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On the 22nd of September, 2016, a guest lecture was organized for the BBM Final year students. The chief speaker was Prof. Sai Prasad Devineni, Vice President SEW Infrastructure Limited, Hyderabad a noted industrialist and faculty of ISB. Mr Devineni’s lecture was titled “Challenge the Limits.”
He motivated the students to utilize their education and skills to the utmost and to come up with innovative entrepreneurial ideas. He presented a range of case studies right from Uber to Facebook to demonstrate how ideas had transformed ordinary businesses into extraordinary global enterprises. In the second part of his lecture he listed the major challenges that new graduates would have to face – Competition, Conflict, Sustainability, Job Skills, Workforce, and so on, and suggested means to tackle these issues. In the concluding part of the lecture he emphasized that students graduating currently had a world of opportunities before them, especially as they lived in an era of young leadership and amazing technological progress. The lecture was followed by a lively question and answer session. A large number of students benefitted from the lecture. Prof. P. Sheela, Principal, GITAM Institute of Management and Prof. S. S. Prasada Rao, senior faculty, GITAM Institute of Management were also present.