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CEO, Cognizant
Interviewed August 29, 2023
Robert Reiss: In a very crowded consulting space,
what is different about Cognizant than any other
organization?
Remaining a
differentiated
enterprise
Cognizant CEO Ravi Kumar S talks about
how the company strategizes around its
people. Alongside its “entrepreneurial spirit,”
Cognizant encourages its employees to be
lifelong learners in order to build a strong base
for a differentiated position for the current
market and into the future.
Ravi Kumar: Robert, I’ve been at Cognizant since
January of this year, and I’ve seen the company from
outside for many years. I would tell you the three
things which differentiate Cognizant, as you rightly
said, in a very crowded space. Cognizant became a
public company in the late ‘90s, at a time when the
Y2K boom was pretty much ending, and there was
the potential dot-com burst happening at the same
time. So the company was gaining momentum at a
time where everybody else was focused on the Y2K
boom; we were focused on the next wave—the web,
e-business solutions, and application management
outsourcing. So as Cognizant was establishing itself,
we were building expertise in the confluence of
industry domain and technology.
Companies in our space were either born as
technology firms or born as industry domain
consulting firms that traversed to the other side.
We were born at the confluence. Therefore, we truly
believe we are very differentiated, and we are really
unique in our position, which helped us to secure our
The CEO Forum Group
has selected Ravi Kumar
S, CEO, and Cognizant
as a top 10 Business in
America in 2023. The Transformative CEO
Award has been bestowed in the category
of AI for Cognizant’s vision and execution
of ushering in Generative AI so that it will
positively elevate thousands of the top global
business enterprises and will completely uplift
and transform society.
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