Established with a vision to be a “Centre of Excellence in Techno Management”, the Systems Consulting Club started off as a Student Branch of the “Computer Society of India”. Since then the club has moved forward from being a student branch of the CSI to being a full fledged club at IIM Calcutta itself.

SysCon, as we are fondly known here at IIM Calcutta, believes that Solow was right when he said that economic growth depends on technology. We also believe that Solow was right when he said that the computer age can be seen everywhere but in the productivity statistics.

Our aim is to change the visibility equation. We know that Technology changes in the blink of an eye and that managers need to be aware of this before it happens. Our target is to be a hub of techno-management excellence and to equip future managers with the managerial skills necessary to navigate through the dynamic business landscape.

We organize seminars, workshops and talks by industry luminaries and execute live industry-driven projects throughout the year. Syscon also brings out a monthly e-magazine called Cross Roads, organizes a campus quiz called Enigmatics, a Case Study competition called Crack and conducts an essay writing competition, Hysterisis, on emerging business applications of technology. This past year we organized Tech CXO, the first ever Tech Conclave, that had several CIOs/CEOs and industry bigwigs, come down to our campus and address the student community on various aspects of technology and business. We collaborate with the Systems consulting clubs at IIM Ahmedabad and IIM Bangalore to bring out a pan IIM systems magazine called Click’d.

The “Smart Card” system is a Systems Consulting club initiative to replace minor cash transactions on campus through use of a single student smart card and will be ready by the end of this year. There are several other initiatives in the pipeline planned for the coming year.

For more details contact us on systemsconsultingclub@email.iimcal.ac.in or visit our website, http://www.iimcal.ac.in/community/systemsconsulting/home.html

Since then the club has moved forward from being a student branch of the CSI to being a full fledged club at IIMC itself. The club’s goal is to excel as a center of techno-management and equip future managers with technological tools to combat the ever-changing business environment by organizing seminars, workshops and talks by industry and nationwide events like simulation games, paper contest, live case studies & projects.

The club aims to release a monthly e-magazine CrossRoads and both works on live projects on its own and assists the faculty in the industry consultation projects they take up. The Systems Consulting Club conducts the event Murphy’s Laugh for the B-School festival Intaglio, apart from several on campus events during the academic year. The club is a part of a Systems Society Tie Up involving similar clubs from IIMA, IIMK and FMS and hopes to go from strength to strength in the coming season of activities.

G. Sriram