Welcome to Collaboration Laboratory at BIMTECH

Dear PGDM and IB 2010-12 students,

Welcome to my class to learn Collaboration Technologies. This would be a great experience. I have enjoyed every bit of my exposure to these new technologies and I hope you will have as much fun and I did.

At BIMTECH, while 'Rethinking the MBA', it is well established that we need to provide increased training in practical hands on skills in use of technologies that make modern managers efficient at their jobs. Check out this book by Narendra Datar of Harvard Business School : Rethinking the MBA: Business Education at a Crossroads. The 'technologies of management' that we would like to teach at BIMTECH are - Collaboration, ERP and Business Intelligence. There are many more technologies that are part of the modern manager's tool kit, but I have identified these as the most important of them all.

Learning these technologies of management is not just a matter of attending classroom theory sessions. It requires doing some practical hands-on work. You will be performing several tasks every day as Manager, after graduating from BIMTECH. Therefore, completion of practical Laboratory exercises is absolutely important. Your grades in this class will be primarily on the basis of your project work.

The technologies that you are going to learn, are actually being used in teaching this class. For instance, you are going to learn about blogs and what you are reading right now is from my blog You will continue to get a daily (well almost!) post to give you the regular updates.

Now, before you come for the first class, you need to fill in an online form and tell me about yourself. Are you ready to take this class? You must have a laptop of your own, the BIMTECH email and other Google Apps should be installed and you should be familiar how to use them. I also want to know about your education and work experience background. Your familiarity with various Collaboration tools etc. This information will help me to decide what to teach, at what level of depth etc.

Only those students who have submitted this online form will be eligible to attend the course.