Deep tech management in high growth sectors


Lakshmi Narayanan

Chennai: Lakshmi Narayanan, former CEO, emeritus vice chairman, Cognizant and chairman, ICT Academy, shared his thoughts on deep technology management in high-growth sectors with Great Lakes Institute of Management students.

The session was a part of Great Lakes’ Term Zero – CXO Interaction series. Narayanan commenced the session with clarifying the notion that deep technology is not just an interest of science and technology scholars but that it holds extreme relevance to management students as well.

He said he believes that business professionals are expected to deliver benefits to humanity while the scholars pursue knowledge.

Narayanan, set the context of the lecture by briefly explaining through an example the importance of understanding science and technology by policy makers to solve strategy and management related challenges.

Space and Aviation, Renewable Energy, Nuclear Power and Fusion Power were categorised as the high-growth sectors and elaborated on by Lakshmi Narayanan.