National level executive development programme on Publishing from IIM-Kozhikode

Updated on: Friday, August 02, 2013

A national level executive development programme on "Publishing 2.0: Business Strategies for the 21st Century" will be held at IIM-Kozhikode from August 26 to 28 this year. The current mainstream publishing process, scholarly as well as trade, has been significantly influenced by the endless possibilities offered by computers, internet, World Wide Web and its suite of technologies. ePublishing offers a way to bring a new equilibrium to the scholarly publication ecosystem.

The programme shall map the changing landscape of the publishing domain and will be extensively discussing and debating on the current trends as well as the future course of publishing which is poised to have a tremendous impact both in the industry as well as society. The three-day programme has been designed to provide a vivid and candid perspective of the already perfected and fast upcoming revolution in the publishing industry. It shall help the practicing as well as prospective publishing personnel to identify the key strengths and opportunities in the new technology environment that shall help achieve organizational transformation, and in strengthening the publishing enterprise's productivity, efficiency and the future.

It will also impart the knowledge and skills (conceptual as well as technical components) required for strategy formulation for leveraging information technology for the publishing community and the information intermediaries, so as to equip them to face the challenges proactively and to position themselves at the cutting edge of technology, profession and business. Further more, it shall portray the potential of Web Technologies and the Internet Information Infrastructure for scholarly communication and scholarly publishing.

Major publishers from across the country, IT Professionals, faculty members, and those who are in information handling business are attending the programme. Interested participants can join the programme by registering online, on or before 15 August 2013, using the link http://iimk.ac.in/mdp/publishing2.0, or contact IIMK MDP Office at 09447100539, 0495-2809208, 2809388 and 2809450.

National level executive development programme on Publishing from IIM-Kozhikode

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