Chandrasekaran's 6 months as chairman: 'One Tata' focus is the key message

Swift hirings and consolidation of group companies are in the works

In April, Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull visited Tata Consultancy Services’ Banyan Park campus in Mumbai to explore tech partnerships. Turnbull’s visit created a buzz at TCS, but there’s more. This centre, for long a hub for India’s largest software exporter to showcase its digital capabilities to global customers, is witnessing “much more traffic” from within the group. Top executives cutting across the Tata Group companies are visiting the centre now like never before.

That change came gradually after N Chandrasekaran, the former TCS boss, took over as the Tata Sons chairman on February 21. Six months later, insiders say