‘Our ambition is to drive digital transformation in India’

French IT services company Capgemini, which has half of its workforce in India, wants to build India as a powerhouse to fuel innovation for the company. In a conversation with BusinessLine, Thierry Delaporte, Chief Operating Officer, Capgemini Group talked about the impact of visa restrictions and how the company is looking at co-innovating with technology companies and start-ups here to compete better in the market. Excerpts:

You’ve just closed your financial year 2018. How would you rate your performance?

In 2018, we had a strong year in terms of performance and in terms of evolution of the way we have driven our priorities. We are stronger today than we were a year ago. What we see, standing here, is no big change in the market. It continues to be a good market with strong demand. We are confident that areas we decided to invest in are areas of high demand.