NIIT Announces Strategic Initiative to Drive Cultures of Service Excellence

NIIT  has entered into a strategic partnership with UP! Your Service. Founded by Ron Kaufman, the Service Culture Consultant, UP! Your Service works with organizations across the world, equipping them with customer service principles, training tools, and best practices to make their strategy of continuous service improvement come alive – to make it real, scalable, and sustainable. Under this partnership NIIT will help implement a culture of service excellence across organizations using UP! Your Service’s global expertise and tools in this area.

This strategic partnership was announced at the ‘Confluence 2017’ event organised by NIIT from 1st to 3rd November 2017 at The Lalit Golf and Spa Resort, Goa. Built around the theme "Re-imagining Learning. Transforming Business", the ‘Confluence 2017’ event highlights how learning leaders around the world are implementing ideas that are enabling business transformation.

NIIT’s partnership with UP! Your Service is a strategic move to expand its Corporate Learning portfolio to deliver internal and external cultures of Service Excellence. In addition to its cutting-edge Managed Training Services (MTS), NIIT will now offer services like Service Culture Indicator, Service Leader Workshops, and Service Excellence Workshops to take organizations to a new level of service that is enabled by fundamental principles and actionable models. Through this tie-up with UP! Your Service, NIIT aims to create a huge difference in the way organizations work to create value for their customers and colleagues.

Speaking on this significant partnership, Sapnesh Lalla, CEO, NIIT Limited, said, “We at NIIT, have always believed in Quality and Value Creation. We are excited to embark on a very significant initiative – Delivering Service Excellence and Increasing the Value that our Customers derive from their association with NIIT. We are delighted to partner with UP! Your Service, the world leader in this space in a strategic move to significantly expand our Corporate Learning portfolio.”

The world is in a deep service crisis. With the global economies transforming at record speed, most companies are largely unprepared for the service demands they face day and night from around the world. To address this service crisis, NIIT has partnered with UP! Your Service, founded by Ron Kaufman, one of the world’s most sought-after educators, consultants, business thought-leaders, and motivational customer service keynote speakers on the topic of achieving superior service. His methodology includes a set of proven service principles, leadership rules, culture-building blocks and implementation roadmaps that apply effectively across all industries and cultures. This methodology is easily customized to suit the unique needs of each organization, including all departments and team members from the leadership to the frontline.

Ron Kaufman, Founder and Chairman, UP! Your Service, said, “Providing superior service is essential to achieving continued success in our competitive world. Organizations with a powerful service reputation and a superior service culture will attract and retain the best talent, achieve market leadership, and enjoy sustainable success. Digital transformation is not just about embracing new technology, it is about a change in thinking and in organization culture. We are happy to partner with NIIT to work towards creating more digital-savvy and customer friendly organizations.”