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AS Profile Azim Premji took over Wipro - a $2m hydrogenated cooking fat company - in 1966 at the tender age of 21. Since then he has build the company into a $3bn IT and business process outsourcing giant that has given the major Western IT service providers...
[12 Oct 2007]
Comment Azim Premji is chairman and managing director of Indian tech giant Wipro. Premji: The forecast from Nasscom is that the industry going forward over four to five years will grow at about 28 per cent a year.
[07 Nov 2006]
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]
News Azim Premji, chairman of Bangalore-based Wipro, said poor maths education from primary school onwards is one of the fundamental causes of the shortage of science and engineering graduates in Western countries.
[18 Mar 2008]
News Azim Premji, chairman of Wipro, said at the Future in Review conference in Coronado, California on Monday: "The US will graduate more sports therapists this year than engineers. Software services still account for the largest percentage of Wipro's...
[16 May 2006]
News Speculation in India suggests Wipro chairman Azim Premji's son may now join the board. Paul has admitted to disagreements with Premji but said this was not the reason he decided to quit. Indian offshore outsourcing giant Wipro has lost two of its...
[01 Jul 2005]
News In the second deal India's number two IT company Wipro announced some key outcomes of its existing five-year partnership with Microsoft after a meeting between its chairman Azim Premji and Ballmer. The partnerships highlight the growing impact the...
[19 Nov 2004]
Comment His name is Azim Premji and he is the chairman of Wipro. Taking the second point first, Premji took over Wipro in the 1960s. Premji has taken this resource and tapped it with a porous culture at Wipro.
[21 May 2003]
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]
News Azim Premji, chairman of Wipro, speaking at the company's global media event in Bangalore this week, said: "What we are looking for is a centre which has good education facilities. Premji said: "Our objective would be to have our people force in...
[20 Mar 2008]
News This means the Indian model will have to adapt, as Wipro chairman Azim Premji pointed out: "We have to move away from the concept that we are a low-cost destination to a destination that gives huge value at a cost effective price.
[26 Mar 2007]
News As Indian services companies look at bigger deals and more complex consultancy, while traditional services companies expand their Indian presence, the "demarcation lines" between them will vanish, said Azim Premji chairman and managing director of...
[07 Nov 2006]
News Wipro founder and chairman, Azim Premji, praised his firm's productivity. Indian software giant Wipro has posted second quarter results well above analyst expectations as net profit rose 38 per cent on the same period last year to $44m.
[22 Oct 2001]
AS Analysis TCS CEO S Ramadorai dropped two places to 22 from last year, while Azim Premji, chairman and MD at Wipro, slipped six places to 41.Infosys chairman N R Narayana Murthy is a new entry at number 37. Indian players still loom large on the Agenda...
[26 Sep 2005]
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]
Leader The big Indian IT services companies are represented: TCS' Ramadorai (22), Infosys' Murthy (37) and Wipro's Premji (41). Once again the silicon.com Agenda Setters poll of tech's most influential individuals highlights a number of key trends in the...
[27 Sep 2005]
AS Analysis The big Indian IT services companies are represented: TCS' Ramadorai (22), Infosys' Murthy (37) and Wipro's Premji (41). Once again the silicon.com Agenda Setters poll of tech's most influential individuals highlights a number of key trends in the...
[26 Sep 2005]
Comment Cast your mind back to my column last month and my meeting with Indian entrepreneur and Wipro chairman Azim Premji. Are the proposed mergers in the applications software business all negative in nature?
[11 Jun 2003]
News Azim Premji, chairman of Bangalore-based IT company Wipro, recently warned the Western world is "seriously underestimating" the scale of the tech skills shortage it faces. The UK's high tech sector will need tens of thousands extra skilled migrant...
[25 Mar 2008]
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