Niit
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"Why should information technology be only for the elite?" asked Rajendra Pawar in 1981. Since then one out of every three Indian software professionals has studied at NIIT.
100 words
It's been scathingly called the McDonald of education, and its output, cProgrammers. Its critics dismiss NIIT (National Institute of Information Technology) as a factory churning out low cost techies for call centers and software farms; but beneficiaries appreciate it for transforming them into entrepreneurs, teachers, engineers and professionals. Academics focus on NIIT's innovative business model, Indian bureaucrats on its ideas on education, and investors on ROI (return on investment). But no one, least of all Rajendra Singh Pawar who originally thought up the idea in 1981, had any inkling at the time that NIIT would become India's first global MNC in the education space or that NIIT would create a world class management innovation.
Keywords: Rajendra Pawar, Shiv Nadir, Vijay Thadani, NIIT, information technology, IT training, fractal organization, quality, personal computer, software, management innovation, education, human resource
Authors Summary: Rajendra Pawar, Shiv Nadir, Vijay Thadani
niit: democratizing computer literacy
"Why should information technology be only for the elite?" asked Rajendra Pawar in 1981. Since then one out of every three Indian software professionals has studied at NIIT.
It's been scathingly called the McDonald of education, and its output, cProgrammers. Its critics dismiss NIIT (National Institute of Information Technology) as a factory churning out low cost techies for call centers and software farms; but beneficiaries appreciate it for transforming them into entrepreneurs, teachers, engineers and professionals. Academics focus on NIIT's innovative business model, Indian bureaucrats on its ideas on education, and investors on ROI (return on investment). But no one, least of all Rajendra Singh Pawar who originally thought
"Why should information technology be only for the elite?" asked Rajendra Pawar in 1981. Since then one out of every three Indian software professionals has studied at NIIT.
100 words
It's been scathingly called the McDonald of education, and its output, cProgrammers. Its critics dismiss NIIT (National Institute of Information Technology) as a factory churning out low cost techies for call centers and software farms; but beneficiaries appreciate it for transforming them into entrepreneurs, teachers, engineers and professionals. Academics focus on NIIT's innovative business model, Indian bureaucrats on its ideas on education, and investors on ROI (return on investment). But no one, least of all Rajendra Singh Pawar who originally thought up the idea in 1981, had any inkling at the time that NIIT would become India's first global MNC in the education space or that NIIT would create a world class management innovation.
Keywords: Rajendra Pawar, Shiv Nadir, Vijay Thadani, NIIT, information technology, IT training, fractal organization, quality, personal computer, software, management innovation, education, human resource
Authors Summary: Rajendra Pawar, Shiv Nadir, Vijay Thadani
niit: democratizing computer literacy
"Why should information technology be only for the elite?" asked Rajendra Pawar in 1981. Since then one out of every three Indian software professionals has studied at NIIT.
It's been scathingly called the McDonald of education, and its output, cProgrammers. Its critics dismiss NIIT (National Institute of Information Technology) as a factory churning out low cost techies for call centers and software farms; but beneficiaries appreciate it for transforming them into entrepreneurs, teachers, engineers and professionals. Academics focus on NIIT's innovative business model, Indian bureaucrats on its ideas on education, and investors on ROI (return on investment). But no one, least of all Rajendra Singh Pawar who originally thought