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Career leap with distance Project Management MBA ‘Project Manager’ an impressive job title! Many wants to pursue the career in this space. We hear discussions like “Project manager is the key”, “Choose a bad project manager and your project is doomed”. All of your success in projects and organization initiatives seems to be pivoting around this one person called project manager. We had lot of questions: What kind of tasks this key person does? What role he/she plays? Can someone learn the skills without leaving his current job through distance MBA in project management? So we started our research. Does distance MBA teach Project Management practiced in Different Industries? We started our search with job portals. Collated key roles and responsibilities from various job descriptions of a project manager from different industries. We noticed job description (JD) details can be classified in to three sections as follows. On a sample basis we are showing JDs three sectors, In...

Acquiring 21st century skills with distance MBA Program Part 1 Observe the hiring trends. There is significant slowdown in the incremental mass hiring and focus is shifting to hiring specific critical business skills based on the changing market and client demands. Low level routine jobs like clerks, some entry level profiles are being replaced by automation and technology. We have recent news on companies like Infosys focus on recruitment of graduates from liberal arts rather than hiring more engineers to write code and maintain the IT infrastructure. According to the Economic times, there is a decisive shift observed in talent hiring areas in last 6 years since 2012. Now the roles which are in focus are robotic process automation, UX design, Cloud, Mobile Technology, Artificial intelligence, Big data/Analytics. If one who is currently working in the industry aspires to shift and grow in the career, he/she has no option but to hone the skills which are relevant in 21st centu...

Acquiring 21st-century skills with distance MBA Program Part 2 We are living in a VUCA world. VUCA means Volatile, Unpredictable, Complex and Ambiguous. Technologies are disrupting every business and job role on this earth. Automation is threatening to take away many low-level routine jobs. New technology businesses demand new ways of doing business with newer business models. According to the Economic times, there is a decisive change in the areas in which talent hiring is done in last 6 years. Now the job roles which are in focus are related to robotic process automation (RPA), UX design, Cloud Computing, Mobility, Artificial intelligence, Big data/Analytics. If one who is currently working in the industry aspires to shift and grow in the career, he/she has no option but to hone the skills which are relevant in 21st century. Distance MBA in International business management There are a lot of reasons why companies wish to expand their operations to global markets or variou...

How useful an MBA is in a marketing career? When someone wants to pursue management education through MBA, there are many options for specialization like finance, Human resource, international business, marketing etc. If someone wants to select marketing as his/her specialization, the questions that comes to his/her mind are Is there a demand for the skills I am acquiring? What are the prospects of financial growth? Will there be all-round growth in my career? Will I get to learn new things? Will my profile be challenging? Will it help me grow faster? What is the time and effort required? And many more… Let us try to get information to get answers to some of these questions. Opportunities Landscape for marketing World is changing due to disruption in technology innovation. Every business and sector is going through many levels of revamp. The changes are in every process starting from acquiring customers to deliver services to them. Companies are struggling to st...

Beyond Search and Social media: distance MBA in digital marketing Companies are paying more close attention to digital ways of marketing because it is easier to track and monitor the spending and track return on investment. There are many tools and technologies which make this digital world of interactions. This includes social media like Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, YouTube etc, e-mailing platforms, Website and mobile applications and so on. Any distance MBA program in digital marketing would cover many of these popular platforms and strategies to garner benefits from them. Though the actual course contents might differ from institution to institution, there are few common subjects those are critical for the digital marketer’s role. There are many more tools and techniques beyond search engine and social media. Let us know them too. Search Engines For digital marketing search engines are very crucial component. Almost every time, our purchase cycle starts with search en...