wipro in comment and analysis
Q&A: Wipro chairman and managing director Azim Premji
Comment Azim Premji is chairman and managing director of Indian tech giant Wipro. He has been running the business for 40 years, growing it from a $2m cooking fat company to a $1.8bn IT services organisation. [07 Nov 2006]
Azim Premji
AS Profile Azim Premji took over Wipro - a $2m hydrogenated cooking fat company - in 1966 at the tender age of 21. They are also expanding outwards from their Indian base to build operations around the world - Wipro recently revealed plans to open a software... [12 Oct 2007]
India diary, day 14: Bar-hopping in Bangalore
Comment Thousands of Wipro staff are watching the action and, as we take our seats, company chairman Azim Premji arrives and I'm surprised to see a good number of employees thronging around the side of the VIP box, trying to get to take his picture. [17 Mar 2007]
Azim Premji
AS Profile Appearing for a second successive year on the Agenda Setters list, Azim Premji is influential not just because of his role as Wipro's leader but because of his role as an advisor to the Indian government, a fact that makes him a "serious player... [23 Sep 2005]
Boardroom Despatches: The unlikely story of India’s greenfield success
Comment What’s less talked about is the wider ecosystem of Indian tech success - and please don’t think I’m limiting myself and that country to call centres - and Wipro’s progress. Taking the second point first, Premji took over Wipro in the 1960s. [21 May 2003]
India diary: Day six - Space-age tech campuses
Comment We pass many corporate Wipro and Infosys buses along the way, taking staff to the huge out-of-town campuses. In Wipro's learning centre I'm given a quick overview of the induction and ongoing training for Wipro recruits. [09 Jun 2004]
The rise and rise of the Asian tech empire
AS Analysis He's up from 40 in last year's poll and for the first time seems to have put some distance between himself and the well-known leaders of TCS and Wipro, the other two big Indian players, led by S Ramadorai and Azim Premji respectively. [12 Oct 2007]
The east Asia story
AS Analysis The Indian outsourcing industry has taken a hit in recent months after sting operations by two newspapers uncovered worrying lapses in the security of customer data but, by and large, it has been another good year of double-digit growth for the... [26 Sep 2005]
Inside offshoring: Location, location, location
Comment Sudip Banerjee, president of enterprise solutions at Wipro, said there are many issues that put China some way behind India. Wipro already has a small operation in Reading in the UK for onsite work, and the company is looking at European bases as... [23 Jun 2004]
Inside offshoring: Job losses and the backlash
Comment Sudip Banerjee, president of enterprise solutions at Wipro, argued UK companies are struggling to fill these jobs anyway. Over at Wipro's BPO arm Spectramind, chairman and MD Raman Roy said the upcoming US elections have created a backlash climate... [26 May 2004]
Boardroom Despatches: Tell me something good about Oracle/PeopleSoft/JD Edwards
Comment Cast your mind back to my column last month and my meeting with Indian entrepreneur and Wipro chairman Azim Premji. His company has acquired many others over the past couple of decades of rapid growth and they have served Wipro well - it has learnt... [11 Jun 2003]
Inside offshoring: Which country and partner to choose?
Comment The lines between what is being given to the 'Big Five' and a Wipro are getting blurred," he said. Wipro will certainly be one of those. The top three Indian firms, Infosys, Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) and Wipro, all passed the symbolic $1bn... [11 Jun 2004]
India diary, day 9: An auto-rickshaw ride and a catwalk show
Comment I've booked a car to take me out to the Wipro campus at the Rajiv Gandhi technology park on the outskirts of town. A gentle breeze runs over the site, which hosts 8,000 Wipro staff, working on IT and BPO. [12 Mar 2007]
India diary, day 13: Thirsty in Bangalore
Comment Wipro has a giant campus - 20,000 people work at it. After meeting with the executives to talk about branding and how they retain the best staff it's off to Electronics City again to meet with Wipro at its mega-campus. [16 Mar 2007]
S Ramadorai
AS Profile TCS is the biggest of the Indian IT outsourcers and, on the back of the growing impact of offshoring on the IT services market, S Ramadorai made his debut in the Agenda Setters last year ahead of his main rivals at Infosys and Wipro. [23 Sep 2005]
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