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CCL Session on ‘The Art ofPossibility’Sept 11, 2009 Sept 12, 2009Dr. Anitesh Barua of McCombsSchool of Business visitscampusPeople and Performance (P&P) course of PGDM Batch of2009-2011 ended with an enlightening talk from Prof. TZipiRadonsky and her associate Ms. Philomena Rego, acertified Compass coach from CCL (Centre for CreativeLeadership), Greensbrow, U.S.A. Prof. TZipi Radonsky hasbeen a longtime adjunct coach at CCL and holds a Ph.D.from the University of North Carolina at Greensbrow, USA.Across the world, CCL offers unparalleled expertise onleadership education, research and the leadershipchallenges across the world.The session started off with the understanding of theconcept of “The Art of Possibility” that can be acquiredthrough a growing mindset as against a fixed or a rigid one.The importance of a growing mindset stems from the factthat it enables an individual to bring future into thepresent and empower it to heal and learn from mistakes.Citing the instance of the acclaimed movie “SlumDogMillionaire”, Prof TZipi further elaborated on the conceptof “self-awareness” or consciousness to live in the present.In other words, even in the worst of the situations, we havethe choice of opting for an attitude, that would direct ourgrowth.The interactive session winded with Ms. Philomena tellingthe participants about the ‘Wheel Of Life’ exercise that canenable the youth of today to discover facets of theirpersonality that can bring out the creative leader in them.Consumer Behavior gets aglobal perspectiveJune, 2009Dr. Meera Vankatraman from SawyerBusiness School, Suffolk University,Boston visited SPJIMR to take a halfcredit course on Consumer Behaviorwith PGDM second year participants.Dr. Meera has rich academic andresearch experience in consumerbehaviour, especially the adoption ofinnovative products and crossculturaldifferences in consumerbehaviour.Dr. Anitesh Barua addressing the SPJIMR faculty & participantsDr. Anitesh Barua, Director of the MBA - InformationManagement programme at the McCombs School ofBusiness at the University of Texas at Austin (UTA), visitedSPJIMR. Dr. Barua intended to explore possibilities ofacademic collaboration between SPJIMR and UTA. He isWilliam F. Wright Centennial Professor of InformationTechnology, Stevens Piper Foundation Professor andAssociate Director for the Center for Research in ElectronicCommerce at the McCombs School of Business at UTA. Hereceived many awards for his research and teaching. 75 ofhis research articles have appeared in prestigious academicjournals, refereed conference proceedings and edited bookchapters. Dr. Barua made a presentation on“Deconstructing or Destroying Your Value Chain throughOutsourcing”.Dr. Barua explained how the focus of InformationTechnology Outsourcing (ITO) and Business ProcessOutsourcing (BPO) has evolved from pure cost savings todiverse strategic objectives. He opined that strategicoutsourcing, which is characterized by higher levels ofbusiness uncertainty and complex coordination involvesgreater contractual risks compared with transactionoutsourcing. He also talked about how the capital marketsmay not be privy to such information when an outsourcingdecision is announced, and hence there may be long-termabnormal returns from such outsourcing decisions.Dr. Barua concluded that outsourcing deals of the 'one-sizefits-allkind' do not work. To make an outsourcingrelationship successful, a firms need to understand thegovernance choices available and customize them keepingin mind the complexity, independence and the strategicimportance of the tasks to be outsourced.6 SPJIMRnews