GEARING UP FOR A NEW INDIA

Businesses have been pivoting online across all industries. Earlier, the online mode was limited to interactions between customer and business, but now even crucial internal processes are executed virtually.

- Vasudha Mukherjee

Manoj K Tiwari, Director, National Institute of Industrial Engineering, says this comes as a boon to an emerging economy like India, where around half of the country is yet to be connected online.

The ongoing pandemic means that everyone must pivot online to get things done, and NITIE is no exception. We shifted all our academic and administrative activities online to ensure the safety of students and educators. We had to move entirely online from our admissions to classes and even the convocation. Our comprehensive admission process for the full-time courses aims at finding high-performing candidates with a curious mindset. We altered the process to suit the online setting without compromising on the evaluation of the candidate.

For our classes, we implemented a blended plan: online courses, especially in the domain of digitisation, supply chain management, supply chain analytics, marketing analytics, along with regular online classes subjects with an enhanced focus on case studies. We did this to augment the skill set of our students as disruptive innovations like blockchain IoT, robotics, and automation need to be discussed and debated to extract their true potential in the future.

The Virtual Classroom