interesting work his company has done as he admits in his flat monotone that the industry will be different in the next five years you almost miss the importance of his statementthe industry will be different five or 10 years down the line because of the investments we are making todaysays ramadorai tcs is committing large sums of money for research and development over the next 1015 years this will help us create an ecosystem of start ups and mature companies with intellectual property orientation the idea is to move beyond peoplesays shivanand kanavi who wrote research by design a book that details the history of trddc in pune and watched ramadorai from close quarters rams changes are not visible in a quartertoquarter basis there is usually a lag of three years when the first signs of results show uptoday tcs business model like others in the industry hinges on the number of people they manage to recruit and deploy to write code in the coming years though ramadorai insists they wont recruit any less he feels that companies should find ways of using 10000 people to create an output of 40000 this he says will come through automation of software development process and increasing the share of products in the companys portfolio you have already created the assets and now it is time to get more out of itfurther ramadorai feels that the fast blurring lines in technology products will force more changes in the industry he cites the example of ipod which according to him involves engineering packaging and aesthetics in equal measure similarly as biotechnology nanotechnology and information technology come together he feels that tcs will not be just working on programming rather the company would be involved in working out how to run a water distribution system or a stock exchangeso what is the fundamental shift here ramadorai who spends a lot of time thinking about education and talent management these days feels that gradually liberal arts and sciences will merge in the software industry even three years back tcs hired only engineers as programmers this year it has already hired 500 young people from rural india from agricultural and simple trade backgrounds in a year they will hire 3000 and put them through an eightmonth training process says ramadorai weavers make good programmers just as trained musicians are good at customer facing jobs