Wipro's strategy: Innovation push, global hiring

Our goal is to increase the talent pool we can hire from. We're working with colleges [in the U.S.] to change their [syllabi] and make their graduates more industry ready. We've teamed up with educational institutions in Atlanta the same way we have in India because there's a difference between what students are being taught and what we need. Our employees need to be able to work in a team environment. So we offer a program where they can do a project for us in their final year of school and that decreases the amount of training they have to do when we hire them. It's important to make the university programs more relevant for industry. We're hiring 15,000 new employees this year.

Do you see Wipro's corporate culture changing at all as it becomes more global

Paul: Our biggest space continues to be India. Most [about 60,000] of our 72,000 employees continue to be in India. We want to be a global system integrator, so in that sense nationality is not a big consideration. But our culture is still based in India. By and large, we're still a very techie-oriented firm. Engineering is in our genes from the chairman downward. We are also very committed to learning. We're investing in training and assimilation, so our culture will continue on as we go global. We've also introduced a training program where we take global hires to India for six weeks. We find that the orientation is much easier to do than in the past when training was done in the local geography.