A two-day ‘Management Development Programme’ (MDP) on the theme ‘Strategy Execution on Results’ organised under the aegis of ‘Centre of Management Development and Department of Strategic Management’, School of Business was held in the Kandoli campus of UPES. Dwelling on its importance, Arun Dhand, director – Media, UPES said that MDP added yet another milestone in rendering executive education to the industry professionals through the dissemination of knowledge in the high- power discussions during both days of the programme. “Strategies are the life and blood of any organisation and more often the ability to implement strategy is even more important than the quality of the strategy itself,” he stressed.
Welcoming the delegates of industry professionals of reputed organizations that included HPCl, IOCl, NTPC, GAIl, CESC, UJVNl and UPCl at the UPES campus, Tarun Dhingra - program faculty chair and HOD, department of strategic management, SOB- shared brief outline of the event.
e dwelt upon important strategic issues like leadership, availability of resource and commitment as he threw light on the critical phases of strategy execution.
“The theme of this programme is relevant for industry as we have experienced that most of the companies fail in the phase of strategic execution,” he said. During his Interaction with the participants, Dayanand Pandey, director – SOB, apprised that the School of Business has always strived for evolving a suitable and interactive platform to develop industry-academia excellence. In his opening remarks Dr Atul Razdan, associate dean – Marketing- spoke at length about the emerging importance of strategic execution in the industry.
Dr Neeraj Rawat – head, Centre of Management Development- informed that a galaxy of experts from both academic and industry that included Prof Alok Tripathi from NTPC, Shyamal Chaterjee - Plant Head, Tupperware and Rajesh Tripathi and Prof Akhil Damodaran from UPES conducted sessions on contemporary issues related to the execution of strategy.