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Organizational readiness dominated the conversation at the Gartner CIO Executive Summit - far more than AI capabilities ever did. Pari Natarajan, CEO, Zinnov, hosted a session where enterprise leaders shared what's actually changing inside their organizations. A clear pattern emerged: governance is expanding beyond IT, contractor models are being rethought, and IT itself is being restructured around product-centric delivery. The driving force? CIOs are no longer evangelizing AI - they're being asked to prove it delivers measurable business impact, financial transparency, and operational discipline. That shift is making ownership structures the real enterprise differentiator - more than models, more than tools. Gartner C-level Communities | Zander Petersen | Evan Morgan   #GartnerClevelCommunities #GartnerCIOCommunities

Closed doors. Strong opinions. High stakes. And one question hanging over every conversation:   Who truly deserves to win?   A first look inside the Zinnov Awards 2026: Jury Deliberations.    More from inside the room soon. #ZinnovConfluence #ZinnovAwards2026

When you've stared mortality in the face, "meaningful work" stops being a cliché. In the latest episode of the #ZinnovPodcast, Jérôme reflects on purpose, impact, and why building more livable cities is a mission worth dedicating his life to. In conversation with Amita Goyal, Managing Partner, Zinnov, Jérôme Selva, Chief Operating Officer, and Sandesh Bhat, Chief Technology Officer, Arrive, explore what it means to build global mobility systems at scale, and the human intent behind solving problems that shape everyday life in cities.   Tune in now: https://lnkd.in/gVUHuDaZ #UrbanMobility #SmartCities #FutureOfMobility

The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled. Recently, Professor Ashish Nanda of Harvard Business School came to do exactly that for our consultants. There is a particular kind of learning that doesn't feel like learning at all. It feels like thinking, hard, honest, energizing thinking, with people who are genuinely in it with you. A select group of Zinnov leaders and consultants spent a day in Prof. Nanda's classroom in Zinnov's Bangalore office, and walked away with more than they came with. We dived into two case studies. Hundreds of questions. A conversation that kept finding new depth. Takeaways that stood out: - The best individual performers carry a particular tension as they grow. The instincts that made them brilliant at their craft need to evolve as they step into leadership. Recognizing that moment, and leaning into it, is where great careers are made. - The second idea was equally powerful. The organisations that truly endure are not the ones chasing the most. They are the ones who know exactly what they want to be extraordinary at and build everything around that clarity. The room brought energy. Professor Nanda brought direction. Together, something genuinely valuable happened. This is the Zinnov way of building its people. And we are just getting started. Nitika Goel (She/Her), Shweta Rani (She/Her), Ravi Darbha, Saurabh Mehta, Sukanya Roy, Denny Joseph, Atul Srivastava, Abhijeet Gogoi, Ashveen Pai, Ayushi Suhaney, CFA, Divyesh Malhotra, Isha Walia, Jitesh Lassi, ieswariya k, Sai Krishna L, Manali De Bhaumik, Piyush Dubey, Rakshith Shetty, Sa'ad Shaikh, Sangharsh Bhondekar, Sarthak Singal, Shilpa Nayak, Sivaram S, Somasundar Konduri, SPHR(i), Swarnim Banerjee, Tanmoy Nayak (He/Him), Vipin Alexander, Sreekrishna Yaddanapudi #ZinnovAcademy #Zinnov #Harvard

India's third act - Scaling AI at population scale Mobile. UPI. IT services. India often enters after the first wave, scales faster than anyone expects, and reshapes the economics for the rest of the world. AI is now following the same script: the models were built elsewhere, but India is already one of the world’s largest and deepest AI adoption markets. Act 3 is where it gets interesting. Indian startups are building for real sectors, GCCs are plugging into that capability, and underneath it all sits digital public infrastructure that no other market can shortcut. India has always been where technology finds population scale. AI will be no different. It was an honour to partner with OpenAI and Z47 to document the state of AI in India. Thanks to the exceptional Zinnov team!

