Zensar Centre for Business Innovation to collaborate with University of Essex for entrepreneurship development

New programs and initiatives are envisaged simultaneously in Pune, India and London, UK where the School of Entrepreneurship and Business centre is located at the UoEs campus in the Southend of London.
Zensar has actively pursued the industry-academia collaboration model to attract fresh talent and to address existing skills shortage with its academic tie-ups with colleges under its Centre of Excellence (CoE) initiative. The collaboration with UoE will address the shortage of managerial skills and also help in developing an entrepreneurial workforce. The collaboration would involve joint research and collaborative teaching between Zensar and the UoE for business transformation and technology management.

Dr Ganesh Natarajan, Dy Chairman and Managing Director, Zensar said, The Union budget presented last week has created a new focus on resource creation for all industry sectors. This collaborative effort of the Zensar Centre for Business Innovation with the School of Entrepreneurship and Business, University of Essex would enable an ecosystem for innovation and technology entrepreneurship to be created in both countries, helping the larger mission of capacity and competency building for the Industry. The capabilities of the University will complement our initiatives in all these areas.

ZCBI informed MBAUniverse.com that this collaboration will cover three distinct areas: Sponsored research on Global Delivery Platform as an entrepreneurial opportunity in Essex and Eastern Europe to be done at the Southend campus of the University;Co-teaching of the Post Graduate Program for Business Transformation that has been launched by the Zensar Centre for Business Innovation, and ; Joint development of entrepreneurial talent in UK through a centre at the campus of the School of Entrepreneurial Business powered by Zensars technologies.

Professor Jay Mitra, Head of School of Entrepreneurship and Business, University of Essex said, We are delighted by this collaboration towards creating global entrepreneurs, which is in line with the objective of the University. By creating this collaborative venture the students have access to a real education that makes them ready for an entrepreneurial business.

CBI would collaborate with the University of Essex in creating the bridge between business and learning through its joint programme of collaborative research and teaching. ZCBIs Pune Centre is an autonomous research and innovation centre for Zensar Technologies, focused at providing world class Research Development and Education of resources for its global customers. An Extension Centre would be created in the University of Essex using Zensars home grown Solution BluePrint (SBP). The Solution BluePrint is Zensars unique framework that enables software automation and creation of reusable components. The Solution BluePrint helps capture business process models, and to create reusable components that helped heighten the efficiency in software development. The SBP has ensured productivity efficiency for a number of Zensars customers.

Through this joint effort the ZCBI curriculum would be accredited by the UoE; the student would then spend nine months in Pune at the Zensar Campus and could opt to spend three months at University of Essex, creating a global experience for them and accelerating their learning to make them business ready.

Last year Zensar announced the launch of its innovation centre, the Zensar Centre for Business Innovation (ZCBI). ZCBI has launched a unique One Year Post Graduate Programme (PGP) in Business Transformation that aims at creating a pool of skilled managerial resources by combining technology and architecture skills with business analysis concepts in chosen industries.