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Wipro Merges Consulting, AI, and Business Services Fully
Wipro is trying to fix consulting's oldest scam. For decades, companies have paid huge sums for elegant strategy decks that arrive DOA at the implementation phase. The new plan stitches consulting, AI, and the actual grunt work of business services into a single, supposedly seamless pipeline. The goal is to stop strategies from dying in a handoff.
"Enterprises today are struggling to modernise operations amid outdated models and stalled transformation efforts, with AI hype that isn't translating into results and consulting-to-execution journeys that remain fragmented and slow," said Amit Kumar, managing partner and global head of consulting, Wipro Limited, in a statement. "By bringing our functional consulting expertise together with business process services, we are providing clients with a persona-based, end-to-end enterprise transformation strategy anchored in a functional context. This holistic strategy-to-execution journey allows clients to realise measurable value faster and generate real impact from AI initiatives." Under the new approach, Wipro has now positioned consulting as the upstream transformation engine.
The company's consulting teams will work with CXOs to define AI strategy, future-state operating models and outcome-based transformation goals. As engagements move into the solutioning phase, Wipro Consulting teams will design human-centric, AI-powered operating models, alongside process re-engineering and scenario modelling, to ensure solutions are built for execution rather than remaining at the design stage. Delivery will then be driven by Wipro's Business Process Services (BPS) teams, which will deploy AI-enabled automation, predictive insights and continuous optimisation across business operations.
The model is supported by the Wipro Intelligence suite of AI-powered solutions and platforms, which the company said will be applied across the entire engagement lifecycle--from solutioning to delivery--to ensure AI adoption is systematic and aligned with business outcomes rather than limited to isolated pilots. Jasjit Singh Kang, managing partner and global head of business process services, Wipro Limited, said that AI-embedded operations, underpinned by deeply contextual solutions, are the future of the intelligence-driven enterprise.
The mechanics are straightforward. Consultants design the AI strategy and operating model. Then the same company's business process teams, who actually run things like payroll or customer service, take that design and build it directly into daily operations using their Wipro Intelligence toolkit.
No third-party contractors. No forgotten blueprints.
This is a structural bet. It assumes the real barrier to AI value isn't technology but organizational friction. A pilot project in a lab is just theatre.
Embedding predictive automation into a live finance or HR workflow is different. It's also much harder.
If it works, it makes the traditional consultancy model look brittle. If it fails, it will be a very expensive lesson in internal politics. Wipro isn't selling a product here. It's selling accountability, which is a far rarer commodity.
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Common Questions Answered
How is Wipro integrating consulting, AI, and business services in its new operating model?
[wipro.com](https://www.wipro.com) has created a unified framework that combines consulting expertise with business process services and AI capabilities. The model aims to provide end-to-end accountability by grouping key functional areas like People & Change, Supply Chain & Operations, Finance Transformation, and Sales, Marketing & CX under a single umbrella.
What challenges is Wipro addressing with its new enterprise AI-ready platform?
According to [nationaltechnology.co.uk](https://nationaltechnology.co.uk/IBM_And_Wipro_Expand_Partnership_To_Launch_New_AI_Service.php), Wipro is tackling enterprise challenges by expanding its partnership with IBM to launch an AI service using IBM's watsonx platform. The platform includes tools, large language models, streamlined processes, and robust governance to accelerate AI adoption and help enterprises build more integrated, reliable AI solutions.
What are the key objectives of Wipro's Generative AI approach?
[wipro.com](https://www.wipro.com/ai/harnessing-the-power-of-generative-ai/) outlines three core principles for their Generative AI strategy: co-innovating with partners to build solutions that help clients win, enabling employees to upskill and transform productivity, and ensuring the development of explainable, ethical, and responsible AI. The approach focuses on moving from passive AI consumption to becoming proactive AI value creators.
Further Reading
- Wipro Launches a New Operating Model for Enterprise Functions Combining Advisory, AI and Enterprise Transformation Services — Wipro
- Wipro Launches New AI-Powered Operating Model for Enterprise Functions — ScanX Trade
- Wipro unveils unified AI-led enterprise functions model — CFOtech Asia
- Wipro launches consulting-led, AI-powered operating model for enterprise functions — Capital Market
