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Guidelines for Capstone project – Term V-VI

PGDM 2010 - 11
PROJECT WORK
PGDM Students are required to carry out a Capstone project and submit a Project
Report as a requirement of the PGDM Course in the IV, V, VI Terms.
A. The details of project work Requirements are given below:
1. The Project Proposal submitted by the student has to be approved by the project
guide before the student can start on his/her Project work.
2. The Project Work, as approved, should be carried out in an organization or may be
based on Library work under and supervision of the Project Guide. In case project
is being done within organization, they will two guides: Company Guide and
Faculty Guide.
3. The Project Work should be carried out Individually and personally by the student.
Wherever necessary project guide can give a project to two students also.
4. The Project Work should demonstrate the ability of the student to apply the
technique's & concepts to a specific situation or in any functional area.
5. The Project Work, through the Project Report, should demonstrate the ability of
the student Data Collection, Analysis of Data, Formulation of Recommendations
and for suggest viable scheme for implementation of the recommendations.
6. The Data should be collected either by own observations and measurements or
gathered generally accepted sources like Balance Sheets, Annual Report,
Government publication etc.,
7. Following are some of the typical areas that could be chosen by students for
Project work.
1. Application of Statistical Techniques, Forecasting,
Design of Experiments
2. Optimization and Appreciation of O.R. Techniques
3. Marketing - Production Coordination, Inventory Levels, Introduction /
Phasing out of Products.
4. Aggregate Planning, Manufacturing Systems, Capacity, Investment
Decisions, Inventory Levels.
5. Production Methods, Process Analysis, Operations Planning, Operator Training.
6. Operations Planning and control Scheduling, In process Inventory, JIT
7. Cost Management, Activity Based Costing, Budgetary Controls
8. Manufacturing Technology, CAD, CAM
9. Facilities Planning, Material Handling, Layout, Welfare Services
10. Project Management, Application of Networks
11. Value Engineering, Innovation
12. TQM, Quality Circles, Kaizen etc.
13. Maintenance Management, TPM
14. Ergonomic Analysis and Design, Environment
15. Energy Management, Conservation, of Energy
16. Supplies Management, Vendor Development, Purchasing
17. Inventory Management, Physical Control, Marketing Coordination
18. MIS,-Computerization, Extending Computer Applications, Networking,
Communications
19. Technology Forecasting, Introduction of Technology, Change Over of
Technology
20. Market Research, Forecasting, Product Life Cycles, Product Mix,
Introduction / deletion of Products
21. Man Power Planning, Forecasting, Recruitment, Appraisal, Redeployment
22. Motivation, Incentive Systems, Employee Development, Training /
Retraining
23. Education, Organization and Methodology, etc.
24. Finance, Corporate Governance
25. Working Capital Management – Revisited
26. Business Performance Measurement – changing paradigms
27. Investment Decisions
a) Individual
b) Corporate
29. Customer Profitability Analysis – service Sector
30. Target Costing – Methods & Techniques
31. Value Chain Analysis – Firm & Industry view points
32. Global Accounting – GAAP Harmonization.
33. Corporate Restructuring – A Tool for Survival.
34. Mergers & Acquisitions – the process can be a problem
35. Value Addition or Destruction in Mergers / Acquisitions
36. Harmonizing Accounting Standards
37. Supply Chain Management
a) Subsystems
b) Inventory
c) IT
38. Intellectual Property Rights
39. Logistics Management
a) Services
b) IT
c) Reverse Logistics
40. Any other deemed suitable by the faculty / company guide.
41. Any other deemed suitable by the project guide.

B. Submission of Project Proposal.


1. The student should select a Project Guide who will
give his/her consent to guide the student in his/her Project Work.
A certificate from the Project Guide is required
to be submitted along with the, Project Proposal as well as the
final Project Report.
2. The guide should be made familiar with the
requirements of the Project Work when seeking his consent to act as
Project Guide.
3. A write up on the Proposed Project should be prepared
and shall be submitted to the faculty guide for his approval. This could be 2
– 3 pages is in length. Salient features to be included in this write up are:
a. Title
b. Preamble and salient features of the organization and precise
definition of the problem to be studied.
c. Salient points concerning data collection and analysis, the
techniques to ;be used and the methodology to be followed.
Key reference (from about 4-5 books and 5-7 key articles in
Journals in these areas.
d. The nature of recommendations and the areas they will cover, an
estimation of benefits that may be expected and a review of the
feasibility of implementation.
4. The project proposal will be submitted by the student by the
stipulated date in the fourth term.

C. Carrying out the Project Work


1. In the fifth term designing of the survey instruments, if required, data
collection, techniques to be used, data analysis, tabulation interpretation
and draft report writing shall take place.
2. Student is required to meet his / her guide from time to time minimum for
30 hours during the course of the project work and submit the draft report
to the guide well before the end of the Vth term.
3. At the end of the Vth term, each guide will go through the draft project
report and with the help of one member from the subject area and one
faculty member from other area will take presentation from the student
and will evaluate the student and suggest necessary changes to be
incorporated in the final report to the student. Based on the quality of the
draft report and presentation, each guide will decide about the student to
go or not to go in the VIth term.

