China Moving Towards World Dominance

My first experience to the case pedagogy on 2nd day of orientation was academically enriching and the then after talks from young alumnus achiever’s winners were very motivating and worthwhile. The Introduction to the IIMA Pedagogy lecture was very rigorous in itself. The lecture did not only teach me how to comprehend and solve a real life-based case but also brought upon the sequential learning of concepts from a real-life business case. Solving a case required me to fully comprehend the problem statement, identify the bottlenecks or issues pertaining to the situation, list down all possible scenarios and options available and evaluate them on basis of various criteria and lastly make a decision from the view of a protagonist after evaluating all the options. I also got to learn that there might not be a correct answer to a particular problem statement but there might be multiple solutions as well.

While I was working as a supply business analyst at Ola Cabs and I usually got the task to improve net revenue of Mumbai on a monthly basis. Just like the case, I identified the bottlenecks where the firm was incurring more cash burn and evaluated improvement in net revenue through each channel. Based on the supply and demand situation, I used to implement changes which were not usually the most economically viable option but the most practical and situational-based ones; similar to what we concluded from the case that we might not always choose the option which is most profitable.

I can also relate the end-of-case discussion with the numerous group discussions I had while I was working with Ola. Hearing out opinions and perspectives of different people in the group helped us identify shortcomings and conflicts in our views, augmented our overall decision-making process and helped us take the most efficient way to the solution.

The sequential learning concept of K-A-S-H or Knowledge-Attitude-Skills-Habit can be related to my graduation days lectures whereby I could have done better by acquiring knowledge which could be have been gained by ourselves before class and by developing a self-conscious attitude for the same. Persistent use of first two steps would have enhanced my attitude into skills and later into a habit which would in turn help me tackle subjects in a better way.

Lastly, all the speaker’s talks were very informative and motivating and I took a key learning that we would thrive for success and never stop learning