New Delhi: Chairman of IBM & CEO Arvind Krishna has said that the talent of the crisis in the global technology industry is likely to stay over the next decade, and noted that IBM itself developed in India dramatically.
“I found every single company, a government client that we talked to thirst for talent, and there was not enough inventory.
It was because every company, the state and the government had built with the fact that technology is no longer a business cost, technology is a cost.
Fundamental competitive advantage .
And you want talent technology at home, not only provided from other places, “he said in media interactions on his first visit to India after taking over as head of IBM in April last year.
Krishna expects IBM to add thousands of R & D businesses in India, and tens of thousands in their consultant business.
The company does not break the number of employees with geography, but is estimated to have more than 1 lakh employee, or at least one third of its global strength, in India.
It might happen even after recent separation from the business infrastructure managed to become a separate company called Kyndryl.
Krishna noted that IBM had a very large center in Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Pune, and a smaller one in Delhi in R & D.
“We have just announced the opening centers at Ahmedabad and Cochin.
There will be more,” IIT alumnus Kanpur, who has spent 30 years now at IBM, said.
Krishna said the only way to deal with Talent Crunch was for companies to take tough from skilled people.
“Areas like AI, Quantum, Blockchain, Cybersecurity – There will be no enough talent on the market.
Universities are slow to change their curriculum.
So, we take theoretical physicists and, in six months, making it quantum.
Scientists will be good enough to Build usage cases, “he said.
IBM in India, he said, spent 100% of his CSR funds in skills.
Krishna has the duty of humongous in front of Him to change the perception of the company, which has lost income since its peak in 2011.
He rotates from a low business margin, low growth, and focuses on two high-growth areas – Hybrid Cloud and AI.
He raised spent in R & D.
He built a partnership with a company that would once be considered as pure competition.
And he moves fast to the world of open source.
“Companies that find vertical closed technology 60 years ago, we can learn to change,” he said.
In the partnership, Krishna noted that there were many areas where companies such as Amazon, Microsoft and even Indian IT service companies did not compete with IBM.
“They (Amazon, Microsoft) will not recognize multi-cloud, hybrid.
But if the client wants to modernize their application to Azure, but want to use Linux, which can do Linux work better than us?” he says.
The Indian IT service company, he said, partnered with IBM to use many of the last technologies – such as Red Hat OpenShift and Red Hat Linux – while implementing the project.