{"id":1444,"date":"2011-11-04T16:04:00","date_gmt":"2011-11-04T16:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/projects\/horsesforsources\/tiger_genpact_ceo_partiii_110411\/"},"modified":"2011-11-04T16:04:00","modified_gmt":"2011-11-04T16:04:00","slug":"tiger_genpact_ceo_partiii_110411","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.horsesforsources.com\/tiger_genpact_ceo_partiii_110411\/","title":{"rendered":"A big cat for a big job: meet Tiger (Part III)"},"content":{"rendered":"

And now we bring you the long-awaited final installment of our recent discussion with Genpact’s new President and CEO,\u00a0NV \u201cTiger\u201d Tyagarajan. \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

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NV "Tiger" Tyagarajan is the new President and CEO, Genpact (click for bio)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

In Part I<\/a>, we asked Tiger about his background and how he’s going to be a little different from his predecessor, Pramod Bhasin;\u00a0Part II<\/a> focused on Tiger’s immediate and long-term plans for Genpact;\u00a0And finally, Part III delves into Tiger’s vision for the future of technology and BPO. \u00a0So, without any further ado, let’s circle back to the eye of the Genpact…<\/p>\n

Phil Fersht (HfS Research): <\/em><\/strong>Tiger,\u00a0<\/em>There’s been a lot of talk about business platforms and bringing together clusters of standard processes, putting them in the cloud, etc. Do you feel the industry’s really moving that way, or do you think it’s a bit of a mixed bag?<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

NV \u201cTiger\u201d Tyagarajan (Genpact): \u00a0<\/strong>I think it’s a mixed bag. Some global companies have deliberately set up independent businesses to enable a \u201cclean sheet of paper\u201d approach. Within that are questions including, \u201cCan we put everything on the cloud?\u201d \u201cCan we wrap services onto a platform and make it standard?\u201d \u201cCan we all buy in to a standard without fighting like cats and dogs about \u2018my process\u2019 and \u2018your process\u2019\u201d? Here it all boils down to, are we willing to accept a standard even though different people have opposing views?<\/p>\n

The second situation is when large corporations are almost forced to venture into emerging markets, e.g., India, China or Brazil, in search of growth. In this scenario, they don\u2019t have to worry about legacy processes and technology, which are expensive and time consuming. And with speed-to-market being so important, they believe they may as well hit the market running without having to invest in technology, instead investing in the cloud for just about everything.<\/p>\n

The third scenario is for bespoke solutions for standalone requirements wherein organizations opt to buy, for example, a front-end sales force management tool on the cloud (e.g., Salesforce.com). But the reality is that most of this stuff is typically never integrated into the financial systems of the company, which actually makes it easy to say \u201cI’m buying it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Then there are the mid-market companies that are growing rapidly, sometimes at a rate of 25-30 percent. For them, legacy systems don\u2019t matter, because in three years their business will only be half legacy and within five years, it will have gone beyond that.<\/p>\n

Similarly, emerging market companies are easily willing to leap frog onto the cloud because of their up to 40 percent growth rate. And for them, as legacy is pretty archaic, their willingness to jump to the cloud is really high.<\/p>\n

Let me switch for a second to large corporations and their legacy platforms. We are finding that to be as tough as it was before. The fact is, if I walk into a global pharmaceutical company, even today its 100 (or however many) countries fight with each other on what is the right payables process for them. They are unwilling to sign on to a standard. So, I would argue, if they aren\u2019t willing to sign onto a standard among themselves, the day of signing onto a standard that is a public cloud is far, far away. But I think if they agree to a standard among themselves, at least they can get on to a private cloud, which would be very beneficial.<\/p>\n

But I still see that being quite some time away. There\u2019s not enough push happening, primarily because there\u2019s so much legacy and cost sitting out there, plus entrenched decision-making and vested interests. People worry about what\u2019s going to happen to their job if processes go to the cloud. So, I think there\u2019s a little more hype than reality about everything going to the cloud, except in the cases I already talked about where we\u2019re seeing movement.<\/p>\n

