IIM Indore & GIZ, India to help businesses tackle Post-Covid challenges

The COVID19 pandemic has affected every sector globally and has ushered various challenges across numerous business sectors in terms of managing operations, functions and external stakeholders. In line with its mission to stay contextually relevant and contribute to the nation-building in every way possible, IIM Indore has joined hands with The Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit GmbH (GIZ), German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) to connect the dots across myriad sectors to understand how they grappled with COVID-19 for forthcoming pandemic preparedness. With this objective, IIM Indore has also received a research grant of Rs. 85.3 Lakhs.The institutions will now work together on documenting the challenges faced by these business sectors and their ways of tackling challenges. The documentation will be based on in-depth research to capture the finest practices on solutions for forthcoming pandemic preparedness. The research activities include two book projects, research papers and detailed case studies. 

Professor Himanshu Rai, Director, IIM Indore said, ‘The overall research project relies on a mixed-method approach, integrating qualitative and quantitative methods of data collection and analysis.’ The results of this research will be instrumental in cross-sectoral learning and pandemic preparedness; and also, in shaping further health policies for sectoral pandemic readiness within India, he added.Dr. Nishant Jain, Programme Director, Indo-German Social Security Programme said,this partnership will develop insights that will be useful not only to policymakers but also to everybody.