Wipro brings all its consultants under one roof

BANGALORE: Wipro Technologies, which recently did a top-level rejig of its organisational structure, has bunched its 1,500-odd technology and business consultants splintered across various domains and verticals under one separate umbrella. Wipro, which has been consolidating its consultant force over the past six months, is hoping to leverage on the vast resource pool in a more structured way and deploy their expertise across the bandwidth of the diversified enterprise. Consulting accounts for 4% of Wipro’s revenue. That is not likely to change significantly with this rejig. However, the new structure will have upsides in the way the company will package its offerings for strategic and deep engagements with its customers. The consulting practise will directly report to Girish Paranjpe, who was recently elevated as joint CEO. “Till now, consultants were deeply embedded in their own respective domains and businesses. The full power of what consulting could do was not completely visible even internally,” says Wipro executive vice-president (HR) Pratik Kumar. The bunching together has created a sizeable resource pool that will now be an active part of the company’s go-to-market strategy. Consultants will engage with client CEOs/CIOs and act as partners in enhancing productivity.
Just like with any consulting firm, these professionals will actually get to work with their own fraternity rather than being split in individual projects. Wipro consulting practise would cover the gamut of technology, business, process and quality. Apart from consulting, Wipro’s other practises include testing, BPO, infrastructure management and enterprise applications. “It is about creating an eco-system. They get the benefit of learning from peers and that is how consultants work. They are like partners who contribute to each other. Because it is a practise, it sells right across the organisation and they will get to see variety,” Mr Kumar says.