The document discusses trends in technology and engineering that are driving unprecedented competition and the need for collaboration. It notes that mobile broadband usage and smartphone sales have grown exponentially. It also discusses how companies like WhatsApp and Uber, despite small initial teams, have disrupted entire industries through leveraging data and technology. The document advocates that engineering teams must build a data culture, bet on bold ideas, and connect globally to defend against hyper-competitors and help emerging technologies from India impact the world.
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Future of engineering disrupting the future of technology summary
1. Too Fast Too Furious
Future of Engineering
Pari Natarajan, Hardik Tiwari, Shyam Krishnan
2. We have matured to emerge as a strong community that is making a big
impact
USD
17 Billion
Efficiency advantage
260K
Direct Jobs
1Million
Indirect Jobs
902 MNCs have
R&D presence in
India
USD
26+ Billion
Revenue Addition
Making a big Impact
229 of G500 R&D
spenders have centres
in India
48 New MNCs have
set up centres in
India since 2012
3. 3
1
2
Flat World- Data Driven
Product Engineering
The world has already
changed and we need to
reinvent ourselves to
manage and lead this
change
Unprecedented Competition
Hyper - Collaboration
4. Mobile Broadband
2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016
Mobile Subscription
Smartphone Sales (Units)
Loss in SMS revenues
$7.5
Billion
2.6 X
Delta
2013
2016
Loss in SMS revenues
$20
Billion
USD 1.5 Trillion worth Telecom Services market has been disrupted by “A
Competitor” that didn’t exist a decade ago
Telecom Industry has witnessed explosive growth in
mobile sector
4.5 BN
8.5 BN
105 MN
345 MN
173 MN
1435 MN
5. Mountain View
‘A competitor’ with just a team of 50 engineers has disrupted the telecom
industry in less than 4 years
500 MN
Started in 2009
982 MN
Global Users
2013 2016
50 MN
India Users
Whatsapp
6. Immersion program to
understand local needs
Platform Driven offline online
product connect
Using User Data for Product
innovation
Ford’s Silicon
Valley Lab
New ford Vehicles are generating
25 GB data per hour
Data Collected from 4MN
vehicle worldwide
50% reduction in start times
65% reduction in app size
50% reduction in data usage
Presence in 40 countries
USD 18.2BN Valuation
Started in 2009
It is not just Whatsapp, companies are leveraging data and technology levers
to build products for the world
Ford Motor Company Facebook Uber
7. >80%
$1.5
Billion
>80% >20%
>$100
Million
>90% >70%
$150
Million
>90%
Revenues
outside India
Market CapR&D from
India
Revenues
outside India
Market CapR&D from
India
Revenues
outside India
Market CapR&D from
India
Key Competitors Key Competitors Key Competitors
Major Customers
Yamaha
Adidas
Major Customers
Stanford Hospitals and Clinics, U.S.
Alfred Hospital, Australia
Major Customers
NASA
Pfizer
Louis Vuitton
Even some players from Indian ecosystem are driving innovation for the world
Inmobi Perfint Druva
Google AdMob
Apple iAD
GE Healthcare
Phillips Healthcare
EMC
Symantec
8. The world has already
changed and we need to
reinvent ourselves to
manage and lead this
change
3
1
2
Flat World- Data Driven
Product Engineering
Unprecedented Competition
Hyper - Collaboration
9. Explosion of creative genius has happened in eras when great minds have
worked in same location
Renaissance Period
Italy
Rise of Tech Mafias
Detroit
2nd Industrial Revolution
1500 -1700
1880 -1914
Henry Ford
William C. Durant
Charles Goodyear
John S. Newberry Leonardo da Vinci
Michelangelo
Donatello
Raphael
Rise of Tech Mafias
1995 – Till date
Silicon Valley
Larry Page
Elon Musk
Mark Zuckerberg
Steve Jobs
10. Tech
Mafias
Tech Mafias1
Excluding Pharma, O&G and Retail
sectors
These “Tech Mafias” are growing to behemoth size and are disrupting all
technology layers
Tech Mafias are expected to compete across industry verticals
USD 6.1 TN
G100
companies
Market Capitalisation share of
Tech Mafias among G100
USD1.5TN
NEST
Blackberry
Mobile Auto
Home
Automation
“For Google X, I created a set of rules for our projects that, by design, keep
us farther away from Google. For example, we focus on atoms not bits”
- Sergey Brin
Broadband Construction
Nokia
Ford Motor Co.
