIDCO Industrial
Estate Manufacturing Association,
COSIEMA. The objective was to impart
knowledge and skills essential for
supervisors on usage of Lean Tools for
productivity enhancement, quality
improvement, wastage elimination,
cos t reduct ion, and customer
satisfaction. The training modules to
implement Lean Tools included 5S,
Poke-Yoke, JIT, Visual Controls,
Cellular Layout, SMED, and VSM in
their workplace.
The uniqueness of the program was
that the training sessions were
conducted over 4 weekends and during
weekdays the trainers visited the
participating companies and hand held
them to implement the Lean Tools.
Follow-up activity was monitored by
periodic visit to the participating
industries for process improvement
and implementation of tools. During
every subsequent sess ion the
participants demonstrated as to how
they actually implemented the Lean
Tools in their workplace. The entire
training was delivered in Tamil. Tools
were explained with videos, games,
discussions and quiz.
TrainingLean Tools for SME's
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50 students of IMBA (2014 -16 Batch) visited,
THE HINDU-Printing Unit, Coimbatore on
September 20, 2014. The visit provided an
opportunity for the students to understand the
newspaper printing process and gain real-time
industry exposure. The students learnt about the
various stages in the printing process, quality
checks, and automated packaging.
Student Visits to Companies
50 students of IMBA 2014 -16 Batch visited
ITC -PSPD Paper P lant , Karamada i on
September 20, 2014. The visit provided an
opportunity for the students to understand the
paper production process and gain real-time
industry exposure. The students were taken
through the various stages in the paper production
process, quality checks, and packaging.
48 students of MBA batch 2013 & 2014 visited
Sundaram Auto Components Limited - Chennai
on November 15, 2014 to understand the
manufacturing practices being followed in their
organization. The visit started with an
orientation on the company history and its
various departments. The students were taken
through the s tages invo lved in the
manufacturing of plastic auto components
through moulding process.
ACADEMICS I FACULTY I RESEARCH I I STUDENT WORLD I OUTREACH INITIATIVESCOLLABORATION
48 students of MBA batch 2013
& 2014 visited DELL - Chennai
on November 15, 2014 to
understand the assembly
process being followed in their
organization. The students were
taken through the stages
involved in the assembly process
of building laptop, desktop and
server. The processes o f
assembling the computers are
ful ly automated and they
manufacture according to the
order placed on-line. Various
quality control charts were used
and students asked about
quality control procedures
followed in DELL.
53 students of Batch 2014-16 visited ABT
Industries Limited – Dairy Division, Pollachi on
May 9, 2015. The visit provided an opportunity
for the students to understand the various
stages of milk production process, bi-products
(Ghee, Butter, Paneer) production, milk
storage, silos and packaging. The students
learnt about operation processes involved in a
dairy industry and also about various quality
checks in milk processing and distribution to
wholesalers and retailers.
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Industry Experts Share Knowledge with Students
KCT.BS believes in promotion of strong links with industry and industrial activities. To enable this, speakers
from the industry are frequently invited to share their expertise with the students.
The speakers who addressed the student during the academic year 2014-15 were as follows
Date Facilitator Topic
November 3, 2014Premanand Jothy Joint Commissioner - Income Tax, Mumbai
Role of Fiscal Policy in Economic
Development
November 3, 2014Arun Aravind & Sarath NairCluster Head, Tamil Nadu
Mahesh Krishnamurthy Senior Credit Manager, HDFC Bank Ltd, Coimbatore.
Institutional and Trade Credit
November 5, 2014Kumar KProgram Manager / Consultant-SAP
e-Supply Chain Management
November 5, 2014Rajesh Arumugam Senior Manager- Assembly & Testing,
ZF Wind Power Coimbatore Limited, Coimbatore.
Production Planning and Control
Strategies
November 6, 2014Bindu.N.Nair Managing Trustee- AROH Foundations, Coimbatore.
Strategies for Not-for-Profit
organizations
November 7, 2014Ravi KChief Financial Officer,
Roots Group of Companies, Coimbatore
Breakeven Point and Marginal
Costing applications in
manufacturing organizations
November 7, 2014Koushik Rajendran Co-Founder, Healtho5 India
Managing Technology and
Innovation
November 10, 2014Ranjana Singal Partner, The Terra Co
(That's Y Food and On the Go Coimbatore)
Services Marketing Strategies in
Hotel Industry
ACADEMICS I FACULTY I RESEARCH I I STUDENT WORLD I OUTREACH INITIATIVESCOLLABORATION
November 12, 2014Shanmuga Rajan Head – BFSI Division, Testree Solutions,
Bangalore
Application of Business
Intelligence in Industry
November 13, 2014Mohan K AGM & Regional Head,
Federal Bank Ltd, Coimbatore
Service Innovation & Strategies of
Federal Bank
November 13, 2014
Maharaja Muthukumar Solution Architect Head Delivery,
Microsoft Dynamics,
Techknowledge Consulting Group Chennai
Microsoft Dynamics ERP in
Industry
November 17, 2014Sujatha NAManager Marketing-Brookfields, Coimbatore.
Consumer Behaviour in the
Indian context
November 12, 2014Peter Arokiam Managing Director,
Manickam Radiators Pvt.Ltd, Coimbatore.
Strategies for Family Managed
Business
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Date Facilitator Topic
November 18, 2014Kalyanamoorthy SDV international Logistics Limited
Breakeven Point and Marginal Costing
applications in manufacturing organizations
November 19, 2014Ravi Life Skills Coach and Trainer
Time Management skills
November 21, 2014Dhanalakshmi BSenior Manager – Finance,
Lakshmi Machine Works Limited, Coimbatore.
