Restructuring redux ; TCS goes for a rejig to simplify things for its customers.

It seems like restructuring is the mantra for the Indian IT industry. A couple of months after Infosys restructured its business units and Mindtree Consulting announced an organisation restructure, India's largest IT company, Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), has followed suit. Last fortnight, TCS rejigged its organisation into five units, which the company hopes will provide customers a single view of the company.

Till now, TCS's businesses were split along geography, industry verticals or types of services. The earlier model was apt five years ago when we were 20,000-odd people. As we have ...

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