From Enterprise Relationships to Technology Portfolios: A New Strategy for Indian IT
1. Indian IT Does Not Need Another Crisis Response For much of its history, the Indian IT industry has demonstrated a remarkable ability to respond to technological and market disruptions. The industry has repeatedly adjusted its service offerings, acquired new capabilities, retrained employees, entered new technology domains, and changed its delivery models as the global technology landscape evolved. This adaptability has been one of its greatest strengths. But adaptability can become a weakness if it is reduced to a succession of reactions. The technological environment facing IT companies today is changing at a pace and with a breadth that makes repeated, crisis-driven adaptation increasingly risky. Artificial intelligence is only the most visible part of this change. Computing architectures are evolving, chips and chiplets are changing, AI models are proliferating, enterprise software is being transformed, edge computing is expanding, data-centre architectures are becoming more spe...