Concept
These two centres could have focus as follows:
Concept 1: Focus on Virtual Development of Software
IT Industry is testing out a new methods of Software Development that will involve teams of well trained Solution Architects. The Solution Architects will be involved in developing templates for applications in areas like Retail and Financial Services. The templates will serve as design components that will be converted to code at an automated program generation factory.
In the overall Software Development process, the Business Analysts will provide the input to the Solution Architects who could be young students of Software Engineering based in the TSD Centres. These architects will provide the designs in a pre agreed format which will then go into the development and testing stages. The last two will be done in a controlled environment at the company's premises.
Getting some of its work done in the TSD Centres and training number of bright students who can eventually be directly employed by the company would provide a value preposition to IT Industry. There should be no difficulty in getting, IT companies interested in it.
Students would benefit by working at the leading edge of technology and learning the art of Solution Architecting.
Concept 2: Focus on Knowledge Research for High End BPO
While BPO has started off in India as outbound and inbound call centers needing good voices and communication but not very high intellect, the emerging opportunities in BPO are higher value added areas like Equity Research, Human Resource and e-Learning Content Management and Accounting Back office. The design of data gathering and analysis templates can be worked out by the IT Company's BPO project managers and small teams of students can work in the TSD Centres with clearly defined deliverables.
Having well motivated and intelligent students-ideally working on functional projects and getting trained on processes so that they can be considered for employment at a later stage would provide a value preposition to IT Industry. There should be no difficulty in getting, IT Companies interested in it.
Students would benefit by working in interesting areas where they would eventually build careers.
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Generic Requirements
Basic requirements for setting up a BPO and IT Services focused TSD Centre would be:
- Area - 1,000 sq ft (to be provided by the Host Academic Institution)
- Connectivity/Bandwidth : I Mbps dedicated Internet pipe (to be provide by UGC under its UGC InfoNet Project)
- Equipment and furniture-cost may be borne by NSTEDB (DST)
- Basic Recurring Costs through NSTEDB (DST)
- 20 students to start with each student to devote 20 hours per week
- All other support including intellectual inputs would be provided by the partner IT Company.
Further details and sharing of responsibility could be worked out through joint consultations.
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Next Steps
- Identification of Academic Institutions by UGC.
- Identification of Industry Partners by NASSCOM.
- In-principle commitment from DST.
- Steering Group with all partners.
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New Initiatives
