Monday, September 21, 2009

Dr. Raja Roy Choudhury is appointed as Sr. Vice President Ops (SE Asia) by US technology consulting company, Athena Doyens LLC

Raja has been appointed wef August 01, 2009 as Sr. VP Ops (SE Asia) by US technology consulting company, Athena Doyens LLC to spearhead its operations in India and South East Asia. The company has set up its sales office in Mumbai with backend operations in Hyderabad.

The company specialises in offering end to end solutions in management, process and technology consulting marketspace and have already started working in offering enterprise application integration services in the Supply Chain area for a couple of Mumbai based fleet management and maritime services companies.

Log onto www.athenadoyens.com for more copany info.

Saturday, July 11, 2009

3rd Eye Knowledge Foundation launches management tutorial for Govt Recognised BBA/MBA Degree Programmes

3rd Eye Knowledge Foundation launches high quality highly affordable management tutorial for Govt. Recognised BBA/MBA degree programmes (as per DEC guidelines)
The programmes will run in Mumbai only.
BBA/MBA :- Registration Fees Rs. 100/-
University Fees Rs. 31525 for 3 year BBA programme to paid in 6
instalments over 3 years & Rs. 16825 for 2 year
MBA Programme to be in 4 instalments over 2 years
BBA (6525+5000x5) MBA (4825+4000x3)
Tutorial Fees BBA Rs. 30000 per year MBA Rs. 50000 per year
Payment Terms Down Payment
Rs. 100 in cash
BBA - Rs. 6525 by DD payable to The Global Open
University, Nagaland, payable in New Delhi
Rs. 10000 by DD payable to 3rd Eye Knowledge
Foundation, payable in Mumbai
MBA - Rs. 4825 by DD payable to The Global Open
University, Nagaland, payable in New Delhi
Rs. 20000 by DD payable to 3rd Eye Knowledge
Foundation, payable in Mumbai
Programme Highlights:-
Professional Faculty, live projects, internships, 100% placement support, opportunity to avail international degree by attending last leg of final semester, industry visit and convocation abroad.

Sunday, April 26, 2009

Retail Training Programme begins with a bang

3rd Eye Knowledge Foundation has conducted the first session in it's certificate programme in retail store operations. The programme will run for 120 hours and will be spread over 5 months. There are 12 participants (MBA students from Semester II and IV of their MBA programmes) who have been succesfully placed as Trainee Retail Executives with a leading lifestyle departmental store and a Designer Diamond Jewellery Company in Mumbai today. After an initial training period of 6 months, the participants will be absorbed in the company's executive cadre.

Kudos to 3rd Eye for its successful maiden effort.

Friday, April 17, 2009

3rd Eye Knowledge Foundation nominates it's board members

3rd Eye Knowledge Foundation announces the formation of it's core committee to work towards a common goal of offering quality education in emerging marketspace and raise funds to set up a free school for the girl child.

Board of Trustee
Dr. Raja Roy Choudhury, Managing Trustee and Chief Mentor & Career Therapist
Mimi Roy Choudhury, Trustee, Chief Evangelist
Chetna Desai, Trustee, Social Worker, Research Student with University of Hull, UK & Evangelist

Advisory Committee
Mr. Mangalnath Ghorpade, International Business Consultant
Mr. Sanjeev Sarma, MD, Osmos Multimedia Pvt Ltd.
Dr. Debasis Mallik, Associate Professor, SPJIMR, exponent in Research Methodology & Quantitative Techniques
Prof. R. Subramanium, Educationist
Dr. R Parameswaran, Advisor, IPMS and well known Educationist and Psychotherapist
Makrand Rege, Soft Skills Specialist, Executive Coach and CEO, Siddharth Learning Systems
Parag Bhise, Sr. Professional with expertise in Systems, Operations and BPR in Retailing
Mr. Javed Kazi, Chartered Accountant, Financial Advisor

Executive Committee
Ravindra Pratap Gupta, Director, Strategic Management
Kishor K Jha, Co-ordinator, Career Learning

Thursday, April 16, 2009

Career Oriented Business Excellence Series from 3rd Eye Knowledge Foundation

3rd Eye Knowledge Foundation is looking for business partners who would provide the requisite infrastructure to launch a business excellence series in emerging market frameworks and enable young graduates to seek global career options.

The following programmes would be offered under the business excellence series guidelines.

