Introductory Session with Mr.Rahul Thangeda

We all know that Mr.Rahul Thangeda is an alumnus and a Ph.D scholar here at School of Management,NIT Warangal.One of the former Abhiyan Secretaries and a dedicated member of SOM Abhiyan,he has had a good experience of the activities and the way Abhiyan should be conducted.He welcomed all the students and addressed them talking about the strong foundation of Abhiyan and how one can take help from the activities in sharpening their skills and developing a good personality.Every learning that he imparted was through the mode of small stories and the learnings that come with the experiences in daily life. Stories and Quotes are few excellent methods of conveying message,morals and imparting knowledge as is traditional from the olden days in Gurukuls according to the Indian tradition.Team Abhiyan is thankful to Mr.Rahul for giving us some of his precious time that will help the first year students to build up the pace of learning and cultivate a positive attitude towards every event and activity of SOM.

July 28th, Team Building Activity

Must say,it was not an easy task to perform.All the students were divided into three groups and all of them stood in a line.The foot of the person infront was tied to the other person behind him.,and thus they formed a long chain.A destination was fixed and the object to be claimed was kept there.The team that took minimum time was rewarded.They had to move together,through the winding chair and table arrangement in classroom with a lot of hurdles in between.Some constraints with a set of rules were given.It brought out the most significant traits of a teamwork.

Learnings-"Coming together is a beginning.Keeping together is progress.Working together is success." courtesy Henry Ford

July 27th,Opening Session of Abhiyan Club in the fresh Academic Year 2011-2012

Well, hello everyone.Yes the opening session was quite a very goodone.There was and opening speech made by the Joint Secretary of Abhiyan and they later she was accompanied by the other Executive members.They gave everyone an insight into what is ABHIYAN and why it is a part of every memeber of SOM,where every aspect of it is dealt by the students themselves.After that there was a fulltime introduction session of introduction session of the new students ( 1st years) all of them were invited on the stage and presented little tasks as per their interests.Good times with the interaction between all the students of SOM.Hope you all will take this sportingly,enjoy,and a little seriously,because it is this Abhiyan that will give you the REAL PLATFORM to sharpen all your soft skills.

New Day! New Thought! by Men of WISDOM!!!!!

