Website Standardization Workshop – ePrastuti in collaboration with NIC, Guwahati
Dates: 2nd-4th January, 2019
Sponsor: Secretariat Administration Department, Government of Assam
Participants: Assam State Government Employees
Background : Assam State Government is going through a re-design and standardisation of all government websites and online information portals. This project is steered by National Informatics Centre Guwahati under the title of ePrastuti. The mission of this project is to guide the developments in the designing and developing their websites in accordance with the standardisation guidelines. The revised websites will provide a platform for participative practices and open governance for the citizens of the state. This change demands the change in approach of government employees towards user centric experience design.
Scope and Objectives : The Department of Design, IIT Guwahati and NIC, Guwahati centre has planned for a series of advanced training programme for the employees of Government of Assam. The basic objective of this training programme is to discuss basic design thinking and systems thinking principles and concepts. Participants are exposed to design fundamentals and various systems design issues. Fundamentals of interaction design, information architecture, color and typography, image and photography editing, visual ergonomics, heuristic evaluation, usability engineering has been discussed during the programme.
Organizing Team
Dr. Pratul Ch. Kalita, Department of Design
Prof. Amarendra Kumar Das, Department of Design
Dr. Debayan Dhar, Department of Design
Management Development Programme on Marketing Management
Dates: 24th to 28th September, 2018
Sponsor: Ministry of Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises, Government of India.
Participants: Managers/ Executives of Central Public Sector Enterprises and State Level Public Enterprises.
Scope and Objectives: Marketing Strategy is becoming the major tool for implementing and achieving the strategic goals of the organisation. In the context of corporate strategy, innovative marketing is the key for achieving competitive advantage in current business world. The Central Public Sector Enterprises and State Level Public Enterprises must emphasise on innovative marketing strategies. Such innovative marketing strategies would bring positive and rapid change at different levels of system, product, process and service. After going through this programme, the participants shall have a holistic and integrative view of marketing management. The integration of marketing function with all other functions of the organization was discussed.
The marketing issues and challenges of CPSE and SLPEs has been discussed in details. Operations Management issues are very significant in the marketing function of CPSEs and SLPEs. Therefore the content of the programme has been designed appreciating the relevance and interconnection of operations management and marketing management. Various issues of technology management in marketing perspective has been discussed in the programme.
List of the participating organizations
Rashtriya Chemicals and Fertilizers Limited, Mumbai, MECON LIMITED (formerly known as Metallurgical & Engineering Consultants (India) Limited), KIOCL LIMITED (formerly Kudremukh Iron Ore Company Limited ), Odisha State Police Housing and Welfare Corporation Limited, Heavy Engineering Corporation Ltd., IREL, OSCOM (Indian Rare Earths Limited), HPCL Biofuels Limited, Central Railside Warehouse Company Limited, MTNL ( Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Limited), Scooters India Limited, Food Corporation of India, Central Cottage Industries Corporation of India Ltd., ASSAM STATE WAREHOUSING CORPORATION (A Govt. of Assam Undertaking), Cement Corporation of India Ltd., ITI Limited (Indian Telephone Industries Limited), MSTC Limited (formerly known as Metal Scrap Trade Corporation Limited), India Infrastructure Finance Company Ltd., Rashtriya Ispat Nigam Limited ( Vizaag Steel), Dedicated Fright Corridor Corporation of India Ltd., Container Corporation of India limited, North Eastern Handicrafts and Handlooms Development Corporation Limited, Hindustan Shipyard Limited, Indian Renewable Energy Development Agency Ltd., India Trade Promotion Organisation, Orissa State Road Transport Corporation, HMT(International) Limited, Power Grid Corporation of India Limited
Organizing Team
Dr. Pratul Ch. Kalita, Department of Design
Dr. Deepak Sharma, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Dr. Sukhomay Pal, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Project Management: Design and Innovation for Competitive Advantage
Participants: Senior executives of Central Public Sector Enterprises and State Level Public Enterprises from all over the country.
