Wipro to trim away some managerial layers for a leaner structure

Wipro, which is India's third-largest software exporter, has decided to go leaner with its organizational structure, a move that would require it to trim excess layers of managers and executives from the company. This has come after CEO Abidali Neemuchwala decided to make the organisation more decentralised, following a similar move by arch rival Infosys earlier this year.

Neemuchwala has put together a dedicated team to focus on this leaning exercise, which would help in faster decisions.

"The lower-end of the pyramid will get automated. We may end up seeing something like a diamond-shape, more than a pyramid shape within the organisation structure. Again, there are certain structures which drive some of that non-linearity and automation are also important," Neemuchwala said.

"Our robotics team and our MIT engine which focuses on all of the non-linearity are the structural changes that we have put in place. All of that is in place and there is a team up and running doing that," he added.

The de-layering is also important because Wipro is finding it hard to register even high single-digit growth rates, having consistently lagged behind its peers over the past decade.

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