Innovation guru Dr Vijay Govindarajan to address NMIMS Seminar

This seminar is part of the Executive Seminar Series organized by NMIMS.

Introducing the seminar, NMIMS says, We now live in an era of almost constant change. This seminar will also focus on learning how to improve the companys capacity to be a strategic innovator and to enhance society by
commercializing valuable new products and services based on new business models. It also offers tools and concepts that you need to implement and strategies which lead to innovation and growth.

Dr Govindarajan is a faculty member at the prestigious Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College, USA, and is recognized as a leading business strategist. He focuses on teaching corporations to build breakthrough businesses while simultaneously sustaining excellence in their core business -- which was the subject of his new book Ten Rules for Strategic Innovators, published by Harvard Business School Press. He advises companies like AT&T, Boeing, British Telecom, Hewlett-Packard, The Home Depot, IBM, J.P. Morgan Chase, PriceWaterhouse Coopers, Wal-Mart and many more.

Dr Govindarajan has been named in a series of lists by influential publications: Outstanding Faculty in BusinessWeeks Annual Guide to Best B-Schools; Top Five Most Respected Executive Coaches on Strategy by Forbes; Top Ten Professors in Corporate Executive Education by BusinessWeek; and Eight Leading Executive Advisors by Wall Street Journal Online. He received his doctorate and his MBA with distinction from the Harvard Business School. Earlier, he was part of the faculty at Ohio State University and Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad; he also served as a visiting professor at Harvard Business School & INSEAD, France.

The NMIMS Seminar is designed for general managers, strategic planners, management consultants and marketing managers who are responsible for developing business strategies in their organization. Website www.nmims.edu has more details about participation.

From a humble beginning in 1981 as a management institute with 4 full-time faculty members, NMIMS has now a University with 7 Schools, with over 100 full-time faculty members, and over 2,000 students enrolling each year. Its seven schools are: School of Business Management, Mukesh Patel School of Technology Management and Engineering, School of Pharmacy and Technology Management, School of Distance Learning, School of Architecture, School of Science and School of Commerce.