Corporate Financial Budgeting and
Control practices
November 21, 2014Dr.Radhika Meenakshi Shankar Founder,Wise Owl Consultancy, Hyderabad
Entrepreneurial Insights
November 25, 2014Leo Arun Corporate Trainer and lead-CSR
Pricol Corporate Services LtdSustainable CSR – From Ideas to Action
November 28, 2014
Samuel D Rajkumar Deputy GM, HR, ITC ltd. Paper Board Unit
Sasirekha Venkatesh Chartered Accountant, Vengatesh & Co
Prof. Swaminathan SHead Corporate Relations, KCT-BS
Corporate Governance and Compliance
Management
December 4, 2014Vijayaraghavan RChief – Training,
Sakthi Excellence Academy Coimbatore
Negotiable Instruments -
A Banker's perspective
February 4,2015Santhosh RamdossIndependent Consultant
Careers in Social Impact
February 20,2015MuruganathanClient Relationship Manager
Metayage
Intellectual Property/Patents Rights
February 21,2015Narendran TVice President, Finance and Admin
Aqua Group, Coimbatore
Changing roles of CFOs in
Dynamic Business Environment
March 7, 2015Muthu KumarMD, Launchpad
Orientation on career opportunities
for MBAs
ACADEMICS I FACULTY I RESEARCH I I STUDENT WORLD I OUTREACH INITIATIVESCOLLABORATION
March 18, 2015Dr. Manikandan Sundaresan CEO,
Youth Corp Training Solutions , Pollachi
Workplace Professionalism
April 28, 2015Vandhematharam A MadhavanZone Trainer
Junior Chamber International - India
Safety and Health at Work
May 11, 2015Sundararaman RManager, Ford India. Coimbatore
Integrated Materials Management
May 16, 2015Ayyaswamy K RAsst. Director (Retd)
Reserve Bank of India , MumbaiConsumer Behaviour in the Indian context
March 9, 2015Johanan Daniel EMD & Principal Consultant,
Juran Academy (P) Limited, Chennai
Orientation on Lean Six Sigma Yellow Belt
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We Connect Across the Globe…Dr. S. Jimmy Gandhi, Assistant Professor,
Depar tment o f Manufac tur ing Systems
Engineering & Management & Director, Ernie
Schaffer Center for Innovation & Entrepreneurship
College of Engineering & Computer Science,
California State University, Northridge was in KCT
campus on August 04, 2014
Dr. Takako Hashimoto, Associate Professor, Chiba
University of Commerce Coordinator, (IEEE R10
Asia Pacific Region) Women In Engineering Chair,
IEEE Japan Council Women In Engineering Affinity
Group visited KCT BS on August 5, 2014 to discuss
research collaboration possibilities with KCT
Business School.
Interactive discussion on curriculum, pedagogy, assessments, projects, student
support services, student engagement, outreach, career guidance and IT in
academics and other academic processes from student perspective of doing
MBA , was shared by Ms. Huldah Sheena, a MBA graduate from the Bentley
University, USA on January 6, 2015 with faculty of KCT Business School .
ACADEMICS I FACULTY I RESEARCH I I STUDENT WORLD I OUTREACH INITIATIVESCOLLABORATION
Dr.TakakoHashimotoduringhercollaborationtalkswithKCTBusinessSchoolKCTBSFacultyinteractingwithDr.JimmySGandhi
Ms.HuldahSheena,sharingstudents'perspectiveofMBA
Mr. Rob Meikle, Chief Information
Officer (CIO) for the City of
Toronto, Cananda addressed MBA
students of Batch 2014-16 on
January 22, 2015. He spoke on the
effective use of Information
Technology in Public Governance
adopted by the city of Toronto. He
emphasized that students should
be the change and take charge
and lead the way, by using their
innate talents
RobMiekle,ChiefInformationOf�icerofTorontoduringaninteractivesessionatKCTBusinessSchool
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Dr. Gary Sussman, representative of Tel Aviv University
visited the campus on January 25, 2015. Dr. Gary
discussed collaboration with KCT Business School like
Student Exchange, Executive MBA Programs etc
35 students of II MBA Batch
2 0 1 3 - 1 5 w e n t o n a n
international field trip to Kuala
L umpu r, Ma l ay s i a f r om
January 29- February 3, 2015.
As part of the Cross Cultural
Management course, students
visited Malaysia to study the
cultural differences within
Asian countries. They also
visited TAMCO Switchgear (M)
S D H B H D a n d t o H E L P
University
Prof Joseph Klafter President Tel Aviv
University, Israel and Dr. Gary
Sussman, Co-Founder Ben Simon
Sussman Capital visited, KCT
Business School on March 28, 2015
to further explore the possibilities of
Executive MBA Program, Curriculum
Development, and Executive PGMS.
ACADEMICS I FACULTY I RESEARCH I I STUDENT WORLD I OUTREACH INITIATIVESCOLLABORATION
Dr.GarySussmanfromTelAvivUniversityduringhisvisittoKCTBusinessSchooll
StudentsofBatch2013-15duringtheirInternationalStudyTourtoMalaysia
ProfJosephKlafter,PresidentTelAvivUniversitydiscussingcollaborativetalks
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AlumniAn alumni interaction session with Mr.Karthi, Sr.Analyst of BEROE
was organized on October 6, 2014 to interact with students of batch
2013-15 and give them necessary inputs for the students appearing
for placement during BEROE Drive.