Dates: 25th- 29th July, 2016
No of Participants: 42 participants
Sponsoring agency: Ministry of Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises, Government of India
Scope and Objectives: Projects are becoming the major tool for implementing and achieving the strategic goals of the organisation. In the context of corporate strategy, innovation is the key for achieving competitive advantage in current business world. The Central Public sector Enterprises & State Level Public Enterprises must emphasise on projects in the line of innovation. Such innovative projects would bring positive and rapid change at different levels of system, product, process and service. After going through this programme, the participants could gather a holistic and integrative view of projects and appreciated how Project Management, Innovation and Change Management contributes to the strategic goals of the organisation. Integration starts with the process of selecting innovative projects through consideration of technical and managerial issues of the project for successful planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of the project. Various issues of technology management were also discussed in the programme. Efforts were made to give overview of computer aided Project Management tools and emerging concepts. Hands on workshops was conducted on MS Project.
Organizing Team
Dr. Pratul Ch. Kalita, Department of Design
Dr. Deepak Sharma, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Dr. Sukhomay Pal, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Inventory and Supply Chain Management
Dates: 06th- 10th November, 2017
Number of Participants: 42
Sponsoring agency: Ministry of Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises, Government of India
Scope and Objectives: The objective of this program is to introduce participants with the concepts and methodology of Inventory Control and Supply Chain Management. The topics discussed were Forecasting, Aggregate Production Planning, Sequencing and Loading, Introduction to Linear Programming, Inventory Control Techniques, Deterministic Inventory Models, Multi-item Deterministic Models, Dynamic Order Quantity; Supply Chain Management, Transportation Model, Critical path Method and Program Evaluation and Review Technique. Many case studies were discussed during the program. The issues of modern technology and system design intervention in Inventory Control and Supply Chain Management were discussed.
Organizing Team
Dr. Pratul Ch. Kalita, Department of Design
Dr. Deepak Sharma, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Dr. Sukhomay Pal, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Production Planning, Inventory Control and Supply Chain Management
Participants: Senior executives of Central Public Sector Enterprises and State Level Public Enterprises from all over the country.
Dates: 19th -23rd Sept 2016
Number of Participants: 37 participants
Sponsoring agency: Ministry of Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises, Government of India
Scope and Objectives: The objective of this program is to introduce participants with the concepts and methodology of Production Planning, Inventory Control and Supply Chain Management. The topics discussed were Production Planning, Forecasting, Aggregate Production Planning, Sequencing and Loading, Introduction to Linear Programming; Inventory Controls: Inventory Control Techniques, Deterministic Inventory Models, Multi-item Deterministic Models, Dynamic Order Quantity; Supply Chain Management, Transportation Model, Critical Path Method and Program Evaluation and Review Technique. Many case studies were discussed during the program. The issues of modern technology in system design intervention in Production Planning and Control were discussed.
Organizing Team
Dr. Pratul Ch. Kalita, Department of Design
Dr. Deepak Sharma, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Dr. Sukhomay Pal, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Workshops
TED MINT SCE, Conference and Createam Workshop
Place: Beer Sheva, Israel
Scope and objective: Workshop on design intervention in explaining 3D Printing technology to the school children.
Short term training on SPSS and its application in teaching and research
Participants: Faculty members and senior students of J.N College, Boko
Sponsoring Agency: Institutional Biotech Hub, Jawaharlal Nehru College, Boko
Scope and Objectives: To discuss application of SPSS for statistical analysis in quantitative research.
ABHILASHA- Design Education and Career Guidance
Participants: Over 500 school children and teachers
Sponsoring Agency: Design Innovation Center, IITG, Ministry of HRD, Government of India.
Scope and Objectives: The prime objective of the programme was to bring awareness about design education among school children. Faculty members of the Department of Design interacted with the school children. Bachelors and Masters students demonstrated their projects.
