Leadership Podcast Series by BCG in India

Rahul Guha, BCG alumnus and Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer, Thyrocare Technologies Ltd, shares the importance of mentoring and building trust as crucial factors for organizations to succeed today. He states that both key leadership lessons were picked up from his days at the Boston Consulting Group. In this podcast, he elaborates on how in an era of rapid technology disruptions, the BCG experience cuts through the clutter to foster a culture of meritocracy and high performance that goes hand in hand with purpose. He emphasizes this as the reason why most CEOs look at BCG as a thought leader, a pioneer of new thoughts and ideas, a place that often finds the right answer to a quintessential C-suite question: what the next big thing is, and how does one achieve it.

Priyanka Aggarwal, Managing Director & Partner, co-lead, India Healthcare Practice, BCG India and Dr. Sangita Reddy, Joint Managing Director, Apollo Hospitals Group, discuss the emergence of digital healthcare in India as an idea whose time has come and its broader social and economic implications on a new India seeking to assert itself as a global economic power. In this podcast, they discuss some of the key drivers behind the rapid digitization of India’s healthcare ecosystem, including the Covid-19 pandemic that brought the world’s healthcare systems to a halt but also forced governments and industries around the world to reimagine healthcare delivery models and embrace the digital transformation of the sector.

Prateek Roongta, Partner and Managing Director, and Karthik Raghupathy, Head of Strategy and Investor Relations at PhonePe, discuss at length the key drivers of the rapid growth of India’s digital payments ecosystem—one that will nearly triple to $10 trillion by 2026 from the current $3 trillion. The podcast underscores why cash will no longer remain king by 2026, the year when we are likely to see two out of every three payment transactions being digitized and, thus, inverting the digital (non-cash) contribution to payments by value from approximately 40% today to about 65% by 2026.

In this episode, Abheek Singhi, Senior Partner and Managing Director at BCG India holds forth on several key themes related to India’s rise as one of the world’s fastest-growing consumer markets, the visible and the not-so-visible growth drivers, and explains why, contrary to a dominant perception, India is no longer just an urban-male focused market.