REPORT: NICOM – 2016 January 7-9, 2016

Submitted by: NICOM Team

NICOM - 2016 Post-Conference Summary Report

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Post-Conference Summary Report

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Details Event Date and Time : January 7-9, 2016

9:00 am to 5:30 pm

Type of Event : 19th Nirma International Conference on Management

Number of Students 950 (Approx.)

Conference Objective : To share and exchange ideas about the theme “Empowering Trade, Industry and Society in Challenging and Competitive Environment’

Venue : Auditorium, Institute of Management, Nirma University, Ahmedabad

Conference Organised by Institute of Management, Nirma University, Ahmedabad

Organizing Committee : Patrons Shri K. K. Patel, Vice President, Nirma University

Dr. Anup K. Singh, Director General, Nirma University

Chairman Dr. Somayajulu Garimella, Director, IMNU

Conference Chairpersons

Prof. Pawan K. Chugan Prof. Deepak Srivastava

Conference Co-ordinators

Prof. Nirmal Soni Prof. Nikunj Patel

Core-Committee Publication & Review Ms. Amandeep Sidhu DPM

Sponsorship Govinda Jakhotia MBA FT-II

Invitation Shreya Biswas MBA FT-II

Logistics Prateek Singh MBA FT-II

Accommodation Anurag Shukla MBA FT-II

Food & Beverage Aman Jain MBA FT-II

Registration & Reception Rohit Hada MBA FT-II

Stage Ovaish Saiyad MBA FT-I

Track Management Divya Wadhwani MBA FT-I

Audience Ayush Soni MBA FT-II

Publicity & Media Atalant Nadkar MBA FT-II

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Learning Outcomes :

Able to know various opportunities, underscore challenges and

prescribe strategies to be adopted, both at macro and micro

levels as also at national and international levels

Main Theme and

Sub-Theme :

Empowering Trade, Industry and Society in Challenging and

Competitive Environment

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Conference Background The transition from the sluggish economy to growing economy presents the set of unique

opportunities and challenges to trade, industry, environment and the society as a whole. In the

growing phase and reforms to stimulate country’s economic growth and development in

consistence with the themes of ‘Make in India’, ‘Green India’, ‘Skilled India’, ‘Clean India’ ‘Digital

India’ vis-à-vis the steps for ease of doing business in India. The answers to meet the new challenges

and encash the opportunities are rather more complex as the periods of transitions are full of

uncertainties, that need to be managed in a fruitful way by the agents of society like the individuals,

entrepreneurs, companies, societies, across the geographical boundaries, the world over. There are

no clear or universal 'must dos', rather there are times and opportunities when leaders make the

changes that are necessary for empowering the trade, industry and nation to overcome the

bottlenecks for sustainable growth and development and executives to take appropriate decisions

as to what and how to manufacture consistently with latest technologies, where to invest and trade,

make environment more clean and be environment friendly and empower the society in general.

Under this backdrop, this international conference will attempt to discuss various opportunities,

underscore challenges and prescribe strategies to be adopted, both at macro and micro levels as

also at national and international levels by all concern viz. government, society and individual

companies, entrepreneurs, academicians, professional, researchers, etc. to strengthen and

empower these agents of change for sustainable growth and development.

The Conference started with a welcome address by Dr. S. Garimella, Director, Institute of

Management, Nirma University. Director General, Dr. Anup K. Singh then spoke of ambiguity and

uncertainty in this day and age and provided with encouraging words to fight challenges in the face

of the same.

SPEAKERS OF THE CONFERENCE:

Chief Guest: Dr. Ram Shankar Katheria Hon’ble Minister of State for HRD (Higher Education), Government of India

Guest of Honour: Mr. Ramakant Jha CEO, Smart Cities, IL&FS, Ex. Chairman, GIFT, Gandhinagar

Plenary Sessions:

