{"id":1041094,"date":"2026-10-06T08:35:58","date_gmt":"2026-10-06T03:05:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1041094"},"modified":"2026-10-06T08:45:02","modified_gmt":"2026-10-06T03:15:02","slug":"ai-raises-the-floor-people-raise-the-ceiling-pwc-us-ceo-on-india-venture-big-four-race-and-gcc-push","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/10\/06\/ai-raises-the-floor-people-raise-the-ceiling-pwc-us-ceo-on-india-venture-big-four-race-and-gcc-push\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;AI raises the floor, people raise the ceiling&#8217;: PwC US CEO on India venture, Big Four race and GCC push"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mumbai: PwC is positioning India at the centre of its global consulting strategy by combining its Indian consulting business with the US firm&#8217;s India advisory operations, marking a shift towards India becoming a more integrated part of PwC&#8217;s global consulting business, with more global work flowing into the country and greater access to PwC&#8217;s global capabilities for Indian clients, Paul Griggs, CEO of PwC US, told ET in an exclusive interview. <\/p>\n<p>The combined venture will employ roughly 40,000 people and establish a single non-regulated consulting structure in India, allowing the new entity to invest more heavily in artificial intelligence, technology, engineering, talent and new solutions. &#8220;Separate businesses are one thing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mumbai: PwC is positioning India at the centre of its global consulting strategy by combining its Indian consulting business with the US firm&#8217;s India advisory operations, marking a shift towards India becoming a more integrated part of PwC&#8217;s global consulting business, with more global work flowing into the country and greater access to PwC&#8217;s global capabilities for Indian clients, Paul Griggs, CEO of PwC US, told ET in an exclusive interview. The combined venture will employ roughly 40,000 people and establish a single non-regulated consulting structure in India, allowing the new entity to invest more heavily in artificial intelligence, technology, [&hellip;]<\/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-1041094","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\/1041094","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=1041094"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1041094\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1041123,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1041094\/revisions\/1041123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1041094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1041094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1041094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}