The company will launch the new courses from next month to be offered from its centres and later extend them to engineering colleges later.
"We have been a global leader in skills and talent development. Once again, we want to revolutionise the landscape by introducing these pioneering programmes. Looking at the digital transformation across industry verticals, we want to create a talent pool that is equipped with skill sets required," NIIT President (Global Skills and Careers Group) Prakash Menon told PTI.
"India, with a strong technology ecosystem of MNC R&D centres, service providers, IT global in-house centres and startups, is well placed to play key role in the digital era ...Our aim is to train about 20,000 people in the first year," he said.
NIIT will roll out 12-14 week courses from 150 centres and later expand them to other centres and engineering colleges as well. The fees starts at about Rs 25,000.
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"The focus of the courses is building products rather than software. The students will be required to work on two projects for the course," Menon said.
This is expected to increase to over a million engineers trained in digital transformation technologies by 2020.
The 1-year management program focuses on practical ways to
learn from case studies, corporate examples, general discussions, statistical software and online database resources. The program will be delivered using Synchronous Learning Technology platform at NIIT Imperia Centre. In addition to this, students need to attend a mandatory 3-day campus module at the beginning of the program and a second 4-day campus module during the advance stage of program at IIM Calcutta. Students can also avail up to 90% of the program fee as Customized Education Loan from leading banks.
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First, we are delighted to have Barry Libert as a Digital
board Advisor, whose valuable advice will help us build and execute a digital transformation roadmap for companies in India, China and Emerging Markets and our own company; and second, we are going to leverage the training materials developed for Wharton and HBR in the India, China and Emerging Markets".
According to the MIT Centre for Digital Business, 77% of organizations consider missing digital skills as the key hurdle to their transformation strategy. Therefore, Indian & Global IT Companies are investing heavily in building digital transformation skills to enable their clients transform digitally.
The purpose has no meaning unless it meets its end.
Therefore, to gauge the impact of our scholarships on student's lives, we have Scholar Tracking System which enables scholarship funders to connect and monitor the growth of all their scholars over a period of 3 to 5 years. Every student's online profile is interconnected with funder's dashboard. They can interact via online chat box, SMS/Emails and live mentoring video sessions.
About NIIT
NIIT is a leading Skills and Talent Development
Corporation that is building a manpower pool for global industry requirements. The company, which was set up in 1981 to help the nascent IT industry overcome its human resource challenges, today ranks among the world's leading training companies owing to its vast and comprehensive array of talent development programs. With a footprint across 40 nations, NIIT offers training and development solutions to Individuals, Enterprises and Institutions. NIIT has three main lines of business across the globe - Corporate Learning Group, Skills and Careers Group, and School Learning Group.
As the Most Trusted Training Brand in India for 4th year
in a row (Brand Trust Report, 2016), NIIT's learning and talent development solutions, continue to receive widespread recognition globally. NIIT has been named among the Top 20 Training Outsourcing Companies for the past nine consecutive years by Training Industry, Inc. USA. Further, leading Indian ICT journal Dataquest has conferred upon NIIT the 'Top Training Company' award successively for the past 20 years, since the inception of this category. NIIT has also been featured as the 'Most Respected Education Company'- 2016 by leading financial magazine, Business World. NIIT.Tv - a disruptive innovation by NIIT, won the prestigious award for 'Educational Technology, at the Indo-American Education Summit 2016.
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