Courses Offered in IIM Bangalore 1. The two-year Post Graduate Programme in Management (PGP) is the flagship programme of the Institute. it is designed to enable students to acquire the skills and capabilities that will enable them to reach responsible global positions in management. The number of applicants admitted to this programme is limited to around 180. the programme revolves around the principle that world-class business leaders are not mass-produced; they are nurtured and developed with personalised care and attention, in small work groups and teams, and in a practical, application-oriented user-friendly environment. The programme lays the foundation for conceptual and analytical reasoning, and gives the students an insight into the dynamics of the business environment.It prepares students to manage and lead in global business scenario, which is getting increasingly complex and dynamic. The programme design is inspired by management practice rather than ivory tower academics. The course material and design is oriented towards current and emerging issues in management. The curriculum undergoes a complete transformation every three years. In addition, it is adapted significantly every year to keep it abreast with the current business environment. IIMB has the distinction of offering the largest variety of elective courses in the second year of the PGP. The faculty members keep themselves updated on present management realities by virtue of their extensive involvement in research and consulting. Further, the level of interaction required in the programme ensures that the pool of work experience among the students is effectively tapped. Developing skills in leading and teamwork is an important facet of the programme. This anticipates practices in many of today's successful organisations. The interactive skills of effective communication, conflict management, negotiation and mobilising individuals towards common goals are the essential ingredients of effective management. There is a strong emphasis on project work as a part of the regular courses at the Institute. While working on projects, students are required to interact with managers from the industry. A number of these projects are sponsored by organisations. On an average, a student graduating from the institute would have carried out fifteen projects, usually live, involving industry interaction and support. The post Graduate Programme lasts six trimesters, spread over two years, with a summer project in between the two years. The first year students are exposed to basic concepts in the areas of Marketing, Finance, Personal Management and Human Resources Management, Quantitative methods, Operations and Behavioral Sciences through the 'core courses'. These lay the foundation for all the functional areas of management help develop problem solving skills. In the second year, students specialize in functional areas of their interest. There is greater emphasis on the application of knowledge gained in the form of projects, group exercises and case discussions. Guest lectures supplement regular course work while the core Business Policy and Strategy course integrates the learning gained from the first year basic disciplines. Students are encouraged to take up dissertation work and to do a project on 'Contemporary Concerns' under the guidance of faculty. 2. Post Graduate Programme in Software Enterprise Management Distinctive Features - Part-time non-residential Management education program
- Course requirements can be completed in two and a half years.
- Specially designed for software professionals in a global environment
- Ten themes that capture the essence of management
- Modular design that provides flexibility for individual participants
- Ten-week quarters to make it convenient for people who have to travel
- Classes on Friday morning and Saturday
- 9 hours of classroom contact per week
The Post-Graduate Program in Software Enterprise Management (PGSM) leading to a Post-Graduate Diploma in Software Enterprise Management is designed for the specific needs of professionals working in the Indian Software Industry. The program is run under the aegis of the Centre for Software Management (CSM). The CEOs of companies that have provided endowment to the CSM (referred to as partner companies) are on the advisory board of the CSM to ensure that the programme is in tune with the needs of the industry. Several distinctive features of the programme are designed to meet the special needs of the participants of this program, while maintaining the credit requirements and rigour of the regular programme. The programme has been designed such that a participant can graduate with the diploma at the end of three academic years, while continuing to work at his/her regular place of employment. Each academic year is subdivided into four quarters of ten weeks each. The regular course load in a quarter is three courses of three credits each. Each three-credit course consists of 30 hours of classroom contact. Participants have 9 hours of classroom contact per week, with classes scheduled on Friday mornings and Saturdays. In special cases, students are allowed to increase their load by taking courses they have missed/failed in earlier quarters, or by undertaking projects in addition to regular classes. The modular design of the programme allows participants to tailor (within certain parameters) the sequence of courses. After completion of the first year, participants have the flexibility to be away from the program for one or more quarters if necessitated by work-related assignments. This would, however, lead to a situation where a participant will take longer than three academic years to complete the program. Each participant is required to complete the stipulated credits of the program within a maximum of six academic years. The PGSM has been structured around ten broad themes. Each theme consists of a set of core courses, which every participant is expected to take as part of the requirements of the diploma, and some electives. The core courses are distributed in the first year and a half of the programme. In addition to the core and elective courses, participants are required to do a compulsory 3-credit individual project on any industry of interest in order to gain domain experience. They can also do one 3-credit project course. Participants' Profile The profile of the participants reflects the desire of a wide cross-section of software professionals to acquire managerial knowledge. They consist of women and men with work experience ranging from two years to over fifteen years. The companies they work for include small entrepreneurial firms to some of the largest software companies in India. Contact address: Bannerghatta Road Bangalore 560 076, INDIA. Phone : 0091-80-6993058 Fax : 0091-80-6584050 email : pgsmadmissions@iimb.ernet.in 3. Doctoral programmes The Fellow Programme is the doctoral-level Programme of the Institute which is recognised as equivalent to a Ph.D. by the Association of Indian Universities and the Government of India. The first Fellow of IIMB graduated in 1980. The programme aims to build in the candidates the perspectives of the specialist, the researcher, and the academician. The programme equips students for careers in teaching and research, as staff-level specialists in functional areas and sectors in corporate, government, non-government and international organisations, and as consultants. The programme has the first two years in common with the Post Graduate Programme. Beyond the second year, FPM students work on advanced courses and for their doctoral thesis. Currently there are 42 students in the programme at various stages. To facilitate practical experience in teaching/training, senior Fellow students are being permitted to assist the faculty on a part-time basis. They are also being allowed to spend their summer, assisting the faculty in designated research projects in areas related to their dissertation research. Both FPM students and the faculty have found this very useful. As FPM students generally have work experience before joining this programme, the norms for summer placement at the end of the first year have been modified to suit their specific requirements. From 1999, INFOSYS has endowed two fellowships amounting to Rs.9.0 lakhs spread over a period of three years. INFOSYS fellows are required to take up a research topic which has significant bearing on the IT industry. 4. Executive programmes Traditional Management hierarchies are crumbling as more dispersed and virtual organisations become the norm Global markets and global supply sources are affecting every organization, irrespective of size and nature. The intellectual content of work is changing dramatically. Organisations are striving to improve on their reaction time, the quality of their products/services, and their real cost in response to intense competitive pressure; managing horizontally across all the organizational functions is demanding new skills like managing ambiguity, collectivity and diversity. The needs of all stakeholders-employees, customers, suppliers, government, the community and the environment, are affecting business decisions. IIMB is responding to these requirements by preparing managers for the accelerating impact of technology on business and the changes in the competitive environment. Our Executive Education is aimed at broadening the outlook and strengthening the skills of practicing managers. This is achieved by discussing the latest developments in management thinking and their applicability in the Indian context. Participants also obtain valuable insights from extensive interaction with their counterparts from other organizations. The Institute's Executive Education Programmes comprise Open Programmes, International Programmes and Customized Programmes. | 
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