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Harnessing the Power of Scale
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Harnessing the Power of Scale

An Interview with Natarajan Chandrasekaran, CEO of Tata Consultancy Services

Natarajan Chandrasekaran and Janmejaya Sinha
Boston Consulting Group, 2015
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Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) is a behemoth. With 319,000 staffers, it is India’s largest private-sector employer, and its market capitalization of $80 billion makes it the nation’s most valuable firm. How does a single company successfully negotiate such enormous scale and remain competitive? Natarajan “Chandra” Chandrasekaran, CEO of TCS, makes it sound like child’s play. Speaking with Janmejaya Sinha, Boston Consulting Group’s chairman of the Asia-Pacific region, Chandra offers a brief insight into various aspects of managing a titanic corporation. getAbstract believes executives at growing firms will be in awe of the staggering scale that TCS has achieved.

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Despite running India’s “most-valued company,” an organization that employs more than 319,000 people, Natarajan “Chandra” Chandrasekaran, CEO of Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) doesn’t get overwhelmed by the sheer size of the firm. Rather, he credits scaling with TCS’s success and capacity to offer clients a full line of services. Many people associate large businesses with red tape and inflexibility. To manage these challenges, Chandra divided TCS into smaller units, each with a leader or leadership team at the helm. This structure...

About the Speakers

Natarajan “Chandra” Chandrasekaran is CEO of Tata Consulting Services. Janmejaya Sinha is Boston Consulting Group’s chairman of the Asia-Pacific region.

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