NIILM Center for Management Studies, New Delhi

NIILM-Center for Management Studies is ranked among India 's premier business schools, and its efforts in managerial capacity building and human resources development in the country have always been accorded serious appreciation. The institution has been offering training, consulting and advisory services to professionally managed companies and entrepreneurial set ups cutting across the whole spectrum of the human resource development function. Nearly 900 NIILM Alumni are working in responsible managerial and leadership positions in Indian and Foreign companies today. The institution thrives on real-time industry participation across the various stages of its value chain, which enable continuous evolution of NIILM's teaching curriculum, pedagogy and skill-development frameworks. Considering the demands of radically new skills, concepts, philosophies and systems of management today, NIILM CMS has established and initiated several events and platforms to discuss and brainstorm on such requirements.

PROGRAMMES:

PGDM program full-time : NIILM's full-time PGDM program offering specializations in the areas of International Business, Marketing, Finance, Human Resources Management and Information Technology & Systems Management, is administered within the framework of a strong training system. Equipped with the fully functional mechanisms of feedback and control, this training system helps the NIILM-CMS PGDM curriculum in:

* Developing in the graduating students an optimal pattern of interpersonal and behavioral responses to stress situations, generally experienced in organizations.
* Developing skills in the latest comprehension, analysis and problem solving tools, techniques and models and imbuing them with a holistic management perspective.
* Training them in the skills generally required at the management trainee level in organizations.

The four-semester, two-year, full-time PGDM program is split into four phases: Basic, Consolidation, Advanced and Concentration. Each phase is of one semester and closes with an end-term examination.

The Basic phase begins with a management perspective from ground-up by exposing students to the various dimensions of business & organizational environments and enables them get a feel of the various functional areas of management. This is also a phase in which conventional bugbears relating to statistics and mathematics are carefully removed.

The Consolidation phase categorically aims at training students in the skills of using various tools, techniques and case studies that are required to solve general problems encountered in various functional areas of management. By the end of this phase, a student should be able to appreciate the general dynamics of problems and situations in differing environmental and organizational settings and develop an approach towards prognosis and problem- shooting. This phase culminates with an eight-week summer-internship in any large organization of repute.

The Advanced phase in the third semester concentrates on developing special, function specific competencies in areas of Marketing, International Business, Human Resources Management, Finance and Information Technology. Simultaneously, papers like Management Information Systems and TQM are taught to students irrespective of their area of specialization. By the end of the advanced phase, a student is almost ready for an entry-level position with any large organization.

Graduating students spend the final six months of the program in the Concentration phase, learning about the most advanced and complex aspects of their respective functional areas. Besides case studies and class assignments, each of these four phases is generously interspersed with live-projects from industries and businesses in varied sectors. The objective is to reduce the induction time and costs for companies by providing them management graduates who are not only technically and psychologically ready for entry-level responsibilities, but also alert and spruced up for embracing the challenges of the future.