On 25th April, 2018, we brought together industry leaders from leading organizations to discuss ‘Talent in the Era of Digital Transformation”. The key focus of the evening was to learn about how hiring the right talent is now the most critical differentiator in each of their respective organisations, and how a talent-focused strategy is the only way to maintain a competitive advantage.

1. Talent In the Era of Digital Disruption
Talent In the Era of Digital Disruption
25th April, 2018 | Bangalore
Belong & Matrix Partners present:

2. The invite-only event brought together some of the most prominent business and
technology leaders from disruptive companies such as Intuit, ANZ, Phonepe, Nutanix, Dell,
Flipkart and more.

3. Tarun Davda, Managing Director at Matrix Partners, presented key insights on how and
why talent is a key priority for the firm.

4. Ganesh Lakshminarayanan, COO of Capillary Technologies moderated the evening and led
the discussion on all things related to Recruitment and Talent Management.

5. Question 1: What are some of the new age processes and technologies that you have
adopted within HR?

6. "We need to invest in bringing in the best
talent and cannot expect them to apply to us.
At Mindtree, we are using bots across our HR
processes to deliver a great CX (candidate
experience). This is helping us attract the best
talent."
Krishnakumar Natarajan,
Executive Chairman, Mindtree

7. "We want to be seen as a startup, not as a
3000 member GIC, hence we are re-shuffling
the way we operate. Surprisingly in this
journey we’ve discovered that our top
performers may not fit the bill. Teamwork is
becoming increasingly important for agile
environments to succeed"
Pankajam Sridevi,
Managing Director, ANZ

8. "From an HR perspective - unless the HR
function transforms, the organisation won’t.
We’ve built technology liberally for our HR
teams and leveraged startups as well, Belong
being one of them."
Avnish Sabharwal,
Managing Director, Accenture

9. "We need to rethink talent management. Top talent
have several more choices today, so we need to take
a candidate-first approach and ensure that hiring
managers are equipped to articulate well on how the
role and the career opportunity at the Firm resonates
with the candidate’s career aspirations. Employers
and hiring managers need to take greater effort at
career management and it starts from the hiring
phase. This is something we are very focused on at
Morgan Stanley”.
Manoj Menon,
Executive Director & COO, Morgan Stanley

10. "Leadership should be directly involved in
attracting the best talent, I have ensured this
is institutionalised as a process at Flipkart.
This has helped us stay ahead of the curve."
Ravi Garikipati,
Chief Technology Officer, Flipkart

11. "Feedback is one of the biggest differentiators
at Phonepe, feedback needs to be decoupled
with compensation as a part of the process.
Critical feedback process and transparency
has helped us improve over time. It has also
helped us operate without Managers. We are
a 120 member Engineering organisation with
only 2 managers."
Rahul Chari,
Co-founder, PhonePe

12. Question 2: How are new-age companies today using Talent as a differentiator?

13. "We’ve always found that founder-first
organisations have prioritised talent and those
are the ones that have truly succeeded.
Founders across our portfolio companies
especially those who have prioritised talent
have thus succeeded"
Karthik Reddy,
Managing Director, Blume Ventures

14. "In our journey with Minjar, now Nutanix, talent
has played a key role. We were given special
importance and we ourselves made special
checks/balances to ensure that the Nutanix
culture and ours at Minjar had enough value
systems in common. This ensured that we are
created a much broader impact across the
organisation"
Anand Anand,
Co-founder, Minjar

15. "Our culture is employee first. Our CEO
emphasis that employees are like air and
shareholders are like food. In other words, you
can survive without shareholders/investors
but surely not without employees. This is our
biggest differentiator in creating a talent brand
that resonates with top talent"
Vijay Anand,
Managing Director, Intuit

16. "Our customers are today using Talent NPS to
define the candidate experience and this not
only helps them keep the necessary checks and
balances but also ensures accountability in the
recruiting process."
Vijay Sharma,
Co-founder & CEO, Belong.co

17. Ravi Garikpati, CTO at Flipkart in a candid chat with KK, Mindtree's Executive
Chairman and Nipun Mehrotra, Chief Digital Officer at IBM.

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