IBM teams up with B-schools to make techies job-ready

The technology industry in the country had been complaining for quite a long time that the graduates they take from the top colleges in India were not job-ready. And at last, IBM has taken up an initiative to train the techies from top business schools in India to make them industry-ready.

The main objective of the tie-up is to bridge the gap between the academia and the IT/ITES and BPO industry. IBM has teamed up with B-schools like Indian School of Business-Hyderabad, Indian Institute of Management-Bangalore, National Institute of Design in Ahmedabad (NID), SP Jain Institute of Management in Mumbai (SPJIM), and Nirma Institute of Management in Ahmedabad for this initiative.

Guruduth Banavar, the associate director of IBM India Research Lab. NIM, said that all the programs in the course called ‘Service Science, Management and Engineering’ (SSME), will be launched in a year.

IBM and other colleges plan to prepare a course like the ones in University of California, Berkeley, Arizona State University and North Carolina State University and other Universities in the US. These programs drawn on research and teaching fields in computer science, computer engineering, business strategy, and management sciences are said to help students in developing skills required in technology and services-based economy in the country.

C Mohan, chief scientist of IBM, India, said, "The new academic initiative is designed to prepare graduate students for careers in the evolving multi-disciplinary fields of services management."

IBM has also tied up with 740 engineering colleges to help students develop skills on using latest tools and technologies.