PG Programmes in:

1. Retailing & Franchising
2. Marketing & Sales
3. Analytical Finance
4. Executive Leadership
5. Technology Management
6. Counseling & Psychotherapy

Each programme will consist of 3 semesters and would be of 11 months duration, with an option to upgrade it to a 18 month E-MBA programme from an UGC recognized university under distance education scheme, whereby the student will on completion of 11 months, go for dissertation and internship for remaining 7 months before final exams and thereby complete the E-MBA in flat 18 months, thereby saving 6 months in the process.

For business enquiries, please get in touch with Dr. Raja Roy Choudhury @ 9821911151 or write to him at retailstoree@gmail.com.

Wednesday, April 15, 2009

3rd Eye designs an entrepreneurial programme with a difference

High impact entrepreneurs have the biggest ideas and most ambitious plans. They have the potential to create thriving companies that employ hundreds, even thousands of people and generate millions in wages and revenues. And they have the power to influence countless others.

Certificate of Excellence in Entrepreneurship Development, henceforth known as CEED is an honest and sincere attempt by 3rd Eye Knowledge Foundation to create in every budding entrepreneur an intrinsic motivation, desire, passion for excellence and endeavor to transform economies of emerging markets by identifying and assisting high impact entrepreneurs.

CEED is born out of our belief that there is strong need to bring together the abilities, skills and vision of entrepreneurship in every aspirant desirous in making entrepreneurship a way of life. It is here that we embrace ideas and value those that have legs and can run. We employ research methodology to assist our programme participants, the faculty and related staff members to act entrepreneurially when we challenge ourselves to put our best ideas to work and make them run.

In CEED, we for you an opportunity to learn more and explore virgin dimensions of entrepreneurship with us.

CEED offers an entrepreneurship education that is Comprehensive, Innovative & Inspiring

CEED offers:

An experiential entrepreneurship programme
A national/international alumni drive
A vehicle to practice the best of entrepreneurial learning

Objectives
Develop entrepreneurial confidence in individuals
Provide a social and ethical context for venture creation
Unleash creativity
Nurture a life long alumni network

Outcome
Here I am > Personal Goals

My Idea > Creativity
My Plan > Action Plans
Understanding cultures, building self confidence, developing personal skill,
forming into a community, building networks, unlocking a Can Do spirit


Outline
The entrepreneur within each of us is about community building, defining and better understanding entrepreneurship, understanding the entrepreneur within each of us and thinking about the importance of ethics in entrepreneurship.

Launching a great idea is about better understanding what an entrepreneur is, creating and developing an entrepreneurial idea, crafting the first pieces of a project plan to help successfully implement an idea & learning how to engage others in a plan.

What will it take to succeed? Is about learning how to effectively lead others in different environments, learning how to acquire and manage necessary resources and understanding the need for a strong network.

Keeping the dream alive is about motivation, sustaining your commitment, how we all best move forward as a community and celebrating the experience

Core Modules
Core courses are organized around 9 steps in the venture creation process. They focus on developing practical skills and knowledge, while guiding student participants through the stages of building a business, from the conception of an idea to the management of a growing company.
  1. Ideation
  2. Planning
  3. Execution
  4. Growth
  5. Business opportunities in Media, Information, Communication, Entertainment & Retailing
  6. Global Entrepreneurial Leadership
  7. Arc of Innovation
  8. Entrepreneurship
  9. Laughing Buddha

Participant Profile
A participant possessing experience, drive & demonstrated ability to succeed in their own enterprise, formal degree is not a constraint. English would be preferred medium of teaching and communication, however CEED would favorably look at and help bring out the potential of those who are less comfortable with spoken English.

Fresh graduates interesting in setting up their own enterprise or managing family run enterprise would find this programme extremely useful.

Duration
CEED is programmed to be of 6 months duration consisting of 48 sessions spread over 24 weekends.

Methodology
The programme methodology would comprise of interactive classroom sessions, audio visual presentation, offline & online desk research, coursework, assignments and field visits.

