Training.com- a multi-modal learning platform by NIIT, in collaboration with IIM Calcutta launched an exclusive program called LEAD - Learn Enhance Aspire and Deliver. The program is specifically designed for professionals who are seeking to renew their business knowledge, managerial capabilities and sharpen their leadership acumen. The program will be delivered through a combination of online and offline modes. The live online expert led component will be delivered through training.com. In addition, the program will also have 40 days campus visit components at IIM Calcutta.

The 1 year program is divided into four quarterly modules: Learn; Enhance; Aspire; Deliver. Senior executives in industry-leading enterprises as well as for proprietors of growing businesses can opt for this program. The applicants should be working professionals with minimum 15 years of experience in a position not more than two levels below the CEO of the organization or may be proprietor/director of large corporations that has a turnover above Rs. 500 crore.

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LEAD is divided into four quarterly modules - Learn: This module aims to help participants achieve functional proficiency in the fundamental disciplines of management, such as Finance, Marketing, Operations and HR. Enhance: This module aims to enhance the participants' cognitive capacity by exposing them to experts on higher-order managerial capabilities such as design thinking and strategic analysis. Aspire: This module hopes to foster an urge amongst participants to tackle contemporary challenges in management by imbibing for example, an appreciation for the digital disruption across industries and the ongoing character of innovation in organizations. Deliver: The final module helps participants gain insights on how to deliver distinctive execution inside organizations through a deep immersion in lectures, exercises and case discussions around themes such as leadership and change and through workshops with present or past CEOs reflecting on their experiences.

The program provides with three-pronged set of benefits to the participants. Firstly, learning through a balance of cutting-edge management theory and deeply engaged practice followed by personal development through reflection and feedback. Lastly, meaningful conversations and networking opportunities with successful peers and professionals across a variety of industries

NIIT Imperia - Centre for Advanced Learning Institute along with IIM Ahmedabad has announced a fresh batch for Accelerated General Management Program (AGMP). The uniquely designed long duration management program focuses on contemporary topics like design thinking, the new media, capstone cases and games etc. which will equip professionals to upskill themselves in managerial and leadership roles.

The one-year part time certificate program in AGMP is designed to cover all aspects of business management. Middle level managers with more than 5 years of work experience, executives, senior-executives and managers who wish to update themselves on recent management thoughts can apply for this program. The applicants should have at least 50% marks in their graduation or post-graduation in any discipline. After successful completion of the program, candidates will be awarded with a graded certificate of completion from IIM Ahmedabad.

Prof. Sebastian Morris, Professor-Economics and Head of Executive Education at IIM Ahmedabad, said, "NIIT Imperia has been a long-standing partner of ours and we are happy to offer the Accelerated General Management Program in partnership with them. The mix of hard and soft skills offered through this one-year program enables professionals to become leaders."

The 1-year management program AGMP offers a mix of experience sharing, real life case discussions, assignments and industry/research based projects besides class room lectures which will give candidates an opportunity to network and learn from fellow participants with rich experience and diverse background. In addition to this, students need to attend 8 days of campus visit module during the program (4 Days at the beginning and 4 days at the end). IIMA faculty are deeply committed to teaching and their firsthand experience of organizations in advisory and other leadership positions enable them to bring to the classroom real life situations. The campus modules would ensure coverage of those aspects of the programme that are best done through face to face interactions.

The program will be delivered using Synchronous Learning Technology platform which will help students to learn from the faculty of IIM Ahmedabad. In addition, there will be two mandatory campus modules at IIM Ahmedabad. AGMP is broadly divided into modules encompassing fundamentals of business management, functional expertise, contemporary issues and strategic aspects. The program will help professionals get versed with developing functional acumen, developing insights into customers, resources and people, contemporary issues in management etc.

