HOW TCS BUILT AN INDUSTRY FOR INDIA

What makes some organizations
long-lasting? How come some chart a new course which others like to follow?
Does this characterize them as ‘business institutions’ rather than merely
‘good companies’? How do two business leaders with radically different management
styles embed values and practices into the sinews of a corporation through
their thoughts and actions? These are some vital questions for India’s
economic growth that find resonance in the incredible journey of India’s
largest software exporter, Tata Consultancy Services (TCS). The narrative
relives the highs and lows in the life of this multibillion-dollar
enterprise, as seen through the eyes of its architects—Faqir Chand Kohli
(96), the founder, and his successor, S. Ramadorai (75). Between them, they
spent 40 years making TCS an admirable industry leader and a corporation with
agility, innovation and scale. Based on interviews with Kohli and Ramadorai,
the authors provide an insider’s account of their grand vision of igniting
India’s IT revolution. From the evolution of the offshoring model to
harnessing the enormous opportunity offered by the Y2K problem, they offer
rare insights into a company that they built, brick by brick. How TCS Built
an Industry for India is the first book in the series, Shapers of Business
Institutions, and is a unique blend of a must-read business biography and a
management classic.