K. Ananth Krishnan thrives on driving innovation at Tata Consultancy Services, where he serves as CTO. This $4 billion global IT services giant has 89,000 IT professionals in 47 countries and is growing at 35 percent per year.
As a member of TCS's think tank since 1999, Krishnan has relied heavily on the work of Dr. Clayton Christensen, a Harvard Business School professor and author of The Innovator's Dilemma and The Innovator's Solution.
In May 2007, Krishnan received an InfoWorld Top 25 CTO award for two innovative IT initiatives: Ultimatix, an intranet and transaction platform which digitized and integrated all of the company's end-to-end information, ranging from human resources to sales; and Infinity, a multiprotocol label-switching backbone to tie together all of the company's Internet-based communications, such as telephony and network access, and video collaboration applications.
By expanding on Infinity, Krishnan developed his current project, Co-Innovation Network (COIN), a collaborative platform uniting all of TCS's geographically dispersed stakeholders, including employees, customers, venture capital firms, research labs, and academic institutions. Krishnan and his team are working on designing TCS's next-generation data center.
Bio
In 1988, K. Ananth Krishnan joined Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) , part of the Tata Group, one of India's large IT services firms with 89,000 employees in 47 countries and $4.3 billion in annual revenues. Krishnan is TCS's chief technology officer and has been recognized by InfoWorld magazine as one of the top CTOs in the world. Since 1999, he has been a member of TCS corporate think tank where he helped to conceptualize several new initiatives. He is also a principal architect and lead consultant in the architecture and technology consulting practice.
Resources
2007 InfoWorld CTO 25: K. Ananth Krishnan, CTO, Tata Consultancy Services
Ask a Premier 100 IT Leader: K. Ananth Krishnan
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