‘There is a tremendous amount of craftsmanship between having a great idea and having a great product’, this famous quote by Steve Jobs still holds true, more so now than before.
In our quest of crafting digital journeys for our customers, we have recognized that what separates a good product and a great product is the team working on the product. A team of software developers accustomed to a Factory model will more often than not yield lower returns compared to the team with a Craftsmanship mindset no matter the size of the team. Every organization that transformed human lives had innovative minds at the cusp of their innovation – be it Apple, Uber, Amazon or Google. At Pratiti, we take this as an inspiration and always strive to imbibe a sense of craftsmanship in our team members and in our projects to ensure our customers and partners derive maximum value from our collaboration. At Pratiti, we have chosen to follow the craftsmanship model rather than the Factory model to deliver more value to our customers and partners in their digital transformation journey.
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There is no craft without technology and no craftsmanship without craftsmen. Marrying craftsmanship with modern technology can clearly work to an organization’s advantage, saving time, resources and increasing overall efficiencies. Innovation, however, does not always need to be defined as something new. Within this digital revolution of designing and creating, making and manufacturing, it is important to acknowledge that the optimization of existing designs is still prevalent, as opposed to the design of completely new objects under the broader umbrella of innovation. Accelerated by the digital revolution and the widening gap between software developers tuned to a factory model vs ones with creative mindset can dramatically impact the outcome of your software solutions and digital products. Advancement of latest digital technologies in craftsmanship is seen today as an extension of the craftsman’s hand by combining traditional software development methods with latest human needs aimed towards betterment of the entire mankind.
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The traditional model (also known as the Factory Model) followed by most of the organizations today has its own advantages and disadvantages over the craftsman model. Key difference between both these models are:
While many well established and leading tech giants have adapted the Factory model and are thriving in their domain, we, at Pratiti have chosen to adopt a Crafstmanship Model given the digital transformation landscape that we mainly operate in. The digital transformation industry and the advancements in the latest digital technologies are not well regulated or well defined. And, until the time this happens, only those organizations which have a clear understanding of the overall technology stack and a technology team of craftsman can truly add value to customer projects. We have devised this model over the course of our own journey to deliver maximum value to our customers and partners.
Pratiti (Leadership Team, Management Team and Technical Team) believes and is aligned on below critical success factors to achieve customer’s success:
Commitment from Leadership and Management team of Pratiti – Do what it takes to make it happen
Technology expertise in area of latest digital technologies – Technology Competency is key
Passionate and engaged technical team – Retention is much better than replacement
Project requirement | Craftsmanship Model | Factory Model |
|---|---|---|
| Low cost resources, tuned towards interchangeability and high process standardization | Better | |
| Extreme division of labor and requires intense oversight | Better | |
| Low to high level of innovation, medium to high level of repetition | Better | |
| Low to high level of complexity, medium to large scale | Better | |
| Product mindset, expertise and experience of development team is important to the success of any complex project | Better | |
| Autonomy, sense of ownership, passion for technology are key cognitive components of any complex projects | Better |
We recognize that engagement of team members is a critical success factor for customer’s success. To ensure that the team is well engaged, we use the model presented for internal team members’ craftsmanship.
We believe there are no standard tests to evaluate the team members, but it is rather a matter of careful judgment basis your core philosophy. We always strive to create an environment of high approachability for our team members and create a team that is very proud of their own contribution, takes ownership and a high level of autonomy around their work. In addition to having an engaged team, we also ensure that team members have ample opportunities for learning and growth in their chosen domain. Pratiti is uniquely positioned to deliver on the above People Management plan, since it is fully aligned to our Values and what we stand for as an organization.
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Milind has 25 years of experience in building Enterprise Software. He is an Alumni of Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai.
He is currently the co-founder & CTO of Pratiti Technologies Driving technology implementations in IoT, Digital enterprise and Healthcare domains.
Instrumental in building Business applications and data platform for Industry 4.0 application stack.
He also has experience in building IoT applications for renewable energy asset monitoring, discrete manufacturing, logistics Smart Home platform etc.
He has a vast Exposure to building enterprise solutions for large industrial customers, Enterprise Integrations & Data exchanges.
He also holds expertise in designing and Manufacturing Engineering solutions.
Stefan is Services Innovation Leader for Philips. In this role, he leads a team of over 400 software engineers and product managers to develop and deliver the remote and IoT capability for Philips devices. The team also provides innovative, data and software driven services to enable the digital transformation of Philips customers.
Before joining Philips, Stefan has served in several senior business and technology leadership roles at Siemens. He was head of strategy for the Digital Industries Software business, facilitating the expansion of portfolio and the transition to a SaaS business model, and head of the automotive industry practice, introducing solutions to tackle key challenges of the industry.
Stefan is a dual citizen of the US and Germany with broad international experience, born and raised in Germany and living in the US since 2001. He holds a PhD in Physics.
Rajiv in his current role as VP Global alliances with Siemens digital industry software business unit, Rajiv is involved with driving global strategic partnerships to help customers realize their digital enterprise aspirations. Rajiv comes with over 30 years’ cross Industry and cross-cultural experience that includes global and regional P&L leadership responsibilities across manufacturing, energy & infrastructure sectors and holds an honors degree in electrical & electronics engineering. In his tenure with Siemens, Rajiv has been instrumental in incubating startup business around Industrial IOT & Cyber security, built vertical market practice for data center vertical and developed the ISV ecosystem around the IOT platform MindSphere. Rajiv has also been a founding member & past director of the European association for Data Centers and is the chairman of executive committee for not-for-profit Industrial IoT business community (MindSphere world) in North America which he helped set up. Rajiv is part of the advisory board for the Georgia Institutes of Informatics’, University of Georgia.
