The document describes ACUDO, an online platform for industry-academia collaboration. It aims to address the gap between industry requirements and expectations for talent from top schools. The platform allows information exchange between various stakeholders through features like alumni connections, mentoring, virtual sessions, competitions, forums and analytics. Advanced analytics can help identify key characteristics of high performing profiles to improve hiring. Insights from analytics of employee data found correlations between performance and factors like experience, gender, location, education and skills.

1. ACUDO – An Online Academia Industry Collaboration Platform
(Features and Sample Wireframes)
Problem Statement: To address the burgeoning gap between industry requirements and expectations for talent from Tier-1 Schools
Please see that tier-1 schools includes individuals who are the brightest minds but due to lot of mismatch in expectations, both the industry & talent pools bears the brunt with
high churn during the 1st year of onboarding itself.
Most Practical Idea
Academia Industry Connect Platform: An online platform of sorts which allows seamless information exchange between industry, alumnus, students, faculty, researchers &
various other stakeholders, tapping onto the idea of social collaboration. This would induce transparency into the system which very siloed today, be it industry, academia or
student perspective. We have the technology but none have leverage it till date to address this challenge. Few crucial elements of the platform:
Alum Connect Sessions and Live Chats
Online Mentoring Programs, training videos et al. Even curriculums can be made online which even industry can have an active involvement in.
On-the-fly VC Sessions (Hangouts)
Online Business Case Competitions
Increased focus on Simulation Exercises -- Replicating real-world industy or business environment
Gamified experience -- Leader Boards and assign points for various activities to drive active engagement from all stakeholders
Discussion Forums -- Representation from Industry to respond to questions and induce frequent connect, instead of just interiviews on placement day. Bolsters holistic
evaluations for industry and helps students gauge opportunities better.
ACUDO is the most feature rich social collaboration platform for inducing transparency between industry academia collaboration.
Offering hundreds of features and modules that can be tweaked to suit your specific needs.
At a high level, following features are covered:

3. Enterprise Social Networking
Keeping everyone in the loop and connected.Threaded Conversations. Like, Watch, and Link to any feed. Attach files, pictures, videos up to 2GB to
any Feed. Auto preview when sharing links. Convert a feed to a task.

4. The New Intranet Made Social
Company and Academia Pages
Create the Intranet you have always wanted with rich, powerful pages for various industry academia initiatives running. No limit to how many pages
you can have.

5. Academic/Industry announcements, policies, & procedures
Make sure every member of your Industry/Academia knows what's going on, in any specific area. Keep everyone up to date with announcements,
policies, and procedures.
Easy content creation and management - no coding skills needed
Use our "what you see is what you get" page editor to quickly and easily update your site whenever you want - no coding knowledge required. Add
content and make adjustments as simply as writing an e-mail or blog post. When it comes to managing your ACUDO experience, we put you in the
driver’s seat and the flow of traffic in your hands. Take control of your intranet with ease.
Users can follow unlimited pages
Always be in the know by following updates from any department’s page. Want to know what’s going on in XYZ industry? How about academia
placement plans? Or Mock resume review sessions? Answers are just a click away with ACUDO.
Agile Project Management and Execution
Get work done
Unlimited Industry Academia Research Projects - Create and manage as many projects as you need. Generate templates to save time on similar or
recurring projects.

6. Invite unlimited external guest users into a project
ACUDO eliminates the barriers to collaboration. Invite unlimited guest users into any project. Any external parties with whom you want to securely
communicate and collaborate can join your network for free.
Public, private, and secret projects
Choose your project's privacy and control who internally or externally has access to your project content. Determine individual permissions for editing wikis,
uploading, downloading and seeing files, updating messages, events and project IM chats
Customize projects from simple to full featured
Simply choose from up to 18 advanced functionality modules to create the perfect workspace for your next project. Eliminate clutter or confusion by adding
only the features you need. Add more modules as the scope of a project grows. Make your project as simple or complex as you desire.
Tasks, posts, milestones, polls, links library, chat history, video conferencing, KPIs, leaderboards
ACUDO is the only social software to give you all of the tools to get work done. Full task management, IM Chat, KPI and a whole lot more.
Unlimited Groups
Informal team collaboration and sharing
Gather in virtual groups for any purpose whether by interest, specialization, location, or just an ad hoc group for an immediate need, both industry/academia.
Set the privacy to Public, Private, or Secret to control who can see and join the group.