Mr. Dipesh Shah, Vice-President, GIFT, Gandhinagar

Mr. Shishir Rai, Assistant Vice-President, GIFT, Gandhinagar

Mr. Sanjay Kaul, MD, Gujarat Informatics Ltd Gandhinagar

Mr. Chirag Dhebar, GIFT, Gandhinagar

Shri Hasmukh Patel, IPS, Inspector General of Police

Ms. Komal Shah, Sr. Enabler, Espark Viridian Accelerator, Gandhinagar

Valedictory Session Dr. Ajit Prasad, Director, IIM, Lucknow

Mr. Seshadri Rajaram, Managing Director, Erhardt+Leimer, Ahmedabad

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Day – 1 – Inaugural Session

The 19th Nirma International Conference on Management (NICOM), organized by the Institute of Management, Nirma University (IMNU), commenced at 10:45 am on 7th January, 2016. NICOM has been an annual event at IMNU providing a platform for an interactive discussion between academicians and industry veterans on a plethora of topics under a common theme. The conference started with a welcome address by Dr. S. Garimella, Director, Institute of Management, Nirma University. Director General, Dr. Anup K. Singh then spoke of ambiguity and uncertainty in this day and age and provided with encouraging words to fight challenges in the face of the same. It was followed by an introductory speech by Prof. P. K. Chugan. Prof. Deepak Srivastava gave vote of thanks to the stake holders of NICOM-2016. The guest of honour Mr. Ramakant Jha, CEO, Smart Cities, IL&FS addressed the audience by imparting knowledge on how the aspirations of society grow with corresponding growth in various fields. He discussed about smart cities and the fuelling it provides in the overall development of the nation. Dr. Katheria also addressed the audience with his views on the current state of education in India and highlighted the need of quality in education system. Dr. Ram Shankar Katheria, Hon’ble Minister of State for HRD (Higher Education), Government of India, the chief guest for the day, then addressed the audience with thanks for the invitation and the chance to impart his wisdom to budding managers. He spoke of how Gujarat has shown commendable development in the past decade and extended the accreditation to Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The country has come a long way from the poverty and lack of education that it witnessed a few years back, although the issues still exist to quite an extent today.

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Plenary Sessions

The post lunch session began with Mr. Dipesh Shah, VP GIFT City and Mr. Shishir Rai, AVP, GIFT City, addressing the students on the topic of “Developing Smart City in India-Experience of GIFT City”. Mr. Rai spoke about how building a smart city needs smart planning. What makes GIFT a smart city is its smart plan and structure. Mr. Shah first defined their concept of GIFT City as smart in terms of economy, mobility, financial services and IT. He went on to elaborate on the features of GIFT City which are many and varied- smart infrastructure, technologically driven, retail and entertainment hubs, fire safety, security, energy management. Mr. Shah ended the session by saying that any vision or concept requires hard work, dedication and perseverance.

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Plenary Sessions

Mr. Sanjay Kaul talked about innovations and start-ups in India. He gave out a different perspective to the topic saying that entrepreneurs take up a business to earn profits whereas start-ups have the fundamental of trying out something new. As education grows, economy improves, and there is more disposable income, an increase in technology and connectivity; creates great opportunities for start-ups. Fast internet penetration in India has been an important source for the start-up culture. India is the fourth fastest growing start-up country in the world, with cities like Bangalore, Hyderabad and Ahmedabad being its fore-runners. Mr. Chirag Dhebar talked about Digitalization. He changed the words Digital India to Digit-All-India. He originated the digitization of all things in India, just like Aryabhatta created the number 0 and Bhrahmaputra explained the use of the same. Mr. Dhebar analogized the ancient digitization with the modern day digitalization. He asserted that Indians have not only the correct technology but also value the appropriation of its uses. Sir discussed about the contribution of MBA students to digital India through training and skill building projects. He concluded with the staunch belief that technology is the only choice for us to create a collected knowledge economy through digital India.

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Plenary Sessions

Day three of NICOM started with Mr. Hasmukh Patel (IPS) addressing the students on the topic of change management. He spoke about his experience in Bhavnagar where his first mission was to create respect for law through strict and impartial enforcement of law and responsive and accountable police administration. Mr. Patel spoke about how he started with implementing small but important steps such as instilling a sense of security, involving people in their own security etc. He also elaborated on their strategies such as behavioural change strategy and motivation strategy. The second speaker of the day was Ms. Komal Shah from E-Spark, Viridian Ventures who spoke about accelerating entrepreneurs. Ms. Shah talked about a host of topics such as valuation versus value creation, differentiation versus me-too products, Red Ocean versus Blue Ocean and desperation versus creativity. She explained the concept of a red ocean, an intensely competitive market where a customers is pulled in many different direction by numerous companies/brands. In such a scenario, a start-up should ideally attempt to create a small niche out of the red ocean; create their own blue ocean where they are the market leaders

