We should see more action in the engineering outsourcing landscape at  Shell 👉 Shell has been quite aggressive in its R&D spending focused on transition to low-carbon energy. Along with this there are couple of other areas related to growth in LNG business and obviously the 2050 Net Zero target 👉 A quick view into their engineering outsourcing deals for 2024 suggests a strong push for digital EPC contracting (In May they contracted with a Chinese vendor and last week they s

While strolling through  Yahoo Finance  and  CNBC-TV18  feed today, I came across interesting views by  Ravi Kumar S  on the changing landscape of tech services. Capturing some of the thought-provoking stances below for wider reach across my IT and engineering services network:- 👉 Current period of tech discontinuity is defined by both uncertainty and change. Uncertainty caused by on-going wars/geo-political conflicts and change due to fast progress in AI. So while, AI-led i

Impact and key implications of growing GCC's on outsourcing and the broader provider landscape! 👉 For a first,  Tata Consultancy Services  in recent results acknowledged the impact of GCC since the GCC wave picked up momentum in H2'2023 👉 Considering the strong GCC scale-up plans publicly advertised by enterprises by the end of CY2024 the impact will be more profound.  Kraft Heinz  plans to move from 400 to 2,000 FTEs while  adidas  in their first GCC in Asia (outside China

👉 [Oct'23] Biden administration ordered safe, secure and trustworthy usage of AI. Specific usage of the term "Responsible AI (RAI)" 👉 [Nov'23]  Accenture  appointed  Lan Guan  as Chief AI Officer 👉 [Dec'23]  nasscom  study revealed that 60% of Indian businesses' have started or are planning to take steps for mature RAI adoption Fast forward to May'24... 👉 [Chief RAI and related appointments]  Accenture  appointed  Arnab Chakraborty  as Chief RAI while  NASA - National Aer

👉 [A&D] Distinct conversations with  Gauravkumar Patel  on the fast-paced growth that is expected in A&D along with key enablers and challenges. Focus on relationships and compliances remain key to penetrate tough A&D walls across critical and non-critical support areas 👉 [GTM innovation] We discussed at length synergistic GTM models that the firm leverages in sync with its parent  Arrow Electronics  to create a win-win for all the ecosystem partners 👉 [Importance of IP ac

Indian drone arena offers a mixed bag.... Recent conversations with  Rajan Luthra ,  Neel Mehta  and Secretary DGCA, GoI got some interesting views around demand, supply and regulatory oversight:- 👉 Demand : Over last couple of years demand has been driven largely by public sector enablements focused on government's mission to double farmers income through drone based spraying solutions or those for defense use cases. Enterprise demand is still awaited! 👉 Supply : Neel's be

Last couple of weeks saw multiple announcements which might have disheartened futurists seeing EV as the future of mobility :- 👉 [R&D cut down] Apple canceled EV R&D and nullified their decade long effort 👉 [Lower than anticipated EV demand] As Mercedes-Benz AG CEO Ola Kaellenius emphasized the importance of hybrid vehicles (also highlighted in Toyota Motor Corporation strategy) and need for cost cutting as investments in capacity and technology developments have outrun act

GenAI chatbot developers take on the ever-evolving AI-assistants space In an interesting discussion with ex-software engineers and now full-time GenAI based product entrepreneurs  Anmol Rishi  and  Utkarsh Marwaha  revealed their findings of what according them are the top 3 key use cases GenAI assistants :- 1️⃣ First is what they call as AI-servant or labor which is say helping kids do their homework quickly or an AI-bot doing table reservation. Interesting to note that it i

Doubling AI and data-related skilled workforce in 3 years is talk of whole IT and engineering services arena, but talent strategy is crucial! I have been following the newsrooms of major engineering and IT services providers for quite few weeks with specific regard to generative AI and there is something that Accenture in India is doing discernably different from the rest :- 👉 Firstly they have identified 12 roles across data-engineering, full stack LLM development, BI roles

Intelligent Industry is in full motion!!! During my recent visit at Cyient Analyst event, I got privilege to interact and touchbase with key leaders on a plethora of happenings in the digital product engineering world Sharing snippets of some of these discussions for benefit of wider engineering community and my network: - 👉 [Communications space] After RDOF, BEAD is a significant program bound to get in business to the engineering ecosystem as the enterprise funds seem dry

As reported by moneycontrol.com Chandra R. Srikanth, Wipro observed 9 top level exits in YTD CY'23. Some of these exits with probable reasons :- 👉 Ex-VP, Marketing moved on to become CMO [higher autonomy] at Persistent Systems [higher growth trajectory and strong guidance] 👉 Ex-President, Digital and Consulting moved on to become CEO [strong leadership alignment] at CitiusTech [higher growth trajectory] 👉 Ex-CFO, Americas 2 moved on to become CFO [similar autonomy but newl

👉 Fast Company says Silicon Valley doesn't understand fun, thus metaverse faded in West. In an intriguing take, they explain how the tech bubble of 2010 is dominated by everything "for productivity". They quote Zuckerberg (describing his own daily practice of sartorial monotony, “I’m not doing my job if I spend any of my energy on things that are silly or frivolous about my life.”) to drive across the point of lack of fun and a lost spirit of childhood thus even the games th

Morgan Stanley today shared a bullish outlook on the Indian IT and ER&D players. While the article by Bloomberg beautifully captures the essence, here are the key themes that govern the ER&D market for remaining of CY'2023 👉 The deal closure was slow in H1'23, but quicker deal closures are expected in the later half of this year (read "large multi-staged digital transformation deals") 👉 Synergistic benefits from acquisitions for players like Cyient to creep in 👉 Improvemen

🚀 The Power of Network Slicing: The discussions with Amit Sharma highlighted the significance of network slicing in the 5G landscape. Notably, Singtel and Ericsson celebrated their first commercial success in this arena in late 2022 🤝 Transactional Partnerships Challenge: While commercial success is evident, there's a challenge. Many ecosystem players seem focused on transactional partnerships, potentially limiting the benefits for end-users. Collaboration is key as Bhaskar

Recent reporting by Forbes on Garuda Aerospace Private Limited, Agnishwar Jayaprakash founded unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) OE(D)M opens new opportunities for service providers in the platform and digital product engineering space across the aerospace and defense continuum. “About two weeks ago, the drone-tech startup and Naini Aerospace Engineering Ltd (NAeL), a wholly owned subsidiary of HAL (Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd), signed a joint development partnership to manufactur

- Initial Context Network slicing has been a hot topic in the 5G space for quite sometime now, Ericsson explains Network slicing as tech which allows mobile networks to be partitioned into virtual network elements (‘slices’) on top of a common shared physical infrastructure. Each network slice can be customized to meet the specific needs of applications, services, devices, customers, or operators. Think of a network slice as a type of private network, with the appropriate iso