’Mere learning of English cannot make for a successful IT professional’
Chennai: The growing global clout of the Indian IT industry is an indication that “larger things are about to happen,” provided Indians equip themselves strategically to sustain the IT boom, according to Subrato Bagchi, Chief Operating Officer, MindTree Consulting.
“However, we could potentially shoot ourselves in the leg if we do not work upon four growth-limiting factors: poor infrastructure, lack of sanitation, the on-now, off-now attitude of the government when it comes to the interchangeability between policy and speculation and the trivialisation of education,” Mr. Bagchi said during an informal meeting at The Hindu office on Friday.
During the last five to six years, Indian companies were engaging more and more with their Western counterparts at the level of strategy and decision-making.
Though information technology in India was still largely about services, rather than products, the challenge would lay in continuing to deliver values to the customer and finding technologies for the purpose. Very soon there would be a convergence between the world of embedded systems and that of applications.
The Chinese challenge was more a “mindset” issue. “Mere learning of English cannot make for a successful IT professional. Where Indians win is with their problem-solving ability and their networking.”
The digital divide, however, continued to be a reality and there was a perception of elitism associated with the industry, despite the fact that most of the jobs being filled up were by those from non-urban, lower middle-class families, Mr. Bagchi added.
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