Athenaeum is derived from the Greek “Athenion”, the temple of Goddess Athena. Athena is the Goddess of Wisdom and of course Civilization itself.

The “Athenion” temple of ancient Greece also symbolized the place where scholars congregated to deliberate and nurture Philosophy and Thought.

The Athenaeum at BIM is such an endeavour where we plan a confluence of academicians who gather to discuss and deliberate topics on contemporary management research.

The process is initiated with a call for research papers from the Academia and Industry. The abstracts received are sent for a blind review to an expert panel of eminent research scholars who are associated with us in advisory and contributory roles.

The scholars whose abstracts have been short-listed by the review panel are then requested to formally send in their full papers for a peer review. At the end of the peer review process, the selected papers are short-listed for presentation on the day of the Symposium which will be graced by eminent personalities from the Academic world and the Industry.

The event intends to showcase scholarly work from academia and industry on the same platform, providing a professional forum of idea interchange. The deliberations and learnings that are gleaned out of this conference are planned to be published as a compendium of papers by a leading publishing house in the country


ATHENAEUM 2007

The Athenaeum '07 was structured as a launch pad for networking institutions for sustaining exchange of knowledge and transfer of technology. It was a two day International Conference on Contemporary Research Management held on the 17th and 18th of March. Two broad functional themes were chosen for the year's event - Human Resources Management and Systems & IT Management for our two day deliberations.

The event witnessed the participation of 34 consultants, industrialists and academicians from all over the country and also from countries as far as Canada and Pakistan. Research papers were received from countries like Iran, Mexico and Dubai.

The delegates presented 24 papers on a wide range of topics including Knowledge Management, Curbing corruption at workplace and Increasing human resourcefulness through creative capacity.

The deliberations on 'IT in business' and 'IT as business' focused on serious research programmes on issues such as information security, e-commerce, data-warehousing and data-mining.

Two plenary sessions on "Fostering Innovation and Creativity in the Work Place" and "Changing Landscapes of Managing IT Services" were also part of the two day conference.

The Group General Manager of BHEL, Trichy, Mr.R.N.Misra inaugurated the conference. Other distinguished guests included Mr.K.Ananthakrishnan, CTO of Tata Consultancy Services, Mr.G.D.Sharma, Vice President and Head, Human Resources, L&T Ltd., Prof. M.J.Xavier, Dean, School of Management Studies, SRM University, Mr.Raja Shanmugham, Vice President, Testing Services, Mindtree Consulting Services, Mr.G.Srinivasan, Director, BI/DW Business Practices, Cognizant Technology Solutions, Mr.Balaji Vishwanathan, Senior Vice President, Business Servicess, Yes Bank, Mr.S.Anand, Deputy General Manager, Human Resources, Tablets India Ltd.

The conference proceedings were published as 'Perspectives on HR ad IT Management' by Excel Publishers, New Delhi. The proceeding has a duly assigned ISBN number.