HCCG guest lecture: The Rapidly Growing Indian IT Capacity

India is the fastest growing emerging market globally, while also being the world’s back office for Information Technology. The Indian IT industry has come a long way in the past three decades. While historically the industry has piggybacked on the ever-growing global demand for agile IT solutions, in the recent past domestic consumption has taken off to account for one-fourth of the industry’s global revenues. A large part of this domestic consumption is spurred by large-scale governance programmes undertaken by the Indian government.

What challenges and opportunities does a country as huge as India present? And how can the government play a proactive role in helping the country transition to the next level of development?

Praveen Malla is the Managing Director of LemonBridge Research, a boutique

branding advisory firm based out of India. In addition to a long career as an IT-consultant (e.g. at Infosys), Malla has a broad academic background consisting of extensive studies in law, psychology, business and economics