Clients will need to keep spending…

It isn’t easy to stump Francisco D’Souza, President and CEO, Cognizant. At age 39, and as CEO of a $3-billion corporation, he has obviously seen a bit and has a hold on most things. This once, though, he needed time to think over his response to our query: If you had a chance to relive the last 12 or 18 months again, given the global turmoil in the period, what would you do different? He says, “It’s been such a whirl for a while that I haven’t really thought about this.” He has promised to revert shortly with his response. Till then, here’s what he had to say to K Bharat Kumar about his company’s recent results and the impact of the slowdown

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