{"id":1038128,"date":"2026-09-24T07:39:23","date_gmt":"2026-09-24T02:09:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1038128"},"modified":"2026-09-24T07:51:41","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T02:21:41","slug":"enterprise-ai-adoption-disrupts-traditional-managed-services-models-cognizants-rohit-kumar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/09\/24\/enterprise-ai-adoption-disrupts-traditional-managed-services-models-cognizants-rohit-kumar\/","title":{"rendered":"Enterprise AI adoption disrupts traditional managed services models: Cognizant\u2019s Rohit Kumar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: A top executive at Cognizant said that as artificial intelligence (AI) absorbs an increasing volume of commoditised execution layers, it is disrupting legacy managed services models for enterprise customers. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cManaged services were historically priced on headcount and effort-based, in volumes, and people to match. As AI absorbs the routine execution layer, that basis weakens, and it is felt across three pillars,\u201d Rohit Kumar, senior vice president (SVP) and chief operating officer of global operations (commercial, delivery and head of talent supply chain), Cognizant, told TechGig in an interview.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: A top executive at Cognizant said that as artificial intelligence (AI) absorbs an increasing volume of commoditised execution layers, it is disrupting legacy managed services models for enterprise customers. \u201cManaged services were historically priced on headcount and effort-based, in volumes, and people to match. As AI absorbs the routine execution layer, that basis weakens, and it is felt across three pillars,\u201d Rohit Kumar, senior vice president (SVP) and chief operating officer of global operations (commercial, delivery and head of talent supply chain), Cognizant, told TechGig in an interview.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1038128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1038128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1038128"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1038128\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1038139,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1038128\/revisions\/1038139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1038128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1038128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1038128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}