Enhancing corporate IT efficiency

NIIT general manager Tulika Sinha checks out the corporate training centre classroom after inauguration

NRG Chief Executive Officer Nazim Farhan said over past five or six years there had been remarkable investment in computer hardware business but little attention had been given to IT skill-building enterprise.

Many governmental and non-governmental organisations aspire to enhance the IT capability of their human resources. "We mean to address this prospective area of IT productivity-enhancing entrepreneurial need of various establishments and business concerns," Nazim told The Daily Star.

He said that NRG would make use of NIIT's IT expertise in enabling the corporate professionals through collaborative efforts.

As part of a diversity programme of ADCOMM Ltd., NRG aims at catering to corporate need for enhanced productivity through manipulation of whatever IT knowledge professionals have already gained.

He said that the training programme will take a holistic approach and incorporate other knowledge-building efforts in English language proficiency, behavioural orientation, and marketing.

The training centre will provide IT consultancy service to the corporate establishments as per their need.

"This training is different from regular IT academic programme. It will exclusively deal with how to better equip the professionals, who may have some amount of IT knowledge, with enhanced skill," Nazim said.

"This is a specialised approach with focused treatment dedicated to building IT efficiency of the professionals and corporate bodies," NIIT General Manager Tulika Sinha said, "unlike imparting basic academic IT education."

"The NIIT has IT expertise while NRG has thorough knowledge of IT market in Bangladesh. It's a perfect combination to achieve business goals," Tulika told The Daily Star.

She said professional skill development was a single segment in the IT domain, which promised a potential market in Bangladesh.

Tulika said the NIIT was the first international IT corporation to institute education and executive training programme in Bangladesh back in 1997. As such, it has a considerable study of Bangladeshi IT market.

"We are happy having launched this training programme to enhance corporate IT efficiency in Dhaka and looking forward to instituting similar programme in other commercially viable places all over Bangladesh," Tulika told The Daily Star.

Among other countries, NIIT has been conducting IT skill-building programmes in Sri Lanka, Nepal, Indonesia, and Malaysia, she said.

The CEO of the NRG said the Bangladesh Bank has already entered upon a contract to undertake this efficiency-building programme which simultaneously commences at five centres across the country on July 15. NIIT local unit at each place will facilitate the training programme providing technical assistance and accommodation.