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Wipro wants staff to go multi-skilled
19 Feb, 2009: NEW DELHI: Seems the new mantra in IT cos is ‘resource optimisation`. The country`s third-largest IT company, Wipro Technologies, is training it
s employees to become multi-skilled in a bid to increase efficiency and reduce hiring.
According to a news report in a business daily, the Bangalore-based company is training its employees in different domains and technologies to cater to the current requirements as the company seeks to pursue integrated deals by providing both BPO and IT services by a single team.
The company says that this will help it reduce manpower demand, cut turnaround time and increase efficiency of operations.
Wipro has reportedly already signed a few large integrated deals, wherein a single team will provide both the IT outsourcing and BPO services. The company has moved some of its employees from each of these two business units (IT and BPO) to work on such projects.
According to the report, in December 2008 Wipro offered close to 2,000 campus recruits from various engineering colleges jobs in its BPO business till they could be absorbed in the company`s IT business.
The experiment, however, seems to have seen only a limited success as the company found many of these engineer grads unsuitable for BPO work.
UK-based food retailer Morrisons, with 375 stores and annual turnover of £13bn recently tied up with Wipro for development of its IT applications and systems.
Wipro will support Morrisons to achieve the core objective of delivering effective planning, management and delivery of large scale systems and process change based on an Oracle ERP platform.
Source:
http://infotech.indiatimes.com/News/Wipro-wants-staff-to-go-multi-skilled/articl
s employees to become multi-skilled in a bid to increase efficiency and reduce hiring.
According to a news report in a business daily, the Bangalore-based company is training its employees in different domains and technologies to cater to the current requirements as the company seeks to pursue integrated deals by providing both BPO and IT services by a single team.
The company says that this will help it reduce manpower demand, cut turnaround time and increase efficiency of operations.
Wipro has reportedly already signed a few large integrated deals, wherein a single team will provide both the IT outsourcing and BPO services. The company has moved some of its employees from each of these two business units (IT and BPO) to work on such projects.
According to the report, in December 2008 Wipro offered close to 2,000 campus recruits from various engineering colleges jobs in its BPO business till they could be absorbed in the company`s IT business.
The experiment, however, seems to have seen only a limited success as the company found many of these engineer grads unsuitable for BPO work.
UK-based food retailer Morrisons, with 375 stores and annual turnover of £13bn recently tied up with Wipro for development of its IT applications and systems.
Wipro will support Morrisons to achieve the core objective of delivering effective planning, management and delivery of large scale systems and process change based on an Oracle ERP platform.
Source:
http://infotech.indiatimes.com/News/Wipro-wants-staff-to-go-multi-skilled/articl
