Zensar Innovation Park
Zensar Innovation Park is an asset constructed by Zensar Technologies in Second life to have a presence in the virtual world.
PARRAS (namely, Punan, Ashish, Ravi, Ryan, Anniesh, Saurabh), the young student group from the Zensar Center for Business Innovation said in unison, “Working on the project has been great learning and has given us hands on experience of working on live projects in a business environment. We have had the opportunity to work closely with the Zensar team and this has given us an exposure to mature processes and practices equipping us to be a part of the global team of professionals.”
Features of the Zensar Innovation Park:
Recruitment
The company called Zensar conducted its first virtual interview and focused group discussion on SecondLife giving a real life interactive feel to remote interviews. It also gives an experiential feel of the services, vision mission and values and all that the Company has to showcase on Second Life to new recruits.
Innovation
- A ‘Sandbox’ has been created for passers-by, for those who want to innovate in the Zensar Innovation Park. The Sandbox essentially gives the avatar a chance to experiment and build assets to learn the art of creation on SecondLife.
- The Company announced the formation of the SecondLife Club to form a Community of individuals who would be interested in creating an Avatar and building assets in the alter space of Zensar.
Induction
Being multi-locational, The Avatars go through an induction on SL giving them a walk through on the Company, of the various services and business lines of Zensar through a ‘Pod Visit’. There is also an in-built discovery phase through the ‘Did You Know’ boards strewn on the picturesque and green Online Campus, throwing Industry and Zensar trivia for new users.
Education and Learning
The Zensar Centre for Business Innovation (ZCBI) is the seat of learning and innovation at Zensar and finds its place in the Zensar Innovation Park – with facility to conduct conferences, online classes etc. ZCBI has three branches of Retail, Finance and IT and Operations, and each find a physical space on SL. Virtual classes are conducted on SecondLife, and recordings of classes are played back on screens for reference later. It is the first educational campus in India to be on SecondLife.
Low Carbon Zensar
Aligned with the Green Initiatives of the Company a Bio Park has been initiated online, which makes it possible for customers, remote employees and friends of Zensar to plant a tree on SecondLife, and the Company replicates the gesture by planting a tree in the real world on behalf of them.
External Links
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