Though we have generically defined the target audience as comprising of working professionals with 2 to 10 years of work ex, we try to identify a few specific fitments for our Program.You could be:

1. An engineer with 2-3 years work experience in a top-notch IT company. You are into either coding or testing today. Your understanding about your project is limited to the module that you are handling. You do not comprehend as to how the whole application integrates and gets delivered as a functional solution to the client. For moving up now, you need to know the 'business' of the client.


2. You are a second generation entrepreneur. You are happy with what you have inherited but are not satisfied with the scale and scope. You would like to augment capacities, branch out into unrelated areas, try to tap new markets etc. Your risk appetite is different from that of your previous generation. Yet, before trying out any of these expansion plans, you would like a sound academic grounding. But your day-to-day operational pressures as head of the organization, wouldn't permit you to take a break and come out for a full-time program.


3. You own a start up which has been running for a couple of years. Now is the time to scale up. Organic or inorganic? Market addition or product addition? Margin game or volume game? Established markets or virgin markets? Explore all these while studying. Do a live project in the second year after your concepts have got a good grounding in the first year. At the end of the course, you hit the road running.


4. You have spent close to half a decade in the ITeS / BPO industry. You have seen process management, data migration, client handling and quality improvements. Yet your resume doesn't have the punch to take you to the next trajectory. You need attested knowledge and a post graduate degree to boost your career growth. Meanwhile you will continue working. After PGWPM it could be up the ladder in ITeS itself, or a switch to IT.


5. You could be in any of these service sectors - education, healthcare or hospitality. You have a support role in functions like HR, PR, Admissions, payrolls, merchandising etc. But for heading such a function, it requires a different resume. That resume comes with higher learning. For moving into heading functional management one requires an MBA. Airlines, Hospitals, Colleges, Hotels etc have numerous functions typically headed by management graduates. You too can become one; at the same time, your current earning and industry seniority is not compromised.


6. You have spent 6-7 years in the banking industry and notice that in fairly similar or better positions, MBA grads are hired. A PGWPM could be the answer to moving to the next banking trajectory.


7. You are part of the great Indian manufacturing industry. You could be in automotive, auto-ancillary, consumer durables, FMCG or pharma. Currently, with about 2-3 years into work, your focus will be probably on some process. From process to product to markets to industry - the road ahead is a long one. Understanding the vast and complicated external environment in which your firm / industry works will be crucial to you for moving up in your career. What could be the technological, cultural, social and economic impact for your industry, say 10 years down the line? Your current, day to-day work might not expose you to such nuances.Great Lakes' PGWPM and could help you learn while you continue earning.


8. The list of industries listed is purely indicative. The possibilities are immense. You could be a young doctor who down the line wants to start a small self-sufficient hospital. Medical skills and hospital management skills are obviously not the same. You could be a budding model who wants to start a modeling / ad agency. You could be a practicing lawyer today and a management degree would probably help a career switch from practice to corporate