Zinnov Podcast - Business Resilience series

The Globalization Resurgence - The India Story

The Indian GCC ecosystem has grown, evolved, and unlocked newer dimensions of business value over the last couple of decades. GCCs in India have definitively moved beyond the common trope of cost, to drive product, technology, process, and people excellence. This is what is making the India ecosystem a preferred destination for setting up, scaling, and driving significant value through centers of excellence. This excellence however, hasn’t been serendipitous. It ss the result of a community forged from belief and persistence, a key player of which has been NASSCOM.

As the macro-economic environment gets more interconnected and complex, and a probable recession on the horizon, offshoring is increasingly becoming a key theme in business decisions. Our next conversation unravels the India Story and its fabrication into a globalization hub. In this episode, Nitika Goel, Chief Marketing Officer, Zinnov speaks to KS Viswanathan, Vice President (Industry Initiatives) at NASSCOM, about India’s evolution into a GCC hub and the influence it has begun to wield in global decision-making and engineering initiatives. Whether it’s India-initiated technology like UPI or creating ADAS systems that power Automotive companies across the world, India has become a force to reckon with.

Corporate-led innovation and conducive government decisions have gone hand in hand to grow the technology talent landscape to new levels. Today, a bulk of the conversation on technology strategy takes place either in Bangalore, or other parts of India. KS Viswanathan also talks about how leaders are becoming strategic about what operations are run out of India and how in spite of excellent talent, leadership still falls short. This rich conversation is filled with anecdotes, advice, and observations from a veteran who has watched the industry evolve over the last couple of decades. Breaking down the progression of technology services and trends, he provides detailed insights on how the GCC ecosystem has changed, and what this can mean.

Engineered In India, Made For The World

In this episode, BVR Mohan Reddy, Founder Chairman of CYIENT, sits down with Pari Natarajan, CEO, Zinnov to discuss the nuances of his incredible entrepreneurial journey, how he built the billion-dollar CYIENT to provide Engineering Services to the world, from India, and how leaders like him can help further the start-up ecosystem by paying it forward for future entrepreneurs. They also delve into how employee, investor, and customer relationships are crucial to running a successful company and how today’s entrepreneurs must carve our their niche categories with care and foresight.

Delicately balancing employees and customers is the key to bringing about a harmonious business environment. How CYIENT was able to build a global company with this balance has been a phenomenal, impactful journey. Catch these two leaders in conversation about building Engineering Services for the world, from India.

Fearless - Against the Odds

How can a leader thrive when faced with overwhelming odds and uncertainty? This episode with D Sivanandhan, the former DGP of Mumbai Police, explores how leadership is a combination of time management, leading without fear, and prioritizing the well-being of others. Nitika Goel, Chief Marketing Officer at Zinnov, unpacks the concept of fearlessness with the former DGP about how a leader can chart a practical risk-taking strategy. The conversation breaks down how innovation and change are constants and why adapting to current times and scenarios is imperative for a forward-thinking leader.

 

Humility is an essential trait in leadership, but how does a humble person exhibit leadership qualities? How can a role model inspire people, positively and negatively?

 

Watch this episode to understand how leadership is a combination of hard work and fearlessness.

 

Money and the Metaverse: A New Frontier for Banking

Metaverse has almost been synonymous with gaming, with its ability to create avatars and simulate detailed virtual environments. But what could it mean for the Banking, Financial Services and Insurance sectors? In this chat with Girish Narasimha Raghavan, Vice President of Global Services at Fiserv, Atul Srivastava, Engagement Manager at Zinnov, unravels how Metaverse has the power to transform financial transactions, lending patterns, and currencies.

 

With its arrival as a technology with a plethora of possibilities across verticals and use cases, banking in the Metaverse can give rise to a new economy, spending patterns, and a wide range of virtual products and services. The power of this technology to transform traditional banks will reveal itself over the next few years. With enterprises looking to capitalize on Metaverse and its potential, there is a scramble for experimenting with newer use cases. What will Metaverse in Banking look like? 

 

This insightful discussion will dive into what problems the Metaverse can solve, and how banking can transform over the next decades.

