The eleventh batch of Certificate Course in Business Management for Defence Officers (CCBMDO) was inaugurated at IIM Indore on Monday, January 5, 2015.
The CCBMDO aims to provide the participants with the fundamental knowledge, skills & techniques, contextual understanding, and overall perspective, necessary for general management. Compulsory coursework provides broad training to the participants that helps them in career flexibility and mobility. The major objectives of the Programme are to familiarize the officers with business environment; orient them towards the management education & training and provide them skills related to all significant management fields including all technical and behavioral techniques.
Professor Rishikesha T. Krishnan, Director, IIM Indore along with Colonel K. T. Udupa(Retired), Chief Administrative Officer, IIM Indore, and Professor Hasmukh Gajjar, Faculty, Operations Management & Quantitative Techniques area, inaugurated the Programme in the presence of all the participants who have registered for it.
The inauguration ceremony began with traditional lamp lighting and Saraswati Vandana. Professor Krishnan welcomed the participants and informed them about the Institute and various Programmes offered here. He expressed the Institute’s honour of hosting the Defence Officers and also explained how the Programme will help them in assuming challenging leadership positions in the corporate world.
Professor Hasmukh also addressed the gathering and acquainted the participants with the course, curriculum and schedule of the Programme. The registration and orientation ceremony were followed by Library Orientation, conducted by Dr. Akhtar Parvez and IT Orientation, conducted by Mr. Piyush Trivedi.