Bloomberg UTV: Cognizant’s Group Chief Executive for Technology and Operations Talks About the Company’s Growth Outlook

“The year 2011 was a fantastic year for Cognizant,” says R. Chandrasekaran. “We are very pleased with the good growth over the past few years. We are entering the year 2012 with a sense of optimism.” He adds that Cognizant’s growth guidance of at least 23% for 2012 considers that the economic environment will be volatile.

“Where we expect the growth to come from is from highly satisfied customers,” he says. “Our customer satisfaction score went up in the survey we conducted recently. The new services we’ve invested in are showing a lot of traction and that really helps in cross-selling and up-selling within existing client engagements. We’re helping customers in their transformation journey. All these things are helping us get mindshare as well as market-share. We’ve been able to execute flawlessly. We have been able to bring top-notch talent into the company. That helps in exceeding client expectation.”