Click to Enlarge<\/a><\/em><\/p>\nIn addition, many of the European regions, such as Nordics and Germany, are now rapidly exploring more global resources to support their digital growth. If America – as it appears – is on the path of becoming a protectionist anti-globalization country for the next four years, perhaps its time to broaden your horizons? <\/p>\n
2) Invest in a smarter<\/strong> <\/strong>onsite<\/strong>\/offshore model that gets you closer to your customer’s customer.<\/strong> Yesterday’s IT services model was all about helping legacy<\/span> traditional enterprises keep their lights on by maintaining clunky old ERP implementations keep operating, adding extra sauce to spaghetti code and keeping an eye on server outages from afar. Tomorrow’s winners have moved all this stuff into the cloud and automated much of their infrastructure management. The future growth is working much closer to your customers to help them design and implement digital business models by building mobile applications, testing customer sentiment, forging partnerships and developing APIs with new digital business partners and communities. Technology skills such as DevOps, Agile, Hadoop, Blue Prism and AutomationAnywhere are the watchword, and a global race is on to access these skills. Moreover, the developers need to be closer to the business designers and customer strategies of the clients to make this effective. So Indian IT majors need to focus on developing these skilled resources where all their clients are situated, in addition to India itself. This will require re-investing some of that lovely cash sitting around – and, heaven forbid – take a small margin sacrifice for a few quarters.<\/p>\n3) Partner with digital agencies to get it done. <\/strong>Be realistic for once and accept the fact that most customers are not going to come to you to design highly creative digital business solutions. You have an IT services brand, not a creative digital brand. Most clients will go to the advertising firms, the Design Thinking consultancies and the digital specialists for that work. However, all those firms are pretty clueless when it comes to actually communicating <\/em>their business designs to technology firms and having them <\/em>just get it done<\/em>. This is where you can really do well – by working with these agencies and consultancies as their IT partner – bring them into your clients and they will being you into theirs! Believe me, most the digital firms worth acquiring have already been hoovered up by the Accentures and Deloittes… most the stuff left on the market is overpriced, too small, and most their nose-ringed designers will jump ship the moment you buy them. <\/p>\n4) Become great intelligent automation intermediaries to manage broad automation and analytics environments for enterprises.<\/strong> Clients are crying out for providers to partner with them on their automation journeys – in fact, 45% of buyside operations leaders, when polled privately, view rolling out automation in tandem with their service provider as adding the most quality to their service relationship (see below). Several of the leading Indian heritage IT services firms are making impressive strides with their enterprise analytics and automation solutions – such as Infosys with MANA, TCS with ignio and Wipro’s Holmes – the key now is their ability to twin their solutions with the cream of the third party intelligent automation apps, such as AutomationAnywhere, Blue Prism, Pega, UiPath, Workfusion, Redwood, Antworks etc to become their clients’ intermediary<\/em> for automation and analytics value. While some proprietary tools and bots can add great value, especially when aligned to specific industry processes, clients want to have the choice of adding their own independents tools to enjoy the biggest impact on their process value. The Indian IT leaders need to become great partners and facilitators in these emerging environments – they have the development talent in spades and the passion to bulldoze their way to the front of this market.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n
Click to Enlarge<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n5) Keep investing in start-ups.<\/strong> One of the best cultural shifts in the Indian IT industry in recent times has been the emergence of the start-up scene in Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore and other areas. Ambitious Indian IT talent is no longer desperate to walk that slippery steep treadmill of the IT juggernauts – many of whom are already too big, clunky and corporate for their own good. Moreover, tech investors are fed up having to invest $20-100m in US start-ups to develop one product or technology, when you can get the same value from the likes of India, China or Eastern Europe for a fraction of the cost. Having heard about the 400+ emerging startup firms who are already members of Saurabh Srivastata’s network (the original founder of NASSCOM), it gives me real hope for India’s future that the next generation of IT talent is already being healthily incubated.<\/p>\n6) Just make a plan and stick to it. <\/strong>The one big element of NASSCOM which I found most infuriating was the lack of a plan from most of the service providers. Most are simply playing a game of denial and react. <\/em>This is a recipe for failure. Accept the fact there will likely be some uncertainty for six months before some new draconian measures are forced on businesses seeking to do business with the US. Net-net, it’ll be more expensive to deliver services to US clients and also harder to send your own talent over there to train US staff and manage projects. So set aside funds to hire more people in the US and budget for a margin squeeze on future US contracts. And forecast a 10-25% hit on deal flow due to longer decision cycles and US clients veering away from using highly visible offshore services suppliers. <\/p>\nBottom-line: Take the tough blows now to roar to the front of the global IT industry when sanity returns<\/strong><\/p>\nWhile the global IT world waits with baited breath, paralyzed by the ramblings of an unstable and determined US President, our beloved IT services firms can either remain numbed by fear, or actually use this opportunity to make some key strategic investments and initiatives. Those mountains of cash need to be used sensibly before those greedy investors demand their piece back, so act now, swiftly and decisively to organize an IT business that isn’t so reliant on lifting and shifting labor to and from the US, and puts you in the driving seat to lead in the $7 trillion dollar digital world, where automation is native and access to skills absolutely critical. India has a great shot at emerging as the world’s great IT pioneer, and so much more than a low cost labor provider for greedy legacy US corporates. Trump won’t be around forever, and he might actually be doing India a massive favor without ever realizing it…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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