Abhijit Dubey , Global CEO at NTT Ltd , speaks about his 20-year journey from career consultant to being tasked with expanding NTT ’ s business outside Japan
Abhijit Dubey is Global Chief Executive Officer for NTT Ltd , a member of the Board of Directors for NTT Ltd , and a member on the advisory board of NTT Venture Capital .
At McKinsey & Company – where he was Senior Partner and core leader of the Global Tech , Media and Telecom Practice – Dubey advised technology companies for over 20 years on a range of topics , including strategy , go-to-market transformation , product and software development , operations excellence , organisational effectiveness , M & A , and post-merger integration .
Founding McKinsey ’ s cloud practice in 2004 , Dubey led the North America Software sector for several years and co-founded its internal venture organisation , chartered with transforming McKinsey into an assetbased consulting firm .
From career consultant to Global CEO As Dubey described in an interview with Technology Magazine , there are a number of changes in management styles between the fast-moving , Silicon Valley-style approach and the characteristics of an organisation with a more traditional structure , like NTT Ltd .
“ My experience has been that both styles are far more powerful when they coexist ,” he explains . “ In Silicon Valley , there is a mindset to move fast , to be disruptive , and to take risks . The overwhelming focus is on intellectual property differentiation or product or technology differentiation . And , by virtue of that , a lot of the talent is more logicdriven . So it ’ s more about winning the minds of the people .
“ If you switch over to a very traditional Japanese company – even though NTT Ltd is a global company with global leadership and employees – there are differences . Because they take a very long-term and patient perspective , there is less risk-taking . Instead of focusing purely on technology or superiority , there is a real focus on quality and quality of delivery . EXECUTIVE BIO
ABHIJIT DUBEY
TITLE : GLOBAL CEO COMPANY : NTT LTD INDUSTRY : IT SERVICES LOCATION : UK
Global CEO for NTT Ltd
Abhijit Dubey joined the company in 2021 from McKinsey & Company . At McKinsey , Abhijit advised technology companies for over 20 years on a range of topics . He founded McKinsey ’ s cloud practice in 2004 and led the North America Software sector for several years .
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