TCS Revamp
Interesting trend. Tata Consultancy Services is undergoing controlled fragmentation, breaking itself up into 23 individually managed component businesses that share a common platform. However, the 23 new CEOs are those who rose up the ranks of the old TCS. That’s a problem.
This signals that Chandra (the new overall CEO + Managing Director) doesn’t get the full extent of what he’s attempting to do. He’s transforming an industrial-era hierarchical behemoth into a post-industrial firm. Decentralization is just one component. The talent channels that yielded these CEOs stifle innovation as a fact of life. He needs entrepreneurs, not managers and shouldn’t confuse the two. Cultural shift.
-Shlok
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