• The way to get started is to quit talking and to begin doing.-Walt Disney, Founder of Walt Disney Co.
• How you gather, manage and use information will determine whether you win or lose.-Bill Gates, Founder and Chairman of Microsoft
• Carefully watch how people live, get an intuitive sense as to what they might want and then go with it. Don’t do market research.-Akio Morita, Founder of Sony
• Every day we're saying, 'How can we keep this customer happy ?' How can we get ahead in innovation by doing this because if we don't, somebody else will.-Bill Gates, Chairman of Microsoft
• Feelings have a critical role in the way customers are influenced.-David Freemantle, Author of 'The Buzz'
• Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.-Bill Gates, Chairman of Microsoft
• Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring , all of which have the potential to turn a life around.-Leo F. Buscaglia, Author of books such as 'Living, Loving and Learning' and 'Born for Love'
• He profits most who serves best.-Arthur F. Sheldon, Rotary International
• In business you get what you want by giving other people what they want.-Alice MacDougall, a Successful Coffee, Tea, and Cocoa Merchant
• A rose on time is more valuable than a $1000 gift that's too late.-Jim Rohn, Author of 'Lessons on Life: How to Live a Successful Life'
• Although your customers won’t love you if you give bad service your competitors will.-Kate Zabriskie, Founder of Business Training Works
• Always do more than is required of you.-George S. Patton, American General in World War I and II
• Ask your customers to be part of the solution, and don't view them as part of the problem.-Alan Weiss, Ph.D., Author of 'Million Dollar Consulting'
• Being on par in terms of price and quality only gets you into the game. Service wins the game.-Tony Alessandra, Author of 'Collaborative Selling'
• Business is not just doing deals; business is having great products, doing great engineering, and providing tremendous service to customers.-Ross Perot, Chairman of Perot Systems
• Care more than others think wise. Risk more than others think safe. Dream more than others think practical. Expect more than others think possible.-Howard Schultz, CEO of Starbucks Coffee
• Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.
• -Henry Ford, Founder of Ford Motors
• Communication is everyone's panacea for everything.-Tom Peters, Management Consultant and Author of 'In Search of Excellence'
• Consumers are statistics. Customers are people.-Stanley Marcus, Chairman of Neiman Marcus
• Customers perceive service in their own unique, idiosyncratic, emotional, irrational, end-of-the-day, and totally human terms. Perception is all there is!-Tom Peters, Management Consultant and Author of 'In Search of Excellence'
• Do what you do so well that they will want to see it again and bring their friends.-Walt Disney, Founder of Walt Disney Productions
• Each Wal-Mart store should reflect the values of its customers and support the vision they hold for their community.-Sam Walton, Founder of Walmart Stores
• Every great business is built on friendship.-J.C. Penney, Founder of J.C. Penney Stores
• For us, our most important stakeholder is not our stockholders, it is our customers. We're in business to serve the needs and desires of our core customer base.-John Mackey, CEO of Whole Foods Market
• I think it's very important that whatever you're trying to make or sell, or teach has to be basically good. A bad product and you know what? You won't be here in ten years.-Martha Stewart, Founder of Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia
• If you do build a great experience, customers tell each other about that. Word of mouth is very powerful.-Jeff Bezos, Founder of Amazon.com
• If you make customers unhappy in the real world, they might each tell six friends. If you make customers unhappy on the Internet, they can each tell 6,000 friends.-Jeff Bezos, Founder of Amazon.com
• In our way of working, we attach a great deal of importance to humility and honesty; With respect for human values, we promise to serve our customers with integrity.-Azim Premji, Chairman of Wipro
• It helps a ton when you learn people's names and don't butcher them when trying to pronounce them.-Jerry Yang, Co-founder and CEO of Yahoo
• It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.-Charles Darwin, Known Naturalist and Author of 'The Origin of Species'
• Make your product easier to buy than your competition, or you will find your customers buying from them,
• not you.-Mark Cuban, Owner of the Dallas Mavericks
• Our business is about technology, yes. But it's also about operations and customer relationships.-Michael Dell, Founder and CEO of Dell Inc.
• Our customers should take joy in our products and services.-W. Edwards Deming, Renowned Author and Consultant
• Our mission statement about treating people with respect and dignity is not just words but a creed we live by every day. You can't expect your employees to exceed the expectations of your customers if you don't exceed the employees' expectations of management.-Howard Schultz, CEO Starbucks Coffee
• People don’t want to communicate with an organization or a computer. They want to talk to a real live responsive responsible person who will listen and help them get satisfaction.
• -Theo Michelson, State Farm Insurance Co.
• Profit in business comes from repeat customers, customers that boast about your project or service, and that bring friends with them.-W. Edwards Deming, Renowned Author and Consultant
• Quality in a service or product is not what you put into it. It is what the client or customer gets out of it.-Peter Drucker, Renowned Author and Management Consultant
• Repeat business or behavior can be bribed. Loyalty has to be earned.-Janet Robinson, President and CEO of The New York Times
• Spend a lot of time talking to customers face to face. You'd be amazed how many companies don't listen to their customers.-Ross Perot, Chairman of Perot Systems
• The aim of marketing is to know and understand the customer so well the product or service fits him and sells itself.-Peter Drucker, Renowned Author and Management Consultant
• The customer experience is the next competitive battleground.-Jerry Gregoire, SVP and CIO of Dell Computers
• The goal as a company is to have customer service that is not just the best but legendary.-Sam Walton, Founder of Walmart Stores
• Everything starts with the customer.-Louis XIV, King of France (1643-1715)
• The magic formula that successful businesses have discovered is to treat customers like guests and employees like people.-Tom Peters, Management Consultant and Author of 'In Search of Excellence'
• The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed.-Henry Ford, Founder of Ford Motors
• The more you engage with customers the clearer things become and the easier it is to determine what you should be doing-John Russell, President of Harley Davidson
• The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.-Peter Drucker, Renowned Author and Management Consultant
• There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down simply by spending his money somewhere else.-Sam Walton, Founder of Walmart Stores
• There's a place in this world for any business that takes care of its customers after the sale.-Harvey Mackay, Author of 'Swim with the Sharks Without Being Eaten Alive'
• This may seem simple, but you need to give customers what they want, not what you think they want. And, if you do this, people will keep coming back.-John Ilhan, Founder of Crazy John's Mobile Phone Retail Chain
• Treat your customer, as you want to be treated as a customer.-Catherien Pulsifer, Author and Glass Artist
• We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not a single act, but a habit.-Aristotle, Greek Philosopher
• We see our customers as invited guests to a party, and we are the hosts. It's our job every day to make every important aspect of the customer experience a little bit better.-Jeff Bezos, Founder of Amazon.com
• When you start viewing your customers as interruptions, you're going to have problems.-Kate Zabriskie, Founder of Business Training Works
• Your earning ability today is largely dependent upon your knowledge, skill and your ability to combine that knowledge and skill in such a way that you contribute value for which customers are going to pay.-Brian Tracy, Chairman and CEO of Brian Tracy International
• 70 to 90 percent of decisions not to repeat a purchase of anything are not about product or price. They are about some dimension of service.-Barry Gibbons, Former CEO of Burger King
• 80% of all sales are made on the 5th - 12th contact. 15 years ago it took on average 2 - 4 contacts before concluding a sale.-The National Association of Sales Executives
• The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency.-Bill Gates, Chairman of Microsoft
• A business absolutely devoted to Customer Service Excellence will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large.-Sir Henry Ford, Founder of Ford Motors
• The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.-Peter Drucker, Renowned Author and Management Consultant
• We've spent the last 30 years focusing on the T in IT, and we'll spend the next 30 years focusing on the I.-Peter Drucker, Renowned Author and Management Consultant
• Almost all quality improvement comes via simplification of design, manufacturing... layout, processes, and procedures.-Tom Peters, Management Consultant and Author of 'In Search of Excellence

New Session!!!!!!!!!!!

Hello to all the students PhD Scholars,2010-2012 Batch,2011-2013 and above all our respectful Professors and the whole staff of School of Management.We are glad to see you all once again and we welcome the new students of the fresh batch to become a part of SOM.Have a great learning time through books,experiences,interaction,discussion and participation.Learn at every step,and we are sure that you will always be proud of the foundation that you got at SOM.Let us make the best of the year 2011!!!!!WELCOME...........

Hello 2 All!!!

Ok!!!!! hello friends its so nice to see you all back again in this lush green campus of NIT Warangal.Admissions,registrations,new subjects its all happening currently.With a zeal to work hard from very beginning of this academic session, we wish all of you a great learning and working time.See you all soon at the Abhiyan Club sessions.