My summer internship experience at NIF and Kerala

Dear friends, season greetings to you all.

My name is Purvish Shah. I am a student of MBA at V. M. Patel institute of management and currently pursuing Marketing in Sem III. As part of my internship project, I had undertaken my project at National Innovation foundation, Ahmedabad.

National Innovation foundation is an organization, which does the work of recognizing, rewarding and respecting the Grassroot innovations. As an internee, my task was to carry out the Benchmarking of various innovations that were given to me by NIF. I also worked on preparing a business development plan of one Grassroot innovation called the solar mosquito destroyer.

Solar mosquito destroyer is an eco friendly mosquito killing device, which requires no electricity to operate. This device is made by Mr. Mathews from Kerala.

During the course of my training, I visited Kerala in order to meet various innovators and to carry out the documentation of some new innovations. I happened to met Mr. Mathews, the innovator of Solar Mosquito destroyer. I also met other two innovators in Kerala and Tamil Nadu.

When I visited those places, the major problem that I faced was the food and language problem. I got to learn many new things by meeting the innovators personally, probing them about their innovations, meeting the customers in some surrounding areas, etc. The very interesting thing was that, these people were not aware of the language that I was aware. I had a tough time interacting with them.

But after all, being a good manager, I managed to interact with those guys by understanding their body language, their gestures and the non verbal cues.

Overall, many good things to learn from my project and I met many new people in my life during this period. These days have a large contribution in the entire course of my MBA.

I also made a presentation of the same project at a National Level Summer Project competition at my Institute. The event was called Pratibha and here you can myself presenting at PRATIBHA.

VMPIM is organizing inter college management fest in Janury 2009

My institute, VMPIM is organizing inter college management fest. During the two day long Management fest, there will be various formal Management events and informal events too. I feel very glad to share that the college is taking a crucial step by organizing an event called the “Business Plan Contest”. Such an event will be beneficial for Management students to develop their Entrepreneurship skills.

I will be coming up with more details about the event soon on my blog.

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National level summer project competition VM's Pratibha organized at V.M.Patel Institute of Management, Ganpat University.

VM’s Pratibha, A two day national level summer project competition was organized on 19^th and 20^th September, 2008 at V.M.Patel Institute of Management, Ganpat University, Mehsana.

B-School Students from different parts of India came up with excellent presentation which helped to gain real life insights into management world, and students also shared their exposure to competitive situations with their colleagues. Industry professionals were invited to Judge the performance of the students.

Stealing the show, Shweta Mishra from N.R.Institute of Business Management, Ahmedabad won the first prize. She presented a research report on “The Determinants of Advertising and Promotions at Ahmedabad City Mall”.

Renu Jashnani from Maeer’s MIT school of business, Pune; presented an excellent report on the Brand recall of Kingfisher Beer. Her study was based in Bangalore, and she came up with real insights into what are the consumer preferences for Beer consumption.

There was one eye catching innovative business development plan developed by Purvish Shah of V.M.Patel Institute of Management, Kherva. He presented social entrepreneur approach to an innovative device called the solar mosquito destroyer. It is an eco friendly mosquito killing device, which requires no electricity to operate.

The prizes for the events were sponsored by Johnson screen Pvt Ltd and Axis Bank.

VM’s Pratibha 2008 was inaugurated on 19th September in presence of Shri. P.K.Laheri. The director of the Institute Dr. Mahendra Sharma was the convener of the event, while Prof. Maurvi Pandya and Prof. Sheetal Badshah were chief coordinators.

(Inputs By: Purvish Shah & Paras Shah (Student Media Coordinators – VM Patel Institute of Management, Ganpat University, Kherva - Mehsana.)