While in automobiles & pharma we have made major headway, we lack the enterprise & quality rigor as far as IT products are concerned...Be it in hardware or software (except for Tally) we have not shown the initiative to build products...A different mindset is required for building products
I just read this blog..Very interesting & relevant
"We need to fashion a set of performance indicators that are WTO-compliant - they must not be trade related, but must be objective and lead to automatic eligibility. A set of such performance indicators could that of product quality standards to approximate those of high-income countries. This should not be done in a ‘big bang’ manner, but be based on gradual ratcheting up, so that enterprises can adjust their strategies.What we would propose (I deliberately use ‘we’ since what I write here is based on work done jointly with Meenu Tewari and Sandip Sarkar and by the Institute for Human Development for the ILO) is that all incentives for manufacturing should be conditional and based on concurrent evaluation of performance – with quality performance standards being ratcheted up to high-income country standards. This has been done in automobiles with regular improvements in the ‘Bharat’ emission standards. This makes India-made automobiles both exportable and import-competitive"
Economic Times | Blogs
