AMDISA

ASSOCIATION OF MANAGEMENT DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTIONS IN SOUTH ASIA

a) Regional Workshops for Faculty focus on frontier areas in management. Participation is open to faculty from member institutions in South Asia.

• International Business: Lahore 1990.
• Strategic Management: Sri Lanka 1990.
• Entrepreneurship Development in Management Education: Bombay 1991, Dhaka 1992.
• Women in Management: Hyderabad 1991, Dhaka 1994.
• Redeployment of Labour, Hyderabad, 1994.
• Manufacturing and Services, New Delhi, 1992.
• Environment Management, Hyderabad 1997.
• Environment Management, Manipal 1999
• Case Writing Skills: Dhaka 1989, Lahore 1993 Hyderabad 1993.
• Case Teaching Workshop: New De1hi 1989, Dhaka 1994.
• Consulting Skills: Kathmandu 1990, Dhaka 1994,Colombo 1994, Pune 1995, Pune 1999
• South Asian Workshop for NGO Managers, Hyderabad, 2006
• 3-day Online International Faculty Development Program on "Digitalization of Management Education in South Asia" in September, 2020

b) Regional Workshops for Deans and Directors and Management Colloquia help heads of organisations focus on key issues in review, audit and action for institutional groups.

• Institution Building for Heads of Management Development Institutions, Kathmandu 1992.
• Institution Building for Heads of Corporate Development Centres, New Delhi 1992.
• Regional Doctoral Programme, Madras, 1996.
• Self Financing of Business Schools 1997.
• AMDISA – ISB Meeting of Deans & Directors of B-Schools, Hyderabad 2007.
• AMDISA – CMRC South Asian Workshop on Capability Building Prespectives for South Asian B-Schools, Hyderabad 2008.

c) Regional South Asian Quality Assurance System (SAQS) Workshops are designed to develop and continually improve AMDISA’s institutional quality assurance and peer reviewing process. Since 2000, 13 such workshops have been organised in various cities in the South Asian region as below. For other details please refer to the section on SAQS in this website

• AMDISA Workshop on Reinventing Management Education: Closing the gap between B-Schools and Corporations, at Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow, June 23-24, 2000.
• AMDISA Workshop for Directors and Deans of Business Schools on Institutional Assessment, Quality Improvement and Accreditation, at School of Management Studies, University of Hyderabad, August 25-26, 2000.
• AMDISA-AIMS Workshop on Accreditation and Quality Assurance of South Asian Business Schools, Bangkok, in collaboration with Association of Indian Management Schools, at Hotel Narai, Bangkok, during Global Management Forum on June 9th, 2002.
• AMDISA Workshop on Quality Assurance and Accreditation of South Asian Business Schools, Sri Lanka, in cooperation with Postgraduate Institute of Management, University of Jayewardenepura, Colombo, September 5-6, 2002.
• AMDISA Workshop on Quality Improvement & Quality Assurance Of South Asian Business Schools, Bangladesh in cooperation with North South University, Dhaka, March 14-15, 2003.
• First Workshop on European Foundation for Management Development (EFMD)-AMDISA Collaboration for Improving Quality Standards of Business Schools in South Asia, at Administrative Staff College of India, Hyderabad, November 11-14, 2003.
• AMDISA – The Association of Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB) Workshop on Accreditation of South Asian B-Schools, at Hotel Taj Residency, Kohinoor Hall, Hyderabad January 22nd, 2004.
• Second Workshop on EFMD-AMDISA Collaboration for Accreditation Initiative, at Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS), Lahore, February 11-13, 2004.
• Third Workshop on EFMD-AMDISA Collaboration for Accreditation Initiative, at Management Development Institute, Gurgaon, March 17th, 2004.
• AMDISA-EFMD Workshop on Project under European Commission’s Asia Link Project on Quality Improvement of Business Schools in South Asia, Phase I, at LUMS, Lahore, November 27th, 2004.
• Workshop for Deans and Directors of Business Schools on Accreditation and Institutional Building with the support of Governance of Institutional and Development Division of Commonwealth Secretariat, London at LUMS, Lahore, November 28th, 2004.
• AMDISA-ICFAI Business School, Hyderabad Workshop for Directors and Deans – Leadership, Institution Building and Quality Assurance in South Asian Business Schools at Centre for Organisation Development, Hyderabad on January 27-29, 2005.
• SAQS Workshop for Peer Reviewers at Centre for Organisation Development, Hyderabad, January 11-14, 2006.
• AMDISA International Conference on What Price Quality? Towards a New Paradigm for Management Education, at Hotel Taj Deccan, Kohinoor Hall, Hyderabad on September 14, 2009.
• SAQS Workshop for Peer Reviewers at AMDISA Secretariat, Hyderabad, February 4-5, 2010.
• SAQS Workshop for Peer Reviewers at Institute of Business Administration, Karachi, Pakistan, June 15-16, 2010.
• AMDISA’s International Conference on “Building Quality in Management Education for Sustained Institutional Development” at Hotel Taj Deccan, Synergy Hall, Hyderabad, India on December 12, 2014. Please Click Here for Conference Souvenir.”
• SAQS Workshop for Peer Reviewers at AMDISA Secretariat, Hyderabad, February 18-20, 2015.
• AMDISA's International Conference on "Accreditation for Institutional Learning and Growth" at Hotel Manohar, Crystal Palace - B, Hyderabad, India on December 8, 2015." Please Click Here for Conference Souvenir.
• AMDISA's Conference on "The Journey of Quality Assurance to Accreditation - Experiences and Future Prospects" organised by IFIM Business School, Bengaluru on 3rd March, 2017 at IFIM Business School, Bengaluru, India
• AMDISA organised a One-Day Workshop on "Self-Assessment Report Writing" on 7th March, 2018 at AMDISA Secretariat, Hyderabad, India.
• SAQS Workshop for Peer Reviewers at Institute of Business Administration (IBA), University of Dhaka, Dhaka, Bangladesh, May 10-11, 2018.

