The influence of globalization, growing technological capabilities and power of information networks are changing managerial practices and redefining their roles. Further, these practices are raising fresh challenges for managers and require provision of new knowledge and skills to meet new performance standards. We believe that the changing environment will drive demand for managerial excellence and in turn the growth of management development to effectively assist and support the process of organizational change.

The Centre for Management Development (CMD) was established with following objectives:

1.     To promote the professional practice of management development in the corporate, social, government and non-govt. sectors with special emphasis in undermanaged organizations and sectors of economy;

2.     To establish effectiveness of management development as one of the determinants of organizational success;

The approach of CMD to management development will not simply focus on task challenges facing today’s managers but also on competencies and skills required to accomplish them effectively. In other words CMD will promote management development as total system of management.

To begin with CMD will primarily engage itself in multi-disciplinary management consulting and managerial training to bring direct economic benefit to the client organizations.

Recent Consulting Assignments:

1. Project evaluation - Council for Advancement of People’s Action and Rural Technology (CAPART): Pre-funding evaluation, monitoring and final evaluation of development projects of around 50 NGOs in Orissa and Madhya Pradesh.

2. State Health Mission project - Empanelled as a research agency by the National Rural Health Mission, Orissa, Department of Health & Family Welfare, Government of Orissa to conduct studies for different Public-Private-Partnership activities, including MNGO Program. It has signed MoU with the Mission Directorate to conduct mid-term evaluation of Mother NGOs and Field NGOs working in Sambalpur and Bargarh districts of Orissa.

Major Training Programmes Conducted:

1. Context & Organization of Orientation Training for Young Professionals: September 10-25, 2007. Sponsors: Council for Advancement of People’s Action and Rural Technology (CAPART) Participants: 36 Young Professionals from 13 states of India placed at NGOs, DRDAs & CAPART Offices. Curriculum: Building Knowledge about development schemes and programmes, Program Management & Economic Skills Development, Programmes for Social Upliftment.

Resource Persons: Development experts from NIRD, UNDP, IMAGE, Departments of Rural Development and Panchayati Raj, Govt. of Orissa; Mission Shakti, BMC, CAPART, DRDA, leading NGOs, and faculty members from XIMB, Utkal University and School of Management and Rural Management of KIIT University.

Programme Highlights: Three day field visit to study the working of an NGO and DRDA. Participants visited Gram Vikas, a reputed NGO working largely on rural sanitation, situated amidst the hills and jungles of Mohuda in Berhampur, Orissa. They also visited DRDA, Chhatrapur in Ganjam District. The field visits allowed the participants to look into the functioning of development agencies at the grassroots level and also to understand the prospects and challenges.

2. Context & Organization of Orientation Training for Young Professionals: July 14-28, 2008.
Sponsors: Council for Advancement of People’s Action and Rural Technology (CAPART)
Participants: 53 Young Professionals from 7 states of India, namely Orissa, West Bengal, Bihar, Jharkhand, Meghalaya, Manipur and Tripura.

Curriculum: Building Knowledge about Development Schemes and Programmes; Urban Body Management, Gender and Development, Personality Development, Program Management & Economic Skills Development; Programmes for Social Upliftment; Capacity Building of Young Professionals to act as resource persons.

Resource Persons: Eminent resource persons from the field of rural development and experienced faculty members of SOM and SRM. The experts were from the field as well as prominent Govt. officials having wide experience on administration, policy formulation and ever changing people friendly implementation design. Programme Highlights: Field study tour to DRDA and a noted NGO at Sambalpur was organized, where the participants interacted with the beneficiaries of government programmes, SHGs, officials of DRDAs and functionaries of the NGO. They conducted a qualitative appraisal of select projects under implementation in the NGO command area.