business exercise

10 am, Symbiosis institute of management studies, a group of sixty students and excitement in the air. According to seniors this would be the experience of our lives. Charged with excitement we set out in groups of three for the day ahead, without a penny in our pockets!

It started with five of us taking lift from an unknown person, getting stuffed into a car that was already packed with loads of files. We were dropped off at E-square and again took a lift till we reached a few kilometers away from Koergaon Park, the region assigned to us for the exercise. We finally piled up in an open goods career and reached ADLABS. We started looking for jobs in the mall but to no avail. Disappointed we moved out of the mall and went across the road to JOHN PLAYERS where we struck a deal with the manager.

According to this deal, we were to get them buyers and every sale would fetch us an incentive of 5%.We spent around an hour trying to convince people to take a look into the collection at the showroom but to no avail. Finally we called it quits and two of us went to a restaurant called 6 street café.

At the restaurant we were assigned the job of doing a survey about the customer satisfaction. We analyzed certain feedback forms which had been provided to the customers in past and also spoke to some about their opinion of the food joint. The restaurant was measured in terms of the service, ambience, food quality and cleanliness. We then gave them a report about the strengths and weaknesses of their joint. We also gave them suggestions about how the services could be improved. We were paid three hundred rupees for our work.

The third member of our team was working at Jadhav Sales Corporation and got seven hundred rupees for his job. In all, our team earned Rs.1000 for our work.

The batch wound up by gathering at the railway station; platform number 6.We dispersed after a few instructions from Mr.Kamath, the man behind the concept of holding these business exercises.

It was a great learning experience which opened our eyes about the realities of the business scenario. “Customer our boss”, a clichéd saying but has undeniable truth in it. It struck us each minute that the world we’re going to enter in two years would keep us on our toes all the time, thinking, innovating and reinventing depending on the customer needs and requirements.
Convincing people to even consider using something is not just difficult but a huge challenge.
It also dawned upon me for the first time in my life that a jobless person goes through one hell of a time earning some money. I realized that knowledge and hard work have no substitute. I realized what people meant when they said that life isn’t as easy as it seems. I realized corporate life would be a bigger challenge, not because of the stress involved but for the mental quests we would face at every step.

However what gives me happiness and strength is the realization that nothing is impossible. If we could make hundred rupees out of nothing in 7 hours, then even sky is not the limit for us!
Also, it was really nice to have so many people helping us on the roads by giving us lift.

By the end of the day, I have no doubt in my mind that what seniors said was hundred percent true! This was an experience I would cherish all my life.