Nilesh Thakker will join the GCC panel at The Economic Times Future of Knowledge Work Summit in Bengaluru on 17 June, alongside leaders discussing the changing role of GCCs in the global enterprise. India’s GCC ecosystem has spent decades building institutional capability at scale. As technology reshapes the flow of knowledge work, the conversation is increasingly shifting toward how centres deepen enterprise ownership, shape strategic decisions, and evolve beyond traditional operating mandates. At Zinnov, we believe the centres that continue to move up the value chain - faster than the work beneath them gets automated - will define the next decade of the ecosystem. To register, head to: https://lnkd.in/gffJ9n4k 🔗 Adnan Furniturewalla, Janice Vaz, Soumya Shankar #FutureOfKnowledgeWork #ETSummit #AITransformation

In our conversations with 100+ enterprise CXOs, nearly 2 in 3 mature adopters said they are already allocating more than 10% of their software budgets to AI, with spend increasingly shifting away from outsourcing and legacy software.   That level of investment is starting to change how enterprises think about AI itself.   The companies moving ahead are no longer treating AI as an add-on to existing workflows. They are redesigning workflows around AI. More in the article below. ⬇️ The detailed report, created in collaboration with OpenAI and Z47, can be accessed here: https://lnkd.in/gmS6eygn Vikram Vaidyanathan, Ashwin Kannan, Aniket Niranjan Mishra, Yashasvi Madhogaria, Vineet Kanabar, Madhavi Varanasi, Thomas Jeng, Pragya Misra, Nitika Goel (She/Her), Sidhant R., Rajat Kohli, Atul Srivastava, Ridhi Kalra Madan, Shradha Dutta #IndiaAI #EnterpriseAI #AITransformation

Over the last six days, Southwest Airlines opened its GCC in Hyderabad, isolved expanded its GCC presence in Hyderabad, and Vista Equity Partners-backed Amtech Software launched its center in Bengaluru.   Three enterprises. Three distinct mandates. One unmistakable signal: the India GCC story has entered a different phase.   What once unfolded over quarters is now measured in days. Not because the decisions are lighter, but because the conviction behind them is stronger.   For us at Zinnov, this milestone reflects something built over time, operational discipline, institutional knowledge, and 220+ GCC journeys helping global enterprises build in India, and increasingly, for the world.   To the leaders who trusted us to help build what comes next — thank you.   #poweredbyzinnov #GCC #GlobalCapabilityCenters #Zinnov

Sidhant R., President, Zinnov, along with Ashwin Kannan, Vice President, Z47, joined Sudhi Sachdev on AIM to discuss what separates enterprises experimenting with AI from those creating real value from it.   The companies moving ahead are not forcing AI adoption top-down. They are enabling teams to discover and scale use cases organically before governance layers come in.   As Sidhant explains, the difference between adoption and transformation is increasingly becoming a leadership and operating model question, not just a technology one.   Read the full report here: https://lnkd.in/gKux5nXr   Vikram Vaidyanathan, Ashwin Kannan, Aniket Niranjan Mishra, Yashasvi Madhogaria, Vineet Kanabar, Madhavi Varanasi, Thomas Jeng, Pragya Misra, Nitika Goel (She/Her), Sidhant R., Rajat Kohli, Atul Srivastava, Ridhi Kalra Madan, Adnan Furniturewalla, Janice Vaz, Shradha Dutta   #GCCIndia #IndiaAI #OpenAI

AI is reshaping the economics of GCC talent. As compensation, productivity expectations, and team structures continue to diverge around critical capabilities, GCCs are being pushed to rethink how talent is built, rewarded, and deployed. Nitika Goel (She/Her) was recently featured in The Times Of India discussing how these shifts are redefining India’s GCC operating model. To know more, download our Salary, Attrition & Hiring Report – India GCCs 2026: https://lnkd.in/ghRnvRZe Shilpa Phadnis, Namita Adavi, Sukanya Roy, Megha Deb, Harsha Raj Satyavarapu, Mahima Garg, Adnan Furniturewalla, Janice Vaz #IndiaGCCs #attrition #TalentStrategy