Time magazine’s recent list of the 100 world’s most influential people includes Nandan Nilekani.
The Indian outsourcing industry has been getting a lot of bad press recently, especially after Ramalinga Raju admitted having inflated Satyam’s profits by around $1 billion.
Nilekani is a co-founder and former CEO of outsourcing giant Infosys.
He is one of the key visionaries of the Indian IT industry, whose remarkable vision and ability to deliver have enabled the Indian industry to grow from traditional software outsourcing to business process outsourcing and finally to global solution delivery. It is for people like Nilekani that the Indian major players are now challenging IBM, Accenture and HP.
That said, most of the small to mid size Indian companies are left behind, living on an outdated model defined in the 80’s. They are the companies that largely contribute to the growing bad press Indian suppliers are getting in the IT world.
New leaders need to rise up and provide these many small providers with a revivified vision for the role they can play on an outsourcing market that has become increasingly global, with countries fancying a better infrastructure, a similarly vast pool of talents, lower attrition rates, and lower prices.
Some food for thoughts for NASSCOM, the National association of Indian outsourcing industry, a prominent body co-founded by … Nandan Nilekani.
Remi
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