Dinesh mirchAnDAni AnD sAchin prAkAsh
President, Boyden India, and VP of technology practice, Boyden India
travel has always been part of good as, if not superior to, any-
indian culture, driven by a thing coming out of China,
desire to experience new with zero defects.
things. india is a microcosm there is a huge base of
of the world; we are very talent here. these are educat-
comfortable dealing with ed people who potentially
cross-cultural issues. it is part could develop one career or
of our way of life, not some- another and move on. And peo-
thing that management books ple here are hungry for training.
need to teach us about. if you look at When a company such as Atkins sets
bangalore, for example, more than 60 per up something like its design centre in
cent of the people living there are from bangalore, it raises the level in the industry
outside the city itself. it is bursting at the itself. it is definitely seen as a positive thing
seams and struggling to keep up with the by the general populace, as well as other
pace of people coming in. firms. You then have people working out of
having said that, there was a major global firms and learning from them. there
“brain drain” in india over 20 years ago and is a movement to and from these global
it was seen as a real loss of human resources firms, and i think the indian industry and
– until the same people who left turned out economy is benefiting from them.
to be the biggest investors back into india. it’s very important that this flow of skilled
there were households, villages and towns labour happens. it’s like the Us – the reason
dependent upon the money that was being it’s so resilient is because of its very proactive
sent back and they lived very prosperous approach to immigration. internally in india 39
lives. Now, indians are coming back and the we have complete freedom of flow between
economy is booming, having enjoyed an states, and the government encourages this.
enormous growth rate over the last four it rejuvenates the workforce and that has
years. New products are being created and been good for the country’s economy.
sold in the international marketplace by
indian companies, and this is changing
things. salaries are also going up – today,
indian salaries are attractive to skilled people
from around the world – but there remains a
dearth of talent and growth in the design
and creative services side of the econo-
my. As a consequence, skilled people
who have left the country and
gone to the Us or europe are
coming back to fill these gaps.
that’s going to make a
big difference.
today, india is able to
produce world-class prod-
ucts. manufacturing alone
has come a phenomenally
long way in the past dec-
ade. if you give an indian
company the right specs
and process, they will pro-
duce a product that is as
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