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Success Story of IFIM's Executive PGDM program developed in partnership with IBM. IFIM Business School enables students with on-demand analytical skills and real-world experience
Strategically located in the heart of Electronics City, Bangalore, IFIM Business School (IFIM) is one of the top business schools in India. Offering post-graduate and PhD programs, IFIM's vision is to nurture holistic, socially responsible and consistently employable professionals. With global employers clamoring for candidates with practical big data and analytic's skills, IFIM Business School created a program that delivered the necessary hands-on experience. IFIM created a business analytic's course in partnership with IBM for students and working professionals to learn and apply IBM Analytic's solutions to solve real-world problems. The program has opened up exciting career opportunities for students, equipping them with highly marketable skills and experience, and help IFIM attract new students and boost its reputation.
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Dr. Gunjan M Sharma
Professor of Business Analytics
IFIM Business School
Business challenge
With global employers clamoring for
candidates with practical big data and
analytics skills, could IFIM Business School
(IFIM) create a program that delivered the
necessary hands-on experience?
Transformation
Responding to global demand for big data
and analytics skills, IFIM Business School
(IFIM) teamed with IBM to create an Executive
Post Graduate Diploma course in Business
Analytics. The program will enable students
to gain cutting-edge skills, learn real-life
applications from industry experts, and open
up exciting career opportunities.
Business bene?ts:
Opens up
exciting career
opportunities
Equips
students with highly
marketable skills that
address a gap in the market
Attracts
new students to IFIM
IFIM Business School
enables students with
on-demand analytical
skills and relevant
real-world experience
Strategically located in the heart of Electronics City, Bangalore, IFIM
Business School (IFIM) is one of the top business schools in India.
Offering post-graduate and PhD programs, IFIM’s vision is to nurture
holistic, socially responsible and consistently employable professionals.
“The Executive PGDM
program developed in
partnership with IBM
addresses a large gap in
the market.”
Mr. Sanjay Padode, Secretary, Centre for
Developmental Education (CDE), IFIM
Business School
2
Leading the way
IFIM aims to build the great leaders of
tomorrow. To do so, it must stay abreast
of the very latest trends in the market to
best prepare students for their careers
after they graduate.
Mr. Sanjay Padode, Secretary, Centre for
Developmental Education (CDE) at IFIM,
elaborates: “IFIM is always seeking to
identify skill gaps in the market, so that
we can set our students up for success.
We recognized a global demand for big
data and analytics capabilities, with the
Indian market estimated to grow to USD1
billion by the end of the year, and a severe
shortage of skilled manpower in this area.
“We decided to create a new program
dedicated to analytics, and began looking
for the best technology and partner that
could support us in this initiative”
Joining forces
IFIM worked closely with IBM to create
the Executive Post Graduate Diploma in
Management (Executive PGDM) program
in Business Analytics, a 15-month
program targeted at working executives
from all levels of management.
Dr. Chandrsekhar Subramanyam,
Senior Professor of Business Analytics,
comments: “As one of the only analytics
programs in the world of this intensity,
developing the curriculum was a major
task, and IBM gave us a great deal of
valuable assistance and support. IBM
also provides ongoing training services
for faculty members and students.”
Approved by the All India Council for
Technical Education (AICTE), the program
offers students hands-on experience of
working with a range of IBM Analytics
solutions, as well as real-world examples
from IBM and industry experts.
To this effect, an IBM Business Analytics
Lab was established at the IFIM campus
under the IBM Career Education program.
Classes are taught face-to-face, and
also made available via live streaming or
recorded sessions for remote learners,
with 250 hours of required lab experience.
3
With hands-on experience, training and
curriculum provided by the IBM Career
Education program, the IFIM faculty
members obtained the background
needed to integrate Big Data and
Analytics education into the program
curricula, further advancing the depth
and breadth of learning opportunities for
its students.
Dr. S R Kulkarni, Senior Professor,
explains: “One of the key reasons we
chose to work with IBM is the breadth of
their analytics solutions portfolio.
“Participants are trained to use
IBM BigInsights to analyze big data,
IBM SPSS for predictive analytics and
IBM Cognos for descriptive analytics
and business intelligence, offering them
a good grounding in all aspects of the
analytics discipline. Soon, we plan to add
risk analytics to the curriculum.”
As a part of the program, each student
must complete a capstone project
working with an industry, enabling them
to put their newfound skills to the test and
gain valuable practical experience.
Dr. Gunjan M Sharma, Professor of
Business Analytics says: “For example,
a student that chooses to focus on the
telecommunications industry will analyze
data from millions of customers and
use the insights to develop a strategy
to raise sales. Analytics on this scale is
only possible with an advanced big data
solution such as IBM BigInsights.”
Dr. Chandrsekhar Subramanyam adds:
“By choosing to train participants to
use IBM BigInsights software, based
on the Hadoop distribution, we offer
them the added advantage of familiarity
with open-source technology—a
must-have for any candidate looking for a
career in analytics.”
Skills that matter
By equipping students with highly
marketable skills, IFIM is giving them the
tools they can use to take their careers to
the next level.