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Valedictory Session

The chief guest for the valedictorian session, Prof. Ajit Prasad, Director, IIM-Lucknow, conducted the session on The Crisis in Global Strategy. He started the session by emphasizing on how the Indians are too obsessed with quantity nowadays, as opposed to quality. The difference between strategy and operations efficiency was discussed. Prof. Prasad mentioned that the managerial obsession with growth is hazardous to strategy and how positioning is as important a part as strategizing is. The guest of honour Mr. Sesadri Rajaram, Managing Director, Erhardt + Leimer then took over the stage to discuss about globalization and operational efficiency. He said that successful strategy goes hand in hand with sustainability. Compliance with physical and social environment is dire, and contribution from our side to the community should take place.

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Best Paper Awards

The Best Paper Awards were announced by Prof. Nikunj Patel. Following were best paper in each category;

Academic and Industry category

1. First – Prof. Ritesh Patel and Prof. Mitesh Patel, Assistant Professors, S.V. Institute of Management, Gujarat for contributing paper title “An Empirical Study on Weak-Form of Market Efficiency of Selected Stock Markets”

2. Second – Prof. Sweety Shah, Assistant Professor, L. J. Institute of Management Studies, Prof. Amola Bhatt and Prof. Shahir Bhatt, Assistant Professors, Institute of Management, Nirma University for contributing paper title “A Study of Personal Financial Planning Process and Socio-Economic Decision-making in Households”

Student category

1. First – Ms. Amandeep Kaur, Doctoral Student, Institute of Management, Nirma University for contributing paper title “A Multidimensional Poverty Standard of Living Conditions (MP-SLC) Assessment of Gujarat’s Most Deprived Population”. The Paper was co-authored with Prof. Yogesh Doshit, Professor, Institute of Management, Nirma University,

2. Second – Ms. Ria Sinha, PhD Scholar, Department of Policy Studies, TERI University, for contributing paper title “Sustainable Investment Choices in the Indian Finance Market: A Study of Problems and Possibilities”. The Paper was co-authored with Prof. Manipadma Datta, HOD and Professor, Department of Business Studies, TERI University.

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Certificate Distribution to the Committees

The Certificate distribution was announced by Prof. Nirmal C. Soni. Following were the representatives of each committees who have collected certificate on behalf of team;

Name of Committee Name of Student Programme Publication & Review Ms. Amandeep Sidhu DPM

Sponsorship Govinda Jakhotia MBA FT-II

Invitation Shreya Biswas MBA FT-II

Logistics Prateek Singh MBA FT-II

Accommodation Anurag Shukla MBA FT-II

Food & Beverage Aman Jain MBA FT-II

Registration & Reception Rohit Hada MBA FT-II

Stage Ovaish Saiyad MBA FT-I

Track Management Divya Wadhwani MBA FT-I

Audience Ayush Soni MBA FT-II

Publicity & Media Atalant Nadkar MBA FT-II

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Abstracts and Full Papers Received - NICOM – 2016

We received total 245 abstracts under various sub-themes like Smart India, Skill India, Ease of Doing

the Business, Skill India, Clean India, Digital India, Make in India, Green India and Interdisciplinary

Issues.

Starup India, 12 Smart India, 15

Ease of Doing the Business, 12

Skill India, 30

Clean India, 7

Digital India, 36

Make In India, 11Green India, 17

Interdisciplinary Issues, 105

ABSTRACT RECEIVED

Starup India, 9 Smart India, 10

Ease of Doing the Business, 8

Skill India, 19

Clean India, 5

Digital India, 29

Make In India, 11Green India, 12

Interdisciplinary Issues, 77

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Comparison of Abstracts and Full Papers Received - NICOM – 2016

Note: Based on available data, as few authors have given details of corresponding author’s affiliation only

