Airtel is the world’s third-largest telco with ~400 million subscribers in 16 countries and provides mobile telecom, fixed-line and WiFi broadband, voice, DTH, services to both consumers and businesses. It is building a growing portfolio of consumer internet and fintech properties; Airtel Payments Bank, Airtel TV, Wynk Music etc.

It generates 100’s of trillions of records annually from calls, networks, apps, IoT devices, phones, GPS and more. Very few entities in India, or globally, come even within the (lower) order of magnitude of this volume of data. 

Tenet 1: Understand, articulate and internalize the purpose of the data group and set the vision.

Tenet 2: Hire the best leaders and provide them with freedom, flexibility and support.

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