Dr. Chandrsekhar Subramanyam
comments: “The Executive PGDM
program is expected to open up exciting
career opportunities, by equipping
students with the skills needed to
transform data into insights for better
decision-making, bene?ting both
themselves and the organizations
they work for.”
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Solution components
• IBM® BigInsights®
• IBM Cognos® Business Intelligence
• IBM Cognos Insight
• IBM Cognos TM1®
• IBM SPSS® Statistics
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IBM, the IBM logo, ibm.com, Let’s Build a Smarter Planet, Smarter Planet, the planet icons, BigInsights, Cognos, SPSS, and TM1 are trademarks of International Business Machines Corp., registered in many
jurisdictions worldwide. Other product and service names might be trademarks of IBM or other companies.
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OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING WITHOUT ANY WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND ANY WARRANTY OR CONDITION OF NON-INFRINGEMENT. IBM products
are warranted according to the terms and conditions of the agreements under which they are provided.
At the end of the program, participants
receive a certi?cate—awarded jointly by
IFIM and IBM—that is well-recognized
within the corporate world. The ongoing
collaboration with IBM is helping IFIM
maximize the appeal of the program.
Dr. Gunjan M Sharma explains:
“Partnering with IBM brings greater
credibility to the Executive PGDM
program and emphasizes the industry
focus. As IBM develops its analytics
portfolio to meet emerging challenges,
we have the opportunity to work
alongside and train students in the latest
innovations. There has been a very
good response since we launched the
program, and we expect its popularity to
grow rapidly.”
Mr. Sanjay Padode concludes: “With
the Executive PGDM program, we are
providing skills that are highly in demand
and address a large gap in the market. As
analytics play an increasingly important
role in organizations across all industries,
this demand will only grow, and with
IBM’s help we are well-placed to lead the
way in responding.”
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IBM Analytics offers one of the world’s deepest
and broadest analytics platform, domain and
industry solutions that deliver new value to
businesses, governments and individuals. For
more information about how IBM Analytics
helps to transform industries and professions
with data, visit ibm.com/analytics. Follow us
on Twitter at @IBMAnalytics, on our blog at
ibmbigdatahub.com and join the conversation
#IBMAnalytics.
Connect with us
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Success Story of IFIM's Executive PGDM program developed in partnership with IBM. IFIM Business School enables students with on-demand analytical skills and real-world experience
Strategically located in the heart of Electronics City, Bangalore, IFIM Business School (IFIM) is one of the top business schools in India. Offering post-graduate and PhD programs, IFIM's vision is to nurture holistic, socially responsible and consistently employable professionals. With global employers clamoring for candidates with practical big data and analytic's skills, IFIM Business School created a program that delivered the necessary hands-on experience. IFIM created a business analytic's course in partnership with IBM for students and working professionals to learn and apply IBM Analytic's solutions to solve real-world problems. The program has opened up exciting career opportunities for students, equipping them with highly marketable skills and experience, and help IFIM attract new students and boost its reputation.
Share this
Dr. Gunjan M Sharma
Professor of Business Analytics
IFIM Business School
Business challenge
With global employers clamoring for
candidates with practical big data and
analytics skills, could IFIM Business School
(IFIM) create a program that delivered the
necessary hands-on experience?
Transformation
Responding to global demand for big data
and analytics skills, IFIM Business School
(IFIM) teamed with IBM to create an Executive
Post Graduate Diploma course in Business
Analytics. The program will enable students
to gain cutting-edge skills, learn real-life
applications from industry experts, and open
up exciting career opportunities.
Business bene?ts:
Opens up
exciting career
opportunities
Equips
students with highly
marketable skills that
address a gap in the market
Attracts
new students to IFIM
IFIM Business School
enables students with
on-demand analytical
skills and relevant
real-world experience
Strategically located in the heart of Electronics City, Bangalore, IFIM
Business School (IFIM) is one of the top business schools in India.
Offering post-graduate and PhD programs, IFIM’s vision is to nurture
holistic, socially responsible and consistently employable professionals.
“The Executive PGDM
program developed in
partnership with IBM
addresses a large gap in
the market.”
Mr. Sanjay Padode, Secretary, Centre for
Developmental Education (CDE), IFIM
Business School
2
Leading the way
IFIM aims to build the great leaders of
tomorrow. To do so, it must stay abreast
of the very latest trends in the market to
best prepare students for their careers
after they graduate.
Mr. Sanjay Padode, Secretary, Centre for
Developmental Education (CDE) at IFIM,
elaborates: “IFIM is always seeking to
identify skill gaps in the market, so that
we can set our students up for success.
We recognized a global demand for big
data and analytics capabilities, with the
Indian market estimated to grow to USD1
billion by the end of the year, and a severe
shortage of skilled manpower in this area.
“We decided to create a new program
dedicated to analytics, and began looking
for the best technology and partner that
could support us in this initiative”
Joining forces
IFIM worked closely with IBM to create
the Executive Post Graduate Diploma in
Management (Executive PGDM) program
in Business Analytics, a 15-month
program targeted at working executives
from all levels of management.
