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IBM signs MoU with ISB

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BANGALORE: IBM and the Indian School of Business (ISB) today signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for joint research to develop a first-of-its-kind ‘Research on Service Science, Management and Engineering' (SSME) in India.

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As part of this initiative, ISB and IBM will create research and develop case studies to streamline service processes and replicate them across industries.

"We are at an incredible tipping point for the world economy and it's all around innovation," said Nick Donofrio, executive vice president, Innovation and Technology, IBM Corporation. "Innovation requires new skills to ensure that people, countries and economies remain competitive in this globally integrated world, and by investing in initiatives like Service Science, Management and Engineering, IBM and India will provide those skills."

Signing the MoU, Professor Rammohan Rao, Dean, ISB, said, “A strong industry –academia partnership is extremely important for us to provide management education that is relevant and current. I am sure that IBM and the ISB together can conduct cutting edge research that will be immediately applicable in India, and also successfully replicated elsewhere in the world. The ISB is proud to be associated with IBM for pioneering this research in India.”

“The aim of this agreement is to support ISB to open the SSME Program which includes high-end research, development of case studies and curriculum for the Executive Education and the Post Graduate Program in Management with the help of IBM so that the discipline of service science can be developed and lead to nurturing specialized human resources,” said Dr Daniel M Dias, director, IBM India Research Laboratory.

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