9

10

8

19

5

29

11

12

77

12

15

12

30

7

36

11

17

105

0 20 40 60 80 100 120

Starup India

Smart India

Ease of Doing the Business

Skill India

Clean India

Digital India

Make In India

Green India

Interdisciplinary Issues

Comparison - Abstracts and Full Papers Received

Abstracts Full Papers

Overseas, 19

Andhra Pradesh, 3Bihar, 2

Chhatisgadh, 2

Gujarat, 141

Karnataka, 1

Kerala, 3

Madhya Pradesh, 23

Maharastra, 18

New Delhi, 6

Odisha, 3

Rajasthan, 37

Tamilnadu, 4

Uttar Pradesh, 5

West Bengal, 2

GEOGRAPHY DISTRIBUTION - ABSTRACT RECEIVED

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List of Foreign delegates: NICOM – 2016

The Conference received a range of participants in student, academic, and industrial category from

several countries.

Name Country Affiliation

V. Narayanan US Academic

Akshay Kumar Dash Japan Industrial

Tahmin Banu Bangladesh Academic

Darma Mahadea South Africa Academic

Suliaman Agha Saihoon Afghanistan Student

Ahmadullah Afghanistan Student

Mohammad Naim Afghanistan Student

Farid Ahmad Afghanistan Student

Jawid Ahmad Afghanistan Student

Ziaullah Mukhlis Afghanistan Student

Khaliduddin Afghanistan Student

Roshiraj Karkai Nepal Student

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Members (Core-Committee and Students’ Committee) - NICOM – 2016

Following are the members of students’ committees and Core-Committee of the NICOM-2016 team;

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Sponsors - NICOM – 2016 Following were the sponsors of NICOM-2016, this sponsorship was extended in both cash and kind;

Plenary Session, 50000

Mementoes, 50000

Plenary Session, 50000

Startups Plenary Session, 50000

Academic and Industry Awards, 35000Student Delegates Award, 15000

Prastavna, 12000

Library Sponsorship, 10000

Prastavna, 5000

Track Banner, 10000

Note Books, 14000

Beverages Sponsors, 30000

Water Bottles, 7000

CATEGORYWISE SPONSORSHIP

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Details of Reviewers - NICOM – 2016

Following is the list of faculty or staff members with the number of papers reviewed in the process; Sr. No.

Name of Faculty No. of Papers Reviewed

Sr. No.

Name of Faculty No. of Papers Reviewed

1 Prof. A.C. Brahmbhatt 8 22 Prof. Nityesh Bhatt 10

2 Prof. Amola Bhatt 3 23 Prof. Niyati Dave 1

3 Prof. Anand Deo 1 24 Prof. P.K. Chugan 48

4 Prof. Ashwini Awasthi 4 25 Prof. P.K. Yadav 6

5 Prof. Bindi Mehta 12 26 Prof. Parag Rijwani 3

6 Prof. Chetan Jhaveri 6 27 Prof. Rajesh Jain 9

7 Prof. Deepak Danak 7 28 Prof. Rajesh Kikani 3

8 Prof. Deepak Srivastava 27 29 Prof. Reena Shah 6

9 Prof. Dhiren Jotwani 9 30 Prof. Samir Pingle 5

10 Prof. Harismita Trivedi 5 31 Prof. Sanjay Jain 4

11 Prof. Jayesh Aagja 8 32 Prof. Sapna Choraria 1

12 Prof. Khyati Desai 4 33 Prof. Sapna Parashar 4

13 Prof. Khyati Shah 2 34 Prof. Satish Nair 8

14 Prof. Mahesh KC 4 35 Prof. Shahir Bhatt 2

15 Prof. M. Mallikarjun 5 36 Prof. Shantanu Mehta 4

16 Prof. Meeta Munshi 8 37 Prof. Sunita Guru 4

17 Prof. Monali Chatterjee 3 38 Prof. Tripura Joshi 5

18 Prof. Naresh Poturaju 5 39 Prof. V.V. Nath 6

19 Prof. Nikunj Patel 26 40 Prof. Yogesh Doshit 2

20 Prof. Nina Muncherji 2 41 Ms. Monita Shastri 1

21 Prof. Nirmal Soni 33

Ms. Vyoma Bhrahmbhatt, Ms. Kaththak Mehta and Ms. Seema Bihari have helped throughout the NICOM-2016 from the review to the execution of the conference.

