Top 10 Misconceptions about Leveraging India in the Engineering Services

Even as speakers after speakers talked about the immense
opportunitythat India will have in the $50 billion global engineering
services

market, during the ongoing NASSCOM Global Engineering Services
Leadership Forum 2009, one company that led the wave in the beginning

had a word of caution.



Dr Ardhendu G Pathak, President and CEO, GE India Innovation Center,
presented, what he called the Top Ten Misconceptions about leveraging India in the Engineering Services value chain. It may be mentioned here
that GE not only runs  a huge engineering center in Hyderabad,
it

was instrumental in helping some of the largest service providers in
India get into this space. That includes TCS and Satyam, now Mahindra

Satyam.



This is what Dr Pathak listed as the ten myths. The industry can do
well to take them as challenges that need to be overcome



10. In India, we have great engineering education infrastructure



9. We have all the right laws in place



8. Manufacturing does mot matter. We can focus on design



7. It is a flat  world...everything can be done remotely



6. Design is a transferable skill across domains



5. Engineering services can be run without labs



4. CAD today, innovation today. Just a matter of time



3. IP, regulations, standards getting harmonized



2. Product quality means same thing to everyone



1. Design tasks can  be neatly defined and put into contracts



Dr Pathak is one of the handful of speakers from the customer side who
spoke in the forum, dominated by supplier companies