Accenture and Indian School of Business launch Accenture Management Development Academy in India

[OhioChick]

Source: India Info Online

Mumbai Apr 21, 2008 00:41

Programme focused on developing key delivery-management skills of IT professionals

Accenture and the Indian School of Business (ISB) have launched the Accenture Management Development Academy in India, an online, classroom and on-the-job training programme designed to develop and nurture leaders from Accenture’s mid-level management in India.

The Accenture Management Development Academy in India is a unique and innovative career-development opportunity for Accenture employees. It is designed to help distil best practices from academia, industry and also bring additional focus to the critical delivery-management skills of Accenture professionals focused on providing systems integration, technology consulting and outsourcing services.

The Centre for Executive Education and the Centre for IT and Networked Economies (CITNE) at the ISB have partnered with Accenture to develop the curriculum for the Academy, with CITNE bringing its cutting-edge research to enrich the programme.

The Academy will offer 18- to 24-month programmes for the first three levels of Accenture middle management in India: team lead, associate manager and manager. The curriculum for each programme covers strategic and tactical aspects of management and has been designed to enable Accenture employees to develop a strong foundation in key delivery management skills as they work on career advancement. Employees who complete the programme will be awarded a certificate for excellence in delivery management.



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Why doesn't Accenture just become an Indian Corporation? Oh...that's right, they're registered in Hamilton, Bermuda.

[Vincardog]

1. If the the H1B workers are any example of the raw talent in India GOOD LUCK with this effort.

[Rene]

5. You post is absolutely correct. I've worked with many India programmers

forget it....they're b a d d d d. poor communication all the way around also. Americans are constantly put in the position of bailing them out. They're programming is sloppy.....no imaginations, they can't do system design/project management very well at all.

[OhioChick]

6. Many H1B's That

I've worked with know things "by the book" but have absolutely no problem solving skills.

[Vincardog]

7. but they are really good at tracking their work and nursing grievances.

[onehandle]

2. Accenture's CEO shortly after severing ties to Arthur Andersen (Enron's accountants)

"Our main business is outsourcing."

This was addressed to the company upon their rename from Andersen Consulting.

Lou Dobbs calls them a "foreign company."

[OhioChick]

3. a "foreign company."

Same as Cisco, except Cisco said they "wanted" to become a foreign company.

[Baby Snooks]

4. I know, I know..

Accenture was no longer part of Arthur Andersen or vice versa. Just like the Baby Bells were no longer part of AT&T although of course all these years later most of them are part of AT&T.

Accenture or Arthur Andersen. Think Enron. Think corruption. Think corporate crooks. Think profit above all. Think about the Democrats who sit by and say nothing along with the Republicans.

No doubt one of the management courses will be "Cost-Efficient Document Shredding and Email Deletion." For those who pass the "Why 1 Minus 1 is 0 but How You Can Make 0 equal 5 by Adding 1 and 1 and Dividing by 2 and Dividing Again By 2 and Confusing Everyone Including the IRS."

In case you can't figure that out .5 becomes 5 by accidentally leaving out the decimal point. Ooops.

Of course if anyone is ever actually able to decipher it all, it's still 0 but that of course is too scary to think about. Which is why the Federal Reserve keeps pouring in $100 billion here and there to keep everything afloat. And give the impression that .5 is really 5. Even though it's really 0. How the government keeps its books. Which is where Arthur Andersen learned to keep its books and in turn where Enron learned how to keep its books.

Ain't arithmetic fun?