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Mack Institute Spring Conference

Tri Pham and Ankur Jindal

16th MAY 2017

EMERGING TECHNOLOGY STRATEGY AND INNOVATION

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Introduction

How we are Innovating at Tata Communications

Case Study: Mobility and IoT enabled Digital Transformation

Summary

AGENDA

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OUR STRATEGY

Make everything

Mobile compatible

Provide world-

class customer

service

Be the ‘Uber’

of Telecom

Be a global leader in

Cloud enablement

Make the

Internet fit

for business

Co-creating with partners

Empowering people

Delivering new services

Innovating




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How are we Innovating at Tata Communications

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LEVERAGE TECHNOLOGY INNOVATION FOR MULTI-FOLD OBJECTIVE

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Q1'14 Q2'14 Q3'14 Q4'14 Q1'15 Q2'15 Q3'15 Q4'15 Q1'16 Q2'16 Q3'16 Q4'16

Telco CVCs investments between Jan’14 and Nov’16

IT/Automation/

Analytics

Security

IoT

Media

Mobile enablementNW Softwarisation

Collaboration/UCC

Cloud enablement

Vertical services

Explore futuristic disruptive

technologies

New product / platform development

Innovative features in existing products

/ fill existing roadmap gap

Efficiency improvement / operations

transformation

Investment in Emerging Technologies TCL Innovation objectives

To accelerate product development, we prefer a Partnership led approach with selective

investments for strategic leverage






FRAMEWORK

INNOVATION AT TCL

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CULTURE OF

INNOVATION

IDEA

FUNNELINCUBATION

SCALE

OR KILLPARTNERSHIPS INVESTMENTS

Crowdsourcing employees

Incubate projects

Internal

Tap into start-up community

Scout breakthrough technology

External Venturing






INTERNAL INNOVATION │USES INTRAPRENEURSHIP TO UNCOVER AND DEVELOP NEW OPPORTUNITIES

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Iterative

market-fit

validation

Separate from

BaU processes

Scale-up

(existing

or new

business unit)

Initial POCs:

first paying

customers

INCUBATION

In House

Contest

(Shape the

Future)

Speed | Agility | Cost effectiveness






INTERNAL INNOVATION │7 NEW BUSINESSES ARE BORN

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8 INCUBATED

PROJECTS

7 ARE STILL LIVE

EdifyMyWorld

(Online Education)

Mobile Money

Enablement

SaaS - NetfoundryUltra Narrowband

IoT

IOT Security

Mobile Connect

WiFi in Rural India






EXTERNAL VENTURING │ACCESS TO INNOVATIVE TECHNOLOGY AND STARTUPS

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NEW TRENDS &

TECHNOLOGY SHIFTS

SPEED UP

TIME TO MARKET

CO-CREATE

NEW MARKET

OPPORTUNITIES

Partnering with VC, incubators, govt. bodies and start-ups

Silicon Valley | Israel | Singapore | France | Bengaluru

Focus on few high impact themes in view of industry shifts and LOB priorities;

Help LOBs connect to start-ups and accelerate innovation






INNOVATION THEMES

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TCL Roadmap / Priorities Disruptive Technologies

• Deep learning

• Machine learning / Artificial

intelligence

• Business Analytics

• Augmented Reality / Virtual Reality

• Edge computing, networks & analytics

• Managed Security Services

• Mobile Platform Development

• End-to-end IoT services

• Software defined / application aware

networks and security

• Cloud managed orchestration service

enablement






ENGAGEMENT | ALIGN OBJECTIVES AND APPROACH TO START-UP PRIORITIES

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Hyper-growth

Hyper focused

Exit oriented

• Provide access to TCL’s global large enterprise and MNC customer base

• Accelerate time to market - from evaluation to POC to commercial launch / revenue

• Align TCL roadmap priorities and start-up’s product development focus

• Explore potential investment if of strategic interest to both partner and TCL

Start-up priorities How TCL can align with start-up priorities?

Promotes aligned objectives, agility in innovation and fast time to market advantage

Resource

constrained

• Joint productization and go to market with focus on speed to innovate

• TCL provides sales and customer support to enable start-ups to scale up faster





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Case Study

Mobility and IoT enabled Digital Transformation

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MOBILITY AND IOT | DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION JOURNEY

THE BEGINNING: Basic communication devices

TRANSFORMING: ‘Mobile first’ for humans

and machines

MISSION CRITICAL: Always on, secure, productive,

mobile aware

CONNECT AND MANAGE: Cross border, many devices,

complex requirements

The CIO’s desire…

API CONSUMPTION

$ / Sub / Device / GB

Everything mobile

enabled, cross

border and global

DISTRIBUTION

SUPPORT

PRODUCTS

SERVICES

Case Study






ENABLING ENTERPRISES AND OTHER SERVICE PROVIDERS TO UNLOCK POTENTIAL OF MOBILE-FIRST WORLD

MOVE | CLOUD-BASED MOBILITY PLATFORM

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BEST IN CLASS APIsGLOBAL MOBILE NETWORK AS A SERVICE

B2B GLOBAL MOBILE SERVICESENABLING SERVICES FOR HUMAN (B2B/ROAMING) AND IOT

MOVE

APIs

TATA GLOBAL NETWORK• Leverage international network

• Human and machine use cases

• Globally distributed

infrastructure and resources

• eSIM, SoftSIM ready

• Single global contract

• Single service Layer / APIs

KEY CAPABILITIESAVAILABLE AS A SERVICE TO MNOs/ MVNOs

Flexible SIM

and IMSI

technology

Case Study - External Venturing






INDIA | INDUSTRIAL IOT SOLUTIONS

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Delhi

MumbaïBengaluru

Pan India LORA* Network with end-

to-end managed IoT offering

* LORA – Low power Radio Access

2014

2015

2016

2017

• Winner of cross-company innovation contest

• Dedicated team separate from BaU

• Milestone / success based incentives

• Launch of India’s 1st pan-India dedicated IoT network

• 1st customers signed; 40+ Customer POCs underway

• Board approval to invest and scale up

Case Study - Internal Innovation






TO SUMMARIZE

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Emerging technologies enabling industry digitization and driving investments

TCL innovation efforts aligned to our vision that places customers and partners at the center while leveraging emerging technologies

We complement a strong intrapreneurship program with external venturing efforts focused on co-creation

Aligned incentives both internally and externally to drive effective outcomes for all our stakeholders






THANK YOU

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