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Bridging future skill gap between tech, industry

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NEW DELHI: The Indian Institute of Management - Bangalore (IIM-B) and IBM will hold a national workshop on services sciences, management and engineering (SSME) to engage government, academia and industry in a dialogue to identify the skills necessary to capture opportunity in an increasingly services-based worldwide economy.

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The workshop will be held on October 10 2006, at the IIM-B campus here.

Dr Daniel M Dias, director, IBM India Research Lab, said, “The aim is to trigger a national discussion on SSME as the fulcrum of growth and competitive advantage, and to build the foundation of a new inter-disciplinary curriculum in leading Indian Universities.”

“We’re in a fast-moving, competitive economy, one for which many students are unprepared as they emerge with more traditional skills. This is driving universities to develop courses supported by, and tailored for, the future entrepreneurs, executives, researchers, and practitioners in the services arena, with a solid grounding in theory and practice to design complex solutions,” he added.

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The goal of the SSME discipline is to drive productivity, quality, and sustainability of services, while making the learning rates and innovation rates more predictable across the service sector, especially in complex organization to organization services including business to business, nation to nation and government to population.

This workshop brings together ongoing work in fields of computer science, operations research, industrial engineering, business strategy, management sciences, social, cognitive and legal sciences, to develop skills required in a services-led economy.

“This first-ever SSME national workshop in India, offers an academic way of understanding interactions between client and provider, using a mix of scientific and business concepts to focus on areas that might not be core in either a Masters of Business Administration or Computer-Science program,” said Prof. Rishikesha T Krishnan, IIM-Bangalore.

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