Project Management and Entrepreneurship · HSMC701

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Official MAKAUT Syllabus at a Glance

Unit	Syllabus
1	Introduction: Meaning and Concept of Entrepreneurship, Innovation and entrepreneurship, Contributions of entrepreneurs to the society, risk-opportunities perspective and mitigation of risks
2	Entrepreneurship – An Innovation: Challenges of Innovation, Steps of Innovation Management, Idea Management System, Divergent v/s Convergent Thinking, Qualities of a prospective Entrepreneur
3	Idea Incubation: Factors determining competitive advantage, Market segment, blue ocean strategy, Industry and Competitor Analysis (market structure, market size, growth potential), Demand-supply analysis
4	Entrepreneurial Motivation: Design Thinking - Driven Innovation, TRIZ (Theory of Inventive Problem Solving), Achievement motivation theory of entrepreneurship – Theory of McClelland, Harvesting Strategies
5	Information: Government incentives for entrepreneurship, Incubation, acceleration. Funding new ventures – bootstrapping, crowd sourcing, angel investors, Government of India’s efforts at promoting entrepreneurship and innovation – SISI, KVIC, DGFT, SIDBI, Defense and Railways
6	Closing the Window: Sustaining Competitiveness, Maintaining Competitive Advantage, the Changing Role of the Entrepreneur.
7	Applications and Project Reports Preparation
8	PROJECT MANAGEMENT : Definitions of Project and Project Management, Issues and Problems in Project Management, Project Life Cycle - Initiation / Conceptualization Phase, Planning Phase, Implementation / Execution Phase, Closure / Termination Phase
9	Project Feasibility Studies – Pre-Feasibility and Feasibility Studies, Preparation of Detailed Project Report, Technical Appraisal, Economic/Commercial/Financial Appraisal including Capital Budgeting Process, Social Cost Benefit Analysis
10	Project Planning – Importance of Project Planning, Steps of Project Planning, Project Scope, Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) and Organization Breakdown Structure (OBS), Phased Project Planning
11	Project Scheduling and Costing – Gantt chart, CPM and PERT Analysis, Identification of the Critical Path and its Significance, Calculation of Floats and Slacks, Crashing, Time Cost Trade-off Analysis, Project Cost Reduction Methods.
12	Project Monitoring and Control – Role of Project Manager, MIS in Project Monitoring, Project Audit
13	Case Studies with Hands-on Training on MS-Project

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