Prashant is Co-founder and COO at Pratiti Technologies. Throughout his career, his passion has been to help improve and transform business processes, by delivering NextGen products leveraging latest technologies. In the first 15 years, his focus was on the manufacturing industry and technologies such as 3D CAD/CAM. Since the last 10 years, his focus has been on applying Digital technologies such as cloud, IoT and AI in a wide range of industries such as healthcare, energy and manufacturing.
Prashant is an alumnus of IIT Kharagpur and IIM Calcutta. He will be our moderator for the session today.
In his 25+ years of career, Nitin has played key roles in building software solutions right from ideation to deployment. As a Co-founder and CEO of Pratiti Labs Inc., he is committed to applying his management learning as well as the passion for building new solutions to realize end-client innovation with certainty. He is also the Co-founder and CEO of Helios IoT Systems – an energy analytics solution company that developed a patented digital twin, IoT and advanced analytics based solution – Apollo. He recently drove a strategic technical partnership between AVEVA and Helios IoT Systems and led Apollo solution to the ‘Next Gen Product of the Year’ recognition. Through his unique leadership style and innovation mindset, Nitin has also led Pratiti to several awards and recognitions from the partner ecosystem including ‘Siemens Partner of the Year’ as well as leading analyst organizations like Frost & Sullivan, Zinnov and NASSCOM.
Through his many achievements in product engineering and leading two successful organizations, Nitin has gained impeccable and tangible skills in crafting and leading custom digital solutions to solve business problems across various industries.
Girish is the founder of Shoonya and an expert in delivering Effective Business Solutions using Immersive Technologies. He has a Master’s degree in Computer Games Technology from the University of Abertay, Scotland.
After working in the Video Games industry for 5 years in Scotland, he came back to India in 2009 and founded Shoonya, with the aim of exploring applications of Immersive Technologies beyond Video Games. He has been through the evolution of Immersive Technologies like Augmented Reality & Virtual Reality right since their inception and has a deep understanding of how to effectively deliver AR/VR solutions that provide real business value.
Over the past 13+ years, Girish has worked on several projects in industry sectors including Aviation, Transportation, Real Estate, Automobile, Energy, Telecom and Manufacturing, with clients across India, UK, Europe, Middle East and Singapore.
Ron Fritz is CEO and co-founder of Tech Soft 3D, the company that supplies underlying 3D technology to more than 700 companies developing engineering software, including Autodesk, Siemens, Dassault, PTC, Bentley, Trimble, ANSYS and many others. More recently, Tech Soft 3D has been providing technologies for CAD import to Digital Twin players including Unity, Unreal and nVidia Omniverse. Ron had led the company since it was founded in 1996 with a focus on business strategy and growth initiatives. The company is headquartered in Oregon in the United States with R&D offices in California, France and Norway.
Deepak Konnur has 40+ years of experience in the Energy Utility business. Presently he is engaged with Adani Transmission as Advisor Digitalization helping technology and business teams to increase their productivity, predictability, reliability, efficiency through improved data and analytics backed informed decision making and to achieve enhanced returns on the assets deployed.
He had worked as Chief Digital Officer, Tata power and was responsible for evangelizing and accelerating digitization initiatives & interventions across all entities of Tata Power.
Prior to Joining Tata Power, Deepak was working with IBM as Vice President – Energy & Utilities Industry Solutions
Deepak has long background in OT & IT Management and has developed and deployed OT & IT plans that achieve strategic business goals.
Deepak is an Electrical Engineer and has done post graduation in Business Administration.
Sujit is a digital visionary whose skillsets have stemmed from understanding and solving customer challenges.Being an industry veteran in the engineering and business analysis space, he has tangible knowledge and insights on how a digital product should be crafted for end-users. His technical and business perspectives have enabled various clients to provide value-driven solutions to end users.He is now leading the strategy and innovations at Smit.fit, a user-empathy-driven product that helps end-users take control over their fitness lifestyles. Prior to founding Smit.fit, Sujit was a Partner at McKinsey.
Nitin is a postgraduate from IIT, Mumbai and in his 25 years of career, has played key roles in building software solutions right from idealization to launch which are adopted by many Fortune 500 companies. As a Founder member of Pratiti Technologies, he is committed to applying his management learning as well as the passion for building new solutions to realize customers’ innovation with certainty. Prior to co-founding Pratiti, Nitin was the Global COO for Geometric (now acquired by HCL).
Prashant loves technology. While this passion helped him top his Masters class at IIT, he wanted to ensure his contribution remains ‘applied’ rather than ‘theoretical’. He is very excited by the convergence of technologies such as SMAC & IoT, and the Digital Transformation they are driving. In his current role, Prashant leads & manages key software projects at Pratiti to deliver higher value & strategic advantage to the clients.
Stephen retired from Siemens in April 2020 as the CEO for the Siemens global IIoT business. Over the past 40 years, Stephen has always been grounded in a solid technical framework from hands on software troubleshooting to creating business outcomes from technology selections and business models.In his current role, he provides software advisory consulting through board positions, software projects and strategic software development practices. During his stint at Siemens, Stephen has received many accolades and is highly regarded for his contributions in MindSphere & Teamcenter.
