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IPMI, the pioneer of the Case Method in Indonesia
When IPMI Business School was formed in 1984, with the support of Harvard Business School and INSEAD faculties, the Case Method was adopted as the main tool of instruction. Today, IPMI still carries that tradition and taking it to higher levels of involvement.
In September, 2015, Alwin Arifin, the chairman of the IPMI Board of Trustees and the son of the founder of IPMI, the late Bustanil Arifin, recommitted to the case method as IPMI’s main teaching pedagogy and to the use of English as the language of instruction. Inspired by his commitment, the IPMI Case Center was established in February 2016.
Over the years, the method applied has proven its great performance in driving students’ insights to reinvent decisions-making. It has enabled them to extend their ways of thinking in order to meet mounting global demands for transformative leaders, molding them as fast, sharp, and relevant decision-makers.
In the same manner, the school has been working on by emphasizing active and creative learning, the use of cases allows students to live within a practice and effectively navigate inherently complex problems in an ambiguous world. It pushes the students to act decisively and dynamically also to reflect both internal and external. It is an anchor from which to label their own discoveries as well as confusion and to evaluate where they have been and where they are headed to.
Supported by business practitioners as mentors who reinforce the skills, this a recursive cycle that feeds one another. Just as revolutionary in the Indonesian context, the English language was, and remains, our medium of instruction.
What is the Case Method approach to teaching?
The case method approach requires active verbal participation of students in the classroom. And for that, we realize that students can create deeper work when they get mentors to guide their ways. Our mentor or instructor will be there to orchestrate classroom discussion of the case. They will help to stimulate students’ analytical thinking, their creative problem-solving approaches and to elicit relevant theoretical points, all of which contribute to the development of managerial judgement.
Through our practitioners’ experiential and theoretical knowledge, the students will get actual guidance along with the discussion. The case itself is a statement of a real problem in a real company that must be handled by real people. It presents a multitude of facts requiring empirical judgement and analysis, compelling the students to share the burden of responsibility of decision making with a character in the case.
The case teaching method is a powerful learning tool that instills great learning experience. With the use of printed cases or multimedia to tell stories to learn from, it absolutely brings life into the classroom. Through reading the case, group discussion with peers and class discussion, the students are able to deconstruct a problem and analyse the moves of a real-life situation to learn from.
IPMI Case Center Mission and Vision
The mission of the IPMI Case Center is to be the custodian of the legacy of the founders of the School, Bustanil Arifin and Siswanto Sudomo. That legacy is the case-based, practitioner-oriented management education meant to produce globally competitive business leaders.
Its vision is to expand the case teaching method into the 21st century focusing on Indonesian cases, at home and abroad, to support the continuing new curriculum developments at IPMI. These will include, among others, the development of experiential-based and live case methodology, multimedia cases and technology-based delivery using the case method.