IIM-C winter school programme focuses on system integration

Jaidev Majumdar in Kolkata

System Integration and Operational Effectiveness,” the five-day winter school programme initiated by the Indian Institute of Management-Calcutta (IIM-C), in association with the SOE Institute and Stevens Institute of Technology USA, took-off in Bangalore on Monday. The programme is the first of its kind in India and is being conducted at the Centre for Aeronautical System Studies and Analyses, DRDO, Bangalore.

The objective is to highlight the emerging business model which several sectors of the economy are following closely today. The new business model banks on a need-felt system integration that has emerged from an increased complexity of systems, the pervasive realities of global competitiveness, enhanced focus on cost and profitability and an ever-demanding customer expectation.

The winter programme is set to throw light on how premier organisations, driven by tough competition, have shifted their focus from selling and providing systems, system elements and products to a system integrator that leads to selling, providing and then sustaining a capability, a function or a solution.

Since system integration deals with the progressive linking and testing of system elements to merge their technical and functional characteristics into an overall and interoperable system, the system integrator is often responsible for managing the physical and functional baselines beyond the development and deployment
phases to include the system operation support cycles.

The programme will address the technical strategy associated with system integration along with the necessary skill set. The fee charged from participants is Rs 24,000 per person.