Are you seeing the changing face of Indian IT industry?

Sep, 2013New Horizon College of EngineeringBangalore, India

Rajiv Renganathan &Vinod Kumar Narasimhaiah

Who won the last cricket world cup?

Last world cup win =

next world cup win?

Why? Why the last world cup win doesn't mean next world cup win?

“...his storming innings in the 1996 World Cup changed everyone’s thinking about how to start innings.”

New players emerge

Playing environments

differ

Rules of the game change

Competitors improve

What do we learn from this?

“Chance favors the prepared mind”

Indian IT Industry

# of employees required to generate $1 billion

2003 2012

37,798

19,783

Indian IT Industry

% growth of the industry

2003 - 2008 2008 - 2013

33%

14%

Who is pulling the carpet out from under the feet?

Automation of repetitive tasksIncreasing sophistication and

robust technology

Affinity to packaged softwareVis-à-vis custom-built

Increasing salaries

“This is a massive shift and, unfortunately, a generation of engineers is trapped in the transition” - Saurabh Govil, head of human resources (HR) at Wipro

When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one that

has opened for us- Alexander Graham Bell

Who is pulling the carpet out from under the feet?

Automation of repetitive tasksIncreasing sophistication and

robust technology

Affinity to packaged softwareVis-à-vis custom-built

Increasing salaries

“This is a massive shift and, unfortunately, a generation of engineers is trapped in the transition” - Saurabh Govil, head of human resources (HR) at Wipro

IPSoft IncFounded by Chetan Dube

Packaged software companies

Technology creators

Disposable income helps other sectors of economy

The other side of Threat is Opportunity

When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one that

has opened for us- Alexander Graham Bell

ToDo List• Don't get carried away with the past– Learn from the past– Follow the future trends– Prepare yourself

• Not only the basics, get good at it. – Pick 1 or 2 areas of interest… Specialize… Master it…– Ask questions, learn & share… Evolve a learning circle

Last world cup win =

next world cup win?

Good marks in exams are like driving license. They give an authority to drive but doesn't mean one can actually drive

ToDo List

• Go beyond .NET, C++, Java…– PHP, Python (Django), Ruby (Ruby on Rails)

MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB- NoSQL, Javascript (Node.js/ JQuery/JSON), CSS (Bootstrap) , MapReduce/Hadoop

“These days fathers-in-law want an entrepreneur...” - Phanindra Sama, Co-founder & CEO, redBus

Doing a course at a training institute is NOT sufficient. It can only be a beginning.

ToDo List

• Look beyond the “popular” names…

-Used by over 80% of Fortune 500 companies.

-20,000 customers and 450,000 users in 118 countries. 500,000 software developers use the software.

-Customers: Apple, Cisco, EMC, Facebook, Google, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Intel, LinkedIn, Microsoft, Nokia, Tibco, NASA, US government.

- 2011 Revenue: $4.5 million; 2013 Revenue: ~$7 million, or Rs 39 crore.

ToDo List• Look beyond the “popular” names…

- Customers: Pfizer , AstraZeneca, Citibank- 2009 Revenue: $1 million; Now: ~$10 million

- 300 customers- 2012 Revenue: $207.39 million

Don’t ignore that company you see by the street or the 1st floor of a old building

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