On Novembe r 18 , 2014 ,
M r.Kab i l an Chak rava r thy,
Manager HR, Greeno Tech
Solutions Pvt Ltd Coimbatore,
spoke to students of Batch
2014-16 on "Life after MBA”. He
emphasized the importance of
having a good resume with
real ist ic career object ive,
attitude building, the need to
understand job description,
certification courses and to hone
skills sets and stressed to have
focused mind towards career. He
also spoke on the industry
expectations. Kabilan is an
alumnus of KCT Business School.
2 1 A l u m n i m e m b e r s o f
KCT Business School attended the
Global Alumni meet organized by
KCT on December 20 & 21, 2014.
They discussed with faculty about
their experience in their jobs, as
well the industry requirements and
the need for improvisation in the
curriculum.
Alumni Meet
Alumni Talk
About 150 student alumni of Batch
2011-13 and 2012-14 attended the
alumni meet on March 28, 2015 They
shared their perspectives on the job
experiences, curriculum design and
Specializations.
The Center for Corporate Relations started the
Placement schedule for II MBA students
Batch 2013-15 by conducting a 3 day “Placement
Competency Assessment Camp”. The program
was conducted from August 7 to 9, 2014.
The camp started with a parent's meet, wherein
166 students attended the meeting out of which
155 students were present with their parents. Dr.
Vijila Kennedy, Director addressed the parents and
briefed about the various activities of the B school
and the efforts taken to bring about all-round
development in students. Prof. Swaminathan,
Head-Corporate Relations spoke about the
importance of Training & Placements and the role
each stakeholder needs to play for achieving the
objective. Ms. Gokilavani, Lead-Trainer briefed
about training plans for next 3 months and
Mr. Sridhar Babu Lead-Corporate Relations spoke
about the achievement of placement centre during
the last two years and the process to be followed
for the forth coming placement season.
A mid review of the student's performance was
conducted along the same parameters. A
comparative study was conducted and the
statement was sent to the parents along with the
placement track records
PLACEMENT ASSESMENT CAMP
STUDENT WORLD
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Student AssociationThe Student Association body of KCT Business
School is structured to mould and guide the
students' in becoming brand ambassadors of the
Business School. It aims at fostering discipline,
brotherhood, exposure to real time management
situations, encouraging talent and camaderie. The
selection process included a Personal Interview
w i t h t h e s t u d e n t s a n d f a c u l t y o n
September 13 & 17, 2014.
The investiture ceremony of the Student
A s s o c i a t i o n 2 0 1 4 - 1 5 w a s h e l d o n
October 16, 2014. Mr.Arun Kumar, Show Producer
at Radio City 91.1 fm was the chief guest and he
enlightened the office bearers & students on
“how student should react to the options in the
world”. Presidential address was given by
Shri Shankar Vanavarayar Joint Correspondent,
KCT. His thoughts were vibrant and inspiring, he
also quoted that “lion grows into the role and it's
not coronated as the king”. The program ended
with an oath taking by the office bearers of 2014-
15 led by the CEO of the association Tharun S J II
MBA.
The elected office bearers are as follows
Chief Operating Officer
Sarankumar.S
2013-15
Chief Executive Officer
Tharun.S.J
2013-15
Chief Placement Officer
Javed.J
2013-15
Marketing Forum
Executive
Jeyalakshmi.M
2013-15
Finance Forum
Executive
Sridevi.S
2013-15
Systems Forum
Executive
Nirmal.A.V
2013-15
Operation Forum
Executive
Sabarison.S
2013-15
The or ientat ion o f the tenth batch o f
KCT Business School involved both the students
and parents. The objective of this program was to
create a comfort zone for the new students and
familiarize them with the culture of the B School.
The seniors welcomed the juniors, mentored and
guided them on the academics, co-curricular and
extracurricular activities of the business school.
The orientation program was followed by the
Freshers Learning Immersion Program(FLIP). This
initiative of KCT Business School is synonymous
with a bridge course and lays the basic foundation
for the two year MBA Program.
Orientation of Batch 2014-16
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Cultural League Executive
Hari.G
2013-15
Sports League Executive
Kasinathan.R.M
2013-15
Quiz League Executive
Vijay Chander .V
2013-15
DESIGNATION NAME BATCH
Vigneshwaran R
Hari Vimalesh D
PraveenKumar M
Santhosh G
Aruneesh N
Nandhini B
Aravind Kumar J
Suraj S Nair
Sharmila P
Suganya K R
Vishnuprabhu V
Manoj J
Abinaya G
Monisha A N
Chief Coordination Officer
Placement Coordinator
Batch Manager
Finance Forum Coordinator
Marketing Forum Coordinator
Operation Forum Coordinator
Systems Forum Coordinator
HR Forum Coordinator
2014-16
2014-16
2014-16
2014-16
2014-16
2014-16
2014-16
2014-16
2014-16
2014-16
2014-16
2014-16
2014-16
2014-16
Community League
Executive
Revathy.G
2013-15
HR Forum
Executive
Bhuvaneshkumar.M
2013-15
Adventure &
Photography
League Executive
Harisudhan.S
2013-15
Environment League
Executive
Vignesh.S
2013-15
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Shri Gowtham M
Preethi Jyotsna K
Dileepan S
Arrun Vignesh R
Sundeep A
Kishore Kumar M K
Community League Coordinator
Environment League Coordinator
Adventure & Photography League Coordinator
Sports League Coordinator
Cultural League Coordinator
Quiz League Coordinator
2014-16
2014-16
2014-16
2014-16
2014-16
2014-16
Semester RechargeStudents of Batch 2014-16 began their II
Semester on January 21, 2015 with a
2 day Recharge Camp. The camp was
hoisted to recap on the concepts learnt in
the previous semester and strengthen the
KCT BS values amongst the students, to
encourage them to set goals & targets for
personal development. The Recharge
camp gave the students an opportunity to
interact with two eminent speakers;
Mr.Krishna Entrepreneur, family business
consultant and leadership coach and
Mr. Rob Meikle, Chief Information Officer,
City of Toronto, Canada
Graduation 2015 The graduation ceremony of Class 2011-13 and
2012-14 MBA students of KCT Business School was
held on Saturday March 28, 2015 at Ramanandha
Adigalar Auditorium, Kumaraguru College of
Technology, Coimbatore. 116 students of Class 2013
and 156 students of Class 2014 received their MBA
Degrees. Prof. Joseph Klafter, President Tel Aviv
University, Israel awarded the Degrees accompanied by
Thiru. Shankar Vanavarayar, Joint Correspondent;
Dr. R.S.Kumar, Principal of Kumaraguru College of
Technology, Coimbatore and Dr. Vijila Kennedy, Director
of KCT Business School, Coimbatore . Addressing the
gathering of graduands, parents, faculty and students
of KCT Business School, he emphasized that both
cultures place a premium value on education, and the
young people – such as the youth – work very hard to
excel academically. He also reiterated that the
entrepreneurial spirit is flourishing in both our
countries. Democracy, diversity, education and
ambition; when you mix them together you get
dynamic enterprise which is the basic blueprint for
entrepreneurial ventures.
