Rothman Institute of Entrepreneurship: Cognizant CEO Says Innovation Key to Cognizant Success

Speaking at Fairleigh Dickinson University’s Rothman Institute of Entrepreneurship 6th Annual CEO Innovation Lecture, Francisco D’Souza said that an innovative business model and investment in developing Cognizant 2.0, a real-time operating system, was the “glue” holding Cognizant’s knowledge-based workforce together. “Our company is an example of what is possible when entrepreneurship and innovation come together in an era of uncertainty. Complexity is a great source of opportunity,” he said.

It’s important for companies to look forward, D’Souza noted. “In the next five years, we will move to a world where bandwidth is almost free. Communications and collaboration costs will decrease to zero. Whether desktop peer conferencing, unified communications, seamless messaging or social networking, all these things will drive collaboration and interaction and allow knowledge to be delivered from any part of the world to any other part seamlessly. Geographic boundaries will disappear. The best minds will be distributed around the world, and problem solving will happen on a global scale,” he predicted.

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