wipro announced a major reorganization on monday that included creating the position of a chief operating officer a position that will be filled by former tcs veteran abid ali neemuchwala in an exclusive interaction with toi ceo t k kurien says he has a punishing schedule that leaves him with little time to pause and think about the technologyled disruptions shaping the it services world and how wipro needs to respond the 54yearold kurien travelled 222 days last year for official purposes and sleeps for no more than fourandahalf hours each day kurien says neemuchwala will help to give him more time to envision the future many see neemuchwala as your successor i know all you guys think so dont bet on it thats not the reason for these changes i have been consistently saying that the next ceo of wipro will come from wipro so there is a future for people who are here many people who look at the president promotions and believe these are the next people in line it may not be the case abid has got his role cut out for him im sure hes a great guy and he will do well but there is no natural thing that hes the heir apparent why did you create a coo position im getting caught up too much in operations and if i dont pull myself out of operations the long term part of what i need to do will never fall in place five years ago technology cycles used to be seven years that is now down to three my sense is this will soon hit the 18 months to 2 year timeframe its extremely important for us to have a medium term view on which way technology is going and what we need to do behind that to organize ourselves effectively for delivery in our business customers buy surety of delivery i also need to do a lot of work in terms of building the second and third level of management and im just not doing enough in terms of building the wipro brand globally our brand is not well known we are so understated because thats our culture it starts from my boss i guess we need to build the brand in our business hype carries technology is all about selling what you dont have and hoping like hell that you will deliver so what will be your next technology focus i believe the digital business is the next business we are going to break out digital from the rest of the group its going to be one of the top three service lines in the next three years it will be a separate group with its own culture process skillsets compensation we will make the announcement very soon how many people will you have in digital what kind of work will they do it will not be more than 400500 people their job will be to reimagine a process completely to make