Cognizant CEO Ravi Kumar S talks about the ‘Hollywood model’ and goes with your gut
Good morning. when aware CEO Ravi Kumar S has a thesis on a new technology, and is testing it within his IT and outsourcing consulting firm. This led to a Guinness Book of World Records More than 53,000 employees came together for the world’s largest online AI hackathon (250,000 participated over the course of the week). Genetic AI is also changing its hiring and company structuring strategy in ways that challenge conventional wisdom. His advice:
Hire more entry-level employees: “The pyramid will be wider and shorter, and the path to expertise will be faster. This year, we are hiring more school leavers than ever before. I can take a school leaver and give them the tools to punch above their weight. AI is an amplifier of human potential. It’s not a displacement strategy.”
Focus on interdisciplinary skills: “We will now be hiring non-STEM graduates. I grew up thinking, the more you specialize, the more privileges you get. If experience is faster, experience is not asymmetry. Intelligence is not asymmetry. Application of intelligence is asymmetry. If I am a historian, I can mix it with computational skills and become a futurist. If problem solving is helped With machines… The mix of people at heart will be non-STEM disciplines such as anthropologists, sociologists, psychologists and journalists; People who can be more objective in discovering problems.
Adopting the Hollywood model: “I created an agile system where you put together teams for a project for a broader purpose, and then you dismantled it after you finished it. The studio was a physical entity, the production houses were the capital structures, and everything else was fluid. The constraint (for companies) was institutional knowledge, tribal knowledge, corporate heritage, enabling financial classes, human resources, all of that… We could feed into that tribal knowledge Whatever way we get into it.” LLM to build an agent on the other hand, which is very contextual… You make the AI capital permanent, the agent capital permanent, and you unleash people to be the variable component.
Go with your gut: “You build your thesis or hypothesis on intuition, which is a combination of experience and intuition and connecting the dots, and then you layer it with data, and you get close to 60 or 70% and then you stop adding more data, because you’ll be late. Then you go back to your intuition and push it forward. It’s important to rethink your assumptions in a world that’s moving at a high pace.”
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