Details of Sessions Chaired by Faculty Members - NICOM – 2016

Following is the list of faculty members with the number of Sessions Chaired in the process; Sr. No.

Name of Faculty Sessions Chaired

Sr. No.

Name of Faculty Sessions Chaired

1 Prof. A.C. Brahmbhatt 1 (Track) 13 Prof. Nikunj Patel 2 (Track)

2 Prof. Amola Bhatt 1 (Track) 14 Prof. Nirmal Soni 2 (Track)

3 Prof. Ashwini Awasthi 1 (plenary) 15 Prof. Nityesh Bhatt 1 (Track)

4 Prof. Chetan Jhaveri 1 (Track) 16 Prof. Niyati Dave 1 (Track)

5 Prof. Deepak Danak 1 (Track) 17 Prof. P.K. Chugan 2 (Track)

6 Prof. Deepak Srivastava 2 (Track) 18 Prof. Parag Rijwani 1 (Track)

7 Prof. Dhiren Jotwani 1 (Track) 19 Prof. Rajesh Jain 1 (Track)

8 Prof. Harismita Trivedi 1 (plenary) 20 Prof. Rajesh Kikani 1 (Track)

9 Prof. Jayesh Aagja 1 (plenary) 21 Prof. Shahir Bhatt 1 (Track)

10 Prof. Mallikarjun 1 (Track) 22 Prof. Shantanu Mehta 1 (Track)

11 Prof. Monali Chatterjee 1 (Track) 23 Prof. Sunita Guru 1 (Track)

12 Prof. Naresh Poturaju 1 (Track) 24 Prof. Tripura Joshi 1 (Track)

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Programme Details- NICOM – 2016

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NICOM – 2016 Theme

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NICOM – 2016 Prastavana

Prastavana - The Book of Abstracts highlights on abstract of all papers received for the conference. NICOM-

2016 received overwhelming response from academia, industry practitioners and students. Conference

received around 250 abstracts and 160 full papers from national and international delegates. We have also

received abstracts and papers from international delegates representing Bangladesh, Japan, South Africa,

Uganda, United States of America, and Fiji. We have also received research papers from Indian delegates from

across the country. In addition, we have also published three books containing selected full papers, chosen on

the basis of their strength of research from the Prastavana.

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Conference Proceedings – Book 1 - Inter-Disciplinary Issues for Empowering Trade, Industry and Society

This book, titled as “Inter-disciplinary Issues for Empowering Trade, Industry and Society” comprises the papers that have been directed to address the issues from the finance, banking, account and insurance perspective and are put together under section I. The paper dealing with various issues pertaining marketing and consumer behavior have been combined under the section II. The section III of the book includes a few papers discussing educational, ethical and health care related issues to be looked into. There are 38 papers in this book.

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Conference Proceedings – Book 2 - Macro and Micro Dynamics for Empowering Trade, Industry and Society

This book, titled as “Macro and Micro Dynamics for Empowering Trade, Industry and Society” comprises the papers that address the issues pertaining to global trade, investment, operations, growth and economic development, which are largely related to the make in India theme, while the issues related to the human resources and organisational behaviour are in consonance with the theme of skill India. In all, there are 31 papers in this book.

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Conference Proceedings – Book 3 - New Age Ecosystem for Empowering TRADE, INDUSTRY AND SOCIETY

This book, titled as “New Age Ecosystem for Empowering Trade, Industry and Society” comprises the papers that address the issues of information and technology related to the theme of digital India. Next section of the book deals with the sustainable environment, which focuses on the theme of clean and green India. The infrastructure development related issues dealing with the theme of Smart India are given in section III, and the issues pertaining to the ease of doing business and entrepreneurship relating to the theme of Start-up India are included in the section IV of the book. In all, there are 44 papers in this book.

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NICOM – 2016 – Advisory Council

Note: Mr. Ramakant Jha has recently joined as CEO, Smart Cities, IL&FS

Report Prepared by: NICOM Team

Content Courtesy: Media Committee, IMNU

Photo Courtesy: Pratikriti Committee, IMNU and Photographer