International School of Information Management University of Mysore Workshop on Entrepreneurship and Management October 11-12, 2008 ********************* The two day workshop by industry experts include the following sessions: • Why of Entrepreneurship - Why you should be an entrepreneur today? • Writing the Business Plan - elements and examples. How to write a good biz plan? • Transition from Good to Great • The Future of Management • The New Rules of Management The Workshop is designed to answer the following key questions: • What it is to be an entrepreneur today? What is entrepreneurship? What are the driving forces behind it? How to be a successful entrepreneur? What are critical to the success of the start-up and survival of an entrepreneurial venture? • How do you transition from a “good idea” from a “good start up ” to a great company ? How do you define a “good idea ” for you? • How to set up a good , successful, well functioning management teams for their new ventures? • What about the sources of funding? How to identify them, assess their importance to the particular ventures, and then obtain the necessary commitment of these resources? • What types of financing are available to the entrepreneur – debt, equity, etc? How do successful entrepreneurs obtain this financing and how do they negotiate and structure the deals? • What about the legal and contractual aspects of deal structuring, employment and investment agreements, vesting schedules, non-compete and proprietary rights agreements? • What strategies and tactics are possible for those who aspire to an entrepreneurial career? What constitutes "entrepreneurial success"? What is a game plan? • How to write a good business plan? The biz plan basics, element of a good biz plan, examples and templates? • What is the future of management? Are new rule being written /rewritten in the new economy? Instructor: Prof. Nandini Vaidyanathan Brief Bio of the Instructor: Professor Nandini Vaidyanathan, an alumnus of Delhi School of Economics and London School of Economics, spent 20 years in the corporate sector with MNC’S all over the world. She has worked in a cross-section of industries, ranging from security, media, pharma, gas, office automation, equity market and animation. She is India’s leading strategist in crisis management and has been associated with corporations and governments in sensitive negotiations and settlements. She is also one of the original proponents of outsourcing, having set up call centres, nearly thirteen years ago for a TNC in UK (British Gas). She has been teaching Entrepreneurship and International Biz at premier Business schools in India, US , and UK such as IIM-B, Princeton, and London School of Economics, for the last three years. She is Mentor-Promoter of a company called Startups (forstartups.blogspot.com) which mentors young entrepreneurs with management inputs such as structuring capital, incorporating t! he company, acquisitions, sources for funding, marketing and biz strategy, scalability, global expansion, etc. Venue: The International School of Information Management, University of Mysore, Manasagangotri, Mysore For more details – http://www.isim.ac.in/html/course%20page/entrepreneurshipws.htm Thanks and regards, Angrosh ************************************************ Angrosh M.A. Project Manager International School of Information Management University of Mysore, Manasagangotri Mysore 570 006 Tel: +91-821-2514699; +91-821-2411417 Fax: +91-821-2519209 Email: angrosh@isim.ac.in; office@isim.ac.in *********************************************** -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.