Harman
Honeywell
3M
AT&T
Verizon
AutoDesk
Microsoft
Google
Project Loon
Google Fiber
11. T The Young Disruptors2
1995 -
2000
2000 -
2012
2012 - Till Date
Dot Com Rage SMAC and beyond Connecting the Hardware
Hardware is new Software
• Google
• Yahoo
• eBay
• MySpace
• Hotmail
• Amazon.com
• Salesforce
• Facebook
• Twitter
• Cloudera
• Whatsapp
• Dropbox
• Skype
• LEAP motion
• Tesla Motors
• NEST
• GoPro
• DeepMind
• Jawbone
12. Satellite Launch
Disrupted Industries
Spacecraft
Open-source 3D printing hardware manufacturer
$75 MN
Revenue
Disrupted Industries
Manufactures and launches
advanced rockets and spacecraft
$1 BN+
Revenue
Solid oxide fuel cell manufacturer used for
generating power from various fuel sources
$1BN
Revenue
Disrupted Industries
Energy
Oil and Gas
Fuel efficient, clean burning
automotive engines
$1 BN
Revenue
Disrupted Industries
Automotive
Energy
Manufacturing
Electronics
Automotive
Start-up ecosystem has moved beyond software start-ups and is competing
across industry segments
Makerbot Bloom Energy
Ecomotors SpaceX
13. Chinese technology behemoths are expanding globally and beginning to
threaten the global market leaders (1/2)
Return of the Silk Route3
4th
Largest internet
Company
150 MN
International
customers
USD 10 BN
Valuation
5000
Sold in 8 min on first launch
outside China
1st
In PC Sales
Global PC
Market Share
16.7%
1st
TEM provider
Global Revenue
USD 39 BN
Ma Huateng Lei Jun Liu Chuanzhi Ren Zhengfei
Tencent Xiaomi Lenovo Huawei
14. Chinese technology behemoths are expanding globally and are
begin to threaten the global market leaders (2/2)
Mobile AutoInternet
Made in China
Computer
Peripherals
Telecom Payments
4th
Largest internet
company
$10 BN
Valuation
1st
Largest TEM
provider
$ 4 BN
Valuation
1st
In sales of PCs
$150 BN
In Mobile
transactions
Return of the Silk Road3
150 MN
International
customers
5000
Sold in 8 min
In first launch outside
China
23%
Revenue from
global market
(2013)
16.7%
Global PC
Market Share
(2013)
39 BN
Global Sales
(2013)
$ 20 BN
Valuation
Tencent Xiaomi Geely Lenovo Huawei Alipay
The Chinese
companies are
beginning to male
global impacts
15. The world has already
changed and we need to
reinvent ourselves to
manage and lead this
change
3
1
2
Flat World- Data Driven
Product Engineering
Unprecedented Competition
Hyper - Collaboration
16. “All Our Patent Are Belong
To You”
“Technology leadership is not defined by patents, but
rather by the ability of a company to attract and motivate
the world’s most talented engineers”
Tesla Motors
17. Shift towards a Collaborative development environment has fuelled innovation
(1/2)
Crowdsourcing
GE Flight Quest
3067 Entries
40%
Improvements over the
standard industry
benchmark
Social Platforms for
Innovation
Safecast
A global sensor network for
collecting and sharing
radiation measurements to
empower people with data
Enterprise Platforms for
collaboration
Open Compute Project
38%
24%
Higher Efficiency
Cost Reduction
Harnessing the power of the crowd is essential to disrupting
current processes and accelerating the pace of innovation
- Steve Liguori, Executive Director of Global Innovation, GE
GE + Kaggle
18. GE Flight Quest
Crowdsourced creation of an algorithm for a flight
management system that reduces flight delays
3067 Entries
45%
Improvements over the standard
industry benchmark
Social Platforms for Innovation
Crowdsourcing
Safecast
A global sensor network for collecting
and sharing radiation measurements to
empower people with data
Enterprise Platforms for collaboration
Aimed at using Android in automobiles
Audi
General Motors
Honda
Hyundai
Google
An industry-wide initiative to
collaborate and create the most
energy efficient and economical
data centres
38%
24%
Higher Efficiency
Cost Reduction
Shift towards a Collaborative development environment has fuelled innovation
(2/2)
Nvidia
Open Compute
Project
19. Open Source Innovation has accelerated the product development process
and extended the technology reach
Internet of Things Electronics
OpenPCR
Biotechnology
2010 Year of establishment
10x Reduction in price over
industry thermocyler
Spark.io Arduino
Android
Mobile
Auto
TV
Linux
Server
Desktop
Mobile
Open Minds |Open Source | Open Future
300,000+Collaborators
600K PreSales for Spark
core
$40
Arduino Boards in Use
Average Board Price
10000+
20. The deterrents to moving up
the value chain no longer
hold relevance because of
the impact of these trends
3
1
2
Flat World- Data Driven
Product Engineering
Unprecedented Competition
Hyper - Collaboration
21. Still to mature local
ecosystem
Implications of these trends address most of our challenges
Lack of proximity to the
global market
Lack of deep technical
capabilities
HQ focused engineering
organization
Hyper- Collaboration
Data driven product
development
Hyper- Competition
Hyper- Collaboration
Challenges
22. 01
02
03
Build a data culture within
the product management
and engineering teams
Put your neck out and bet
on big and bold ideas
Establish deep connect
with the global
ecosystem
Get the India centre on a journey to
become an engineering hub
Create significant revenue and business
impact to the organization
Defend against hyper-competitors
Melting pot for global best-in-class talent
What we need to do What we will achieve
We need to realign our strategies to script a new chapter in India’s R&D
leadership story…..
23. Maybe we will witness some of the future technology innovations emerging
from India
Brain Sensors to
control physical
objects
Growing
synthetic human
organs in the lab
Ingest Pills to
learn new
languages
Print your own
Clothes
Hyperloop for public
transport
24. “The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you
cease for ever to be able to do it”
- J.M Barrie, Peter Pan
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Notes de l'éditeur
“The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease for ever to be able to do it.” ― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan
“Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.” ― Oscar Wilde