WHY PURSUE A POST-GRADUATE PROGRAM IN GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY MANAGEMENT?

Over the past decade, successful outsourcing strategies have evolved from a client/vendor methodology to an integrated team approach. Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) have leveraged outsourcing to gain scalability and cost compeveness in the marketplace. Many of these SMEs have expanded their outsourcing relaonships to Build-Operate-Transfer (BOT) models to ensure that core instuonal knowledge remains a part of their company’s assets and value proposions. Large companies, including Google, IBM and many other world leaders, have constructed their own offshore facilies as part of a workforce globalizaon strategy. In fact, for example, today IBM has more employees in India than in the United States.

The strategies of SMEs and large companies require a new set of skills to manage a global workforce. Today, successful outsourcing involves much more than having the pre-requisite technical skills to execute a client project or dedicated relaonship. Successfully managing a globally integrated workforce demands new skills that focus on the following crical success factors:

Leveraging New Jersey Instute of Technology’s (NJIT’s) 130-years of experience in meeng the educaon and training needs of corporaons and the NeST Group of Companies’ (NeST) experience in global outsourcing of both soware and hardware, NJIT and NeST are pleased to announce an innovave educaon program for the global marketplace.

The NJIT Post-Graduate Program in Global Technology Management (GTM) directly responds to the evolving needs of employees and employers alike by focusing on the above listed crical success factors. An Advisory Board comprised of senior human resource execuves from the US and India will ensure that the program connues to address the dynamically evolving needs of the Indian marketplace.

WHY STUDY GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY MANAGEMENT AT NJIT?

NJIT is one of the most compung intensive campuses in the naon, ranked by the Princeton Review as one of America’s “Best Colleges” and has also been designated a Center of Academic Excellence in Informaon Assurance Educaon by the United States Naonal Security Agency. Forbes.com and a Princeton Review survey name NJIT as one of the US' most technologically sophiscated universies. NJIT was named among the top 500 world universies in a study by the Instute of Higher Educaon, Shanghai Jiao Tong University. As well, NJIT was the first recipient of the coveted “Excellence in Technology” Award made by the industry-led New Jersey Technology Council.