D. Submission of the Final Report.


1. After incorporating necessary changes in the draft report as suggested by
the guide and the panel, each student will work and incorporate the same
to the satisfaction of the guide. The Project work should be done personally
by the student under the guidance of the project guide and in conformity
with the approved Project Proposal.
2. A certificate from the Guide should be enclosed in the Project Report as
provided in the Format for Project Report. The Project Report should be in
the Format prescribed for Project Report given at the end.
3. The Collection of Data, Analysis of Data and application of techniques for
the formulation of recommendation should be clearly described in the
Report.
4. Executive Summary will be & essential part of the project report.
5. Student should submit one hard copy of the project report which will not
be returned to the student.
6. The Project Report should be submitted to the Faculty guide by March
2007.
8. By mid April grand viva will take place before a panel.

E. Publishing Rights
a) The Institute will have the right to use the Project Report in any manner
that may be deemed as expedient.
b) In case the author / faculty guide wishes to publish the Report or any
paper biased on that, due acknowledgment to the Institution that it was a
Project Report prepared for the PGDBM of the Institution has to be made
by him/her.

F. CERTIFICATE FROM THE GUIDE


The proforma of certificate will be as follows:
This is to certify that the Project Work titled ______________________________
(title) is a bonafide work carried out by _______________________________ (name of
the student), a student of PGDM program 2007 – 2009 of the Institute for
Technology & Management, Kharghar, Navi Mumbai under my guidance and
direction.

Signature of Guide:
Name, Designation & Address:
Date:
Place:

G. Report Preparation :
SPECIMEN FORMAT FOR REPORT PREPARATION
1. TITLE PAGE (use Standard Format)
2. CERTIFICATE FROM GUIDE (use Standard Format)
3. ABSTRACT
4. CONTENTS
5. LIST OF TABLES
6. LIST OF FIGURES

Chapter 1 PREAMBLE
1.1 INTRODUCTION
1.2 PROBLEM ON HAND
1.3 IMPORTANCE OF THE PROBLEM
1.4 SCOPE OF THE PROJECT

Chapter 2 DETAILS OF THE ORGANIZATION


2.1 INTRODUCTION
2.2 THE ORGANIZATION
2.2.1 PRODUCTS
2.2.2 PROCESSES
2.2.3 FACILITIES
2.2.4 ORGANIZATION STRUCTURE
2.3 ORGANIZATION BUSINESS PROFILE
2.4 OTHER RELEVANT INFORMATION
2.5 CONCLUSION

Chapter 3 THE PROBLEM ON HAND


3.1 INTRODUCTION
3.2 DESCRIPTION OF THE PROBLEM
3.3 DETAILS OF PROBLEM
3.3.1 HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE
3.3.2 CAUSE AND EFFECT RELATIONSHIPS
3.3.3 CRITICALITY OF THE PROBLEM
3.4 CONCLUSION

Chapter 4 RELEVANT LITERATURE REVIEW


4.1 INTRODUCTION
4.2 Presentation of material collected through review of relevant
literature quoting the sources of each material
4.3 Identification of the gap or some areas where no substantial work
has been done.

Chapter 5. DATA COLLECTION AND ANALYSIS


5.1 THE TYPE OF DATA NEEDE
5.2 THE SOURCES FOR THE COLLECTION OF DATA
5.3 THE DETAILS OF THE DATA COLLECTED
5.4 PROCESSING OF THE DATA FOR ANALYSIS
5.5 CONCLUSION

Chapter 6. ANALYSIS OF DATA


6.1 CHOICE OF TECHNIQUES
Brief description of the choice of the techniques utilized and the
justification for their use.
6.2 CONSOLIDATED RESULTS
Give a consolidated representation of result of the analysis.
6.3 GENERAL OBSERVATIONS

Chapter 7. RECOMMENDATIONS
7.1 Brief description of recommendations
7.2 Details of each recommendation, discussion of its technical
suitability, economic justification and feasibility of
implementation.
7.3 Suggested Scheme of Implementation, precautions and
monitoring systems.

Chapter 8. DISCUSSION OF THE RESULTS


8.1 INTRODUCTION
8.2 OVERALL RESULTS OF THE PROJECT
8.3 OVERALL EXPECTED BENEFITS
8.4 OVERALL EXPECTED TIME, COST AND EFFORTS
8.5 SUGGESTED SCHEME OF IMPLEMENTATION
8.6 PRECAUSIONS
8.7 CONCLUSION

Chapter 9. CONCLUDING REMARKS


9.1 SUMMARY
9.2 GAINS OF THE STUDY
9.3 LIMITATIONS OF THE STUDY
9.4 SCOPE FOR FURTHER WORK
REFERENCES
APPENDIX
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

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