Guest Lecture – Engineering Industry Expectations From MBAs
Date: 7th July 2014
Mr. Vrishabhendra Swamy – Vice President at ABB (India and South Africa). He has 38 years of experience in the field of Design, Application, Order handling, Commissioning Engineer, Power Generation, Transmission, Automation Segment, AC/DC Drive System, High Power Rectifiers and Static Excitation System. He addressed IBA Students about Engineering Industry expectations from MBAs.
Mr. Swamy opened his talk by introducing himself and his organization to the audience. His topic of discussion was about six core values i.e., Creativity, Innovation, Continuous change, Business Ethics, Extrovertism and Attitude.
Mr. Swamy covered various concepts such as Individual Skills, Individual Goals, Perspective (Individual and Work Environment), Tuning in attitude from Student life to Business life, Code of Conduct, Time, Effort and Money. He gave the example of ISO Auditors / ISO Inspection.
Mr. Swamy shared the experience of how the ABB works for entry-level recruits. For freshers, the company assigns multiple tasks focusing especially on sales & marketing and provides various training for operations, testing, communication skills along with a quarterly performance review.
He concluded the session by giving suggestions to clarify what is best to do? How one will move from good to best? With the example of Mr Azim Premji (WIPRO), the session ended with a bag of Knowledge and Experience Sharing.
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