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- Aims to train 10,000+ learners in advanced programs in Digital Marketing over the next three years
- Unveils cutting edge training programs in association with premium institutions like IIM Calcutta and DMI Ireland

Training.com- a multi-modal learning platform by NIIT, unveiled a range of cutting-edge career programs in Digital Marketing to create a trained manpower pool for the fast evolving digital marketing sector in India. Through this initiative Training.com aims to train 10,000+ professionals in next three years to help them transform into digital marketers of the future. Training.com will now offer programs in Professional Diploma in Digital Marketing, Advanced Social Media Marketing, Advanced Pay-per-Click Marketing, Advanced Search Engine Optimization, Complete Web and Social Media Analytics and Executive Program in Digital and Social Media Marketing Strategy. These exclusive programs range from a premium Digital Strategy program to Modular programs meant for specialization in niche subjects.

The programs on Training.com are offered in collaboration with premium institutions and are delivered by reputed industry and subject matter experts. The Executive Program in Digital and Social Media Marketing Strategy is a specialized program from IIM Calcutta meant for Marketing and Advertising professionals who want to upskill themselves with the latest skills and strategies in Digital Marketing. The program will help professionals gain the necessary knowledge to formulate a complete digital and social media strategy to achieve business objectives.

The program in Professional Diploma in Digital Marketing is in collaboration with Digital Marketing Institute (DMI) of Ireland. The program covers wide range of topics including Search Advertising (PPC), Display Advertising, Search Engine Optimization (SEO), Email Marketing, Social Media Strategy to name a few.

Today businesses and consumers are shifting their focus to the digital medium and companies are increasingly engaging their consumers through digital platforms. According to industry estimates, India is expected to have 730 million internet users by 2020 and the digital advertising spending is estimated to reach $4 billion by 2020. India's digital advertising market has grown at a rate of 33% annually between 2010 and 2015. This indicates a larger shift in focus from traditional to digital marketing mediums. These market trends have created tremendous opportunities for professionals who are equipped with the necessary digital skills.

Other specialized modular programs developed by NIIT along with Industry experts are Advanced Social Media Marketing, Advanced Pay-per-Click Marketing, Advanced Search Engine Optimization and Complete Web and Social Media Analytics. These short duration programs attempt to provide the participant with in-depth knowledge in specific fields of digital marketing. The programs range in duration from 4 weeks to 7 weeks and place a higher emphasis on hands-on learning through live feedback, guided assignments, case study based teaching and projects. These programs are aimed at individuals who may already have a basic knowledge of digital marketing and wish to gain a greater understanding of a particular field or individuals who want to specialize in specific areas.

These exclusive programs offered by Training.com are aimed at marketing, advertising, brand, product and sales professionals who want to add Digital Marketing to their arsenal of skills. As consumer lives are becoming increasing technology driven, knowledge of digital marketing is crucial for any brand engagement. Hence digital marketing skills and professionals possessing these skills are in huge demand.

The programmes on Training.com are targeted at learners, who want to raise their career graph through advanced courses in technology, management and finance. These programs are delivered live by industry experts in an immersive and interactive online mode, combining instructor-led classrooms with the convenience of accessing the training sessions from anywhere. All the programs come with verified certificates from top tier institutions.

Over the last year, StackRoute has graduated hundreds of full-stack programmers at three of the Top Indian IT Services firms in Bangalore, Chennai & Delhi NCR
- Industry leader Wipro enrols to transform their programmers as 'Digital Innovators'

StackRouteTM, a pioneering initiative from NIIT to produce the world's best full-stack programmers has successfully created a talent pool of hundreds of Digital innovators for the IT industry in a short span of a year. The initiative has received an overwhelming response from the industry. StackRoute currently services three of the Top Indian IT Services firms in Bangalore, Chennai & Delhi NCR. Based on an immersive product development experience, the path–breaking program focuses on creating elite full-stack programmers who are at the core of Digital Transformation initiatives worldwide.

Run by practitioners from the IT industry StackRoute bootcamps are apprenticeship and experiential based. StackRoute creates multi-skilled and multi-disciplinary programmers who can become key members of high-performance teams in top notch product engineering companies and IT firms. They are equipped with problem solving, technical, agile and DevOps skills as well as with a core product engineering discipline.

