COVER STORY
3) The Big Debate:
Academia & Industry for a better interface.
The panelists - Rajeev Bhadauria, Anand Pillai,
Anand Desai, Dr. Shoma Mukherjee & CDR V.K.Banga
spoke about the availability of a high caliber work
force being one of the critical success factors for
meeting several challenges. Skills required include
leadership, which involves appreciation of value of
location as key information parameter; and at the
executive level a willingness to re-engineer existing
business processes and work fl ow. At the technology
level, there is a need for solution architects, database
analysts, developers with domain knowledge.
Finally and importantly, project management skills
are top of the skill-sets. Industry can participate
in collaboration with academia through Train
the Trainer programs, course curriculum review,
internship for students, technology updates, support
in establishing laboratories and research projects.
The debate turned into a dialogue on skill sets
required for Industry 4.0
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