HCL spotlighted as a case study in David G Thomson's global bestseller (Revised Edition) 'Blueprint to a Billion'

After Harvard Business School and London Business School's case studies on HCL's “Employee First” management approach, now David G. Thomson's bestselling book ‘Blueprint to a Billion' has been revised and the new edition spotlights HCL as a case study of "exponential growth"! This is the third consecutive case study on HCL's innovative management practices featured by some of the world's most eminent and distinguished voices.

HCL is the only company outside U.S. to be cited as a case study in this edition, . The first edition profiled global leaders like SAP.

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The ‘Blueprint to a Billion' is a bestseller which was first released in 2005. Based on years of in-depth research, David Thomson's ‘Blueprint to a Billion' provides the first quantitative assessment of the success pattern common across a distinct group of 387 "blueprint companies"-the 5% that have IPO'd since 1980 and grown to $1 billion in revenue. They represent America's highest growth companies; they uniquely achieved exponential revenue growth and returns.

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DAVID G. THOMSON has been leading business growth for twenty years in general management and executive sales/ marketing at Nortel Networks and Hewlett-Packard. He also served as an associate principal during his five years at McKinsey & Company. Thomson graduated with an electrical engineering degree from the University of Waterloo and an MBA from the University of Western Ontario. He resides with his family in Overland Park, Kansas.

HCL Technologies CEO Vineet Nayar and Bestselling Author David Thomson Host Executive Roundtable, Offering Blueprint For Achieving Growth During Turbulent Economy

HarwardJune 3: David Thomson and HCL Technologies, CEO hosted a forum of leading business and technology executives at the Harvard Club, in New York. HCL Technologies's CEO Vineet Nayar, architect of the company's widely acclaimed "Employee First" change management initiative and rapid ascent in the IT services industry, and David G. Thomson, author of the bestselling business book, Blueprint to a Billion: 7 Essentials to Achieve Exponential Growth, delivered a leadership and management manifesto for helping business executives more effectively achieve organizational optimization, while investing for the next growth cycle. Know more...

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  • "In 2008, BusinessWeek ranked the 20 most influential companies in the World1-an elite group that included Wal-Mart, Toyota, Microsoft, Unilever, Apple, and Google. A newcomer to this elite list was HCL Technologies. HCL was founded in India, entered the global IT market in 1999 (following its IPO), and has gone on to become a global leader in IT services."
  • "HCL’s "Blue Print" Achieves Exponential Growth"
  • "Keeping customers happy pays off-and HCL makes a practice of it."
  • "HCL is a company truly committed to success and technology..."
  • "HCL could improve the economic return for its customer in more ways than the customer had ever experienced before. While competitors had aspired to achieve this level of sophistication in response to customer demand, it had rarely been achieved. HCL led the way."
  • "We selected HCL Technologies because of its commitment to task. When we met the HCL executives, including Vineet Nayar, we saw that they were clearly committed to making Cummins a better company by partnering with us and helping us driving our costs down."
  • "These insights still define HCL’s Blue Print, and the result has been a five-year compounding revenue growth rate of 63 percent."
 
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