Currently, StackRouteTM bootcamps that are focused on the full-stack programming with the MEAN and MERN technology stack (MongoDB, Express, AngularJS / ReactJS and Node.js) are offered at Bangalore, Chennai and Delhi NCR. NIIT is also working on expansion plans so that in the near future these full-stack programmers are available to key product engineering and IT firms in major IT metro cities in India.

StackRouteTM will be shortly launching similar bootcamps around Machine Learning, Data Science and Big Data technologies.

Wipro Limited, a leading global information technology, consulting and business process services company is using the platform to upskill its technical talent. Mr. Rajan Kohli, Global Head and Senior Vice President, Wipro Digital said, "As consumers change digital behaviors faster than companies can adapt, our clients look to Wipro to provide agility, speed and scale to undertake human-centric digital transformation efforts. For us, building the right mix of people with the right skills is critical. In particular, we look for Pi-Shaped people who can work on multiple platforms, interface with design colleagues and drive digital innovation. NIIT has been a key partner for us in attracting and training this talent to build the right mindset and technical knowhow to keep up with this evolving space."

Mr. Reynolds Alex, General Manager and Head – Digital Academy, Wipro Digital, said, "StackRoute is a key partner for us in building a first-of-its-kind training program to meet the digital transformation needs of our customers. Through this program, we are creating a cadre of world-class full-stack programmers who will join multi-disciplinary teams in our digital pods around the world."

According to MIT Centre for Digital Business, 77% of organizations consider missing digital skills as the key hurdle to their transformation strategy. Therefore, Indian & Global IT Companies are investing heavily in building digital transformation skills to enable their clients transform digitally.

In October 2015, NIIT launched a revolutionary initiative - StackRouteTM is truly a high end, specialised program offering, that takes a group of talented programmers screened through a rigorous selection process and turns them into high performance full-stack programmers that the industry needs urgently. The product has been developed in intense consultation with the industry, start-ups, product engineering companies and incubators, and is strongly endorsed by all the key industry stakeholders.

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NIIT Limited announced that it has been selected as a 2016 Top 20 IT Training Company for the seventh year by TrainingIndustry.com. TrainingIndustry.com continually monitors the training marketplace for the best providers of IT training services/technologies in support of corporate learning and development.

Selection to this year's Top 20 IT Training Companies List was based on the following criteria:

• Leadership and innovation in IT training
• Breadth of IT training and delivery methods offered
• Company size and growth potential
• Quality and number of clients/users
• Geographic reach
• Awards, recognition and competitive differentiation

"The 2016 Top IT Training Companies List recognizes the most prominent names in IT training," said Ken Taylor, President, Training Industry, Inc. "We found that these companies provide some of the highest quality corporate training available, often adapting their offerings to meet the specific training needs of their customers.

Devenderjit Chadha, Senior Vice President, Learning Delivery and Operations at NIIT said, "We are honored to be among the Top 20 IT Training companies for the seventh year. This is a very dynamic industry and we constantly monitor market needs and trends to deliver the most innovative, cutting-edge, and cost-effective IT training services for our customers."

"The IT training market is one of the largest and most constantly evolving segments within the training industry," said Doug Harward, Chief Executive Officer, Training Industry, Inc. "These organizations are the key players in this space in part because they have demonstrated the ability to innovate and respond to market needs."

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- Signs MoU with Yinchuan City Economic and Technology Development Zone to train 2500 learners in Digital Transformation technologies over the next 5 years
- Partners with Ningxia University to provide 'NIIT Inside Model'

NIIT, has entered into two strategic tie-ups in Ningxia Province of china to develop a pool of IT professionals who are aligned to the fast-evolving knowledge economy. Towards this, NIIT has signed an MoU with Yinchuan City Economic and Technology Development Zone to open a training centre and train 2500 learners from universities, colleges and enterprises in next 5 years with financial support from Ningxia provincial government. The company also joined hands with Ningxia University to provide IT training through NIIT Inside Model. The signing ceremony was witnessed by Mr. Rahul Patwardhan, CEO, NIIT Ltd; Ms. Xian Hui, Governor of Ningxia province and Mr. Wang Heshan, Vice Governor of Ningxia in an event organised in the city.

