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Emerging Trends and IT InnovationSharad SharmaGeneral Manager – India,Vice President – Product OperationsSymantec India
Oct 21, 2005
Symantec Confidential – Page 2
What Is the Next Big Thing?
Mid-70s… mini-computers
Mid-80s… PCs, client-server computing
Mid-90s… Internet, web services
Next?
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Emerging Trends
Managing complexity in the data center
Software as service
Wi-Max and Mesh Networks
Embedded Systems
Wetware – Protein Engineering
Nanotechnology
Emerging Products from Emerging Markets << This will be big!
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Innovation Blowback
Job-shop model
Component responsibility
model
Impact on product competitiveness (not only on engg
cost)
Product innovation (not only technology
innovation)
Derivative Prds/solns
Remote Development Center S-curve
(Earnings expansion)
New Prd/Soln Development
Center S-curve(Top-line growth)
Stage 1 Stage 2 Stage 3
Capability building
Bus
ine
ss v
alue
Breakout products
X
X
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Career Implications
Stay in India; it makes sense as never before
Work on products
Pick the right MNC and the right role – match career inflections with organizational inflections
Skills matter, but so does your personal code of conduct
Symantec Confidential – Page 6
Q&A
Symantec Confidential – Page 7
About Symantec (formerly VERITAS)
FORTUNE Magazine’s 2005 America’s Most Admired Companies - #2 on the Computer Software list
Fourth largest independent software company in the world Fastest growing large software company (over $3 Billion) Industry Leader across all major security and availability categories
12 years in Pune; started when there were 35 engineers worldwide Now the largest R&D Center in the Company Innovation leader - India R&D has highest ratio of inventors/engineers
Storage Software Backup & Recovery
Storage Management Vulnerability Mgmt Secure Content Mgmt
Security Software
Source: Gartner, IDC
Storage Software Backup & Recovery
Storage Management Vulnerability Mgmt Secure Content Mgmt
Security Software
Source: Gartner, IDC