New Delhi, Feb. 25 -- Tata Consultancy Services Ltd CEO K. Krithivasan has issued a directive to the top brass: build or become obsolete. In a push towards an AI-first future, he warned that while junior associates in India's largest IT services exporter are mastering generative tools, senior management is still reading and hearing rather than creating.

"What we find is that our associates at the junior level are probably more proficient, more comfortable with the new technology. As people go to the senior level, we tend to read a lot, hear about them a lot, but we don't build enough (solutions)," said Krithivasan, during a fireside chat in the Nasscom Technology and Leadership Forum in Mumbai.

"So, we need to define and basically insis...