The following are the components of SWIL:
Winter Internship Project (WIP)
Summer Internship (SI)
70% of our population resides in rural areas. At JIM Indore, we connect students through mentoring programs, networking events and social platform and have an eclectic mix of academics and real life problems. Students at JIM – Indore are required to work with social organisations on certain rural, semi-urban and unorganized sectors of India. Such projects aim to create an urge towards working for the cause of society. At the same time, students are encouraged to create innovative ideas and explore their knowledge, skills and abilities that are transferable from one role to another. It extends a diversion from academics and refines students’ leadership and organizational management experience into spearheading social causes. The WIP may be formulated in the following areas(illustrative):
The summer internship (SI) has been designed to help students offer several new value-added deliverables to the industry and enhance significant learning opportunities for them. SI combines two major components, viz. industry immersion and long term learning association with an organisation. The institute has a unique summer internship programme. Under this programme, institute help the students in finding the most suitable assignment which matches the student profile and career interest. JIM-I supports the students to get placed for summer internship in reputed organization where they can implement the management theories in practice. SI is of two months duration in which students are expected to take learning project pertaining (illustrative) to any one or more the following: 1. Product Launch 2. New Business Development and Business Plans 3. Market Research 4. Designing Sales Pitches 5. Assessment of Various Processes and Systems 6. N e w B u s i n e s s O p p o r t u n i t i e s S e a r c h a n d Conceptualisation 7. Industry Analysis Reports 8. Digital Business Practices 9. Consumer Insight Mining As a part of deliverable and maintaining long term relation with corporate, students need to present the following to summer interning company: 1. A project proposal report detailing the scope of project 2. An interim report prior to submission of final report 3. Final Industry Analysis report including new global practices pertaining to project company’s business 4. Recommendations based on industry challenges and proposing new ideas and concepts that help company move to the next level SI has an academic component as well. A satisfactory completion report is sought from the interning company. Each interning company gets a chance to evaluate the interns over a long period in a real business situation and make Pre-Placement Offers (PPO) based on this evaluation. Students are also required to share their learning with the institute before they register for the second year. The requirement of making a formal presentation about the project to the company and to the institute ensures that sufficient rigour and discipline are brought into this exercise. During the internship, students are also assigned academic mentor while industry assigns a mentor from the company. Mentors are chosen from diverse backgrounds as eminent entrepreneurs, policy makers, researchers and consultants. The rich diversity of their backgrounds instils in the students a continuous desire to achieve excellence. This is to ensure the internship experience is fulfilling and mutually benefiting.
Community Based Services – On some of our MBA projects students will work with community groups and companies to help tackle social problems. Examples include: • Creating a model to measure the social value of a rural post office • Investigating with a venture capital firm appropriate methods of measurement for investments into CSR • Applying project management theory to the care and education of severely disabled students • Producing future development plans for community services for deprived set of people Some of illustrative thrust areas Youth Education – Anti tobacco, HIV, Micro-financing l Green-tech and Sustainability l Literacy Awareness Camps l Women Empowerment l Adherence to Laws and inculcating civic attitude l
Mentorship toYoung Enterprises JIM – Indore students are required to take up a project at the time of their inception of MBA course. This project extends over the time period of two years of PGDM programme. Indore, being a hub of young enterprises in varied sector of businesses, JIM- Indore is tying up linkages with small and medium enterprises in the adjoining areas. Students are facilitated to work with SMEs as when needed as mentor. The groups are formed in a such manner that students get to work with people from different educational, regional and cultural backgrounds. Students are encouraged to undertake related research for these organizations by framing market and other operational strategies for them. The students will also give advice to small and medium enterprises on carbon credits, biodegradable materials and help them operate in the best possible eco-friendly manner. Similarly, students from technical background are required to come up with projects related to technical up gradation and introduce the respective organizationto integrated software.
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