Indian Institute of Management Indore

Certificate Course in Business Management for Defence Officers

Batch Profile CCBMDO-07

The Programme

Armed forces are one of our most valuable work forces that contribute their highest level of services to the nation. It has been believed that the officers are very much oriented towards their task. They are self-disciplined, highly enthusiastic, and courageous. They posses high level of leadership ability, and also indulge in the job at hand with highest level of motivation. Having said these, their focus is more structured, and time taking. Their work-profile creates a distance from civilian life. Similarly when they spent a good amount of time in their highly respectable career, their early relieve from services demand that they should be re-settled in demanded and respected work-life where they can find use of their inherent skills, which are relevant and important to corporate world. Working for a corporate arena demands that professionals should be at dissonance with civilian and corporate life; hence, indeed, this programme is an inter-linking pin for such professionals to re-orient themselves towards their new professional life.

Program Objectives

It is clear that in this technology savvy era, only knowledge-based employment is possible, and generalized experience will not be of helpful. Hence, we have designed a challenging learning experience that focuses on real-world problems and solutions, providing new knowledge and tools to face challenges in corporate arena.The objectives of this programme are:

	To familiarize the officers with a new framework, i.e., business environment.
	To orient them towards the management education and management training.
	To provide the understanding of the conceptual and analytical tools.
	Providing them skills related to all significant management fields including all technical and behavioral techniques.
	To help in developing and enhancing the positive mind-set and attitude of participants.
	To provide them the exposure in different areas of management that is necessary while selecting the second career and also to help them to get the appropriate position in the business world.
	The focus of the programme would be on all functional aspects of management, like, operations management, marketing, strategy, human resource management and organizational behavior, Information technology and its recent development, economics, finance and accounting, and supply chain management.

Admission Procedure

Officers of all ranks between Captain and Brigadier equivalent only are eligible for this course. These officers must have completed five years of commissioned service on the day of commencement of the course. The selection is made by the Director General of Resettlement (DGR) based on the applications received directly by them. For more details please visit website of DGR - www.dgrindia.com