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Steven Dobinson sits down with Amit Chadha of L & T Technology Services to learn more about his involvement with the company ’ s past , and how it ’ s facilitating the future
The human race is currently experiencing its fourth industrial revolution , better known as Industry 4.0 to those in the know . To those who aren ’ t , it ’ s still increasingly apparent through the intrinsic ways in which digitization and digitalization are weaving themselves throughout our everyday lives . When I say ‘ Alexa ,’ you are fully aware that it precedes a command , just as the word ‘ smart ’ is generally followed by phone , watch , glass , or even home . But if we move away from the consumer products , and home in closer on the technologies themselves , then we really get an opportunity to look into the future . Amit Chadha is CEO and Managing Director at L & T Technology Services ( LTTS ), one of the world ’ s leading engineering research and development companies and is considered to be one of the most trusted
... people wanted us to be a lot more technology oriented , and to actually build on it , and to become ‘ Glocal strategic advisors on the sector ’ s best practices . Having started out as an electrical engineer based in India , he moved into the software industry after graduating , and emigrated to the US in 1997 , some 12 years before joining LTTS in 2009 . Today , the overall Larsen and Toubro ( L & T ) enterprise is around $ 23 billion in size , of which infrastructure and construction makes up about $ 12 billion , LTIMindtree , $ 4 Billion , and LTTS , $ 1 billion . “ When I first joined , L & T was around $ 13 billion in size , and its mission was to be known for engineering and technology across the globe ,” Amit opens . “ The second key aim at that point was to grow faster than the industry overall , and the third , to be profitable . The Chairman at the time took the four business units and used them to craft a single , privately held company under the L & T
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