ACADEMICS I FACULTY I RESEARCH I COLLABORATION I I OUTREACH INITIATIVESSTUDENT WORLD
Founder's DayFounder's day was celebrated on March 21, 2015 with great fervor and reverence in memory of our late
beloved Chairman Padma Bhushan Dr. N. Mahalingam.
Students of KCT Business School were recipients' of various awards for excellence in academics and overall
activities
Jayashree P of Batch 2011-13
was awarded the Prof. Subbu
& M a r a g a t h a m S u b b u
Memorial Management gold
medal for excellence in
Academics.
Premalatha D of Batch
2012-14 was awarded the
Prof. Subbu & Maragatham
S u b b u M e m o r i a l
Management gold medal for
excellence in Academics
Raghavi S of Batch 2011-13
was awarded the Best Project
Award for the academic year
2012-13
Kulothungan M of Batch
2012-14 was adjudged the
Best Outgoing Student for the
academic year 2013-14
Ramkumar K o f Ba t ch
2012-14 was awarded the
Best Project Award for the
academic year 2013-14
Abi Adhithyan of Batch
2013-15 was adjudged the
Best Outgoing Student for the
academic year 2014-15
Mahatma Gandhi Scholarship
An astute Gandhian, Dr. N. Mahalingam has made social
contributions in numerous fields of socio-economic
spectrum and has benefitted scores of institutions and
individuals. To symbolize this intent, in 2006 he
instituted the annual Mahatma Gandhi Merit Scholarship
Awards. On the occasion of Founders Day on
March 21, 2015 fifty seven students from KCT Business
School received the Mahatma Gandhi Merit Scholarship
Awards worth Rs.5.7 lakhs. Thirty students from batch
2013-15 and twenty seven students from batch
2014-16 were recipients of this prestigious scholarship
ACADEMICS I FACULTY I RESEARCH I COLLABORATION I I OUTREACH INITIATIVESSTUDENT WORLD
Choosing a Specialization –A Career PerspectiveThe students of batch 2014-16 attended the orientation on
how to take the major decision of finalizing their area of
specialization on March 20, 2015. The Centre heads and their
representatives gave a brief presentation on the courses
available, Certification programs offered under each area of
specialization and the major career options available to them.
Student AchievementsSports
S.No Date Event Event
Organised byParticipants Batch Position
August 15-16,
2014
September 9-10,
2014
September 30 -
October 1, 2014
Volleyball
Handball
Anna university
Zone XI"
Hockey match
KCT
Sri Ramakrishna
college
Abi Adithiyan
Sathyan S
Prathip S
Arrun Vignesh R
2013-15
2013-15
2013-15
2014-16
Winner
Runner
Runner
1
2
3United College
of Technology
Abi Adithiyan January
21-23,2015Volleyball
Tournament
Sri Krishna
College of Engg.2013-15 Runner4
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Extra Curricular Activities
S.No Date EventEvent
Organised byParticipants Batch Position
Jagadeesh H
Javed J
Dheepan V SSeptember 29,
2014Business Quiz
Karunya
University
2013-15 I Prize
Overall
Winners
October 1, 2014
Dheepan V S
Praveen Kumar
Prabakaran S
Javed J
Jagadeesh H
Vimalkumar M
Abi Adhithiyan M N
Vimalkumar M
Arrun Vignesh R 2014-16
Finpoly
HR event
Quiz
Phalak Yuddha
Progyan 2014
National Level
Management
Meet,
Sastra
University
2013-15
I Prize
I Prize
I Prize
III Place
1
2
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October 15-16,
2014
Jamal College,
Trichy
Gowtham G
Kartic M C
Prabhakaran S
Jagadeesh H
Dheepan V S
Sasi Kumar T
Karthick Krishna Raj
Praveen kumar S
Abi Adhithiyan M N
2013-15
II Prize
I Prize
II Prize
II Prize
II Prize
Overall Runners
Best CEO Event
Financial
expert
Quiz
a-v-mix event
Stock wars
event
November 29,
2014
Operations
Game
Finance game
TNAU,
Coimbatore
Preethi K
Sivaranjani K
Hemajeya Keerthana
Sharmila
2014-16
I Prize
III Prize
November 7,
2014
Best Manager
Treasure Hunt
Best
Management
Team
Business Plan
RVS College of
Management
Gowtham G
Vikram N
Diwakar L
Sasikumar T
Yogeswaran M
Dheepan V S
Jagadeesh H
Dinesh Kishore
Praveen Kumar S
Jagadeesh H
Dheepan V S
2013-15
I Prize
III Prize
II Prize
III Prize
November 4 & 5,
2014
Best Manager
Business Quiz
Mangalam
College
of Technology,
Kottayam.
