IIM Indore Campus Facilities & Infrastructure

Established in 1996, the IIIM Indore campus is spread across 193 acres that can easily accommodate 1500+ students every academic year. It is one of the fastest growing campuses of IIMs that has attracted students from all over the nation. Indian Institute of Management Indore Campus is regarded as one of the most beautiful campuses among all other management institution campuses in the nation. The institution has gained this title with all basic amenities and modern infrastructural support. All the requirements for the overall development and growth of the students are well catered by the concerned authorities of the institution.

With approx 35 lecture theatres, 28 syndicate rooms, one computer lab, one finance lab, and 103 faculty cabins, the IIM Indore campus has tried to serve all the needs of its students. All the rooms are furnished well with proper air-conditioning and audio and visual support. The attached projectors enhance the learning experience of the students. Comfortable sitting arrangements help students to be at an ease and concentrate at gaining knowledge in a better way. The library or the IIM Indore Learning Center is another advantageous badge to the infrastructural part of the IIM Indore Campus. With more than a thousand books, reference materials and research papers, the Learning Centre is one the most attractive and calm place of the entire campus. It is a hybrid library with state-of-the-art technological applications. The Library is an active member of IIM Consortia & INDEST Consortia. Books for all section including management, business, economics, finance, politics, sports, etc are available in this IIM Indore Learning Center.

IIM Indore also posses residential infrastructure that consists of both hostels for the students and quarters for the faculties of the institution. The institution also has hostel facilities with the provision of internet and mess services. The rooms are also a comfortable place where students can stay and get relaxed. Source of entertainment has also taken care off in the hostels of the IIM Indore campus. Sports complex and fitness centres are also available within the college campus.
 
Apart from these facilities the institution also has a good security service available for the students. All the happenings in and around the campus are well noticed and monitored by the concerned authorities. Medical facilities are also taken care off by the institution. Medical rooms and nursing areas along with 24*7 open pharmacy are available for the students. Other facilities like ATMs, Post Office, Community Centre, gym, banquet hall, cricket stadium, football ground, yoga room, etc., are also available for the students.

Mirage, IPM’s Creative & Advertising Club, provides a platform for IPM participants to showcase their creativity & advertising skills. Mirage facilitates channelizing creative ideas for IPM participants to allow them to become agents of change, societal leaders & successful management professionals. Mirage conducts events, competitions & workshops to enhance creativity among IPM students & augment their advertising skills (digital, audio-visual, market based, merchandising, branding, etc.) Mirage also supports other clubs in their creative & promotional requirements. The club continuously focuses on the improving the participants’ skill sets with & enhances their innovative competence through supportive events and provides a platform to highlights current creative trends through the right balance of theoretical sessions, engaging events and practical exposure.

The E-cell of Indian Institute of Management Indore is a student-run club which takes care of all the entrepreneurship related events on campus. Besides conducting events, it also organizes workshops and competitions in collaboration with VCs, partner Institutions and other pioneers in the industry. The objective of E-cell is to provide exposure to the students of IIM Indore who consider entrepreneurship as a career choice. This also serves as a platform to develop leadership trails, wealth for a wider and broader spectrum of stakeholders.

In a growth savvy industry, the activities planned would gravitate towards unique ideas and specific ventures and shall feature many young industrialists to stay contemporary even as the USP of traditional wisdom has ultimate primacy. The event calendar comprises of competitions geared to test the innovation and rigor of the participant’s thought process, as they enter the campus. We are also coordinating with concerned organizations to set up our own incubation center. In a true blue e-cell member we look for (and one would find) the zeal to stay abreast of all that transpires in the industry and the ability to think through strategies on an on-going basis. If you are the kind that won’t get sleep over a pending financing decision or a supplier meeting due the day next, if you must do it on your own, then E-cell at IIM Indore welcomes you.

The club has had the legacy of executing to do attitude and with the successful efforts of our seniors who set up JAM (Juices and More)- a food joint on the campus to serve the student community, we have recently revamped our existing infrastructure thereby introducing it as JAM 2.0.

