Postgraduate Program in Software Enterprise Management
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Postgraduate Program in Software Enterprise Management or PGSEM is a Management program for working Information Technology professionals. The program is run by Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore (IIMB), one of the premier management institutes in India. PGSEM program was started in 1998. Since then it is quite popular among the IT professionals in the southern part of India - attracting the best of talent interested in pursuing quality management education.
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[edit] Details of the Course
[edit] Admission Procedure
Typical of IIMs, PGSEM has a stringent two step process for admission into the program.In the first step applications are invited with a valid CAT or GMAT score. Candidates can also opt to appear for PGSEM entrance exam and use its score to apply. For the second step, institute invites the candidates for 2 rounds of interview after cross-normalizing the scores from the applications in first step. First round of interview is taken by the PGSEM alumni. Second interview, which carries more weightage, is take by various faculty members. Final admission offers are made on the basis of both the interviews.
[edit] Class Structure
2009 batch comprises of a class of 75 students in Bangalore. Classes are held regularly on fridays and saturdays.
[edit] Student Profile
The program curriculum covers general management concepts and is open to candidates who have more than two years of work experience and are working in an Information Technology company. While two years is considered as a mandate for the admission, the institute feels that a person with four to five years of IT experience would be the real benefactor from this course and hence such candidates are preferred. That said, people with more and less years of experience also make it to the course. The average years of experience of the candidates since the inception of the program have been 6 years for most of the batches. There is representation from all major IT companies spanning the length and breadth of the Indian sub-continent. (Employees from 100+ IT companies are currently doing this course).
[edit] Facilities
Program is very rigorous and PGSEM participants can access all the facilities available at IIMB campus. Many of the electives in the second year are held along with the PGPs (The regular MBA program at IIMB). PGSEM students are eligible to become exchange students in prestigious universities across the world and have to compete with there PGP counterparts to grab limited number of seats available. As an exchange student PGSEM student becomes a full time student.
As with PGP, PGSEM postgraduates are also offered waiver of one year of course work while pursuing FPMs (Fellow Program in Management).
This program does not offer any placement service to its students as is the case of PGP, primarily because each student in this course is expected to work with the consent of their employers.
[edit] Program Structure
Each academic year is subdivided into 4 quarters of 11 weeks each. The classes are held regularly on Fridays and Saturdays from 8:00 a.m. to 1 p.m.Typically, a participant can graduate in 2 and 1/2 years to 2 years 9 months, while continuing their regular work. For very rare cases in which students need to take a break due some personal or professional commitments, institute may allow to take a quarter off and resume the program on return. Taking a break is only allowed from second year onwards when all the core courses are completed. In such cases it will take longer to complete the program.
The word "software" is a misnomer in the name of the program and all the courses are general management related courses. The program is structured around 10 broad themes.
| Theme 1 Concept of Business | Theme 2 Managing and Controlling Financial Resources | Theme 3 Marketing |
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| Strategic Management Joint Ventures and Alliances (E) |
Financial Accounting Managerial Accounting |
Principles of Marketing Marketing Research (E) |
| Theme 4 Planning and Implementing Projects | Theme 5 Organizing and Managing People | Theme 6 Analytical Tools for Business |
| Operations Management Software Project Management (E) |
Managing Organizations Managing People and Performance |
Quantitative Methods 1 Quantitative Methods 2 |
| Theme 7 Gaining Domain Expertise | Theme 8 Context of an Organization | Theme 9 Entrepreneurship in New Business Contexts |
| Operations Strategy (E) Supply Chain Modeling and Analysis (E) |
Micro Economics Macro Economics |
Elements of Management Consulting (E) Corporate Venturing (E) |
| Theme 10 Communication Skills | ||
| Writing and Presentation Skills (E) French (E) |
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| (E) – Indicates electives offered in the recent past |
[edit] Target Audience
This program is designed to come to the help of the software professionals at a stage in their career when they may need to augment their technical knowledge with knowledge of business concepts. Software Professionals looking for management education while still pursuing their jobs can look at this program.
People interested in knowing more about this program should visit the program specific page on Institute web site. Also there is a mailing list maintained at PGSEM Yahoogroup. People can also get a feel of happenings in the program at the program blog at PGSEM Blog and Official IIMB PGSEM Blog. Both the group and blog are maintained by PGSEM students and Alumni.
[edit] The PGSEM Batches
The following are the PGSEM batches that have already passed out from the institute:
1998-2001
1999-2002
2000-2003
2001-2004
2002-2005
2003-2006
2004-2007
2005-2008
2006-2009
The batches that are still doing the program are:
2007-2010
2008-2011
To obtain the latest information regarding PGSEM and how to apply, visit the IIMB site and the PGSEM section. A new site PGSEM offers more information.
Application deadlines for PGSEM is usually February 28th of each year and the classes usually start in the second week of June each year
