Peter Ward, Nikhil Tambe, Shantanu Gokhale and David Emmanuel launch training.

The Fisher College of Business has launched a new online executive education program for Tata Consultancy Services with the Tata Management Training Centre (TMTC). The training is the first program of its kind delivered virtually in India.

The first cohort for the online training featured more than 50 participants from Tata Consultancy Services. The participants averaged 10 -15 years of corporate experience. The program was delivered by nine Fisher College faculty members and one staff from Tata Management Training Center.

Aravind Chandrasekaran

The executive education training development is headed by Aravind Chandrasekaran, associate professor of Operations, associate director of the Center for Operational Excellence, and academic director, along with the academic director Peter Ward, Richard M. Ross Chair of Management, a professor of management sciences and director of the Center for Operational Excellence.

Although the participants and the faculty trainers were fairly new to on-line executive education, everyone was very pleased with the quality of learning that was achieved. “It is such a pleasure to work with emerging leaders from Tata Group,” explained Ward, Richard M. Ross Chair of Management, a professor of management sciences and director of the Center for Operational Excellence. “They are smart and thoroughly engaged in learning how to make their organization better.”

An Indian multinational information technology services and consulting company, Tata Consultancy Services is a subsidiary of the Tata Group and operates in 149 locations across 46 countries. It is also the second largest Indian company by market capitalization of $125 billion and revenue of $23 billion comprising of nearly 450,000 employees.

This partnership has delivered a number of management classes and exercises to a selected group of emerging leaders from around the world. There are four upcoming courses, one in each month in this calendar year.

The India Gateway has been working closely with David Emmanuel, director Tata Management Training Center, and Chandana Sethi, program director of TCSeLS, to understand the program requirements, to analyze participant profiles and to collaborate with Fisher colleagues to design the program.

The delivery of this virtual training program builds on the partnership that The Ohio State University has with Tata Consultancy Services and Tata Management Training Center. For more information please contact Manoj Garai, Garai.1@osu.edu, at the India Gateway.