Mr. Badrish Rao is a Professor (Information Technology) at NMIMS, Bangalore. He has over 25 years of experience in leadership positions across IT Services, Product Development, Program Management, Manufacturing, and Operations. He has completed a Bachelor of Engineering degree and PGDIE from Business School, National Institute of Industrial Engineering, Bombay. With his expert domain knowledge, he has managed strategic and transformational programs for Fortune 500 companies.

NMIMS, Bangalore

What is the latest program that you are offering in your department for student’s benefit?

“Specific focus on courses of AI, Data Analytics and Cloud strategies”

We are offering students tailored programs on Digital Transformation (DT), Cloud strategies for industries specifically for MSMEs, and industry-relevant courses on Analytics, IoT & AI.

What are the factors that make this program the best for the students to opt for?

“The theoretical learning is supplemented by practical industry examples of transformation journeys”

NMIMS faculty has a good mix of academia and industry specialists. Courses are conducted by professors with over 2 decades of global industry experience in the field of IT. Students learn about changes across industry sectors, pitfalls in embracing the change, success stories, and the business value delivered through the transformational programs. Professionals from the executive MBA category benefit immensely as they can deliberate on the scenarios of their own companies in the class discussions. 

What will you say the “best practices” in the course you’re offering are?

“Excellent guidance by experienced faculty, industry interactions, and entrepreneur skills enhancement”

Our courses go beyond the conventional classroom lectures. The lectures are enriched as below:-

  • Courses are handled by professors with excellent academic qualifications supplemented by rich experience in the field.
  • Well structured courses to disseminate conceptual knowledge, followed by methodologies/ framework and industry best practices.
  • Strategies and concepts are reinforced through a series of case studies from Harvard Business Review (HBR), Sloan School of Management, etc. 
  • For some of the critical topics, we invite industry leaders to share their thoughts on the transformation journeys within their companies
  • We inculcate a spirit of entrepreneurship in the budding leaders. Students with aspirations to embark on entrepreneurship journeys are extended support.

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What are some valuable insights into the program that you are offering at your department?

“The focus of our programs is on industry cases rather than the pure theoretical frameworks”

An approach that gives students a context and ability to relate to their industry scenarios. We encourage students to actively discuss their specific company issues in “fireside chats”. Wherein the practical industry scenarios are debated threadbare and mapped to theoretical frameworks to evolve effective solutions.

How does the program ensure that students are being prepared for the future?

“We ensure our course outline is periodically revised to embrace the strides in Industry”

We have a strong industry connection through our experienced faculty plus industry outreach programs. Hence, we can incorporate the emerging concepts, next-gen business models, and business paradigm shifts into the programs

In the Digital Transformation domain, we are going beyond the traditional approaches of Smart systems, Cloud systems, 3D Printing, AI, etc to the arena of quantum computing. The forward-looking capsules give our students an edge in their careers as they are prepared to spot the emerging technologies.

How did you train yourself/faculty to deliver this program to the students?

“With the help of faculty training and development programs that keep us ahead in industry trends”

Our college fundamental philosophy lies in staffing the departments with professors having the right academic qualifications and industry experience. To keep the skills relevant there is a continuous upgradation of the faculty through both in-house training programs and faculty-sponsored participation in webinars, seminars, and industry events.

How do you tend to build an industry connection with this program? 

“Collaborative and interactive events with big industry names such as HSBC and HP”

Our industry connect concerning this program is addressed through a few popular initiatives

  • Hackathons are organized in conjunction with the Industry like HSBC, HP, etc. This allows students to solve industry problems in a defined timeframe
  • Executive students are encouraged to take up relevant projects from their companies. Applying the theoretical framework to their real-life company challenges helps them evolve out of box solutions.
  • The third aspect, is to invite esteemed speakers from the industry to supplement the subject knowledge.

What are the types of projects that the students are working on through this program?

“Projects with real-life problems requiring extensive research, brainstorming and arriving at out of box solutions”

NMIMS believes in preparing the students for the real world. Our end of term project and assignments heavily lean on research, application, brainstorming in small teams to arrive at creative, out of box solutions to business problems. Students are assigned projects aligned to today’s business issues. These include implementation of “Fastag” or modeling for the recent “covid pandemic”, etc. 

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What are the benefits and career options after pursuing this course?

“Great placement opportunities right after internships, strong industry connect and transformational values”

NMIMS firstly ensures the students are industry-ready through their summer and final industry projects. Our powerful industry connect helps us assign 100 % of the students into a range of large and start-up companies for their internships.

Our students are picked up by the companies as they complete their projects. In the last few years, we have witnessed 100% of students being placed through the campus selections in reputed MNCs and emerging unicorns.