Fee Structure
The fees for the programme will be Rs. 150,000 to be paid in 3 installments of Rs. 50,000 each payable to 3rd Eye Knowledge Foundation, Mumbai in the following manner:-

  • At the time of enrolment
  • Beginning of month 2
  • Beginning of month 3
Profile Snapshot of Dr. Raja Roy Choudhury
Managing Trustee, 3rd Eye Knowledge Foundation & Chief Mentor, RETAIL STORE'e

Dr. Raja Roy Choudhury, MSc (Eco), MS (Psychotherapy), MBA, Phd, Certified Lead Auditor, is Former Head, Retail & Executive Education, Russell Square International College, Mumbai having over 22 years of rich experience in Strategic Planning, Sales & Marketing, Research, Training & Development in critical domain areas such as IT Education & Consulting, Business Process Redesign & Change Management, TQM & ISO 9000 QMS, International Trade, Immigration & Study Overseas, Media, Office Automation and Retailing. He has served organizations such as Price Waterhouse, Datapro, Aptech, Zeba, AToZ, Times Group in senior management positions before embarking upon an international assignment as CEO, Fuji Xerox in South Pacific. He returned back to India in May, 2006 and since then has been working on research, training and development activities pertaining to the growth of retailing as a sunrise industry in India. He has received his doctorate in technology induced retailing for his pioneering work in converting a philatelic bureau called Post Fiji into a convergence retailing hub and the related technology & quality systems associated with such a change.

Being inspired from his thesis, Raja has written a book on retail process mapping to develop robust & scalable retail software systems called RETAIL STORE’e which just got published couple of months back. The book has relevance with his real life projects in retail technology in Times of India and Post Fiji. He has attempted to map the business of retail as per retail process specifications to help enrich understanding of the retail business and significantly benefit the student community, entrepreneurs, software engineers involved in designing retail systems architecture and retail professionals.

Raja runs 3rd Eye Knowledge Foundation, an educational trust which strives to create a happy, healthy and secure childhood for the girl child by helping her avail formal education. The goal is to enable a Nanhi Kali blossom into a socially responsible adult who is aware of her rights and responsibilities. All the sales proceeds of his book, RETAIL STORE’e will go in strengthening the activities of the foundation.

Raja had successfully launched ReStore, a niche programme to develop and nurture retail store managers as part of the retail learning initiative of Russell Square International College and have so far trained in the capacity of a Principal Faculty, senior managers from Nokia, Vodafone, Hypercity, Brandhouse Retail, Welspun, NEXT, Madura Garments, Spinach, Suvidha, @Home, Sherwin Williams, Abbott Lab, R&P Gelato, Furtado to name a few of them. He has been appointed as a Principal Faculty to conduct a retail seminar in Bahrain by Dr. N.J. Verghese Group of Co and in Kuala Lumpur by Ansa House. He has delivered lectures on technology induced retailing at Singapore Quality Circle and IIJ, Mumbai. Raja has been recently invited as a mentor in Self Management, Leadership & Retail Management by Europe Asia Business School, Pune. He is also a Visiting Faculty (Family Managed Business) with SP Jain Institute of Management Research, Mumbai, Dr. Gazi Management & Technical College, Tarapur & Indira Group of Institutions, Navi Mumbai.

Raja is scheduled to launch CEED (Certificate of Excellence in Entrepreneurship Development), a specialized programme which will help create in every budding entrepreneur an intrinsic motivation, desire, passion for excellence and endeavor to transform economies of emerging markets by identifying and assisting high impact entrepreneurs. In addition to the above, he has designed a series of business excellence programmes in the field of marketing, finance, technology, leadership, counseling & psychotherapy which would be offered as a finishing school concept.

Raja’s major training and mentoring strength revolves round his ability to understand and focus on technology induced retail business solutions with clinical precision. He is an expert in taking sessions on Self Management, Professional Selling & Effective Customer Services, Leadership, Retail Buying, CPFR, SCM & Logistics, Retail IT, Store Operations, Footfall Management & Customer Loyalty Programmes.

Raja is ably assisted in his endeavour to spearhead 3rd Eye Knowledge Foundation in offering career oriented quality education by Ravindra Pratap Gupta, a well known professional having more than 14 years of rich experience in working with Aventis, Novartis, Micro, Future Group before taking a plunge in the world of academics. Mr. Gupta is currently the Director, Strategic Management for the foundation & heads it's Executive Committee.

The foundation boasts of highly experienced mentors with national and international exposure in modern day retailing and related businesses. It has entered into a strategic partnership with an UGC recognised university to offer graduate/PG programmes in areas of business excellence under distance learning mode.