In an interview with Analytics Insights, Spandan Mahapatra, CTO, HiTech and Professional Services business unit, TCS, stressed the importance of innovation as a proactive response to disruptive market trends. Championing the concept of ’evolutionary engineering’, he believes organizations need to evolve rapidly in their engineering behavior and cycles.
Spandan opined that adopting a new technology just to meet technical requirements isn’t the right way. What businesses need to do is to map their go-to-market needs to the technologies at hand and arrive at the most suited business and operations model.
Every aspiring CTO and technology executive, Spandan says, should consider their role as a primary business transformation partner with the aim to solve business problems as opposed to just addressing technology needs.
Read the full interview here.