Wipro is making a massive push towards automating more parts of its commoditized information technology (IT) businesses and planning to boost its on-site efforts by hiring more people at client locations that feeds into its de-centralized organizational structure.
In an interview on Saturday, Wipro chief executive T.K. Kurien, who’s just completed three years at the helm of the firm, spoke about the challenges that Wipro has faced over the last three years, changes in the IT industry in the backdrop of automation and also the possibility of creating a separate subsidiary or business unit to focus specifically on cloud computing services. Edited excerpts:
You’ve just completed three years in the hot seat. A lot has changed in the industry during that time, both at Wipro and in the industry. What are some of the important milestones that stand out for you?
If you look at where we started, the organization itself had gone through a fairly traumatic kind of change because the joint CEOs moved out pretty quickly, within three days. I think the organization was really in shock. And then we moved our entire focus onto performance and when that happened, a large part of the organization didn’t understand what performance meant for people. For complete and original post see here