(d) South Asian Workshop for NGO Managers

AMDISA-FES Regional Training Workshop for NGO Functionaries in South Asia was held at Hyderabad from June 11-17, 2006, coordinated by Prof Arif A Waqif, Director, Research. The main focus of the Workshop was to promote South Asian perspectives and sharing of experiences in management of grass roots development activities. . A total of 19 NGO functionaries from 5 SAARC countries (Afghanistan, Bangladesh, India, Nepal, and Sri Lanka) participated in the Workshop. The Workshop was sponsored by Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, New Delhi, and supported by FES offices in other South Asian countries.

(e) Project Management Programme at Male

The Programme/Workshop on Project Management for Faculty of Management and Computing, Maldives College for Higher Education, Male, was held at Male, during April 20-24, 2008. It was coordinated by Prof Arif A Waqif, Director, Academic. The main focus of the Programme/Workshop was to enable and facilitate learning of the latest approaches to project planning, appraisal, implementation, monitoring and evaluation as specifically relevant for project managers in Maldives. A total of 30 officers and managers from public and private sectors participated in this Programme. Valuable inputs for the Programme were provided by very senior officers from the Government of Maldives apart from the academic resource persons. The Programme was supported by the Commonwealth Fund for Technical Cooperation, London.

(f) Regional Consultations on Enhancing Intra-regional Connectivity (2010-2020)

Regional Consultations on Enhancing Intra-regional Connectivity (2010-2020): Issues and Approaches in South Asia at India International Centre, New Delhi from February 14 to 16, 2010.

(g) Commemoration of SAARC Charter Day

• Role of B-Schools in Strengthening Cooperation in South Asia to commemorate the 24th SAARC Charter Day. The Charter Day was held at AMDISA Secretariat, Hyderabad, India on 11th December, 2008.
• 25th SAARC Charter Anniversary was held at the AMDISA Secretariat, Hyderabad, India on 8th December 2009.
• 26th SAARC Charter Anniversary was held at the AMDISA Secretariat, Hyderabad, India on 8th December 2010.
• 27th SAARC Charter Anniversary was held at the AMDISA Secretariat, Hyderabad, India on 8th December 2011.
• 28th SAARC Charter Anniversary was held at the AMDISA Secretariat, Hyderabad, India on 8th December 2012.
• 29th SAARC Charter Anniversary was held at the AMDISA Secretariat, Hyderabad, India on 8th December 2013.
• 30th SAARC Charter Anniversary was held at the AMDISA Secretariat, Hyderabad, India on 8th December 2014.
• 31st SAARC Charter Anniversary was held at Hotel Manohar, Hyderabad, India on 8th December 2015.
• 32nd SAARC Charter Anniversary was held at the AMDISA Secretariat, Hyderabad, India on 8th December 2016.
• 33rd SAARC Charter Anniversary was held at the AMDISA Secretariat, Hyderabad, India on 8th December 2017.
• 34th SAARC Charter Anniversary was held at the AMDISA Secretariat, Hyderabad, India on 8th December 2018.
• 35th SAARC Charter Anniversary was held at the AMDISA Secretariat, Hyderabad, India on 7th December 2019.

(h) International Conference on “Internationalization of Management Development  and South Asian Response” was held by School of Management Studies, University Of Hyderabad in association with AMDISA on 11th and 12th of April, 2014 at University of Hyderabad, India.

(i) Session on “Contextualizing Management Education” was held at Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, hosted by IIM-A on afternoon of 18th August, 2015. The discussions which were in the nature of a freewheeling brainstorming session focused on sub-themes relating to Executive Education, Research and Public Policy Engagement and on how various institutions, including IIM-A, interact with various constituencies in the environment (business, society and government). Prof. Ashish Nanda, (Director), Prof. Ajay Pandey (Dean, Programmes), Prof. G. Raghuram (Dean, Faculty) and Prof. Rama Mohana Turaga (Associate Professor, Public Systems Group) from IIM-A initiated the discussions on the sub-themes and AMDISA Executive Board Members from Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka participated in the deliberations.

(j) AMDISA's Regional Management Conference - 2016 on “Management Development through International Networking and Collaborations” organized by the Institute of Certified Professional Managers (CPM), Colombo, Sri Lanka and Post Graduate Institute of Management (PIM), Colombo, Sri Lanka and in association with AMDISA on 25th and 26th July, 2016 at PIM, Colombo.

(k) CPM's Regional Management Conference - 2017 on “Transformational Leadership: Turning Ideas into Action" organized by the Institute of Certified Professional Managers (CPM), Colombo, Sri Lanka supported by AMDISA on 26th and 27th September, 2017 at Colombo, Sri Lanka.

(l) CPM's Regional Management Conference - 2018 on “Delivering Winnovative Business Strategies: The Quest for Managerial Excellence" organized by the Institute of Certified Professional Managers (CPM), Colombo, Sri Lanka supported by AMDISA on 4th and 5th September, 2018 at Colombo, Sri Lanka.