Friday, October 12, 2007 BPO partners with US univ. for training of employees
ACCENTURE has collaborated with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s office of Professional Education Programs (MIT- PEP) for the Accenture Solutions Delivery Academy (Asda), a new training and certification program based on the company’s application delivery curriculum.
About 20,000 Accenture employees worldwide are eligible to enroll in the program, the first industry-academic collaboration of its kind. Employees who successfully complete the program are awarded “application developer” or “application designer” certifications by Accenture and MIT-PEP, attesting to their software engineering, system-integration and application-delivery skills.
In the Philippines, about 100 Accenture employees have enrolled in the program.
“The Accenture Solutions Delivery Academy allows us to offer another training program that enhances our competitiveness with its focus on educational excellence,” said Beth Lui, country managing director of Accenture Delivery Center in the Philippines.
Marketable
“Employees gain access to coursework and highly marketable certifications developed with the participation of the world’s preeminent engineering school, while Accenture benefits from a technology solutions workforce that is trained in, and held to the highest standards.”
Lui said “such industry-academic collaboration is another major step in raising further the quality of Accenture’s highly skilled knowledge workers.”
“This supports Accen-ture’s thrust of building deep, specialized technology and delivery excellence skills required to deliver technology solutions. We are optimistic that the trainings and certification program will further beef up talent and capabilities of the Philippine work force and make our employees more globally competitive,” she added.
Accenture recently inaugurated a facility in Cebu, an addition to its seven facilities across Metro Manila. The facility will initially provide application management, systems development, and other technology services to global clients on an outsourced basis.
During the inauguration, Lui underscored the company’s commitment to continue to build talents, specifically new technology graduates, to become assets across Accenture.
Meanwhile, Dick K. P. Yue, associate dean of engineering at MIT and faculty director of MIT-PEP, said “our program with Accenture provides one model for industry-campus engagement focused on professional education.”
“Helping Accenture launch its Solutions Delivery Academy is a natural fit with PEP’s mission to broadly engage professionals in ongoing engineering, science, and technological education opportunities that enhance leadership, practice, and innovation,” he said. (PR)