Gowtham G
Dheepan V S
Jagadeesh H
2013-15
II Prize
III Prize
3
4
5
6
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S.No Date Event Event
Organised byParticipants Batch Position
Baranidharan.B
Sivapragash.V.K
January
23 & 24, 2015
Pitstop Delta Amrita
School of
Business
2014-16 II Prize7Conqiestare
Divya K
Arun PrabakaranMarch 11, 2015
Merrill Lynch
competition
D J Academy
of Managerial
Excellence
2014-16 II Prize8
Jagdeesh H
Dheepan V SMarch 19, 2015
Tata Crucible
Business QuizTATA Crucible 2013-15 VI Place9
Kavishree. RApril 25, 2015
National
Conference on
Indian Business
Management
Sri
Ramakrishna
Institute of
Technology
2013-15 Best paper10
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SymposiumLogistics- Industry's Best Practices
The greatest challenge for a marketer is to satisfy the customers' needs and wants. There are chances even
for a product of good repute to fail, if it is not delivered at the right time, right place and at the right form to itʼs
end users. With this background idea, a one day symposium on Logistics – Industry's best practice was
organized for students of Marketing and Operations. The symposium was jointly organized by KCT Business
School and CII Institute of Logistics, Chennai. 140 participants had registered for the program. Industry
Delegates, Faculty, Research scholars and students from other institutions of Coimbatore and itʼs
neighborhood were present for the occasion.
Mr. K.Ashok Kumar, Assistant General Manager, Godrej Storage
Solutions, Chennai, Mr. C.M. Vijay Ramesh Vice President-
Exports, Roots Multi Clean Coimbatore, Mr. R.V. Mohan, General
Manager, Supply Chain Management, Pricol Limited
Coimbatore, Mr. Manoj, Area Manager, Dalmia Bharathi
Cements , Kerala and Ms. P. Uma Maheswari , Executive Officer ,
CII Institute of Logistics, Chennai were the dignitaries who
shared the dais for the day.
The symposium witnessed several contemporary and best
practices adopted by the industries in Logistics and the experts
shared their knowledge- as concepts, functions and practice for
value addition.
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1. Shabarikanth SV (Batch 2013) presented
a paper titled “Nano Technology &
Va r i o u s A p p l i c a t i o n s “ a t t h e
International Techno Cultural Fest, Arista
organized by the Department of
Information Technology, KITE on
September 11-12, 2014
2. Senthil Raj S (Batch 2013) presented a
paper titled “Cloud Computing “at the
International Techno Cultural Fest, Arista
organized by the Department of
Information Technology, KITE on
September 11-12, 2014
3. Javed J & Yogeshwaran (Batch 2013)
presented a paper titled “Mapping
Business Excellence – Marketing
Strategies” at Jamal College, Trichy on
October 15-16, 2014
4. Dheebika.G and Sharmila.P (Batch 2014)
presented a paper titled “Empowerment
is where evolution Began” at the
National Level Conference on Strategic
In tegra t ion and Ent repreneur ia l
Innovation organized by Department of
Management Studies, Karpagam College
of Engineering on November 15, 2014
5. Praveen Rajan.S and Jeyachandran R
(Batch 2014) presented a paper titled
“Work life Balance of an Entrepreneur”
at the National Level Conference on
Strategic Integration and Entrepreneurial
Innovation organized by Department of
Management Studies, Karpagam College
of Engineering on November 15, 2014
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Paper Publication by students
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6. Navin Aravinth R and Shanmitha R
(Batch 2014) presented a paper titled
“E th i cs and Va lues o f Ind ian
Entrepreneur” at the National Level
Conference on Strategic Integration and
Entrepreneurial Innovation organized by
Department of Management Studies,
Karpagam College of Engineering on
November 15, 2014
7. Jithu.K (Batch 2014) presented a paper
on "Corporate Social responsibility in
Indian organizations" in the National
Conference on "New Age Solutions for
Managing New Challenges" at Berchmans
Institute of Management Studies, St.
Berchmans College, Changanacherry,
Kerala on January 15 & 16, 2015
8. Vidyesh S (Batch 2014) presented a paper
titled “Role of Emotional Intelligence
a n d C r e a t i v i t y i n A c a d e m i c
Achievements in B-Schools” at
Berchmans Institute of Management
Studies, St . Berchmans Col lege,
C h a n g a n a c h e r r y , K e r a l a o n
January 15 & 16, 2015
9. Divya. R (Batch 2013), presented paper
titled “Dwindling Crude Prices and Its
Upshot on Oil Exploration and Refining
Companies' Scrips” at the National
Con fe rence on Ind i an Bus i ne s s
Management at Sri Ramakrishna
Institute of Technology, Coimbatore on
April 25, 2015.
10. Kavishree. R (Batch 2013), presented
paper titled “Impact of Pre & Post
Budget Announcements and Its
Implications on Stock Returns for the
Study Period (2005-2015)”at the
National Conference on Indian Business
Management at Sri Ramakrishna
Institute of Technology, Coimbatore on
April 25, 2015. The Paper was selected as
the Best paper in the conference.
