Guest Talk for MBAs by Sr. Vice-President, Global Head-Digital, Manufacturing & Products, L&T Technology Services Ltd
23-Feb-2022
Mr. Prabhakar Shetty, Global Head of Manufacturing Services at L&T Technology Services Ltd addressed the first year MBAs on 23rd Feb, 2022 on "Ind4.0 new avenues to Explore". He has done his Engineering in Electronics & Communications and an MBA from IIM, Calcutta.
In order to prepare the students for their role as Management professionals, he urged them to be a part of the discussions on Business Planning and Strategic Planning and also sit through the Annual meetings in order to broaden the horizons in understanding operations. He was of the opinion that one should follow bottom-up approach and identify the problems first and then look at solving it and not top-down approach by showcasing the solution and looking out for the problem that can be solved through it.
Key Discussion points during the session:
1. Walk the corridors and invest quality time to interact with the subordinates in the office
2. New Tenets of Ind4.0 across Industrial Value Chain
3. Key technologies driving Ind4.0 growth
4. Focus areas in the near future ‑ Cloud. Digital Twin and Analytics
5. Understand the functions and processes at first in order to manage operations in the effectively
6. Understand the underlying principles/fundamentals of business first ‑ Stakeholders, Ecosystem, Nature of Business and so on
Mr. Shetty also attended to the questions asked by the students at the end of the session. Mr. Devadas Hegde, Trustee, handed over the memento to the guest.