Under the MoU with Yinchuan City Economic and Technology Development Zone, NIIT will establish a training base in public-private partnership model supported by Ningxia Province, to conduct IT training in Digital Transformation technologies. The MoU was signed by Mr. Kamal Dhuper, Country Head, NIIT China and Mr. Liang Yabin, Director of IBI Incubation Park, Yinchuan City. NIIT team led by Mr Patwardhan also had a meeting with party secretary of Ningxia Mr. Li Jianhua & Governor Ms. Xian Hui and Mayor of Yinchuan Mr. Bai Shangcheng before the signing ceremony.

NIIT and Ningxia University, the leading University in Ningxia province also joined hands, wherein NIIT will facilitate state-of-the-art 'Inside Model' in the University. 'NIIT Inside Model' is a unique curriculum integration model for co-operation with universities and colleges in China where NIIT programs will be embedded in University/College IT curriculum. Students may undergo a 4-year Bachelor Degree program or a 3-year Associate Degree program post 12th grade in Information Technology. University system continues to teach the subjects such as language, science etc. to obtain a Bachelor Degree, the high-end IT module shall be provided by NIIT. The students will get the degree from the University and receive a certificate from NIIT. The NIIT Inside Model is successfully running in over 180 plus Universities/institutions in various Asian Countries. In Ningxia University, GNIIT program will be embedded to enrol and train students in software engineering every year for next 3 years starting from September 2017. The agreement was signed by Mr. Kamal Dhuper, Country Head, NIIT China and Mr. He Jianguo, President of Ningxia University.

Ningxia Hui Autonomous region was established in 1958, covering an area of 66,400 sqm, with a total population of 6,670,000 in 2015. It has under its jurisdiction five prefecture level cities including Yinchuan, Shizuishan, Wuzhong, Guyuan, Zhongwei and 22 counties and smaller cities.

NIIT, a global leader in skills and talent Development, established its presence in China in 1997, becoming the first Indian IT enterprise to do so. Over the years, NIIT has been training skilled IT professionals for China's software outsourcing industry. With the support of its outstanding partners and institutions, it has trained more than 150,000 students in the country.

NIIT Imperia along with IIM Calcutta has announced a fresh batch for Advanced Program in Strategic Management (APSM). The program will help professionals develop their ability to add greater value to their organizations by understanding how power is wielded and negotiated in multiple contexts, especially amidst great complexity.

The six-month certificate program in Strategic Management is specially designed for managers who are looking to move into the roles that require them to handle strategic issues. Candidates applying for the program should have at least 50% marks in their graduation or post-graduation recognized by UGC/AICTE/DEC/AIU in any discipline. Professionals applying for this program should have minimum of 7 years of of work experience (full-time paid employment) post completion of their graduation.

Prof Biswatosh Saha, Professor, Strategic Management Group at IIM Calcutta, said, "Being a leading academic content provider in management education we would like to make quality content available to young professionals to help them play strategic roles in the corporate world. We are delighted to partner with NIIT Imperia to make Advanced Program in Strategic Management available to professionals across the country using NIIT's Synchronous Learning platform. We hope that this program will help professionals shape a successful corporate career."

The Advanced Program in Strategic Management is uniquely designed with a mix of experience sharing, real life case discussions, assignments and industry/research based projects besides the classroom lectures. APSM will help candidates understand strategic landscapes of industries, including the interface with law and regulation, and institutional variation across nations. Students undertaking the program will be given 16 Case Studies on Strategic Issues & Strategic Thinking. In addition to this, students need to attend 8 days of campus visit module during the program (4 Days at the beginning and 4 days at the end). Successful candidates will be given certification from IIM Calcutta.

