The entire IT Industry is in full swing towards moving up the value chain, we are drastically moving from IT Infrastructure support to Maintenance support to Application development to Business Consulting.
Long back, it was all about digitizing the manual work and automation, Infrastructure support. But at some point in time, we started exhausting the automation and Infrastructure support opportunities in most of the business domains across most of the markets and business started expecting more than from us.
To do business profitably & stay relevant to customers, we need to move up the value chain either in terms of delivering business through new innovative ways or in terms of predicting, solving business problems enabled through technology. It’s time for us to tell our customers how to run their business as they bank upon us .Technology as a standalone is mere enabler and not a solution by itself.
We are still in the Game, because of the large wisdom companies like TCS have gained about their business domains like BFS, Insurance, Manufacturing and application of technology over the period of last two decades that has built capabilities to predict, enable and add value to business.
Shelf life of technology is also getting lesser and lesser nowadays, Five to Seven years back, if I am not wrong it was all about Java, Dot Net, Mainframe. But today, a solution that requires 1000 lines of Java code is executed by click of a single button using the tool.
Having said this, as you are going to be part of the IT fraternity in days to come – According to me, Agility & Business acumen, are going to be the 2 key things apart from the technical expertise that’s going to help you in climbing greater heights.
Prefer depth over breadth, Ability the get deep into the business domains you are working with will give you the ability to envisage future of that business domains, ability to solve complex problems. At the same time, Agility in terms of learning and adopting to new technologies would help you implement, deliver, reinvent the way business works.
Prefer depth over breadth, Ability the get deep into the business domains you are working with will give you the ability to envisage future of that business domains, ability to solve complex problems. At the same time, Agility in terms of learning and adopting to new technologies would help you implement, deliver, reinvent the way business works.
Slog to make wonders for you and others, there is no use in slogging hours together unless it develops you as a person. Different situations in work or personal life require different set of competencies to handle. So if your daily work helps you develop such competencies, then you are on the right path.
Last but not the least, Most of us talk about Work- Life balance very often. As far as I am concerned, I don’t consider Work and Life to be two different things. There is no point is separating work and life as two different things, because the moment we separate Work and Life as two different things, we agree to ourselves that we are not finding any life in work and there is no point of working without life in it . So always do what you wanted to do! Don’t do something which others wanted you to do. That defines whether you work with passion or under pressure.
