Top Row Left to Right: Aditya Subramanian Venkataraman, Dhruv Sharma, Utsav Thakkar, Avish Arora
Bottom Row Left to Right: Prateek Anand Nanda, Abhishek Singhal, Vaishnavi Ruikar, Mayur Deshmukh
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Top Row Left to Right: Aditya Subramanian Venkataraman, Dhruv Sharma, Utsav Thakkar, Avish Arora
Bottom Row Left to Right: Prateek Anand Nanda, Abhishek Singhal, Vaishnavi Ruikar, Mayur Deshmukh
The Operations Club of IIM Shillong is, at its core, a special interest group comprising individuals committed to promoting the academic disciplines of Operations and Supply Chain Management. Through their publications and activities around the year, the members of this Club try to spread awareness and ignite interest in the various advancements and trends in the field of Operations. To this effect, they organize a host of competitions and other exciting online and offline events.
Online and offline events includes :
GupShup: Corporate Interaction Series
Gupshup initiates interactions between Corporates and students by bringing stalwarts from the industry to campus to ensure knowledge transfer related to real-world experiences. The event continues the notion that a robust industry-academic partnership sets the path for developing tomorrow’s leaders who can inspire society and shape our country’s destiny. Gupshup has the variability of involving various types of sessions like Supply Chain Workshops, Career Advice, Industry trends, Experiences, etc.
Optimus:
It is an intercollege operations competition held at regular intervals via the D2C Platform throughout the academic year. It consists of exciting events such as Case Study Competitions, Quizzes, Article Writing Competitions, Simulation, Strategy Rounds, etc., that test the participant’s creativity and conceptual clarity in the basics of Operations and Supply Chain Management. It witnesses participation from students of Management Institutes across the country.
Oper8:
Oper8, the annual Operations Carnival, is an intra-college competition to boost participation and interest in the Operations field among the institute’s students through various events, including fun, operation, and strategy rounds. The Operations Week comprises multiple events such as Prakriya – The COO Challenge, Jingbuhrieh – Tame the supply Chain, OpsTrail – Online Mystery Hunt, and so on.
Shrinkhala/Khlurthma:
Shrinkhala is the Operations Case study challenge held as part of Khlurthma, the Annual Management Festival of IIM Shillong. The best supply chain minds from across the country fight the war that tests the contestants’ skills around Supply Chain and Operations Management Problems. The event witnesses participation from Management Institutes from across the country.
Operations Panel/BLS:
The Operations Panel Discussion of the BLS 2022 Summit was held around the topic, “Modernizing operations through disruptive technology and resilience.” The diversity of the industries to which the esteemed guests belonged led to some unique perspectives. The discussion started around disruptive technology and how the pandemic has changed the approach, mindset, and decision-making processes in Operations and brought about the need for digital transformation. Further, the concepts of Zeronomics, 3D Printing, and the Sustainability practices adopted in their respective industries were extensively discussed. The session ended up with an engaging Q&A round with the students