ZCBI-Pune Announces
Collaboration With University of Essex Enabling Global Entrepreneurship
Joint Research & Teaching in
Business Transformation & Technology Entrepreneurship
Zensar Centre for Business
Innovation (ZCBI) announces a wide-ranging collaboration with the School of
Entrepreneurship & Business, University of Essex (UoE) for the creation
of global entrepreneurs. New programs and initiatives are envisaged
simultaneously in
Pune, India and London, UK where the School of Entrepreneurship & Business
Centre is located at the UoE's campus in the Southend of London.
Zensar has actively pursued the
industry-academia collaboration model to attract fresh talent and to address
existing skills shortage with its academic tie-ups with colleges under its
Centre of Excellence (CoE) initiative. The collaboration with UoE will
address the shortage of managerial skills and also help in developing an
entrepreneurial workforce. The collaboration would involve joint research and
collaborative teaching between Zensar and the UoE for business transformation
and technology management.
Dr. Ganesh Natarajan, Dy.
Chairman & Managing Director, Zensar, said, "The Union budget presented last
week has created a new focus on resource creation for all industry sectors. This
collaborative effort of the Zensar Centre for Business Innovation with the
School of Entrepreneurship & Business, University of Essex, would enable an
ecosystem for innovation and technology entrepreneurship to be created in both
countries, helping the larger mission of capacity and competency building for
the Industry. The capabilities of the University will complement our initiatives
in all these areas."
The collaboration envisages three
distinct areas: -
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Sponsored research on Global
Delivery Platform as an entrepreneurial opportunity in Essex and Eastern
Europe to be done at the Southend campus of the University.
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Co-teaching of the Post
Graduate Program for Business Transformation that has been launched by the
Zensar Centre for Business Innovation.
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Joint development of
entrepreneurial talent in UK through a centre at the campus of the School of
Entrepreneurial Business powered by Zensar's technologies.
Prof. Jay Mitra, Head of
School of Entrepreneurship & Business, University of Essex, said, "We are
delighted by this collaboration towards creating global entrepreneurs, which is
in line with the objective of the University. By creating this collaborative
venture, the students have access to a real education that makes them ready for
an entrepreneurial business".
ZCBI would collaborate with the
University of Essex in creating the bridge between business and learning through
its joint programme of collaborative research and teaching. ZCBI's Pune Centre
is an autonomous research and innovation centre for Zensar Technologies,
focused at providing world-class Research Development and Education of resources
for its global customers. An Extension Centre would be created in the University
of Essex using Zensar's home grown Solution BluePrint (SBP). The Solution
BluePrint is Zensar's unique framework that enables software automation and
creation of reusable components. The Solution BluePrint helps capture business
process models, and to create reusable components that helped heighten the
efficiency in software development. The SBP has ensured productivity efficiency
for a number of Zensar's customers.
Through this joint effort, the
ZCBI curriculum would be accredited by the UoE; the student would then spend
nine months in Pune at the Zensar Campus and could opt to spend three months at
University of Essex, creating a global experience for them and accelerating
their learning to make them business ready.
Last year, Zensar announced the
launch of its innovation centre, the Zensar Centre for Business Innovation (ZCBI).
ZCBI has launched a unique
One Year
Post Graduate Programme (PGP) in Business Transformation that aims at
creating a pool of skilled managerial resources by combining technology and
architecture skills with business analysis concepts in chosen industries.