11. Boggarappu Nikhil (2014) presented a
paper on “Impact of MGNREGA on
Sustaining Agricultural Labour – A
Case Study“ at the International
Conference on Agr icu l ture, Food
Engineering and Environmental Science-
Sustainable Approaches (AFESA-2015)
organized by “Krishi Sanskriti” at
Jawahar l a l Nehru Un ive rs i t y on
May 9-10, 2015
Sowmiya. A (Batch 2013) authored and
p resen ted a r e sea r ch pape r t i t l ed
“Comovements between the Indian and
Chinese stock markets – an analytical
study” at the Golden Jubilee International
Conferences at PSG Institute of Management,
Coimbatore on August 07-08, 2014. PSG
Institute of Management, PSG Centre for
Advertising & Communications, Vol.1/Issue 1,
p52 August 2014.
Divya.R (2015), published a paper titled
"Dwindling Crude Prices and Its Upshot on
Oil Exploration and Refining Companies'
Scrips", in ZENITH International Journal of
Business Economics & Management Research
ZIJBEMR, Vol.5 (5), MAY (2015), pp. 164-
174, ISSN 2249- 8826. Index Copernicus
Value of Journal: 5.19. Impact Factor
ZIJBEMR is 4.134
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Placement
Placement training on Aptitude, Group Discussion,
Extempore and effective handling of Interviews
have been given to students as part of the regular
placement training. Systematic Assessment Test
on the necessary pre-requisites for successfully
clearing an interview was conducted for batch
2013-15 and 2014-16. Company Specific
placement training conducted at regular intervals
has proven to help students clear the interviews
with ease. Apart from this regular placement
guidance counseling sessions were organized for
batch 2014-16.
Students have been offered summer placement
with stipend by the following companies
Redington, MMM.COM, TTK Services Pvt Ltd, GRE
edge, CareerNet, Cameron Manufacturing India,
Max value, LinkedTeams Software and Reliance
Foundation
ACADEMICS I FACULTY I RESEARCH I COLLABORATION I I OUTREACH INITIATIVESSTUDENT WORLD
Bogarappu Nikhil (2015) published a paper titled
"Impact of MGNREGA on Susta in ing
Agricultural Labour - A Case Study" in The
Journal of Agroecology and Natural Resource
Management (JANRM), with the Print ISSN 2394-
0786 published by Krishi Sanskriti Publications,
New Delhi, in Vol.2, No.2
DivyaMuthusamy(2015) published a paper titled
"A study on Organizational Silence based on
Demographic Profiles" in International Journal in
Management and Social Science ISSN: 2321-
1784, Impact Factor- 3.25, Volume 3- Issue 4 ,
(April 2015) page 557- 566
Logistics Banking
Consulting Education
Financial Services FMCD
HR Consulting Insurance
KPO
Sector wise placement
Percentage Placed (Eligible)
No. Of Recruiting Companies
Average Salary Offered (Rs.Lakhs)
Max Salary Offered (Rs. Lakhs)
On Campus Recruitment
2012-2013 2013-2014 2014-2015Performance Indicator
97%
52
3.00
6.6
9
80%
55
3.00
5.22
11
88%
55
3.12
5.4
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Placement Training
60
7%
16%
9%12%
6%
2%
15%
16%
7%10%
TrainingI & II MBA students are provided with regular soft skill & placements training and mock Group Discussion &
Personal Interviews. Our external training partner, to enhance the soft skills of our students include Keymind
Learning India Pvt Ltd, Talentsprint, Launchpad LLC.
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Career Guidance Counselling
A Career Guidance Counselling Session for
Students of Batch 2013-15 and 2014-16 was
conducted. Students were briefed about the
emerging sectors in the market. II MBA students
were briefed on how to utilize the company specific
training programs and ensure they earn a
placement in their dream company. I MBA
students were briefed on the importance of
maintaining high grades and also the importance
of internship which
would pave the way for
their final placements.
Company specific training program for students
was conducted regularly a day prior to the
placement drive. Students underwent such
training for all the recruiting companies. This
helped the student to perform well during the final
interview process.
Company Specic Training
October 17 & 18 , 2014Marketing Forum
November 3,
6 & 11, 2014
Operations Forum
Student Forums
April 24, 2015
February 21, 2015
November 24 & 25, 2014HR Forum
JSW ANGADI 2014- A Trade Fair
Assembly Line Activity
Business Case Analysis
Fake Product Exhibition
Operations Technical Puzzle
Lean 5s Game
Production Simulation Games
Activity was based on the values of
KCT.BS namely Trust, Learning, and
Competence
Concept quiz and Bunker - Survival GameMay 5, 2015
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November 22, 2014 IPL AuctioningFinance Forum
November 17, 18 &
20, 2014
Simulation game to suggest online
apps tools suggested to enhance
productivity.System Forum
April 30 ,2015 Debate Session
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April 30 ,2015Exhibition of Models on working of
Modern technology
Sports League - Knightz
A series of activities was conducted for the
students of I MBA from November 8 to 14, 2014.
Cricket tournament for boys and Badminton
tournament for girls (doubles & singles) between
batch 2014 and batch 2013 students were
conducted.
KCT.BS Alumni Students played a game of
football with the current batch of students.
Alumni Santhosh Raja, Christopher, Hariram,
Raja Ramachandran, Saravanan were part of the
team. With amazing energy and performance the
alumni team won the football match on
December 22, 2014 .
Leagues & ClubsThe student Leagues and Clubs of KCT.BS was active during the semester
It is all very well to say that a man should play for
the pure love of the game. Perhaps he ought, but
to the working man it is impossible” these words by
J. J. Bentley proved wrong when the employees for
corporate teams from Pricol technologies, Steps
Sourcing, India Garments, AV properties, Surphine
tools were fiercely fighting in the cricket ground to
win the ultimate DPL 2015 trophy. KCT Business
School students believe in the dictum “Work for 8
hours a day for survival. Anything beyond the 8
hours is an investment in the future”. They
actualized this belief when they went beyond the
regular curricular activities to organize a grand
Dooshra Premier League (DPL) – season 3, in
association with Young Indians, Coimbatore
chapter, where corporate employees and college
students challenged each other in cricket ground.
