HCL, BIM sign MoU for MBA programme

Updated on: Monday, November 02, 2009

Chennai: The Bharathidasan Institute of Management (BIM) is all set to launch its new elective course on Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) as part of its Masters of Business Administration (MBA) programme in collaboration with the computer major Hindustan Computer Limited (HCL) Technologies on the basis of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed recently.

HCL will provide the syllabus and guidelines for the course and has access to Microsoft Dynamics ERP license programme as well. HCL employees will train BIM staff through a Faculty Enablement Programme and provide lectures to its students.

'Management education becomes worthless unless the students and faculty understand the requirement of an industry,' said BIM director M. Sankaran.

'This specialized training will reduce the internship period of new recruits from nine months to one month,' said B. Ravishankar, senior vice-president of Organisation Development and Effectiveness.

According to the MoU, HCL has the foremost choice to hire students under this elective course.

'Such an initiative will provide us with ready-made employees. It will also help students to interact with the real work environment to get familiar with and will elevate them to specialize above the engineering graduates,' he said, also adding that one-fifth of the ERP space is occupied by the software industry employees.

The second phase of the partnership will run into a collaborative research with students, to give them the opportunity to work upon projects creating new intellectual property.

HCL, BIM sign MoU for MBA programme

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