ABOUT THE COMPANYThe vision of IIT Bombay is 'to be the fountainhead

of new ideas and of innovators in technology and science' and its mission 'is to create an ambience

in which new ideas, research and scholarship flourish and from which the leaders and innovators

of tomorrow emerge'. In fulfillment of its vision and mission, IITB has taken the initiative to

promote innovations and to facilitate protection of Intellectual Property (IP) thus generated at IITB. Consequently, the protection of inventions and

other creative works of its faculty, other employees and students as IP have been growing.

1. Management Structures & Systems

Q1 What are the types of organization structures (Divisional/Matrix organization structure) & managerial hierarchy (tall/flat hierarchy) practiced in your organization?

Managerial Hierarchy: - Tall Hierarchy

Asst Dean R&D

Principle Investigator

Research Scholar (PHD)

Research Scholar (MTech)

Jr Tech Supertendent

Tech Help( Technicians)

Dean R&D

Q2. Which are the types of excellence visible in your organization?

Creative Excellence: To achieve this excellence freedom of individuality is important along with a healthy & inspiring environment. There are the teams called as project consisting of 5 to 10 people engaged in same research.

2. Values

Q1. Elaborate on one particular value of your organization which results to Profit Maximization.

InnovativenessThis would benefit both the organization and the society.Mumbai navigator

Work dedication

High Product Quality

Sense of achievement

Social obligations

Team work without boundaries

Q2. How can adherence to values be appreciated? suggest some examplesQuality: Employees are awarded on the basis of CreativityUsefulnessChanging the life of people.

Creativity: AwardedShanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology Padma Shri AwardSwarna Jayanti Fellowship AwardNational Mineral Award for Basic Geosciences, Ministry of Mines, Govt of IndiaInnovative Young Biotechnologist Award - 2009, Department of Biotechnology,

3. Strategy

Q1. Explain the goals and related performance of the organization.

Q2. How do the external stake holders play an important role in the development of an organization?

CustomersDevelop Projects

Help the Organization to

Excel

Goals:Successful completion of the project within given time frame(3 -5 yrs).

Optimum utilization of resources.***********************************************************************************

Government: Funding and Adherence to rules and regulation

Community: Input- Throughput – Output (community services)

4. Management Styles

Q1 Which management style used in your organization & why??

Bureaucratic: Paper Movement (Hierarchy) to be followed

Flexible: organization is free to take decisions, until there is some intervention required

Speed: Since every resource is in housed within the campus the decisions are taken very movement of information is also quite fast.

Transparency: Institute is covered by RTI Act.

Computerization:

Q2. To what extent Bureaucratic management style is feasible in the organization, pls. justify.

Disclosures, Confidentiality and Assignment of Rights

Assessment of Innovation(s) for Protection

Contracts and Agreements

Technology Transfer

5. Excellence Vs Revitalization

Q1 Has revitalization been applied in your  organization, Discuss in detail?

Being a government organization it remains the same however, whenever some departments do not get enough projects or too many projects are pending then actions are taken for revitalization such as the technological capability is improved, Staff is trained, creativity & Innovations are inculcated. There are seminars & workshops are arranged for organizational learning. Various student exchange programs are practiced; Principal Investigators & his staff are sent for interaction with their counterparts in other parts of the world. for developing world-class facilities the demands of Institute are met on priority basis & There is no dearth of funds to procure the latest machines & Technology .

Q2 Is the Revitalization approach of Conscientisation & Empowerment can be applied to any Organization, Discuss it by taking a suitable case?

Since the workforce is very diverse in nature, student both Male, Female are part of the projects & Principal Investigator is the immediate boss. To take care of any domination, there is a women empowerment cell; also there is an in house counselor of Faculty status who counsels. The department of Humanities providing all psychological Tests & Diagnosis leading overall Conscientisation of employees as well as the students. There is registered trade union Functioning within the campus for mobilization & empowerment of employees particularly for supporting help.

6. Design For Excellence & their external nurturance

Q1 .Enumerate key measures to rejuvenate Excellence in an organization?

Ensuring that environment is created / nurtured / maintained so that faculty and scientists at IITB are able to conduct research of the highest caliber. The research environment includes laboratories’ civil infrastructure, equipment, support staff -- both technical and administrative -- and research staff .

Providing support for researchers to liaise with (potential) funding sources so as to be able to finance their research and development activities.

Spotting and nurturing opportunities for collaboration between researchers (within IITB) and their counterparts in other institutions.

Ensuring that IITB researchers are positioned to contribute to the state of the art in cutting edge and emerging areas of research in Science and Engineering.

Identifying and putting in place ways and means by which work done by researchers at IITB can be exploited whenever appropriate and possible – to address problems faced by society and industry. Towards this, licensing, commercialization and agile processes for industry-academia partnerships are a must.

Providing admin support for conducting research – management of human resources, financial management, procurement.

Q2. Role of Government in influencing excellence in an organization?

Invention(s), Designs, Integrated Circuit Layouts and other creative works:

Copyrightable Work:

Trade Mark(s) / Service Mark(s):

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