‘Gut, data, gut’: Cognizant CEO on ‘building’ a decision in business—’Scientific approach a huge blessing…’ | Company Business News-OxBig News Network

Cognizant CEO Ravi Kumar S believes that the scientific approach to businesses is a huge blessing. “The ability to build a thesis, validate a thesis, iterate the thesis, and build a new hypothesis, I think, is a fascinating grounding. I also have this unique draw from the job where you build your decision support on a combination of gut, data and gut,” said Kumar in an interview to news website Semafor.

: For the first 20% to 30% you run on gut because you have a curious mind and you’re asking questions; and the next 40% you layer it with data; and then you double down on gut again because you don’t want to miss the bus. Science is a very curious discipline, so it helps you to stay curious and hungry

Semafor is a news website founded in 2022 by Ben Smith, a former editor-in-chief of BuzzFeed News and media columnist at The New York Times, and Justin B. Smith, the former CEO of Bloomberg Media Group.