To be effective leaders, students must understand their own strengths and weaknesses, and look for opportunities to grow by overcoming weaknesses and sharpening strengths. They must prepare mentally to challenge the future. They must also be able to understand organizational objectives, the relative importance of different factors; and be efficient in implementing the ensuing policies. It is vital that they are also capable of convincing other people and at the same time are proactive team players.

The Institute through its executive training programs provides a platform for practicing managers, academics and professionals to meet, interact and exchange concepts, ideas, and experiences in different fields of management. PGDM Students benefit by interacting with these participants and experts. Very few business schools in the country provide this opportunity. The alliance with the Kirloskar Group companies enables students to have hands-on experience as well as link theory to practice.

The thrust of the program is to prepare true global managers – with capabilities to manage successfully in the fast changing global economy.

KIAMS gives its faculty a unique opportunity to grapple with live business issues through Consultancy projects and visioning exercises. In the early days, the faculty have been involved in Consultancy assignments such as Strategic planning assignments for K-Group, Business Process Reengineering for Kirloskar Oil Engines Ltd., Strategic repositioning for Kirloskar Brothers, AOP planning for (the erstwhile) Kirloskar Copeland and Competitive Marketing Strategies for NDDB. The more recent assignments include Process Orientation Training for the Group. Overseas Assignments include Human Capital Restructuring for Abdullah Hashim Co Ltd, Saudi Arabia and executive coaching for Dubai businessman. The consultancies are a rich source of experiential knowledge that guides the faculty's teaching and research endeavors.

In the first year the students study a manufacturing and a service organization in the framework of the Business Excellence Model and the Balanced Score Card to get a feel for integrated operations of an organization.

A  6 -8 week stint in an organization between the first and second year to get an intense experience of organizational realities

Undertaken the second year of the PGDM course, the capstone exercise requires a student to develop a business plan for an organization and address its implementation issues, using all the concepts learnt in PGDM course. It covers all the functional area of Management and is meant to be the culmination of the PGDM program