IIMK to conduct a Short Term Advanced Course
on the Trends and the Future of Publishing
PRESS RELEASE
A national level executive development programme on “Publishing 2.0: Business Strategies for the 21st Century”
will be held at IIM Kozhikode from August 26-28, 2013. The current
mainstream publishing process, scholarly as well as trade, has been
significantly influenced by the endless possibilities offered by
computers, Internet, World Wide Web and its suite of technologies.
ePublishing offers a way to bring a new equilibrium to the scholarly
publication ecosystem. The Internet has also revolutionized businesses
across the globe by streamlining their supply chains, thereby achieving
instant, value added information access and substantial cost reduction.
The programme shall map the changing landscape of the publishing domain
and will be extensively discussing and debating on the current trends as
well as the future course of publishing which is poised to have a
tremendous impact both in the industry as well as society.
The 3-Day programme has been designed to provide a vivid and candid
perspective of the already perfected, and fast upcoming revolution in
the publishing industry. It shall help the practicing as well as
prospective publishing personnel to identify the key strengths and
opportunities in the new technology environment that shall help achieve
organizational transformation, and in strengthening the publishing
enterprise’s productivity, efficiency and the future. It shall also
impart the knowledge and skills (conceptual as well as technical
components) required for strategy formulation for leveraging information
technology for the publishing community and the information
intermediaries, so as to equip them to face the challenges proactively
and to position themselves at the cutting edge of technology, profession
and business. Further more, it shall portray the potential of Web
Technologies and the Internet Information Infrastructure for scholarly
communication and scholarly publishing.
Major
publishers from across the country, IT Professionals, faculty members,
and those who are in information handling business are attending the
programme. Interested participants can join the programme by registering
online, on or before 15 August 2013, using the link http://iimk.ac.in/mdp/publishing2.0 , or contact IIMK MDP Office at 09447100539, 0495-2809208, 2809388 and 2809450.
Speaking
on the theme of the workshop, Prof. Debashis Chatterjee, Director of
IIMK, said “The digital landscape is quite promising as well as
unprecedentedly challenging. Publishing enterprises will need to take
cognizance of the recent signals and position themselves to meet the
multitude of challenges being posed by the emerging new world order in
the domain of publishing.” Highly experienced faculty from IIM
Kozhikode and from other prestigious institutions, both academia as well
as industry, will be handling the sessions. The workshop will be
offered by a team led by Dr. M.G. Sreekumar of IIMK.
About Indian Institute of Management, Kozhikode
Started
in 1997 with its Postgraduate Programme (PGP), the Indian Institute of
Management Kozhikode (IIMK) is on a high growth trajectory today,
offering widest range of academic programmes in the field of management
education. PGP student's intake for 2009 was 309 students i.e. 5 times
in 7 years thus making it the fastest growing management school in the
country to reach that landmark. This was done keeping the quality of the
programme high, as the Institute continued to maintain its sound
placement record, ranking among the top 5 institutes in the country.
IIMK pioneered Interactive Distance Learning (IDL) for working
executives in India. The Institute is today a leader in Faculty
Development Programmes (FDP) and is the major QIP (Quality Improvement
Programme) Centre of the All Indian Council of Technical Education, in
the field of management education. A significant step was taken for
incubation of a Centre of Excellence jointly with Government of Kerala,
which is one of its kinds in India, to help the Scheduled Castes/tribes
students overcome their deficiencies in communication, personality, etc.
Spread over about 100 acres of land, the Institute is situated on two
hillocks in Kunnamangalam area of ancient city of Calicut in Kerala, is
one of the most picturesque oxy-rich campuses in the country. A strong
fleet of highly experienced and dedicated faculty coupled with the
state-of-art knowledge resources and cutting edge computing &
communication infrastructure enables IIMK offer a life time experience
to the student as well as the research community. The Institute has
recently opened the Indian Business Museum, the first of its kind in the
country, which aims at promoting entrepreneurship among the youngsters
as well as acknowledging the profound contributions of the business
houses and other visionaries. IIMK, today, is synonymous with a thought
leader globalizing Indian thought systems and driving its application to
the current corporate scenario.
IIMK has now set up a Satellite campus at Infopark, Kochi, dedicated to Executive Education.
For Further information, please contact:
Dr. M.G. Sreekumar | Ms. Meghana Bangalore
Head, Media Relations, IIMK | Adfactors PR, Kochi
+91- 9447654066 | +91-9742660399
Warm Regards
Harshita Singh
Adfactors PR Pvt. Ltd.
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