The Quiz Club of IIM Indore is responsible for all the non-academic quizzing that happens on campus. IIM Indore has traditionally had a very good quizzing culture and the Quiz Club always looks to sustain and then build on that. This is done by constantly having quizzes on a variety of topics thus involving as many participants as possible in the events. The Quiz Club also encourages maximum participation from the institution in inter-institute quiz competitions that happen throughout the year like BT-Acumen, Tata Crucible, Nihilanth, etc. The quizzers from IIM Indore have a tradition of being the winners of the regional finals of TATA Crucible for 3 years in a row.

The Finance Lab at IIM Indore aims to provide the participants with the requisite prowess to support advanced applied research and aid mathematical and conceptual theories that develop innovative financial managers.

Equipped with 12 state of the art Thomson Reuters Eikon terminals, it gives participants access to comprehensive financial data and research from 1,600 eminent brokerage houses. Further, it provides trusted, timely and accurate content from exchanges and OTC traded markets across the world which is not available freely on the internet. This, coupled with the availability of both real time as well as deep historical information on one platform enhances the quality of student research.

The lab also works in tandem with other clubs involved in the areas of finance, investment and economics and helps bridge the gap between pedagogy and practice.

• Regular sessions are conducted to familiarize students with the basics of these terminals and to help them become well versed with the platform.
• Webinars are conducted by executives from Thomson Reuters to impart knowledge about advanced features of the platform.
• A series of workshops are floated as a part of the academic curriculum based on Equities and Portfolio Analytics, Multiple Asset Classes and Technical Analysis.
• The terminals are also used by FPM students and faculty members for research purposes.

By providing a platform extensively utilized by the financial industry including investment banks, equity research, asset management and trading desks, the Finance Lab at IIM Indore hopes to simulate a professional environment and thereby augment the quality of learning that it provides to its users.

Kaizen is the Operations and Strategy Club of Indian Institute of Management, Indore. In the spirit of its name, the focus of the club is on continuous improvement of the participants with regards to their operations and strategy competence.

At one time, operations management was considered the backwater of management activities – a dirty, drab necessity. This view has changed in recent years, as more and more managers realize how operations can be a “beehive” of activity with major financial consequences for any organization. Club Kaizen aims to equip participants with a keen understanding of the nuances involved in these matters through its activities round the academic year.

The club’s forte is to regularly come up with innovative and enriching learning experiences like industrial visits, quizzes, computer based events, simulation games, guest lectures by experienced industry personnel. IIM Indore is strategically located right next to Pithampur Industrial Estate (Special Economic Zone), which is Asia’s second largest industrial hub with the likes of Mahindra, Larson & Tubro, Eicher Motors, Cummins, Force Motors .etc. having their manufacturing plants here. The club leverages this proximity to the ‘Detroit of India’ by conducting industrial visits for Hands-On learning of the concepts like Toyota production system, Supply Change Management, Operations Management .etc. To further strengthen the understanding and simultaneously build relationship with the industrial community, the club brings in live projects, wherein participants get their hands dirty whilst tackling the unique and interesting challenges faced by the industry houses.

Operations Club is being built with the objective of extrapolating students’ interests in Operations, Analytics and Supply Chain Management from class room sessions to real life business level scenarios. Operations Club, as a student body, aims to help students apply theoretical concepts to practical situations, through engaging interactions with industry leaders.

The Consulting Club aims to provide a platform for students to interact with academia and industry professionals to develop an understanding of the consulting domain. The club has three cornerstone activities:

Live Projects

Consulting club offers opportunities to students to work with the industry professionals on real business cases. This gives
the students a live exposure to the business problems.

Events  

The club conducts consulting related events and quizzes to help students hone their consulting acumen.

Industry Workshops 

The club invites industry leaders to share their experiences and interact with the students.

In 2013-14 the Club continued to add depth to its core activities and innovated further by launching a new division. The inception of the Analytics division represents the foray of the club in the fast growing Analytics industry. The year also marked the launch of Analitique – a sponsored National Level Analytics Event.

