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Changing face of India IT

 
By neeraj at Fri, 2006-01-13 06:38 | IT

S. Mitra Kalita writes an interesting article on the Washington Post citing the changing face of IT outsourcing to India over the last couple of years.

"Before he supervised teams, wooed American clients over dinner or sat in a Northern Virginia boardroom alongside U.S. executives, Constancio Fernandes wrote computer code for a living.

That's how it started in the late 1990s - American businesses ordered up software applications, and Indian programmers such as Fernandes dutifully delivered. But somewhere along the way, Fernandes became more confident and outspoken. He began questioning the Americans and suggesting cheaper, faster ways to run their businesses. They listened."

Read the entire piece here.

The nature of IT is more

By Anonymous on Fri, 2006-01-13 06:43

The nature of IT is more apparent due to the fact that there is a lot of innovation happening in this space now. Indian compnaies are moving up pretty fast, however they could grow faster if more govt. support is provided. Right now the biggest problems IT companies face are of crunch of skilled manpower, infrastructure and red tape. Everything that the govt. can and should change

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this is a pretty accurate

By robocop on Fri, 2006-01-13 06:45

this is a pretty accurate desciption of the changing face of indian it. .. however growth can be faster if we can promote innnovation in a faster way .. organnizations like TiE are doing that but we also need to change the mindset of the new generation to take more risks and enter entrepreneurship .. i guess some of it is the responsibility of our IT schools also..

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