PIM program to produce business leaders

by Jayampathy Jayasinghe

The Alumni Association of the Postgraduate Institute of Management (PIM) launched a continuous professional development program to produce leaders in the local business and industry.

According to Post Graduate Management (PIM)'s Director Dr. Uditha Liyanage, the PIM 's aim was to provide professional development of business members and non members and to transform them, into a community of leaders who will be in a position to shape the nation's economy.

He said members of the PIM Alumni are a larger body than CEOs, heads of departments and entrepreneurs put together. "That was why it was called the Nation's School of Business," he said.

According to the PIM Alumni, their mission was to provide professional development of its members and non members through a variety of programs. The Alumni will invite business leaders to educate participants as to how they could succeed in their chosen careers.

PIM will offer corporates three-month long customised programs for executive and management staff. Through continuous professional development programs, the skills of both the public sector and the business sector managers would be developed.

Dr. Liyanage said that all the big companies did not have great structures or frameworks or procedures as such. But what they had was a business module where everyone belonged to it. The module worked for them, like magic.

He said as far as businesses were concerned there were two most important things such as attracting customers and to retain them. When a company cannot fulfil these functions the company ceases to exist.