Three teams out of 25 have secured the first three
positions after playing tough matches. Teams from
KV Institute of Management Studies, Krishna,
SNS, Happy Valley, Jansons, Hindusthan arts,
SREC, Professional, NGP in the college students
pool battled it out on February 8, 12, 13 & 14 2015
in the Kumaraguru College of Technology grounds.
Winners were Step Sourcing Pvt Ltd, followed by
Hindusthan Arts & Science college, who were the
first runner-up and KVIM , second runners up from
PG pool.
T & T Club works by meeting people to
learn-by-doing workshop in which
participants hone their communication
and leadership skills in a student driven
atmosphere.
There is no instructor or staff in a
meeting. Instead, members evaluate
their presentations. This feedback
process is a key part of the club's
success.
Talk & Thoughts Club Community League
Buddy Mentoring
Buddy mentoring at KCT.BS originally was initiated
by the students of 2012- 2014 batch. With the
encouragement and support of Dr. Vijila Kennedy,
the Director of KCT-BS and Dr. K irupa
Priyadharshini, the Centre Head of HR; the
students of 2013-2015 batch formed a team to
design the core documents for buddy mentoring
namely Mentoring Proposal, Mentor Guide and
Protégée Guide. The program consists of 20
sessions of meeting with mentor and mentee. The
second year students as mentors support, the
protégée to focus on academic and extra-
curricular activities. The protégée improves
oneself in six various dimensions namely
academic, personality, skills, general awareness,
career exploration and hobbies and interests. The
program aims at developing self responsibility
within the individual and the mentor kindles the
protégée to identify one's own goals which would
be packed by the action plans. The protégée
receives motivation in executing the action plan.
On November 15, 2014, students of I MBA
(Batch 2014-16), visited Universal Peace Foundation
and an orphanage and spent few hours with the
children and senior citizens residing over there. The
team visited and donated few sacks of rice, eatables
like biscuits and gently used clothes. They played with
the children and shared thoughts with the elders.
Students of I MBA(Batch 2014-16), visited
Chinnavedampatti village as a part of Clean
India Movement(SWACH BHARAT ABHIYAN) on
September 30, 2014-Gandhi Jayanthi Week. Students
continued the Clean India Movement activity at the
panchayat village.
As a part of community league, students of
Batch 2014-16 donated old clothes, cereals and
eatables to an old age home, named Ozanam near
Saravanampatti on May 6, 2015. Students also
collected some money and bought basic grocery like
sugar (15 kg), cereals, dals, washing powder, wheat
flour, coconut oil etc for the old age home.
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Workshop on BASICS OF DSLR
The league of Adventure & Photography conducted
a half day workshop on “BASICS OF DSLR” on
November 29, 2014. Mr.Ganesh, Commercial &
Wildlife photographer was the speaker for the
program. The workshop was organized for I & II
MBA students' and for the faculty fraternity.
Adventure & Photography League
On November 16, 2014, Environmental league
organized a trek to Thoovaanam Falls. 39 Students
from Batch 2013-15 and batch 2014-16 along with
faculty Sangeetha.S Assistant Professor (SRG) and
Senthil Prakash, Assistant Professor.
Environment League
Unity in Diversity is the catch word of our nation, and in keeping with that
notion, the harvest festival of Onam was celebrated by decorating the
campus with colorful pookolams by our I MBA Students (Batch 2014-16) on
September 4, 2014.
Special Days
Onam
Teachers Day
Students of KCT BS commemorated the
birthday of Dr. S. Radhakrishnan by
showing their appreciation to their
faculty by cutting a mega cake. All the
faculty & staff of KCT BS were felicitated
on Teachers Day with a rose, on
September 5, 2014
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As a part of the World Standards Day Celebrations, operations
specialisation students of 2013-15 batch visited industries of
repute in Coimbatore (Sharp Industries, Sakthi Auto Components,
Deccan Industries, Rajtharun Textiles India (p) Ltd, Valarmathi
Hatcheries to name a few) on October 13, 2014 with an objective to
understand the product / process standards being adopted by
these companies and to acquire practical insights of the various
standards applicable to the industry.
Students had an opportunity to study standards like ISO/ DIN/
BIS/ QMS/ EMS being followed for their product / process and their relevance.
World Standards Day
International Accounting Day
O n I n t e r n a t i o n a l A c c o u n t i n g D a y ,
November 10, 2014 Centre of Finance organised an
“Awareness Camp on Financial Products”. The
programme aimed at exhibiting many financial and
bank products. People from various financial
institutions like LIC, Annamalai Capital Services,
APSAL, DSP BLACKROCK MUTUAL FUNDS
displayed their products in our B-School.
Financeopedia, a special event was organised on
International Accounting for I MBA Students
(Batch 2014-16). The objective of the game was to
test the knowledge on Financial Jargons
World Food Day
October 16, 2014 World Food Day was
celebrated at KCT.BS with the theme
“Feeding and Caring “.To mark this
occasion a POT LUCK lunch was
organized among the faculty team
with all homemade delicious, healthy
and hygienic food .
International Men's Day
The women power of KCT BS wanted
to acknowledge the support, the
dedication and the care the men
bestow on them. Towards this end the
Men 's day was ce lebrated on
November 19, 2014. A special thanks
and a small memento was presented
to the men in the Faculty and Admin
teams.