The APSM equips professionals' with strategic thinking; understand product based, platform based and other forms of competition; comprehend institutional innovation and business development with non-linear profits; modularization and outsourcing; gain knowledge on varieties of capitalism, institutional legacies and global competition; understand merger and acquisitions with a brief exposure to valuation.

NIIT Limited, has announced that its current managed training services contract with a global pharmaceutical company headquartered in West London, UK, has been extended for a further 4 years. The client is one of the world's largest science-led healthcare companies that researches and develops a broad range of innovative products in three primary areas of pharmaceuticals, vaccines and consumer healthcare.

With this extension, NIIT's Corporate Learning Group will support a major L&D transformation initiative by the client as a strategic partner. NIIT's services will focus on the company's strategic transformation objectives of a centralized governance structure, improved delivery and business impact through curriculum optimization, vendor rationalization, and overall reduction in third party costs. This initiative covers a large, multi-million pound third party training spend for over 100,000 employees, across six business units, in more than 80 countries.

"It is truly an honour for NIIT to be selected as a strategic partner and to have our services extended. We are completely focused on achieving our client's strategic objectives of centralising their L&D governance structure and providing greater value by optimising and rationalising third-party training spend while improving business impact and service delivery levels," said Sapnesh Lalla, President, NIIT Corporate Learning Group.

- Program to be offered at NIIT University campus, Neemrana

United Bank of India and NIIT Institute of Finance Banking & Insurance Training Ltd. (IFBI) - a subsidiary of NIIT Ltd., have entered into a strategic tie up to launch a 12-month Post Graduate Diploma in Banking and Finance. The course, offered at NIIT University, will help the newly recruited probationary officers with robust skills sets and vital insights needed to undertake various roles as versatile banking professionals.

The 12-month Post Graduate Diploma in Banking and Finance aims to develop and empower professionals with necessary skills and knowledge in context of modern-day banking and financial services by developing competencies in 4 dimensions – domain knowledge, technology, application and customer service. Under this partnership, NIIT IFBI and NIIT University will provide training to candidates, organize academic sessions in specialized areas of banking and finance, provide opportunity to learn banking software - Finacle and also impart business and cultural orientation, at the NIIT University Campus in Neemrana, Rajasthan. On successful completion of the program, the probationary officers will join United Bank of India.

Mr. Pawan Kumar Bajaj, Managing Director & Chief Executive Officer, United Bank of India said, "United Bank of India's tie-up with NIIT IFBI reinforces our vision to emerge as a dynamic, techno savvy, customer-centric, progressive and financially sound premier bank of the country. With this strategic partnership with NIIT IFBI we are confident of creating a large pool of industry-ready talents. This program will equip the candidates in various aspects of job roles as a probationary officer. Banking is going to play a significant role in India's progress, and this program will help create a pool of competent professionals."

Prof. VS Rao, President, NIIT University said, "In line with our commitment to offer industry-linked education in the emerging areas of the knowledge society, we are happy to join hands with United Bank of India and IFBI to impart the cutting-edge training programs in banking & finance at our University campus in Neemrana."

In the PG Diploma in Banking and Finance program, the probationary officers will undergo 9 months of class work at the NU campus and 3 months of internship at the bank's branches. The first batch has commenced at NU. United Bank invited applications from eligible candidates and selection for this program was done through IBPS examination and interviews

- Appoints Barry Libert, renowned Digital Board Member, CEO Advisor, Angel Investor & Author, as a Digital Advisor to the NIIT Board
- Enters into an exclusive partnership with the leaders in Business Model Science OpenMatters to address the training of top management on Digital Transformation and Digital Leadership

NIIT Limited announced their intention to be the leader in Digital Training and Development for leaders and their organizations in India, China and Emerging Markets such as Indonesia, Vietnam, and Nigeria, as companies and their leaders struggle to survive and grow in today's network and platform centric world dominated by new-age digital disruptor companies.

