College of Defence Management

The College of Defence Management (CDM) is a premier tri-Service institution imparting management training to officers of the Defence Services. CDM is entrusted with the responsibility of instilling contemporary management thoughts, concepts and practices in the senior leadership of the three Services.[1]

College of Defence Management
Former names
Institute of Defence Management
Motto in English
Victory Through Excellence
TypeMilitary Academy
EstablishedDecember 1970
CommandantMajor General Sandeep Sharma, VSM, Ph.D
Location
Secunderabad
,
Telangana
,
India

17°50′15″N 78°56′30″E
NicknameCDM
AffiliationsOsmania University
Websitecdm.ap.nic.in

It is an educational institute sponsored by India's Ministry of Defence, which provides scientific and management education to Indian Armed Forces officers.[2] The institute, considered as the only exclusive college in Asia for defence management training to the Armed Forces, is run under the management of the Indian Armed Forces and is located in Sainikpuri in Secunderabad, in the recently formed Telangana State of India.[3]

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The College of Defence Management had its origin in December 1970 under the name, the Institute of Defence Management (IDM), as a part of the Military College of Electronics and Mechanical Engineering (MCEME), with Brigadier V. Dhruva as the founder Director, for providing the Defence Services officers with modern management training.[4][5]

CDM started its first batch of Long Defence Management Course (LDMC) in March 1971 with 44 students. This has since been upgraded to cover three levels of courses, at Masters, MPhil and doctoral levels. By 1978, the College had four functional faculties such as Faculty of Organization Behavior, Faculty of Decision Analysis, Faculty of Research and Consultancy and Faculty of Training Support (the Faculty of Information Systems was added in January 2004). In 1983, CDM was accepted as a cooperating member of the All India Management Association. CDM was re-designated, in April 1985, as the College of Defence Management. In 1986, the All India Management Association certified the LDM Course as an Advanced Course of Instruction in Defence Management.

Osmania University, in August 1994, gave accreditation to CDM courses and, in March 2005, recognized it as a national centre for conducting research in management studies. The College provides research and consultancy services to the three services as well as undertakes projects on behalf of them.[6] It also serves the public and private sector by holding management sessions.

Mandate

The College was established with a dual set of mandates with regard to the two lines of management studies.

Higher Defence Management Course

  • Understand the national security imperatives and the defence planning process in order to effectively contribute towards perspective planning in the armed forces.
  • Enhance leadership potential and human skills through an understanding of contemporary leadership concepts, human behaviour and motivational process.
  • Understand the process of organisational development and interventions through application of management principles and innovative training concepts in the armed forces.
  • Gain sufficient exposure to management concepts and quantitative techniques for effective planning and execution of logistics in a Single and integrated service environment.
  • Acquire a clear understanding of economic concepts and their application in the armed forces, especially in the areas of financial planning, budgeting and controlling.
  • Leverage information systems to add value to operational planning process using analytical decision making in a net centric environment.
  • Leverage the power of quantitative techniques as aids to decision making in the contextual domain of situations relevant to operational and logistic aspects in the armed forces.
  • Understand nuances of efficiently managing various facets of defence projects.
  • Develop understanding of systems approach, so as to optimally exploit the management concepts and quantitative, as well as qualitative techniques for pragmatic decision making.
  • Gain an insight into the research methodology required to carry out an in-depth study of management problems, so as to evolve workable solutions.

Senior Defence Management Course

  • Enhance awareness through an exposure to contemporary concepts in organisational behaviour.
  • Appreciate current trends in organisational interventions for enhancing organisational effectiveness.
  • Understand the process of defence planning so as to be able to appreciate the complexities of perspective planning and force structuring.
  • Augment decision making capabilities through systems approach, using quantitative as well as qualitative techniques and exploiting IT applications.
  • Understand the fundamentals of macro economic issues with particular emphasis on financial planning in the armed forces.
  • Acquire understanding of issues related to logistics in the armed forces for optimal utilisation of resources.
  • Relate to aspects of information technology, so as to harness its potential as a force multiplier while exploiting it in a secure environment.

List of Commandants
S.No Rank Name Appointment Date Left Office Notes
1BrigadierV Dhruva, AVSMAugust 1970May 1973First Commandant of CDM[7]
2Air CommodoreR J M Upot, AVSMMay 1973December 1975
3CommodoreH S PuniaDecember 1975August 1977
4BrigadierB P UpasaniAugust 1977November 1980
5Air CommodoreP K Puri, AVSMDecember 1980December 1983Later served as Commandant of the National Defence College
6Rear AdmiralA GhoshMarch 1984October 1984First Two Star Officer to seve as Commandant
7Rear AdmiralR S Sharma, AVSM, VSMOctober 1984June 1986
8Major GeneralD K MehtaJune 1986February 1989
9Air Vice MarshalS Kulkarni, VMMarch 1989April 1991Later served as Commandant of the National Defence College
10Rear AdmiralS C Gupta, VSMApril 1991April 1993
11Major GeneralS P JainMay 1993March 1995
12Air Vice MarshalT J Master, AVSMApril 1995June 1997Later served as Air Officer Commanding - in - Chief of Training Command
13Rear AdmiralR M KhetarpalMarch 1988August 1999
14Major GeneralK C Padha, VSMSeptember 1999July 2001
15Air Vice MarshalH P S Sidhu, AVSM, VSMAugust 2001August 2003
16Rear AdmiralV Balachandran, AVSM, NM, VSMAugust 2003July 2005
17Major GeneralP K Mahajan, AVSMJuly 2005February 2007
18Air Vice MarshalA Saikia, AVSM, VMApril 2007April 2009
19Rear AdmiralV S Batra, VSMApril 2009September 2011
20Major GeneralSandeep Singh, AVSM, SM, VSMOctober 2011July 2012
21Major GeneralN P GadkariJuly 2012July 2013
22Air Vice MarshalRajeev SachdevaAugust 2013September 2015
23Rear AdmiralDushyant Singh ChouhanSeptember 2015December 2017
24Major GeneralSandeep Sharma, VSM, Ph.DJanuary 2018To date

