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Tamil Nadu important destination for TCS

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Phase I of Siruseri campus will be completed by next year, says Ramadorai

WELL DONE! Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director of Tata Consultancy Services S. Ramadorai congratulating an academic topper of the Bharathidasan Institute of Management during the 22nd Foundation Day celebration of the institution here on Saturday. (From left) Director-General of BIM N. Jayasankaran and Vice-Chancellor of Bharathidasan University C. Thangamuthu are also in the picture. — Photo: R.M. Rajarathinam

TIRUCHI: Tamil Nadu is an important operations destination for Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), and the company will continue to enhance its presence in the State, Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director S. Ramadorai has said.

Phase I of the Siruseri campus of TCS, coming up on 70 acres, will be completed by the end of the next year, and the entire complex will be fully operational by 2008. The centre will accommodate 15,000 IT professionals, Mr. Ramadorai said in an informal chat with presspersons here on Saturday.

The company was establishing a smaller facility in Coimbatore. It had made over 1,200 job offers in the city alone.

Asked whether TCS would look at some of the tier II cities such as Tiruchi and Madurai, Mr.Ramadorai said expansion plans were bound to come up as the company grew, and it would depend on the needs of the places.

Infrastructure availability, clients acceptance, professionals willingness to work and opportunities were some of the issues involved in IT companies spreading out to the tier II cities. However, he admitted that infrastructure in these cities had been improved in recent years.

The company would consider a suggestion made by Bharathidasan University Vice-Chancellor C. Thangamuthu that the TCS support an MBA programme on technology management at the Bharathidasan Institute of Management (BIM), Mr. Ramadorai said.

Convergence

Speaking at the 22nd Foundation Day of the BIM, he said innovations and technology breakthroughs of the future were more likely to emerge out of convergence of different disciplines and it was essential that teachers of management, science and technology adopt a multi-disciplinary approach. "The way managers work have changed and will continue to do so. The way we teach should also reflect the change," Mr. Ramadorai, who is also the chairman of the Board of Governors of BIM, said

Besides multi-disciplinary skills, domain expertise, an innovative mindset, global outlook and communication skills were the pre-requisites for future managers.

The budding managers should be "venturesome." Conditions are promising for them. The country's intellectual capital in IT, bio-technology and other cutting-edge disciplines held the key to global leadership.

Innovation should have no boundaries. Spotting and optimising opportunities for innovation would yield new enterprises, products and services.

Information technology, he said, was at the heart of every domain. The pace of change in IT had given a fresh connotation for newness.

The knowledge business was becoming more specialised to suit the needs of end users. Customisation and personalisation were key differentiating factors, Mr. Ramadorai said.

BIM Director-General N. Jayasankaran and Director M. Sankaran spoke.

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