SynopsisIn 2003 Tata Consultancy Services set itself a mission: Top Ten by 2010 . In 2009 a year ahead of schedule TCS made good on that promise: in fourteen years the company had transformed itself from the $400 million operation that S. Ramadorai inherited as CEO in 1996 to one of the world''s largest IT software and services companies with more than 160000 people working in forty-two countries and with annual revenues of over $6 billion.The TCS story is one of modern India''s great success stories. In this fascinating book S. Ramadorai one of the country''s most respected business leaders recounts the steps to that extraordinary success. The inside story of one of India''s premier corporate institutions this is also in part a history of the rapidly developing IT software and services industry in India told from the perspective of an industry leader.Behind the phenomenon called TCS lies a quest for excellence and an attention to detail captured in the company''s motto Experience Certainty that can benefit any organization. There is a great deal to be learnt from the TCS example and Ramadorai outlines a vision for the future where the quality initiatives he undertook can be applied to a larger national framework. This is a book that every Indian who is committed to building a better and more productive future must read.�Ram is a key member of the close-knit team which has made TCS into an end-to-end global IT services company; this is a narration of the company''s transformational journey which deserves to be widely read.About AuthorBorn in 1944 into a Brahmin family at Nagpur Subramaniam Ramadorai is a man steeped in simplicity and discipline. Ramadorai retired as CEO & MD of Tata Consultancy Services in 2009 after serving the company for thirty-seven years; he continues with TCS in the capacity of Vice-Chairman and is actively involved as Chairman/Director of various Tata and non-Tata companies and educational institutions.Ramadorai was awarded the Padma Bhushan one of India''s highest civilian honoursin 2006 and the CBE in 2009. His wife Mala is an accomplished musician and an active ; his son Tarun is a Reader in Finance at the said Business School while his daughter-in-law Purnima is a film producer in the UK where she runs her own production company. Mala and Ram live in Mumbai.About NarratorThe humble admittance of S.Ramadorai for being less expressive and an unplanned writer augurs well. Like an efficient professional and unintended writer he keeps progressing with neutrality in the initial pages of his autobiography The TCS Story. Henceforth the narration drives in rhythm once the TCS story enters in his present cognition. When someones occupation started routing the fore things take place in different resolution. Author himself being one of the catalysts of Indias new economy could easily relate his own progress across the ladder with the changing developmental landscape of this nation. His rise or TATAs rise simply reminds the progress India has made over the years. But neither this book nor any other inserted views from outside would falsify that the progress of nation is below the potential?TATA is a big brand or even more than only a brand tag its the height of Indias entrepreneurial drive. Indias largest business conglomerates so motto �leadership with trust �is justified throughout its long course of existence in the diverse domains. The nationalist legacy of the two great business leaders Jamshetjee Tata and J.R.D Tatas has still not come to halt in different companies of TATA group. Much before the philanthropy stuck western world first as fashion and later as profitable holy business founder of TATA used to return the two third of his earnings to the nation. Numbers of the institutions made by TATA like TIFR TISS IISc or the city of Jamshedpur simply reminds the essentiality and scope of sustainable business in longer course. Author of this book as the founding member of TCS has lived those ideals and thats easily evident through his honest conviction in writing and undoubtedly through his professional ethics which have been shaping this company very well in decades.