If This Does Not Wake Up Indian IT Services, Very Little Will
Anthropic’s services move is a signal that AI labs are beginning to industrialise the very layer IT services firms were counting on to defend. Anthropic has formally announced a new enterprise AI services company and said its applied AI engineers will work alongside the new firm’s engineers to identify high-impact use cases, build custom solutions, […]
Beyond ‘100% Placement’: Time for an AI Fluency Metric
This is the season where every institution markets that their campus placement ratio is 100%. A marketing approach to attract new talent for the upcoming academic year. Consider the numbers. Approximate total seats across India: around 19 lakh (1,900,000) in Engineering and 8,000 in Management schools. The intake from major IT companies and other non-IT […]
Are We Giving Mindset Shift Its Due?
AI is also forcing us to rethink how we think, decide, and operate. And that is not easy. We do not like ambiguity. We have been trained to look for the right answer. AI, however, operates in probabilities, confidence levels, and trade-offs — taking us from a world of deterministic answers to probabilistic ones. Something […]
Are We Chasing AI Usage, or Business Outcomes?
Monitoring AI usage is valuable — as long as it does not quietly become a proxy for performance. A trend is beginning to take shape. Organisations are starting to track how much employees are using AI in their day-to-day work. Employees are being asked to show where they are using AI — not necessarily what […]
AI Layoffs: Disrupted by AI, or by the Inability to Move with It?
When tech giants cite AI as the reason for layoffs… it raises an uncomfortable question. A bold take surfaced recently suggesting that many ‘AI layoffs’ are simply a convenient explanation for businesses that are underperforming. It is a provocative view — but worth examining. Organisations that were once considered the absolute frontier of technological innovation […]
Is This the End, or the Reset Moment for IT Services?
Over the past few weeks, there has been no shortage of commentary predicting the beginning of the end for the IT services industry.The logic is simple. If AI can write code, test it, document it, monitor it, and even optimise it — what happens to large delivery teams built on effort-based scaling?There is no denying […]
The Agentic Development Lifecycle: New Roles for a New Era
What happens when the reinvention triggered by AI forces GSIs to rethink the very core of their operations — the (now infamous) SDLC?Something deeper than faster coding is happening in software engineering. AI is blurring the boundaries of the traditional Software Development Lifecycle and pushing it toward what can only be described as an Agentic […]
AI Pods as the Core of Reimagining the Workforce and IT Teams
The traditional structuring of teams is suited for process execution. But for outcome-based execution, organizations now need AI Pods — small, cross-functional teams built to deliver AI capabilities with speed, ownership, and business impact.