Indian IT still alive & kicking; companies need us to access AI gains: TCS CEO K Krithivasan

“We have been writing its obituary every 10 years but I think Indian IT services have proven to be very resilient,” Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) CEO K Krithivasan told in an interview. “Not because of cost arbitrage, but because of the depth of skill sets.”

Responding to recent assertions that the IT services industry will be dead by 2030, Krithivasan said that, on the contrary, enterprises will need help from firms like TCS to derive the full benefit of AI.

There is a widening gap between AI technology and enterprise adoption, which is struggling to catch up with the pace of evolution, added TCS chief operating officer Aarthi Subramanian.