A Glimpse of the Happenings at Man-Ops Club

The MAN-OPS Club presents you its quarterly newsletter, SNAPSHOT. Through this initiative we will cover all the activities that the club organized in the last three months with a glimpse of what we plan to do ahead. We present you the 1st edition of SNASHOT and hope you enjoy it!

You think Manufacturing & Operations jobs are boring, blue-collar and unglamorous jobs?
 Think again!

Q. Where do the CEOs come from?
A: The ones who attended the Operations Electives session by Prof Sarang Deo, would NOT have missed the facts quoted by him – 42% of CEOs from the S&P 500 companies had Operations experience at some point in their career. If this is not enough, 31% of the CEOs were in an Operations role immediately before they were promoted to lead the organization. Our Dean, Ajit Rangnekar, has extensive Operations Management experience of business startups in the manufacturing, trading, and professional services sector in Hong Kong and India.

Q: Why Operations?
A: One who knows the in-and-out of operations of the company has the power of leading and transforming the organization. Think of this, you are the marketing manager for a big brand mobile handset maker. During one of the pre-launch exhibitions a customer comes to you and asks you to add a snazzy feature to it, which will change the physical characteristics of the device and make it more appealing. What would you do? After all, this is coming from a
potential customer and it does mean a lot! Would you blindly agree to it and write off a memo to the R&D team? We reckon you to re-consider. Without the knowledge of operations, which gives an understanding about the limitations of the product design, you are really handicapped to take any such decision!

Have you ever thought as to why those stunning concept cars showcased at the Auto-Expos change form and figure drastically as they go into mass-production? Operations ! We leave it for you to figure out the rest.

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