With a keen focus on professional standard live projects, the club also organized several consulting events and released white papers. The national level consulting event, NeetiShastra, was concluded with resounding success in December that was organized in association with the partners of Consult Clinic, the SME Consulting division of the club.

With a lot of new initiatives and a new division, the club is hopeful for yet another exciting year ahead.

Infinit-I the Technology and Systems Club of IIM Indore was created with a mission to enrich the IT awareness of the participants of IIM Indore. It makes sure all the participants are of aware of the latest updates in the IT sector and prepares them for a career in IT consulting and management. It provides a platform for the participants to interact with the corporate world and builds a strong synergy between them using Live Projects, Consultancy work, Seminars, Workshops, Guest Lectures, Competitions etc.

Infinit-I tries to bring about a collaborative environment between the participants, companies and the faculty for mutual benefit. It provides information on the top IT companies that visit IIM Indore for placements. It conducts national level IT analytics and case study competitions that tickle the brain cells of participants from top business schools across India to solve real world business problems. It also organizes fun events like games and quizzes. It publishes a monthly student newsletter – “IT Bits” that highlights the latest happening in the technology industry, articles from industry experts and provides a platform where participants can express their opinion.

Debating has and will always be an intrinsic part of management life; but it is also one of the neglected aspects of the B-school experience. DebSoc at IIM Indore was started primarily to bring people having passion for debating together with those who seek benefits from enhanced debating skills. The primary aim of the DebSoc is to stimulate people to take different perspectives on any topic and express it effectively to an audience thereby helping them to improve their speaking skills in professional life as well as personal life. But more importantly, it is to make public speaking an enjoyable pursuit for many people who are apprehensive about the same. In order to achieve these objectives DebSoc has a range of activities lined up throughout the year.

Vibes, the youngest activity club at IIM Indore is a group of dance fanatics – trained as well as untrained but highly gifted dancers, adept at various forms of dance. The team performs on a wide range of genres ranging from hip hop, bollywood, classical, folk and contemporary to fusion.

The club aims at nurturing diverse talents and providing a platform for the enthusiasts to join together and reach new heights. It also seeks to mesmerize dance lovers at IIM Indore with various performances and promote different forms of the art.

Be it through scintillating performances or the dance workshops, this year round VIBES is aiming to soar the skies. For all the amateurs and enthusiasts out there, here is a chance to hone your skills and learn the twists and moves!

Gear Up and roll up your sleeves because – “When languages cease to express the depth of emotions,when music implores dimensions to resonate in passion, emerges a form of expression – Dance”

“Cogito ergo sum” ~ I think therefore I am, is the belief of the languages club of IPM. Our aim is to promote and foster the spirit of language and ignite a passion to achieve literary excellence. We conduct crosswords, Just-a-Minutes (JAMs), oratory and poetry competitions as well as organize workshops and guest lectures to quench the thirst of the intelligentsia. The club aims to foster a curiosity for learning among the students so that they will be always ahead of their contemporaries. For the same reason, we had started a Quiz Club of IPM, for IPM in 2013. One of the most alive clubs, we try to hold activities as often as we can. Literar-I also helps other clubs in organizing quizzes. Literar-I caters to the literati of the IPM community and continues to bring forth competitions and puzzles which excite people.

FIC is the Finance & Investment Club of IPM, IIM-Indore. The group aims to spread awareness regarding the financial world and to spark an interest among the students. Objectives of FIC –

• The FIC focuses on driving initiatives in the field of finance & Investment so as to cultivate interest in finance as an academic discipline. Its extended focus includes throwing light on related areas concerning accounting and economics.
• The group not only updates participants with the latest news of the financial & investment sector but also reaches out to the industry to expose students to the various practical aspects of finance.
• It assists participants in exploring the field of finance & investment, by organizing workshops by doyens of the industry, interactive sessions on various topics along with the events and competitions where students can test their mettle.
• Sharing knowledge pertaining to finance in general & careers in finance in particular through social media platforms
• Organizing bulk deals for students with banks & other financial institutions for Education Loans, Savings A/c, Recurring Deposits A/c, Demat A/c, and Cash Cards etc.