The SAP Labs India and IIM Bangalore joint initiative is centred on delivering AI training courses to managers to further enhance their decision-making competencies through comprehensive knowledge of deep technologies.
SAP’s long-standing commitment to help the world run better and improve people’s lives has again been reinforced in India through the latest innovation partnership between SAP Labs India, the tech giant’s biggest R&D centre outside Germany, and the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore (IIMB), a leading graduate school of management in Asia. SAP Labs India and IIMB launched a brand new 16 -month-long management course to upskill managers’ knowledge of Artificial Intelligence encompassing Machine Learning, Statistical Learning, and Deep Learning.
Sindhu Gangadharan, SVP, SAP User Enablement & MD, SAP Labs India, emphasised SAP’s commitment to offer immersive upskilling, reskilling, and newskilling experiences to colleagues. She explained:
“In order to realise SAP’s vision to help the world run better and support our half a million customers in their journey to become intelligent and sustainable enterprises, it is imperative our workforce remains agile and constantly reinvents itself to fuel unfettered innovation.”
“The AI for Managers programme, in partnership with IIMB, is a step forward in this regard and is designed to upskill our managers in the fast-evolving business landscape. The programme focuses on an action-oriented approach where SAP colleagues can bring in their current problem statements and explore solutions. As we start with the AI for Managers programme, we are keen to expand this to our developer community, Product owners, and Product managers in the near future to become an AI-first organisation,” Gangadharan added.
IIMB is recognised as an Institute of National Importance under the IIM Act of 2017 and is home to 109 full-time faculty members, nearly 1,200 students and about 5,000 annual Executive Education participants. Aside from being the pioneer management school in the country to offer Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) on the edX platform, IIMB also boasts of 10 Centres of Excellence that focus on emerging areas of research and education.
AI Training Designed for Managers
The AI for Managers training programme by SAP Labs India and IIMB, which officially commenced on the 22nd of April, offers 11 online modular courses that incorporate concepts, applications, and case studies. Throughout the duration of programme, managers will have extensive exposure to AI techniques and ML algorithms that would help them create solutions to critical management challenges.
The certification programme is comprehensively designed to ensure participants that have passed the stringent admissions procedure will achieve maximum learning experience and have access to deep-dive concepts and applications of AI such as:
- AI and ML as a competitive strategy
- Data Science in relation to AI models
- Descriptive, diagnostics, predictive, and prescriptive analytics vis-a-vis creating business solutions
- Function and application of Artificial Neural Networks (ANN), Recurrent Neural Network (RNN), and Convolutional Neural Network (CNN)
- AI in key industries such as Aerospace, Banking Financial Services and Insurance (BFSI), e-Commerce, Retail, Sports and Services
“Research estimates that AI will result in increasing the global GDP by about 1.2{aa282f308afcc222aaa21b0478c79e01a8fedd01972e2180867097bd93930f22} annually by 2030. The program ‘AI for Managers’ being launched by IIMBx is designed to impart industry ready skills to the participants in the field of artificial intelligence and machine learning and enhance computational thinking to solve business problems and facilitate effective decision making,” stated Vasanthi Srinivasan, Chairperson, MOOCs and Digital Learning, IIM Bangalore.
The AI training programme is supported by an esteemed faculty of AI experts with a combined experience spanning over seven decades in teaching and consulting, including Professor U Dinesh Kumar, Decision Sciences and Chair of Excellence; Professor Rajluxmi V Murthy, Decision Sciences, and Kumar Rahul, IIM-B alumnus and IIMK research scholar. A completion certificate will be given to participants with a 60{aa282f308afcc222aaa21b0478c79e01a8fedd01972e2180867097bd93930f22} and above passing rate across nine individual courses.