With a strong focus on becoming the leader in the Digital Learning World and to further accelerate NIIT's own growth and profitability, the Company has charted a two-pronged business strategy:

• First an Internal Initiative addressing the Digital Transformation of its entire business model to drive growth, value and profitability; and
• Second an External Initiative focusing on training and consulting of individual and corporate customers to enable them to succeed in the digital world.

To this end, NIIT has entered into an exclusive partnership with US based OpenMatters LLC, the leader in Business Model Science. Under this partnership, NIIT will bring the content and expertise developed by OpenMatters for Wharton's SEI Center, Knowledge@Wharton, and Harvard Business Review (HBR) to the India, China and Emerging Markets to address the leadership and management needs of the CXO/VP/Middle Management community.

In a related move, NIIT has appointed Barry Libert, CEO of OpenMatters as the Digital Advisor to the NIIT Board. Barry Libert, is a Senior Fellow at the Wharton School and an author and columnist at HBR, K@W, Forbes and the WSJ. As an expert in Digital Leadership and Business Model Transformation, Barry has co-authored numerous books, articles, training materials, workbooks and faculty guides. Barry leads a team of experts who are continuously researching digital leadership and business models using machine learning and advanced text mining while exploring the underlying drivers of value and growth in the age of platforms and networks.

NIIT's current digital transformation initiatives StackRoute and DigiNxt focus on Digital Innovator training and Digital Developer training respectively. Now this new relationship with Barry Libert and OpenMatters will expand its digital offerings - Digital to Leaders, and allow NIIT to address the end to end needs of organizations and governments seeking to reskill their entire workforce from CXOs to frontline workers to succeed in the digital age.

Speaking on his appointment as a Digital Transformation Advisor to the NIIT Board, Barry Libert said, "This is indeed an exciting role that will allow us to offer our insights and advice to NIIT in order to partner with NIIT to help leaders throughout India, China and Emerging Markets drive their digital transformation agenda starting with leadership transformation and ending with more valuable business models."

According to the MIT Centre for Digital Business, 77% of organizations consider missing digital skills as the key hurdle to their transformation strategy. Therefore, Indian & Global IT Companies are investing heavily in building digital transformation skills to enable their clients transform digitally.

NIIT Imperia - Centre for Advanced Learning Institute along with IIM Calcutta announced a fresh batch for Advanced Program in Supply Chain Management (APSCM). This is a unique program specially designed to equip managers and practitioners with advanced concepts and practices of Supply Chain Management which will help them contribute directly to overall corporate success.

The one-year program in Supply Chain Management (APSCM) is specifically designed for working professional or self-employed people with minimum 3 years of work experience, post completion of graduation as on December 1, 2016. The applicants should have at least 50% marks in their graduation or post-graduation recognized by UGC/AICTE/DEC/AIU in any discipline. APSCM will help professionals take a wide sweep of SCM operations and strategic activities.

Mr. Peeyush Mehta, Associate Professor, Operations, IIM Calcutta, said, "We are delighted to partner with NIIT Imperia to make Advanced Program in Supply Chain Management available to professionals across the country using NIIT's Synchronous Learning platform. The program addresses strategic issues in design of supply chains and focuses on solutions that contribute to the competitiveness of modern supply chains. The analytical tools and decision-making approaches are based on theory and managerial judgment adding to the rigor of the program".

1-year program in Supply Chain Management allows prolonged and smooth learning of the subject which eventually help in better retention of the gained knowledge. The program is designed with a mix of experience sharing, real life case discussions, assignments and industry/research based projects besides the lectures in class. Students undertaking the program will be given group projects in supply chain management related to their companies. In addition to this, students need to attend 9 days of campus visit module during the program (6 Days at the beginning and 3 days at the end). Successful candidates will be given certification from IIM Calcutta.

The program offers students with adequate inputs in concepts and practices of logistics, understanding supply chain management, designing & managing channel partners, procurement and sourcing management, supply chain modelling, supply network strategy and much more.

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