7. Innovate & Ideate
Where is your next billion dollar idea? Co-create IP and do sponsored research with Academia
ACUDO aims to eliminate limitations on innovation. We are not one to tell you how innovative you can be. So create and manage as many ideas as you
need to without limits.

8. Post Ideas from Anywhere
Web, Desktop, or Mobile - the best ideas often come when you least expect them. Never lose an idea again to the morning commute, the
shower, or foggy morning brain – submit your ideas from anywhere in the world.
Idea Tagging & Searching
Tag your ideas for easy discover-ability by your colleagues. Searches will look at the tags, the title, the description and even your attachments
for keywords. We make it easy to organize and search for your next big idea
Convert Ideas to Projects for Implementation
You can convert any idea into a task within an existing project, or create a whole new project for your great idea. Depending on the scope of
the work, choose the conversion that fits.

9. Rank Ideas by Colleague Likes/Dislikes
Sort your ideas by most discussed, most liked, which are patentable and more. Quickly find the next great idea based on your criteria.
Task Management
Keep your whole team on task and create multiple teams on the fly, including both academia & industry reps
Create, assign and manage as many tasks as you need without limits. You can assign tasks to yourself, to others or to a Milestone. Full task workflow
from start, review, delivery and completion.

10. Drag & Drop interface to easily manage tasks
Single bucket of tasks, or a 3 bucket view to drag and drop based on priority or general organization. Your tasks, your view. Time to get work done.
Gantt Chart View of Tasks (Advanced Analytics)
Quickly see the schedule of tasks assigned in your project. Plan additional tasks or re-assign tasks to get your project done sooner without waiting for
dependencies.
Task Pool for unassigned tasks
Want to create a few tasks, but not sure who is going to work on them yet? No problem. Just assign a task to a milestone or a project, and when team
members have free time, they can view the task pool and self-assign tasks. Efficient and Fast!
Easily Follow Status of Tasks throughout their life cycle
Unassigned, started, finished, delivered, approved/rejected then finally completed. There are options to bypass a few of these steps to make the
process simple for your own tasks.
File Sharing made easy
A document repository that you will actually use
We make it super easy for you to organize your files. Share in a group or project and we automatically file it for you to quickly find later. Upload your
updated document; we'll take care of the version history for you. Sync your files automatically to your PC or Mac automatically. What else could you
need?

11. Full-text Search
Find everything you need from a single search box
Anything that has ever been posted (conversations, updates, wikis, posts, profiles and more) can be easily search from a single search box. Results
are categorized by module and you can easily limit the scope of your search to get to exactly what you need quickly.

12. Event Planning, Coordination and Execution
Bring your event management of seminars/workshops/panel discussions et al at one-stop shop
An engaged guest is a happier guest. Empower attendees to contribute to your company events. Collaborate with attendees before the event to
engage guests to participate in the discussion. Host face-to-face events using the built-in huddle feature.

13. Wikis
Dynamic discussion pages& Knowledge management
Share industry knowledge. Add wikis to any project or group to collaborate online from anywhere in the world with a simple what-you-see-is-what-
you-get style editor. Organize, pin and see real time edit updates. . Full revision control lets you see the changes and roll back to a previous version if
you need to. Convert any Wiki to a PDF for sharing finished or stable documents.

14. Personal Notes
Just as easy as a notepad, but easier to find relevant information
Personal Notes are just as simple to use as notepad, but password protected and safe. With ACUDO there are unlimited note pages and no need for
legal pads or Post-Its. Personal Notes are searchable and simple to add, change or delete to keep information relevant.

