Nasscom ties up with IIM Bangalore to launches Leadership Resource Centre

Indian IT organisation the National Association of Software and Services Companies (NASSCOM) on Friday announced the launch of a Leadership Resource Centre in association with IIM Bangalore. It made the announcement of the launch of the centre at the Nasscom was launched on the sidelines of the Nasscom India Leadership Forum 2017.

The NASSCOM Leadership Resource Centre (LRC) is a global collaborative learning community which aims at building differentiated leadership competencies in future leaders of the industry, it said in a statement. The initiative will be an online collaboration platform, which will serve as the backbone of the NASSCOM Leadership initiatives. The platform will enable aspiring leaders to collaborate with industry leaders, and learn from experience sharing and co-created conversations.

The LRC will be supplemented by leadership development programs custom built by IIM Bangalore Centre for Software and IT Management for Nasscom members and would be delivered at IIM Bangalore and across large cities.

A number of large IT companies have volunteered to loan their physical infrastructure free of cost as their additional contribution to the initiative. The service will focus on all segments of Indian IT companies and non-Nasscom members would also be able to leverage the services.

Through such initiatives Nasscom aims at championing the cause of redefining skilling for the IT industry, enabling companies to find a direction through which they can improve their overall competitiveness.