Phil:<\/strong> \u00a0My concern is that you see some of the providers persist in selling in the same myopic way they were three or four years ago, and today\u2019s more sophisticated buyers are saying, \u201cWe know there\u2019s cost reduction on the table. We really want to get to what you can do for us beyond that, and how can we trust you?\u201d And if all providers are offering essentially the same thing, how does a provider differentiate itself? Is it ownership of the technology or distinctiveness of domain acumen? I think that\u2019s the holy grail right now, and I\u2019d love to hear your thoughts on this…<\/em><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Tiger:\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong> I don\u2019t think that ownership of technology will determine differentiation. I actually believe the reverse is happening. More and more we\u2019re getting to a world in which technology is not owned by anyone. The best technologies are open. The best platforms are open. The best platforms are the ones on which anyone can build on top of them and tweak and change them.<\/p>\n

My fundamental view is that technology is only as good as the intelligence you build into it. So I believe that to differentiate ourselves, we have to search the world for the best technology, and then build in the intelligence.<\/p>\n

How do you do that? First, you have to understand a process in its granularity: what makes it best in class, how to get there, what works, what doesn\u2019t, and its contexts in both the horizontal and vertical domains in which it belongs. Then\u2026 we all know that the world is getting filled with data. There\u2019s more data generated than ever before. If something today is not electronic, the drive to globalization is actually making it more electronic. One of the things I think we\u2019ve done as an industry is help companies become more electronic. We\u2019ve pushed the envelope harder, because without going electronic, you cannot globalize. So, globalization is actually helping digitization and electronicization of information.<\/p>\n

Now when you have so much information available electronically and digitally, and it\u2019s so easy to process from a cost perspective since storage is so inexpensive these days, who is building intelligence out of that data? Our argument is that in every industry there are companies that have decided their strategy is going to be building intelligence out of data. Our view is that those are the companies that will truly differentiate themselves, and those that don\u2019t will start falling behind. And in my CEO job I\u2019ve kind of championed smart decision services, where we build insights out of data for our clients, and then take those insights and build them into technology.<\/p>\n

I believe that differentiation comes in your ability to generate and build those insights for your clients, not in your ability to handle the platform.<\/p>\n

Phil:<\/strong> \u00a0So, if you could change one thing about the BPO industry today, what would it be?\u00a0 <\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Tiger:\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0 Can I pick two, one at the front end and one at the back end?<\/p>\n

Phil: \u00a0<\/strong>OK, I\u2019ll let you have two…<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Tiger: \u00a0<\/strong>So at the front end, I really think too much time and effort is spent in repetitively going through the same selection process again and again and again, which keeps everyone at an arm\u2019s length in an \u201cI won\u2019t tell you much\u201d situation, for as long as 12-18 months. With how quickly the world moves today, 18 months is a heck of a long time. I don\u2019t know of any other activity in an organization where people are given 18 months to do something. I\u2019m not given 18 months to do anything.<\/p>\n

Instead, if you short circuit that, for example, to three months, then you can spend the next nine months, together with your chosen provider, going into the bowels of your organization and really figure out your roadmap to best in class. Then you can accelerate your execution by at least three months.<\/p>\n

But more importantly, because you spent nine months together in this venture, I think your solution is going to be much more robust, and will accelerate you to best in class so much faster. And I think the sourcing world has misunderstood this game as compared to buying laptops or travel, etc. It\u2019s a different world.\u00a0 But any time you can move it along more quickly, you bring so much more benefit to the client.<\/p>\n

On the back end, I think the openness with which an organization approaches the relationship in order to accomplish the end goal\u2026I can\u2019t do it alone, and you can\u2019t do it alone. We have to do it together. And yet, conversations around, \u201ccan we both put some skin in the game?\u201d \u201cYou don\u2019t own this, so you don\u2019t worry about it. Let me do it.\u201d \u201cI can\u2019t pay you for outcomes or I can\u2019t share the gains\u201d, just take too long. \u00a0When we break through those barriers, both companies can gain so much more value.<\/p>\n

Phil: \u00a0<\/strong>Well, there we have it! \u00a0Thanks so much for all your time with us, Tiger – and all the best with the new job!<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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Click here to read the full three-part interview trilogy<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

NV \u201cTiger\u201d Tyagarajan (pictured) is Chief\u00a0Executive\u00a0Officer for Genpact. \u00a0You can view his full bio by\u00a0<\/em>clicking here<\/a>. \u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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