Skills training major NIIT is undertaking a major overhaul this year. A vital step

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in the direction is a complete digital transformation of its training delivery model. The company is aiming to get rid of the blackboard-classroom type of teaching over the next few years.

“Student preferences are changing; they are much more evolved in terms of technology. Nobody wants to do a general IT course anymore. Candidates are highly informed, very particular and looking for training in specific technologies and skills. We had to revamp our delivery model to match up to student expectations,” said G Raghavan, chief executive of career building solutions, NIIT.

“We have already introduced the concept of complete digital learning in our three-year GNIIT course. All students are given laptops that come with pre-loaded content. We are consolidating our IT infrastructure, virtualising assets and putting content on the cloud to transform our delivery model. However, the main reason behind the exercise is improving profit margin. For the financial year ending March 31, 2011, NIIT (standalone) reported Rs 670-crore revenue (Rs 645 crore for the previous year) with Rs 50-crore net profit (Rs 31 crore for 2009-10). Virtualising and consolidating IT assets would result in direct bottom-line growth and long-term savings for the firm.