As an engineer or graduate a person acquires technical and analytical skills which enable her/him to help in implemention of a business idea.
Initially an engineer is involved in the development and testing aspects. After some experience s/he will graduate to designing aspect of the process i.e. to be involved in ‘how’.
But to move to the ‘what’ aspect of business one needs to be aware of ‘why’. Apart from this knowledge s/he needs skills to sell her/his idea and market it. These skills and thought process can be developed over a period of time. MBA serves as a learning tool and provides with opportunities to work in these roles.
As a product developer, one needs to analyse market and identify needs of the market or a gap. For eg, www.tenaday.co.in identified the market for online testing for CAT preparation. Now, they have created a wonderful product to meet this requirement of the market.
TCS and Satyam have gone to China for business growth. Who envisioned it for indian IT companies to foray in China where nobody speaks english? who analysed the market in china? This is done either by strategy division of the company or usually outsourced to consulting firms like McKinsey.
There are a lot of other profiles which you get after MBA. So, should you go for management?? Ask yourself, are you happy in your current profile and satisfied with the growth and roles you will get? What kind of work you want to do?
THINK!
