Need of the Hour: Product Leaders, Institute of Product Leadership Launches in India

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Need of the Hour: Product Leaders, Institute of

Product Leadership Launches in India

PR Newswire

BANGALORE, June 26, 2012

BANGALORE

,

June 26, 2012

/PRNewswire/ --

India's

First B-School for Technology Managers, Institute of Product

Leadership Launched an Executive Post-Graduate Program in Product

Leadership

As part of the launch of the Executive Post-Graduate Program in Product

Leadership, Institute of Product Leadership organised a seminar on "Why India

needs More Product Leaders?" The event was held at The Paul, Outer Ring

Road, Domlur on

June 23, 2012

.

The discussion dwelled on how senior engineering professionals need to

develop more product mind-set and skillsets especially those working in "IP"

based product and services' companies. Several product R&D executives spoke

at the event - Sanjeev Kumar, Head R&D, Informatica India; Sharad Sharma,

Executive Council, NASSCOM; Ramkumar Narayanan, VP of Product

Management, Yahoo India; Srinivasan S, Head of R&D, Alcatel-Lucent India;

Venkataraman V., Director of R&D, Ericsson India and Pari Natarajan, CEO,

Zinnov.

"I believe that the Institute of Product Leadership will have the same seminal

impact on product industry in

India

like NID and NIFT have had on design

movement in

India

," said Sharad Sharma from NASSCOM who is also on the

Board of Directors of the Institute. "There are about 30,000 managers and two

thousand product managers in

India

-based MNC R&D Centers. Out of these a

few hundred product leaders will emerge who will take the product industry to

the next level. The Institute of Product Leadership will have a big role in shaping

these leaders," he added in his keynote.

Earlier in the year, several senior practitioners came together and formed the

Executive Product Industry Council (EPIC) which created the core curriculum

and delivery methodology for the institute. Sanjeev Kumar, MD, Informatica

India who is the Chairman of EPIC said, "We wanted a practitioner led approach

to education with a curriculum that is more relevant to the technology product

industry to help our senior engineering managers develop more product

mindset and skillsets." During the panel discussion Kumar clarified, "Companies

like ours are looking to hire product leaders. They go beyond managing

technology projects to synthesizing context from market, competition and

customers."

The Institute aims to become the education and research platform to nurture

the growing product ecosystem in

India

. While going over the program details,

Pinkesh Shah, a Silicon Valley product executive, now Director of Programs at

the Institute said, "All of our programs will be delivered by a blend of

practitioners and world class faculty from the US." During Q&A on the topic of

local context, he commented, "While the courses will be led by Harvard, MIT

case study discussions, we also want to bring in the product success/failure

stories from

India

and use that as a contextual baseline to groom next

generation product leaders."

IPL launched an Executive Post-Graduate Program in Product Leaders with 45

courses, delivered on weekends over 5 quarters (15 months) around themes of

Customer Connect, Product Design & Innovation, Product Life Cycle

Management, Finance, Go-To-Market & Leadership/Soft Skills. While the

executive program is focused on senior management roles with 8+ years of

work experience, the institute also announced a specialized MBA type of

program for 2 years which will be launched next year.

Vishy P., CEO Human Endeavour, Director of Academics at the Institute

summarized, "The intent is to go beyond skill building and knowledge

enhancement into ultimately creating an experiential learning for senior

technology professionals. This is not only relevant and actionable in their

current role, but ultimately accelerates their growth personally and

professionally."

Click Executive Post Graduate Program in Product Leadership to get the brief

on the program.

About Institute of Product Leadership:

The Institute of Product Leadership,

India's

first B-school for technology

managers, was formed in conjunction with Executive Product Industry Council

(EPIC) to design and deliver programs for senior product professionals to

accelerate their career path transformation from building innovation to

productizing it in the global context and that of emerging markets.

Click Institute of Product Leadership to know more.

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