A

seminar presentation

on

IT Entrepreneur in India

session 2014-15

Presented By:

Krishna Gupta

( (M.Tech ,CSE)

Department of Computer Science & Engineering

Rajasthan College of Engineering for Women1

ENTREPRENEURIAL QUALITIES

• Commitment and determination

• Leadership

• Opportunity obsession

• Tolerance of risk

• Creativity

• Ability to use failure experience as a way of learning

• Self-reliance and ability to adapt

• Motivation to excel.

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EARLY LIFE

• Initial education St. Marry’s School Mumbai.

• Engineering from Stanford University ,California.

• Took family business of hydrogenated cooking fats and

diversified .

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PERSONALITY TRAITS

• Value-oriented person.

• Down to earth personality.

• High on action.

• Believes in professionalism

• Prefers solitude to the spotlight

• Always believes in work.

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AS A BUSINESS PERSONALITY HIS

JOURNEY TOWARDS SUCCESS

• He had took over the reign of his family run

business at the young age of 21 in 1966.

• The biggest hurdle was to win the

confidence of the shareholders.

• Diversification of family run business into a

large IT services provider and software

behemoth “Wipro”.

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THE JOURNEY OF WIPRO

• WIPRO was initially known as Western India Vegetable

Products Ltd, and was started by Mr.M.H Premji

• Initially Amalner-based “Vanaspathi manufacturing”

company.

• The company began manufacturing light bulb with

general electric.

• Consumer products including soaps, baby care products

shampoos ,powder etc.

• In 1975,wipro fluid power business unit manufacturing

hydraulic cylinder and truck was started.

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THE TURN• 1980 Wipro entered the IT field ,taking example of the IBM from the Indian

market in 1975 .

• Thus Wipro became involved in manufacturing computer hardware ,software

development and related items ,under a special license from sentinel .

Now

• Wipro has grown up as India’s biggest and most competitive IT company

based in Bangalore .

• Wipro Ltd is a global information technology, consulting and outsourcing

company.

• Wipro works with leading global companies ,such as Alcatel ,Nokia, Cisco

and Nortel and has a joint venture in medical system with general electric

company .

• With 147,452 employees serving clients in 175+ cities across 6 continents.

• The company posted revenues of $7.3 billion for the financial year ended

Mar 31, 2014.8

WIPRO GROUP OF COMPANIES

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Wipro Ltd

• Wipro Limited is a global company provider of comprehensive ITsolutions and services, including Systems Integration, Consulting,Information Systems outsourcing, IT-enabled services, and R&Dservices.

• It is also a value added reseller of desktops, servers, notebooks,storage products, networking solutions and packaged software forinternational brands.

Wipro Enterprises Ltd

• Wipro Consumer Care & Lighting

• Wipro Infrastructure Engineering

• Wipro GE Medical Systems Limited

Vanspathi manufacturing company

Wipro Product Ltd.

Wipro Technology

IT Sector

Wipro corporation

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PRODUCTS / SERVICES

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PRODUCTS / SERVICES SHARING

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CHALLENGES…

Macro environment related

• Improving quality of technical education in India

• Challenges posed by Urban infrastructure

• Preparing for competition from other low cost countries

Business model related

• Expanding the breadth of service offering

• Managing scale without diluting quality & delivery excellence

• Expanding geographies & adapting to local language and cultures

Financial

• Adverse currency fluctuations

• Managing wage inflation

• M&A and their impact on financials

NEW UPCOMING TRENDS • Wipro Water and Wipro Eco-Energy were set up in 2008 and

2009 as part of Wipro Infrastructure Engineering (WIE).

• In an interview Premji talks about ecology as a social and

business imperative, the vast opportunities that it holds,

and Wipro's foray and plans in this space.

• We think that 'IT for Green' is far more important than 'Green

IT‘.

• He said innovation program combines the rigor of process with

widely spread (across employee and partner base) sparks of

creativity.

• We have built it over the past seven years. We are now

[promoting] 'green' as a big theme in our innovation program.

• He said that in their PC manufacturing business, they have

made significant progress on the Green PC on all three

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NEW TREND CONT…

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• Wipro Arabia bags deal from Saudi Electricity Company

• Wipro to offer Chesapeake's financial software suite

• Wipro Launches Centre of Excellence for Oracle

• Wipro partners with Adobe for digital marketing services

• Wipro to open US centre for Big Data, social media, cloud

• Wipro, SAP tie up for mobility services

• IT Security in Utilities

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