Engineering product firms were among the first to embrace AI and machine learning. And the early adopters are reaping gains.
The past few weeks have seen several hundred people let go of by IT services firms joining unions claiming to represent tech workers fighting for their rights.
The catchwords today are digital, analytics, robotics.
'The increasing mix of fixed price contracts is helping us improve productivity by bringing in more automation.'
Technology, not just cost, is key to IT's future.
'If jobs do not happen, the demographic dividend we have will become a demographic disaster.'
Nearly 31 million Indians are unemployed and looking for jobs. While economic growth has been humming along, the pace of job creation has been poor. A revealing excerpt from Dev Kar's India: Still A Shackled Giant.
First sequential decline in a decade as 8 of top 15 software firms report drop in manpower
Anant Gupta, HCL Technologies' chief has an amazing success formula to get things done.
In a landscape dominated by social media, everything begins to matter less for what it is than for how many likes or re-tweets it can generate.
"Protectionism is not new. The attention that is given is because there is a political and emotional element to it." TCS COO N G Subramaniam on why his company is optimistic despite global headwinds.
'You will see more and more people working independently -- starting beauty parlours, driving cars, etc.' This is what we call the gig economy.' 'The same people who have been laid off in India or are unable to get visas to work in the US may be part of this gig economy.' 'India needs billions of jobs, and it can only be created by self-employment or the gig economy.'
"There was not a single decision that I took during my second tenure without discussing it with Ranga and getting valuable input from him," says Narayana Murthy.
Through these new hires and centres, Infosys will also focus on enhancing its play in new technology areas like artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning, user experience, cloud and big data.
Amidst fear of layoffs across many IT companies, Saurabh Govil, bottom left, head of Wipro's Human resources, explains who are the affected lot and why it is essential to re-skill for employees in this sector.
Niraj Bhatt discovers how a CFO 'without a finance background' made it to the corner office at TCS.
E-mobility is only one among the several fronts on which Mahindra is waging a battle of aspirations, to future-proof the $19-billion tractor-to-technology conglomerate, says Nikhil Inamdar.
Airports and hotels are among the smartest buildings.
LocalOye is a Bengaluru-based marketplace for local household and personal service providers.
'The biggest struggles are in the human mind.'
'What we need is right skilling, re-skilling and up-skilling.'
Ever since India became a force to reckon with in software services, doing for clients what they want done, the big void that has been constantly talked about is its absence from the space of software products - those over which you own intellectual property rights.
Campus placements are already in full-swing and hiring plans of many companies, whose expansion plans were stuck due to policy paralysis, are now getting green signals.
'You need to polish your skills and be prepared to be an asset in the 'new normal' work environment.' 'Access MOOCs (massive open online courses) and keep your brain razor sharp, despite not having a job offer or having your job offer rescinded.'
The market for compact cars has become really cut-throat.
'Let me talk about young Indian startups with their hearts in the right place and how they are proving that innovations that represent 'affordable excellence' -- breaking the myth that 'affordability' and 'excellence' cannot go together -- is indeed possible!' says Dr R A Mashelkar, the eminent scientist, in this fascinating feature.
Amid Trump's expected action against employment visas, India's bellwether IT firms reveal they have been preparing for this eventuality for years.
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