Publication Type
Book Chapter
Version
publishedVersion
Publication Date
12-2020
Abstract
After a lifetime as an academic, I was hired as Chief Strategy Officer (“CSO”) at Tata, a colossal $100 billion group with more than a hundred companies and 650,000 employees worldwide. At first sight, the job of being strategy head for the Tata Group may seem rather different from my academic role, with implementation responsibility and ability being the key difference. But, it did not require much of an adjustment for two reasons. First, I was not the typical academic. For twenty years, as an external consultant, I had been working with top executives and helping them think through their strategy. Second, my job was not to be responsible for execution.
Keywords
Strategic management, Tata
Discipline
International Business | Marketing | Strategic Management Policy
Research Areas
Marketing
Publication
Human capital leadership insights: Solving human capital challenges from the business perspective
First Page
217
Last Page
221
ISBN
9789811477157
Publisher
Singapore Management University
City or Country
Singapore
Citation
KUMAR, Nirmalya.
Reflections of a chief strategy officer in a diversified conglomerate. (2020). Human capital leadership insights: Solving human capital challenges from the business perspective. 217-221.
Available at: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/lkcsb_research/6788
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