The post 2000 period has witnessed a major shift in the way the I.T. industry works. Due to this shift and the rapid rate of progress of the IT industry and its profound effect on business practices, the role of Business Analyst has been carved out of the erstwhile systems. Analyst-cum-Designer. This module helps executives to understand the scope, boundary and future of Business Analysis domain.

Quality is defined as the degree to which a set of inherent characteristics fulfill requirements stated and unstated by the customer. Quality management processes determine quality policies relevant to the project, establish quality objectives, define a person responsible for quality and addresses quality management of project as well as the product.

The process of making sure that appropriate project related information is generated, collected, stored, retrieved and distributed. It is an important link between people, ideas and information necessary for project progress. Major processes include communication planning, information distribution, performance reporting and administrative closure.

"Data Privacy & Compliance: Overview of global and Indian laws safeguarding personal data. "

objective is to acquire a thorough understanding the subject of project management and its core area. Project management is application of knowledge, skills, tools and techniques to project activities to meet project requirements.

It is no wonder that telecom sector is amongst the largest and most rapidly growing sectors in the market these days. Accordingly, the projects involved in telecom sector are generally large scale projects with high budget scale. Managing such vast projects can be a heft job for project managers in the telecommunications field. This creates the need for an organized and advanced solutions that can systematize disparate people involved in the projects and also caters to their individual roles and responsibilities.

Integration management includes the processes and activities needed to identify, define, combine, unify and coordinate various processes of project management and its process groups. Any change required to any other knowledge area has to be approved and integrated with other activities. It entails making choices about resource allocation, making trade-offs among competing objectives and alternatives and managing interdependencies among knowledge areas.

A large number of new products launched in the market, fails due to many strategic errors. In this session, veteran marketing faculty, prof. Mangesh Borase discusses various strategies for new product development , misconceptions about product development and a scientific process for successful product development.