Vivek Paul, vice chairman of Wipro Ltd and president of Wipro Technologies, the global software services arm of Wipro with over 10,000 employees, joined the company in 1999. Before that, Paul was with General Electric (GE), sourcing software from India. He played a pioneering role in applying Six Sigma techniques in high-tech production designs in GE. Excerpts of his conversation with Subir Roy:
What would you say has been the defining aspect of the last year?
For us, the big story for 2002 is talent transformation. How do you create a culture that is welcoming to newcomers from several acquisitions? How do you take 12,000 employees and project to them the new needs and then equip them? I can