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Solving India's tech industry woes by taking IBM's lead

The technology industry in the country started as a services business to handle outsourced work from Western organizations

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Raja Jamalamadaka | Tech In Asia
If you are old enough to have witnessed India’s technology industry in the 1990s, you’d recall the mixed feeling of excitement and worry at that time.
 
Shrouded in this excitement was a tinge of worry: IBM, the technology organization back then known for its consistent blue-chip performance, was in the doldrums and losing billions of dollars.

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Back in the 1990s when IBM was in deep trouble. Instead of choosing a stalwart from the technology world to turn the company around, it appointed non-tech-savvy, low-key Louis Gerstner as its CEO. He overhauled IBM’s culture radically, which led to one of the greatest