“Think big, have big aspirations, work hard and work smart, even sky is not the limit,” exhorted S Gopalakrishnan, Co-founder and Executive Vice-Chairman, Infosys Limited, and President of Confederation of Indian Industry, here.
Delivering the address as the chief guest at the 28th Convocation Day of Thiagarajar School of Management (TSM), in the outskirts of the city, he said that the success of Aam Aadmi Party in recent times proved that nothing is impossible.
He pointed out that technology has been changing the daily practices of the human work and computers are becoming more and more powerful and the benefits are to be carried to the lowest strata of the society and made accessible to them.
The current scenario demanded that knowledge be used as a key asset with investment in innovation and research leading the path.
He cited the Google’s use of Crowd sourcing to develop the huge data bank.
Speaking further, he said that every business in the world wants to be in India, and the country could be the lab to the world to produce affordable high quality products. Indian business houses can design the products to meet the unique needs.
This necessitates encouragement of entrepreneurship that is able to develop and sustain without borrowing from the future, he added.
Prof. Gautam Ghosh, Director of TSM, presented the Annual Report for the year 2013-2014. Earlier, Manikam Ramaswami, Chairman, TSM, welcomed the gathering.
A total of 134 students graduated out this year comprising of 24 MCA graduates, 11 PGDM graduates and 99 MBA graduates.
In an interactive session that followed with the students later, Gopalakrishnan touched upon the real spirit of entrepreneurship, Infosys’s Start up Village in Kerala and expectation of the industry for a stable Government at the Centre and a better environment for business and his belief that the Indian economy would grow from a mere 1.8 trillion to a 6 trillion giant.