Dr. Chandrsekhar Subramanyam,
Senior Professor of Business Analytics,
comments: “As one of the only analytics
programs in the world of this intensity,
developing the curriculum was a major
task, and IBM gave us a great deal of
valuable assistance and support. IBM
also provides ongoing training services
for faculty members and students.”
Approved by the All India Council for
Technical Education (AICTE), the program
offers students hands-on experience of
working with a range of IBM Analytics
solutions, as well as real-world examples
from IBM and industry experts.
To this effect, an IBM Business Analytics
Lab was established at the IFIM campus
under the IBM Career Education program.
Classes are taught face-to-face, and
also made available via live streaming or
recorded sessions for remote learners,
with 250 hours of required lab experience.
3
With hands-on experience, training and
curriculum provided by the IBM Career
Education program, the IFIM faculty
members obtained the background
needed to integrate Big Data and
Analytics education into the program
curricula, further advancing the depth
and breadth of learning opportunities for
its students.
Dr. S R Kulkarni, Senior Professor,
explains: “One of the key reasons we
chose to work with IBM is the breadth of
their analytics solutions portfolio.
“Participants are trained to use
IBM BigInsights to analyze big data,
IBM SPSS for predictive analytics and
IBM Cognos for descriptive analytics
and business intelligence, offering them
a good grounding in all aspects of the
analytics discipline. Soon, we plan to add
risk analytics to the curriculum.”
As a part of the program, each student
must complete a capstone project
working with an industry, enabling them
to put their newfound skills to the test and
gain valuable practical experience.
Dr. Gunjan M Sharma, Professor of
Business Analytics says: “For example,
a student that chooses to focus on the
telecommunications industry will analyze
data from millions of customers and
use the insights to develop a strategy
to raise sales. Analytics on this scale is
only possible with an advanced big data
solution such as IBM BigInsights.”
Dr. Chandrsekhar Subramanyam adds:
“By choosing to train participants to
use IBM BigInsights software, based
on the Hadoop distribution, we offer
them the added advantage of familiarity
with open-source technology—a
must-have for any candidate looking for a
career in analytics.”
Skills that matter
By equipping students with highly
marketable skills, IFIM is giving them the
tools they can use to take their careers to
the next level.
Dr. Chandrsekhar Subramanyam
comments: “The Executive PGDM
program is expected to open up exciting
career opportunities, by equipping
students with the skills needed to
transform data into insights for better
decision-making, bene?ting both
themselves and the organizations
they work for.”
Please Recycle
Solution components
• IBM® BigInsights®
• IBM Cognos® Business Intelligence
• IBM Cognos Insight
• IBM Cognos TM1®
• IBM SPSS® Statistics
© Copyright IBM Corporation 2015, IBM Corporation, 1 New Orchard Road, Armonk, NY 10504 U.S.A. Produced in the United States of America, September 2015.
IBM, the IBM logo, ibm.com, Let’s Build a Smarter Planet, Smarter Planet, the planet icons, BigInsights, Cognos, SPSS, and TM1 are trademarks of International Business Machines Corp., registered in many
jurisdictions worldwide. Other product and service names might be trademarks of IBM or other companies.
A current list of IBM trademarks is available on the Web at “Copyright and trademark information” at ibm.com/legal/us/en/copytrade.shtml. This document is current as of the initial date of publication and may
be changed by IBM at any time. Not all offerings are available in every country in which IBM operates. THE INFORMATION IN THIS DOCUMENT IS PROVIDED “AS IS” WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY, EXPRESS
OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING WITHOUT ANY WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND ANY WARRANTY OR CONDITION OF NON-INFRINGEMENT. IBM products
are warranted according to the terms and conditions of the agreements under which they are provided.
At the end of the program, participants
receive a certi?cate—awarded jointly by
IFIM and IBM—that is well-recognized
within the corporate world. The ongoing
collaboration with IBM is helping IFIM
maximize the appeal of the program.
Dr. Gunjan M Sharma explains:
“Partnering with IBM brings greater
credibility to the Executive PGDM
program and emphasizes the industry
focus. As IBM develops its analytics
portfolio to meet emerging challenges,
we have the opportunity to work
alongside and train students in the latest
innovations. There has been a very
good response since we launched the
program, and we expect its popularity to
grow rapidly.”
Mr. Sanjay Padode concludes: “With
the Executive PGDM program, we are
providing skills that are highly in demand
and address a large gap in the market. As
analytics play an increasingly important
role in organizations across all industries,
this demand will only grow, and with
IBM’s help we are well-placed to lead the
way in responding.”
YTC04006-USEN-00
Take the next step
IBM Analytics offers one of the world’s deepest
and broadest analytics platform, domain and
industry solutions that deliver new value to
businesses, governments and individuals. For
more information about how IBM Analytics
helps to transform industries and professions
with data, visit ibm.com/analytics. Follow us
on Twitter at @IBMAnalytics, on our blog at
ibmbigdatahub.com and join the conversation
#IBMAnalytics.
Connect with us
doc_931516111.pdf