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And keen to build a knowledge engine in this regard.

What will be your key focus areas in the next twelve to 18 months...

Two things I want to do. Offshoring consulting game is something I am focused on. Building a knowledge engine for it, building a repertoire of consultants offshore and significantly changing the kind of people onsite to be able to drive that consulting game. Again, we have an advantage. We can afford to do it right now.

However, we are not hot on acquiring consultant companies. We will find it difficult to integrate those consultants into our company.

Probably it will be easier if I hire from different parts of the world into a consulting company.

Our onsite story is fairly strong. I will end up quintupling onsite strength. These are no more pre-sales guys but consultants. That's the first big change.

The second big change that the offshore engine from a knowledge management perspective works well for modelling, hypothesis testing and all that.

And there is strong linkage, both from the communication point and the way you work.

You have to create a common time spot, something similar to what the industry did on the IT side. Now, there is a need to talk to each other often, use real time video conferencing or web casts more effectively. You also have to have access to global databases that can be leveraged from offshore. You generally did it onsite and now it can be brought offshore. Now, it's different.

That is one big change. The other big change I see is, we all have functional practices like finance, supply chain management, production management, services management, compliance or quality.

Each of these has huge implications across SAP, Oracle or Microsoft. Now, we are creating a common theme that would help us take this to market.

We are in a consulting mode to a client who wants to choose from any of these.

It is very important that we start to think that way and not let the client think that we are taking sides.

KT and KBK

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