| Lally School Creates Technology Management Certificate Program for Chinese Executives
Rensselaer’s Lally School has established a technology management certificate program for founders and senior executives of software and information technology businesses in China. Participants in the program will have an opportunity to hone their business skills in product development and technology management through hands-on training and coursework.
The two Chinese national-level State Council organizations responsible for training advanced technology talent — China’s State Administration for Foreign Expertise, and the China International Talent Exchange Foundation — are working in conjunction with the Lally School to select 20 executives to take part in the initiative. The businesspeople will come to Rensselaer’s campus in the summer of 2004 to participate in the program.
Denis Fred Simon, dean of the Lally School of Management and Technology, said the program will be “a means for Chinese executives in the information sciences, most of whom see themselves as technologists, to experience the importance of management. In Lally’s curriculum, we will teach them not just the nuts and bolts of product development, but the entire mindset of technology management. Even the best talent needs a management environment that supports and rewards innovation.”
In addition to coursework at Rensselaer, the Chinese business executives will visit American software development and information technology firms in the Northeast, including companies in the Capital Region and the Boston area.
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