I am sending this mail to solicit, mutual co-operation and for reaping both tangible / intangible benefits in Academic / Professional co-operation between us.Before I can put across my suggestions to you, let me inform all the readers that the Business School of VIT University School has embarked on a path to give quality education in the field of Management education, gaining its momentum towards quality research with its faculty resources drawn with an excellent Academic/Industry background. I have been associated with Higher Education for over 25 years, starting as the Founder Head and Professor of Computer Engineering and Computer Centre Departments at the Manipal Institute of Technology, under Mangalore University in 1987, and moved to the Industries in Hong Kong / China for 18 years as head of Manufacturing and Project Management Organizations. Since 2009, I am with the VIT University, teaching Supply Chain, Projects, Production and Operations, and International Purchase Management. My research work has been in the field of Projects Management.

In the present day, ‘tech-savvy’ world, excelling individually both as a person or by Organizations, will not make them very successful, unless, their success is backed by the synergic co-operation and support from one another. In this vein, three important factors come to forefront. They are: a) Personal rapport – between individuals and organization, who are in the same field, b) Fame of the Individual / Organization, and c) Ethnographic bonding of Individuals (a sense & pride of belonging to ones own Country-and strive to make it famous in the Globe. In this paradigm, complacency has no place, even if it is a Country like the USA.Instead of Organizations looking for distant green pastures in developing MOUs and Articles of Association to bring in ‘outsiders name and fame’ and live in their shadow, they would really do well, if we can mutually tap and harness our individual Organization’s potential and Academic talent to be supportive for one another. To achieve this my suggestions are:

1. Let each academic Institution build a data bank of Academic Talent and Professional acumen available from peer level Institutions.

2. Let there be a common forum meeting between the Academic Institutions to build up a good rapport and explore possible co-operations in the fields of joint research and projects.

3. Let there be frequent exchange of talented / well established faculties from the collaborating Institutions on a periodic basis, so that the class rooms enliven with ‘change learning process’ and lead to Action Learning ambience.

4. Let competition between Institutions be turned into ‘bench markings from one another’ and foster a sense of harmony and good will, instead of Academic ‘jealousy’.

5. Let us all establish a good name and fame in the domestic ‘market of education’ and then go in for a healthy competition with the famed Institutions in the world by extending the ‘within ones own Country’ model to extending it to Foreign land.

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