15. Gamify experience with Social Apps
Praise a good job, it’s appreciated. Encourage participation.
ACUDO comes with a set of social applications like birthday reminders, employee recognition to help create a sense of community and encourage
peer acknowledgment. Share work related pictures and articles, recognize employees for birthdays or accomplishments, show your support of good
ideas and jobs well done with a 'like'.

16. To-Do-List
To-Do-List – Everything you need to keep on track
Keeping yourself organized has never been easier! Simple, prioritized list of personal tasks makes it easy to add, read and complete tasks right from
your ACUDO dashboard.

17. Online Meetings
Presentation, White boarding, Desktop sharing, Video conferencing, Audio conferencing
A complete online meeting solution to do virtual hangouts and connect sessions (resume reviews, mock interviews, knowledge sharing et al)

19. Advanced Analytics to fish out the perfect profile
Problem Statement: To address the burgeoning gap between industry requirements and expectations for talent from Tier-1 Schools
Please see that tier-1 schools includes individuals who are the brightest minds but due to lot of mismatch in expectations, both the industry & talent pools bears the brunt with
high churn during the 1st year of onboarding itself.
Most Favorite Idea: Very practical and advanced analytics can be truly instrumental in making this happen - performing pattern recognition or identifyingkey characteristics
(skills, background, age, years of experience, demographics et al) and come up with a best profile snapshot for various roles and lines of businesses. Use that again as a criterion
in the evaluation process.
For prototyping purpose, a random anonymous sample data was taken from Kunal Gupta, CEO of a tier-1 HR consulting organization a.k.a Mount Talent Consulting
www.mounttalent.com (post prior approvals around confidentiality), containing more than 5,000+ records of employees, even mix of veterans and freshers or new joinees data,
IT employees from technical line (academic and professional background, demographics, performance ratings over the years & skill set repository data). Following is the list of
fields shared:
EmpID (random no.)
Gender
Age
City/State
Country
Grad School
Year of Graduation
Grade or %age marks scored in graduation
Post-Grad School
Year of post-grad
Grade or %age marks scored in post-graduation
Last Company worked
Years of Experience prior to joining XYZ
Years of Experience in XYZ
Department
No. of job rotations within XYZ
Internship in XYZ (Y/N)
Internship Company
Comma separated list of hobbies
Comma separated list of skills
Post receiving the data, there was lot of data cleansing done to ensure invalid/missing fields/consistent data were dealt appropriately. SAS was used as the primary software
to perform advanced analytics and modeling techniques applied to come up with final insights, keeping into account what makes a best profile.
Insights shared with the HR team:

20. Folks in the experience range of 4-5 years rated the highest in most cases.
Male/Female ratio of high performers was somewhat similar but Females in the age bracket of 28-32 seemingly rated higher than the rest.
Candidates hired from Bangalore, India were in most cases again performed better than the rest
Post-graduation and Graduation marks had high correlation with high performer ratings, as expected
Employees who had similar years of experience but predominantly beyond XYZ performed better than ones who grew organically internally.
C/C++ programming skills folks were dominant in getting higher ratings
Department surprisingly had no correlation with performance ratings
Employees who came in from tier-2 T-schools were a notch better in garnering good ratings when compared to tier-1.
Very interesting insight, employees with 4-6 years of experience in XYZ and no job rotations were rated higher in most cases, implying loyalty to same business unit
pays off
Last company worked is a non-IT one had higher correlation with better performance.
Internship done from same Company had translated into improved performance
Based on above insights, a new profile was shared with Kunal Gupta to see how well does that profile resonates with rest of the high performers. Fortunately, the correlation
quotient or R=0.81 (where R=1 is perfect correlation) implying the profile shared is a good fit for a right candidate XYZ should be hiring from.
Profile shared eventually:
Age: 28-32
City: Bangalore, India
Skills: C/C++
Years of Experience in XYZ: 4-6 years
Job Rotations: None
Intern: Yes, from XYZ only
Graduation %age: > Between 60-80%
Post Graduation %age: >73%