‘Industry needs problem-finding capability, not just problem-solving skills’
Ramkumar Ramamoorthy, the recently-anointed chairman and managing director of tech major Cognizant’s Indian arm says that quality of talent available for recruitment has actually improved in the last few years. And given that, as an industry, we do not have the skills needed at scale to capitalise on the massive opportunity unleashed by digital technologies, I work closely with educational bodies such as AICTE/UGC, Vice Chancellors and Deans of universities, and new-age learning and skilling partners to shape curriculum drive faculty development programs bring about greater industry-academia linkages, thereby being a an evangelist of educational reforms as well as newer models of continuous learning and “learnagility”. And fourth, with newer learning platforms and massive open online course providers such as Coursera, Udacity, Udemy, Edx, Future Learn, Khan Academy as well as government-funded platforms such as NPTEL and Swayam, rich and curated learning content is made available and students are lapping it up. It’s for this reason companies like Cognizant have created “Collaboratories” and “Studios” to bring in multi-disciplinary talent to brainstorm and ideate on finding those problems and co-creating solutions with our clients.
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