Dr. Pratima Sheorey has been working as the Director of Symbiosis Centre for Management and Human Resource Development, Pune (SCMHRD) for over 6 years now. Graduated from MIT School of Management, Dr. Pratima also holds a Ph.D in Marketing.

As the world experiences a Fourth Industrial Revolution that is in a general sense adjusting the manner in which we live, work, and identify with each other-in its scale, degree, and multifaceted nature, a change not at all like anything mankind has encountered previously. It is during these times that one may envision that business colleges would be hotbeds of development and re-examining, with each educator quick to help comprehend and mold themselves to this rising new world. Incomprehensibly, it's the inverse. Generally, the present business colleges are occupied with instructing and examining the twentieth century and, as a result, driving the procession towards yesterday.

But what has caused this Paradigm Shift?
In the Fourth Industrial Revolution, associations are interfacing everybody and everything, all across the globe, constantly. They are making a world in which individuals, bits of knowledge, and re-sources associate rapidly, effectively and economically.

Firms driving the revolution are being run uniquely in contrast to the mechanical behemoths of the twentieth century. They are centered on consistent development for clients and composed to be agile, versatile, and ready to change on the fly to meet the moving impulses of a commercial center driven by end-clients. Think Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Alibaba, Airbnb, Tesla, and Uber. In these organizations, benefits are the outcome, not the objective, of the endeavor. For them, what's to come is exciting and inspiring. And emulating this revolution are the B-Schools across the globe that have adopted various methodologies and pedagogies to deal with modern times.

Here are 8 such steps taken by B-Schools across the world that reflect their initiatives towards the future:

Embracing Digital Disruption
In modern-day B-Schools, there will be increasingly mixed learning and more flipped study halls. The way youngsters and millennials are learning is evolving. B-Schools are changing the manner in which they are instructing learners. Universities are looking at using epistemic games that bring commercial game-like simulations in real-life to help learners see the practicality of their roles as a planner or a strategist, who is solving real-world problems. Through these simulations, learners can be put in different situations, where they're negotiating with an organization on one hand, to becoming a manager of an advertising agency, handling various marketing queries and scenarios in

the other. Through digital disruptions such as this, individuals can become creative professionals who learn to think innovatively, rather than confining their understanding to the textbook to find the right answers. B-schools will have to understand that today's solutions might not work tomorrow.

Adopting Experiential Learning
B-Schools of the future will fabricate new activity-based learning programs that position the school on the cut-ting edge of development in instruction. This is the place where the purpose of separation among business colleges will happen. It is also anticipated that schools would present completely online degrees and grow the quantity of non-degree projects offered on the web. Online training will utilize the face to face, private experience for learner's on-ground, with access to course materials online that quicken the learning.

Tailor-made Programs
This allows complete flexibility for appropriate customization. However, expanding knowledge around the globe showcases that the problems with quality-based tailored learning on digital platforms could not make up for an individual's intuitive experience. Universities across the world are seeing a progressively refined way to deal with delivering a customized learning situation including designing projects that are custom fitted to the needs of the individual while keeping up the program rigor. At various B-Schools, pedagogy has evolved to provide flexibility in an MBA in terms of course length, specialization, project work, assignments etc.

The way youngsters and millennials are learning is evolving. B-Schools are changing the manner in which they are instructing learners

Rapid Changes in the Conventional MBA
The market is undergoing rapid transition and strategy has to keep pace to understand markets, consumers, data and insights. In line with these changes business schools are also evolving to deliver through particular graduate degrees, endorsement projects, or short focused courses. A greater amount of these contributions will be conveyed online or as a program that focuses on the learner's needs and requirements at various stages of their vocations. Activity learning, to empower quick use of ideas, will turn out to be significant.

More-Specialized Degrees
The world will observe a pattern towards increasingly particular MBA degrees like the MBA for Educators or MBA for health professionals which have been introduced by B-Schools globally. The vocation atmosphere is progressively pioneering, and experts that used to be not thought of as business professionals are searching for approaches to work all the more effectively and advance beyond the challenge. The MBA degree therefore is all set to become more focused and specialized.

Big Data Becoming Imperative
Data analytics is becoming progressively significant. A few schools are propelling projects to attempt to deal with enormous quantities of information to distinguish key experiences. Learner pursuing quantitative management programs will prepare enormous information with the appropriate methodologies to convey key discoveries to shape business capacities, technique and activities, thereby drive future strategy.

Incorporating Design Thinking
Fusing design thinking in the business educational plan can give learners and facilitators a structure for managing unstructured issues and for dealing with them in advance. Design thinking is an innovative practice that enables learners to come up with new conceivable outcomes, and changing plans of action. Design thinking will thereby prepare learners to deal with the future.

Constantly Re-Inventing Programs
Research by the World Economic Forum estimates that 65% of children entering primary school will find themselves in occupations (by the time they graduate) that do not exist today. Learners will become increasingly associated with shaping their own instruction. In 10 years, learners will consolidate such a great amount of autonomy into their learning procedure, that mentoring will become crucial to a learner's achievement. The faculty or facilitators will also have to keep pace and design newer methodologies to enable the learning process. Constant research and understanding the changing paradigm will become a necessity for the survival of educational institutions.