had a long way to go before it peaked; rising salaries and attrition rates were not a cause for long-term concern; and Indian IT would soon become a $100 billion industry. I was, of course, right.
Now I am ready to declare the end of the line for Indian IT. There are new $100 billion opportunities that could revitalize this industry. BUT from what I’ve seen, Indian executives seem incapable of steering their ships in the right directions.
It is not that Indian outsourcers have become less capable of servicing Western needs. It is that their customer base - the CIO and IT department - is in decline. With the advent of tablets, apps, and cloud computing, users have direct access to better technology than their IT departments can provide them. They can download cheap, elegant, and powerful apps on their IPads that make their corporate systems look primitive. These modern-day apps don’t require internal teams of people doing software development and maintenance - they are user customisable and can be built by anyone with basic programming skills.
It takes decades to update legacy computer systems, and corporate IT departments move at the speed of molasses. So, Indian outsourcers have a few more years before they suffer a significant decline. They certainly won’t see the growth and billion-dollar outsourcing deals that have brought them this far.
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Added by Michael Grove at 12:40 on December 31, 2013
tadium, but that is hardly why I send my child school.
Basic literacy is appalling, before they do anything else they need to ensure every child is taught to read and write. I actually favour a system where they cannot progress until they pass a test which is designed to ensure they have the basics nailed.
This is why are Children are being failed by the education system.
Telegraph article comment by ayshf_m
As Linnie has just responded when I read this comment to her -
"The educational system ethos IS move them on at any cost"
... and as oldbikergit has also commented -Most teachers are useless, and are completely oblivious to the real world, as they have always been at school. Therefore it is not strange that they find it hard to adapt and to change what they know best, and any changes that have occurred are more about left leaning ideology, than improvements to take advantage of technology. All teachers should have to spend some time out of the schoolroom and in commerce and industry, unless this happens they will always be inadequate.
... to which Linnie also responded -
"That goes for politicians also, doesn't it !!!???"
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anywhere near the pristine condition that we have grown to expect
from VW during our 50 years together; the rear fitted roof window
coming apart from the hood which itself was in such a bad state of
repair it needed a third party [RE]placement fitted at a cost to us of
£1500.00; ALL of the window repairs done to the vehicle by VW
showing signs of imminent failure; combined with a constant worry
of ever being able to start the vehicle, because of various electrical
faults which had resulted in the need for two previous emergency
call-outs • we had prepared to go out somewhere special and yes
we had to make a call for rescue yet again, being unable to start the
vehicle on our front drive. Having spent a good time making several
attempts to start the vehicle, by Green Flag it was recovered to our
local Greenmeadow Motors Garage, who then diagnosed a failure of
the electrics yet again and the need for VW specialist attention!!!
Having once travelled to Copenhagen in 826EAF and subsequently
attended a Race-Day at the Roskilde Ring, I had already been made
well aware of the engineering build quality of SAAB, so at that stage
we decided to cut our losses, trade-in the vehicle for scrap value
and purchase a 55 plate SAAB 93 Aero Convertible, a terrific car
even though [IT]'s NOT German • pictured here on our recent holiday
to Cornwall • which looks and drives like new with 100,000 miles plus
on the clock compared with the 47,000 miles for the VW NEW BEETLE.
Having subsequently discovered the absolute shenanigans of the VW
senior management in the so called "Dieselgate Affair" as a British
purchaser of VWs I'm glad I quit when I did.
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