Data – The Capstone of Business Resilience

In this episode of the Zinnov Podcast - Business Resilience series, Sanaz Namdar, Vice President, Research, Analytics and Perspectives at Dell Technologies talks to Rajat Kohli, Partner, Zinnov about the role of data, and how it can shape business strategies for companies in different industries. Data is a crucial component in directing how a company can run, and leaders can take informed decisions with the best insights. Oftentimes, companies tend to have goldmines of data accessible to them that can be very useful. Analytics have been able to shift needles for companies, and looking at the right data correctly, is imperative. Across industries, data has the power not only to understand what could have gone wrong, but to make predictions and forecast strategies going forward.

Which comes first – data strategy or business strategy? How can a data scientist unlock the best foresight into markets to create the best blueprint? Find out in this engaging conversation.

Metaverse — The New Disruption On The Block

The search for the term 'metaverse' skyrocketed during the tail end of 2021, with October alone registering over 2.62 million searches of the word.

With the advent of Web 3.0, we are at a crucial juncture of redefining what entirely virtual experiences could look like. The Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality markets are expected to grow to nearly USD 600 Bn by 2025 according to industry research.

In this episode of Zinnov podcast Business Resiliencies Series, Edo Segal, Founder and CEO of Touchcast talks to Atul Srivastava, Engagement Manager, Zinnov about what the Metaverse is all about, and how organizations can make themselves future-ready to successfully leverage Metaverse.

The Digital Takeover - How Asset Heavy Industries Are Upgrading To Digital

Digital Transformation and organizations' accelerated adoption of the digital technologies dictate how future-ready companies across industries are. The Asset Heavy industries are no exception to this, and are quickly catching up with their counterparts in staying digitally fresh and relevant.

Where will asset heavy industries spend on digital technologies? What are the challenges that they need to overcome in doing do? How do companies get some of the top talent to work for them - especially in this volatile talent market?

This conversation between Pari Natarajan, CEO, Zinnov, and Hari Sadarahalli, Corporate Vice President, Engineering and R&D Services, HCL Technologies, gives you an insider's view of how asset heavy industries are gearing themselves up to become digital-ready.

SAP On Cloud: Hyperscaling Business Success

In this episode of the Zinnov Podcast - Business Resilience series, Joao Couto, Vice President, SAP Business Unit, Microsoft, talks to Rajat Kohli, Partner at Zinnov about how SAP has become more and more prominent after the pandemic, especially with the world shifting to remote working models.

 

Today, transitioning SAP environments on Cloud has become a key ingredient to drive enterprise-wide transformation and improving business functions. Microsoft's SAP business unit is at the forefront of digital transformation, optimizing environments to meet the rising demand and empowering employees to achieve more with increased process efficiency. To get a better sense of what SAP on Cloud means in today's world and what kind of mindset is necessary to drive such massive enterprise transformations, Joao spills the beans on catapulting business growth with SAP, and how enterprises can transition into SAP on Cloud.

The Success Equation - Why Corporate & Start-Up Collaborations Help Leapfrog Growth

Corporates and startups both have benefits to offer to each other, which would be all lost out without the right partnerships. Innovation is one of the most important outcomes of this arrangement.

In this episode, Prof. Shameen, the author of Gorillas Can Dance, a book that dwells into start-up partnerships talks to Atit Danak, Partner, Zinnov about the finer details of these partnerships, and how they facilitate innovation. 

Accelerating Digital in a Data-driven World

In this episode of the Business Resilience Series, Sanjay Srivastava, Senior Vice President and Chief Digital Strategist, Genpact talks to Praveen Bhadada, Managing Partner, Zinnov about how digital is changing its face with time. Through innovation, renewed business strategy and a novel approach to talent, digital has the power to transform industries, cultures and business. The role of a CIO has evolved drastically as more and more verticals have adopted technology in their everyday functions. How does this CIO bring a fresh perspective with the correct business context? How does a diverse people strategy contribute to better business model innovations, and optimal outcomes?

This podcast episode delves into the deeper nuance of talent, technology, cultures and the role of data. As we see AI take centerstage, Sanjay also tries to unpack the climate problem, and how technology can help solve for some of the roadblocks, in the pursuit to net zero.