Today we’re going to catch up with a global executive from one of the world’s top IT services companies.

A part of India’s largest multinational business group, the Tata Group, Tata Consultancy Services is an IT services, consulting and business solutions organisation that has been partnering with many of the world’s largest businesses in their transformation journeys for over half a century.

That is across a wide range of industries from banking to consumer packaged goods to communications and information services to energy and utilities, and more importantly manufacturing.

The company prides itself with its consulting-led, cognitive powered, portfolio of business, technology and engineering services and solutions, delivered through what it calls a unique Location Independent Agile delivery model.

So far, the company has over 601,000 consultants spread across 55 countries, generating consolidated revenues of US$29 billion in the fiscal year ended March.

Now why are we speaking to Tata Consultancy Services you might ask? Well, the firm is seeing a number of recent developments on the manufacturing front for 2025.

For one thing, Tata Consultancy Services had in February announced a collaboration with Salesforce to help customers in the manufacturing and semiconductor industries drive value from artificial intelligence. But what was the rationale behind the move and how will AI reshape the firm’s growth trajectory?

Meanwhile, Tata Consultancy Services had in January 2025 inaugurated a new delivery centre in Toulouse, France. The center is said to harness next-generation technologies like artificial intelligence, generative AI, machine learning and data analytics to help customers in the aerospace and related industries such as manufacturing and defence.

The question is – how far will the move position the firm for the future as countries in Europe, such as Germany, look to up their defense spending?

On Under the Radar, Money Matters’ finance presenter Chua Tian Tian posed these questions to Anupam Singhal, Global President of Manufacturing at Tata Consultancy Services.

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