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The Industry Interface Projects at S P Jain are directed towards
creating a higher degree of exposure to the real corporate environment.
The idea is to enhance the industry-worthiness and deployment-readiness
of our Participants. This is achieved by the assimilation of a body-of-knowledge
and its application in live situations.
The Industry Interface Initiative under the GMBA program has
two unique components-Applied Research Project (ARP) and Action
Learning Program (ALP) engaged during Semester I and II respectively.
The ARP focuses on the application of research tools and techniques
across an 'industry-specific' theme and is issue-based. It culminates
into research reports that focus on a certain industry issue,
thus providing a strong grounding in research skills.
The ALP, on the other hand, is an integration of learning through
management challenges focused on the themes of growth, innovation
and competitive advantage for a 'specific company'. Participants endeavor
to create consultant-level reports to provide actionable strategic
directions for an organization, boosting their confidence in sensing
and handling unstructured situations.
A GMBA candidate enters in ARP phase as a researcher and emerges
from the ALP phase as a capable decision-maker, advisor and team-player.
The whole initiative is structured in such a manner that the
Participants first gain knowledge, functional understanding and exposure
to the industry environment; and subsequently integrate and apply
the knowledge. The idea is to minimize the reliance on Internet
research and to maximize primary research and 'tacit' knowledge
and application, while fostering a natural progression from a
structured decision-making required at the operational levels
to commanding unstructured situations required at the top-management
levels.
The complete research endeavor is guided by in-house and corporate
mentors and has multiple evaluated components such as literature
reviews, viva, presentations, reports, etc. This ensures live
exposure to the Participants; and at the same time the analysis of
issue-based industry scenarios in ARPs or higher-order management
issues emanating and treated through ALPs result in better, contextual
and meaningful outcomes.
While engaging in both the components, the Participants get substantial
regional exposure, which is the key differentiator of the GMBA
program. There are enough opportunities to interact with the business
locals and understand not only the technical but also the behavioral
dimensions of the way businesses operate across geographies.
All these are live issues, straight from the guts of a CEO or
Business Head. In many ALPs, Participants are benchmarked by real
consulting organizations. A very high number of projects are being
upheld as live models in organizations today.
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One of the most difficult challenges facing today’s managers is solving complex multidisciplinary problems. MBA programs can no longer afford to have students study only in silos, and so at S P Jain our industry interface program allows students to explore real business problems from multiple perspectives. The Applied Research Project is designed to help students apply research techniques to broad based industry problems. The Action Learning Program builds from the ARP and has students tackle a problem facing individual organizations and making tactical and strategic recommendations. Together these subjects are a powerful learning tool that equips students to handle the difficult problems facing managers in an increasingly complex and globalized world.” 