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Centre of Marketing (CoM) led the
Christmas celebrations through the "Chris
Friend Celebrations week". All faculty and
staff of KCTBS picked up their Chris Child
through lots and played Santa by giving
gifts and tasks to their Chris child starting
on December 15, 2014 and ended with a
Christmas party on December 22, 2014. A
lot of funny tasks, treasure hunts and
quirky gifts passed hands and brought
childhood memories back and helped
bonding for a lot of faculty and staff at BS.
Chris Friend Celebrations week
World Safety Day
A special lecture session on 'Safety and Health at Work' was conducted for the
2014-2016 batch students by Vandhematharam A Madhavan, Zone Trainer,
Junior Chamber International - India, as a part of the World Safety Day
Celebrations on April 28, 2015 .
The session began with a short
introduction on the importance
of physical and mental health at
work and the precautionary
measures to be taken to avoid
mishap. He explained about the
various concepts of Health and
Safety and also explained about
safety aspects on fire safety, food
habits for college students,
exercises, and work related
stress.
Farewell Class of 2015It was time to bid Au Revoir to our students of class
2015. The farewell of the seniors began with a photo
shoot followed by entertainment program by the
juniors. Students shared their experiences at KCT.BS
with nostalgia, outlining their expectations and their
outcomes. Joint Correspondent shared a few words
of encouragement and the evening ended with fun,
frolic and dinner.
Women's Day
The gentlemen of KCT
Bus i ne s s S choo l ,
treated the ladies to a
s p e c i a l d a y o f
sumptuous food and
thoughtful gift. The
ladies were in for a
s u r p r i s e w i t h t h e
thoughtful celebration
o f womanhood on
March 8, 2015
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Training Program forAirport Authorities ofIndia LtdA major CSR Initiative "Project Delight Your
Passenger (DYP)" - Training Program for 120
Ground Staff, was done by the Centre for HR for
Airport Authorities of India Ltd. The Project
included identification of training needs for eight
departments ( Counter staff, Vendors, House
Keeping, Trolley Staff, Car Parking Staff,
Commercial Staff , Security )of AAI. The project
started in May 2014, where a team of five students
were a part of the training need identification. A
one month internship at the airport helped the
team understand the needs for training. The
Centre for HR designed the content and the
training program based on the approved modules.
This work submitted to the AAI received
appreciations. The first program for the top level
executives of Airport Authority of India on
Leadership was delivered on October 1, 2014. The
consecutive program for housekeeping and
loading staff was on October 8, 2014. This session
emphasized on Self Esteem, Commitment at
Workp lace and more impor tant ly T ime
Management for improved work performance. A
session on handling customers to the team of
vendors was on October15, 2014. This was
followed by a session for the Security staff on
effective handling of customers, emotional
intelligence and motivation in November and
December 2014. Sessions were handled in English
, Tamil & Hindi faculty from Centre of HR
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Workshop on 'Use of Computers inSchool Education' for School TeachersAs a part of the outreach strategic imperative of KCT Business School, a one-day workshop was organized on
'Use of Computers in School Education' on January 29, 2015 for Government School Teachers. The objective
of the workshop was to impart computer skills to 48 middle-level and higher secondary school teachers and to
enable them to use Internet tools in their day-to-day teaching-learning process.
The program was structured
with three skill sessions that
included topics on e-mail ID
creation, Messaging, Social
Media, YouTube & Google
s e a r c h , P o w e r - p o i n t
p r e s en t a t i o n , MS Exce l ,
Students data uploading, and
documentation in TN Govt.
website. Hands-on training
using computers were given to
the participants.
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Leadership Training for
IPO & ASP's of India Post
KCT Business School conducted training on
Leadership for two batches of IPO & ASP's of India
Post on October 31, 2014. The training program
was inaugurated by Mr.T.Murthy, Chief Post Master
General, Tamilnadu Circle Chennai. Accompanied
by Ms.Manju P.Pillai, Postmaster General,
Coimbatore and Mr.G. Natarajan, Director Postal
Service.
The participants enjoyed and learnt various
leadership qualities & managerial skills. The
platform provides various inputs for the
development of behavioral skills. The trainers
encourage participants to actively participate in
various activities of training program and also to
implement the outcomes of the program at the
work place. Fifty four employees from Tamil Nadu
region benefitted from this training.
MISSIONWe exist to make an impact
on all our stakeholders through advancement,
integration and application of knowledge.
VISION:Weaspiretobecometheknowledgehiveformanagerialexcellence
StrategicIm
perative
s
Offer diverse programs
with market-responsive
curricula which are
assimilated through
research based reality
learning in a stimulating
academic ecosystem
ACADEMICS
Recruit, enhance, and
retain faculty who are
outstanding scholars and
teachers and diverse
staff who provide
outstanding support to
faculty and students
Provide innovative,
distinctive, and excellent
services to give
purposeful campus life
experiences and
build belongingness
PEOPLE STUDENTSERVICES
Invest in sustainable
facilities, and technology
that inspire in the
students and faculty
a zest for learning
and growth
INFRASTRUCTURE
Develop stronger
engagement with the
alumni, industry,
professional bodies and
academic institutions for
mutual development
and impact
Make meaningful
contributions to local
community through
formal and sustained
extension programs.
COLLABORATION OUTREACH
OurValuesinaction
Learning
˜ Creative
˜ Continuous
˜ Shared
˜ Enjoyable
Trust
˜ Honesty
˜ Diginity
˜ Belongingness
˜ Openness
Competence
˜ Pro-activeness
˜ Perseverance
˜ Achievement
˜ Recognition
Mission, Vision and Values of KCT.BS
StrategicImperatives
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