50% of our revenues will come from next-gen technologies by 2025: HCL CEO

If you look at HCL's history, we come from a product engineering background and over the years have created thousands of products for our customers, says HCL CEO Vijayakumar

India’s third-largest information technology (IT) services player was also the fastest-growing large global technology company for four consecutive years ended March 2020. C VIJAYAKUMAR, Chief Executive Officer, HCL Technologies, talks about the drivers of this growth, the company’s acquisitions and what the future looks like, in an interview to Shivani Shinde. Edited excerpts:

From becoming the third-largest IT services player to maintaining this growth consistently, what worked for HCL Technologies?

I would put down our success to a few simple factors — our Mode 1-2-3 strategy, our relentless focus on execution and our cultural fabric of “employees first” and customer-focused