India has been portrayed as a beehive of innovation, where engineers at Indian subsidiaries of global technology companies design sophisticated new products for global markets.
The reality is quite different, as most companies do mainly product maintenance and testing, and development of small components of products in India, according to Sudin Apte, an analyst at Forrester Research, and Vinay Deshpande, a developer of the Simputer, a handheld computer designed in India.
Their sentiments are shared by a range of others in IT in India. “The situation is a lot better than it was some years ago, but most Indian operations of multinational companies are still far away from defining and architecting products,” Deshpande said. Read more.
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