Tomas Hult speaks with Sunil Mithas, Professor of Operations and Information Technologies, at the Robert Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland, and a native of India.

They discuss the following:

1. Sometimes called the GE of India, the Tata Group has gone from about $6 billion in revenue in 1992, to more than $100 billion today;
2. What the secret of this Indian giant’s success is; and
3. In Sunil’s book, Making the Elephant Dance, the analytics-driven approach to encouraging innovation among employees at the Tata Group is discussed.