PG PROGRAM IN

TECHNOLOGY BUSINESS MANAGEMENT11 MONTHS | ONLINE & OFFLINE

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Ronnie ScrewvalaCo-FounderUpGrad

UpGrad is an online education platform to help individuals develop their professional potential in the most engaging learning environment. Online education is a fundamental disruption that will have a far-reaching impact. At UpGrad, we are working towards transforming this online education wave into a tsunami! We adopt a a full-stack approach of leveraging content, technology, marketing and services to o�er quality education at scale in partnership with corporates & academics to o�er a rigorous & industry-relevant program.

After a comprehensive analysis of the industry, we have identified the need for a program in management education for technology professionals to meet their career aspirations. In partnership with SPJIMR, we have crafted an extensive curriculum which is industry-relevant and is a balanced blend of online and o�ine learning. The Post Graduate program in Technology Business Management caters to working professionals in the Technology and IT-enabled industry and has been designed keeping in consideration their work experience and time commitments.

This program equips you with appropriate business acumen and leverages your technical capabilities to help you become a Technology Business Leader.

S. P. Jain Institute of Management and Research (SPJIMR) is a leading school of management in the heart of India’s financial centre of Mumbai. We were inaugurated in 1981 by the then British Prime Minister, the Rt. Hon. Margaret Thatcher, and have grown over the years to be recognised as one of the top 10 business schools of India.

We are a part of the Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan and function as an autonomous institute with entrepreneurial agility. Our mission is to influence, practice and promote value-based growth. We build on this mission through pedagogic innovations and pioneering programmes, which has helped us stand out for our unique and distinctive path in management education.

We are excited to partner with UpGrad to o�er a program which addresses the career aspirations of working technology professionals. Our esteemed faculty and rigorous curriculum blended with UpGrad’s technology and network gives this program a unique balance. Our faculty are respected academics with extensive industry experience, and this will be complemented by external experts brought in by UpGrad. I invite you to take this opportunity and join us on this journey. This program will help you to accelerate your path towards becoming a leader operating at the intersection between technology and business.

Dr. Ranjan BanerjeeDeanSPJIMR

WHY TECHNOLOGY BUSINESS MANAGEMENTWITH UPGRAD & SPJIMR?

NETWORK OFFLINEIntegrate online learning with 3 meticulously planned o�ine learning camps on topics such as design thinking, negotiation, blockchain, and more

ACCELERATE YOUR CAREERTransition to key roles in the technology and IT enabled sectors such as product manager, engagement manager, product marketing manager, business analyst, digital transformation manager, program manager

World-class SPJIMR faculty and technology leaders from renowned companies such as Microsoft, HCL & Cisco

LEARN FROM THE EXPERTS

GET SPJIMR CERTIFIEDGet certified as a Technology Business Leader from one of the top 5 B-Schools in the country

CAREER GUIDANCEGet access to career coaching services and get introduced to the right opportunities to move ahead in your career

450+ learning hours packaged into capsule-sized learning to cater to your learning style. Accessible anywhere – anytime

LEARN ON-THE-GO

CONCEPTS FROMTOP ACADEMICIANS

INSIGHTS FROMINDUSTRY EXPERTS

VAIBHAV VALECHASenior Program ManagerMicrosoft

HARISH RIJHWANIDGMHinduja Global Solutions

DEEPKUMAR VARMAHead of Product ManagementGlobal Excelity

SIVASHANKAR GANESANGeneral ManagerHCL

DR. ANIL VAIDYAProfessorInformation ManagementSPJIMR

DR. DEBASIS MALLIKProfessorQuantitative MethodsSPJIMR

DR. JYOTI JAGASIAAssociate ProfessorInformation ManagementSPJIMR

DR. HEMANT KUMAR MANUJAssociate ProfessorFinanceSPJIMR

DR. ASHITA AGGARWALProfessorMarketingSPJIMR

DR. KEITH C. D'SOUZAProfessorOrganisational BehaviorSPJIMR

PROGRAMCURRICULUM

Learn how to discover the market for a B2B product and approach decisions regarding product positioning and pricing. In addition, this course helps you understand what it takes for all stakeholders to be on board in a B2B context

FUNDAMENTALS OF B2B MARKETING

Stay ahead of the curve by learning about the impact of emerging technologies such as AR/VR, IoT, Blockchain and Artificial Intelligence on your sector, and how they will change the way technology works

REINVENTING TECHNOLOGY BUSINESSES WITH EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES

This segment teaches the steps of design thinking and the diverse processes involved in it. This will teach you to develop di�erent types of prototypes and their applications

DESIGN THINKING FOR TECHNOLOGY MANAGERS

This subject takes you through theories of probability and statistics to help you make unbi-ased, data-driven business decisions under uncertainty

QUANTITATIVE METHODS FOR DECISION MAKING

This segment covers the basics of accounting and how it works for budgets and expenses. Furthermore, it will give you an insight into financial ratios and financial decision making

CORPORATE FINANCE AND ACCOUNTING FOR MANAGERS

In this part, you will learn tools, strategies and statistics to build a business model that is sustainable and competition ready

BUSINESS STRATEGY AND ANALYSIS

You will learn how organisations are structured and their functioning. This theme will also cover methodologies of communication and negotiation It also includes building your personal brand, individual and group behaviour in an organisation

ORGANISATIONAL BEHAVIOR AND HUMAN RESOURCES

This portion is designed to help you understand and analyse di�erent types of planning processes involved in tech supply chain such as product planning and asset life cycle management

IT OPERATIONS AND SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT

ELECTIVE COURSES

Develop cutting-edge products using agile methodologies and create product backlogs and PRDs

REQUIREMENT ANALYSIS FOR PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT

Learn structured frameworks of user research and get hands-on with the process of product design and prototyping

USER RESEARCH FOR BUSINESS ANALYSIS AND PRODUCT MANAGEMENT

Learn analytics, data and basic statistics, predictive modeling and forecasting, data driven decision making and storytelling

FUNDAMENTALS OF BUSINESS ANALYTICS

Understand consulting frameworks and methods of user research

IT CONSULTING

Learn about the strategy, design, and operations involved in IT service and transition

IT SERVICE MANAGEMENT

Develop skills to manage large technology projects. Get hands-on with tools such as Trello, Excel, and JIRA. Learn how to perform variance analysis in critical components of digital projects such as cost, e�ort, schedule, and scope

MANAGEMENT OF DIGITAL PROJECTS

Understand contracts in terms of legal, commercial and technical aspects. Get to know about bidding strategies and evaluation

BIDDING AND CONTRACT MANAGEMENT

Understand the basic terminologies involved, learn tableau, data connections and shaping data

BIG DATA ANALYTICS AND VISUALISATION

NOTE: this curriculum is subject to change as per inputs from SPJIMR and industry.

PROGRAM STARTSMarch, 2018

DURATION11 Months

WEEKLY COMMITMENT6-8 hours per week

PROGRAM FEEINR 2,25,000 (Excl. of all taxes)Flexible Payment Options Available

ELIGIBILITY

Bachelor’s degree with a minimum of 1 year of full-time experience after graduation

SELECTION PROCESS

Selection test to assess quantitative and analytical reasoning abilities

ANOUSKA THAKRALChief Admissions Counsellortbm-spjimr@upgrad.com

For further details, call us at +91 7017939182 or contact:

KRITI MEHRAProgram Directorkriti.mehra@upgrad.com

PROGRAMDETAILS

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