Courses and affiliations

CDM is affiliated to Osmania University for its Masters, MPhil and PhD programs. Efforts are on to set up an Indian National Defence University (INDU) which will soon bring all the Indian defence related institutions under its umbrella.[8]

Master of Management Studies: The course was started as Long Defence Management Course (LDMC), later upgraded to Higher Defence Management Course (HDMC), and was open to selected senior officers of the armed forces, para military forces, MOD and friendly foreign countries. The course envisaged to hone the management skills through knowledge transfer of management concepts and their applications. On 14 August 1994, CDM entered into an agreement with Osmania University whereby the course was recognized as post graduate degree with the title, Master of Management Studies (MMS), awarded by Osmania University.[9]

MPhil: This is a faculty development program and is aimed at the faculty posted at the College, who can pursue their studies at MPhil level as per Osmania University curriculum.

National Center for Research: CDM is an Osmania University recognized centre for doctoral research in management studies, leading to the degree of Doctor of Philosophy (PhD).[10] The program was started on 23 March 2005.

Departments

The College has five functional departments attending to various affairs of the institution.

Behavioural Science

The Faculty of Behavioural Sciences is responsible for the various courses and programs conducted by CDM and covers two areas of functions, each managed by a department.

Department of Organisational Behaviour: The department has set mandates to develop and conduct courses and programs in Organizational Behaviour.

  • To enhance leadership potential and human skills through an understanding of contemporary leadership concepts, human behaviour and motivational process.
  • To understand the process of organisational development and interventions through the application of contemporary management principles.

Department of Strategic Management: The department acts as a nodal agency for the promotion of strategic concepts in the Armed Forces with regard to national and military security.[11]

  • To enable Officers undergoing course to formulate a holistic national security and military strategy and develop strategy implementation plan.
  • To develop into a National repository and central focal point for all aspects connected with Management of National Security, Management of Military Security and Defence Planning and for interaction with the agencies within India and abroad.

Resource Management

The Faculty of Resource Management takes care of the training of the officers of the three services in the field of Resource Management with special emphasis on Finance Management and Supply Chain Management. The faculty was started in 1974 as Faculty of Management Techniques and, through a series of name changes, became the Faculty of Resource Management (FRM) in 2011.

Decision Sciences

Originally started in 1977 as the department of Decision Analysis, the department was rechristened as the Faculty of Decision Sciences in 2004. The Faculty's activities are consolidated under three separate departments.

  • Department of Operations Research.
  • Department of Statistics.
  • Department of Project Management

It was through the effort of this faculty, CDM was accorded the status of institutional member of the International Project Management Association (IPMA).

Research and Consultancy

The Faculty of Research and Consultancy looks after the functions of drafting and implementation of organizational set up which include development of organization's mission, vision and objectives, policies and plans and resource allocation for implementation of policies, plans, projects and programs and evaluation of progress.[12]

Personnel, Administration and Training

PAT Department attends to the administrative matters which include personnel, infrastructure, budget, welfare and sports. It coordinates the training and curricular activities.

Joint Training Exercises

CDM has organized or hosted several Joint Training Exercises under various mandates.

Exercise Aman Sena: Exercise Aman Sena was conducted from 21 May to 29 May 2009 under the mandate of Peace Support Operations (PSO), a United Nations mandated platform with India as the coordinating nation. The exercise aimed at streamlining and formalizing joint planning and conduct of UN mandated Multinational Peace Support Operations. The exercise was attended by 80 officers from the armed forces of 14 countries and was a support activity of UN Peace Support Operations.

Exercise Raksha Yojna: Exercise Raksha Yojna is a training exercise on strategic planning, optimization of resources and preparation and implementation of perspective plans.

Exercise Yudh Abhyas (Trishul): This exercise is a war game for the participants of HDMC (MMS) programs and is conducted by the Higher Command Wing of Army War College (AWC) Mhow. The purpose of the exercise is to enable the participants to apply management tools and techniques in pragmatic decision making. The exercise, original started as Exercise Yudh Abhyas has since been renamed as Exercise Trishul.

Exercise Parivartan: Exercise Parivartan is a war game open to the participants from the three services of the armed forces, devised with the objective to train the participants to use modern management tools and techniques in the tactical planning and execution of offensive and defensive operations.

Exercise Parivartan: Exercise Parivartan is a research based exercise where the participants undertake project studies on organizational problems and their solutions.

Publications

The CDM has a regular publication by name Defence Management Journal which had its first issue released in January 1974. The Journal is now released biannually.

See also

References
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