Rajashree R.

Rajashree R.

Rajashree R. is the Global Head of Retail Strategic Initiatives, Products and Innovation at Tata Consultancy Services, a consultancy services company that combines tech expertise and business intelligence to catalyze change and deliver results.

She has spent over 20 years engaging with leading retailers in driving their transformation and innovation programs. In the recent years, she has largely been instrumental in helping retailers adopt a Digital First Model. In her current role, she incubated TCS Optumera™, an AI-based Merchandising suite, TCS Optuscai™, an AI-powered cognitive Supply Chain suite, and TCS Omnistore™, the Industry’s first microservices based Unified Commerce Platform. In addition, she leads the Retail Innovation Lab, which researches and experiments with new technology innovations in retail like AR/VR, Robotics, Image Recognition, Gaming, IoT, etc. Her current area of interest is to infuse Artificial Intelligence across the retail value chain helping retailers innovate to stay ahead and unlock exponential value.
Becoming a Nimbler, Smarter Enterprise in a Business 4.0 World

The retail industry has reached an inflection point where technology-driven transformation is a mainstay and crucial to a company’s growth and market value. From a place of scarcity, we've now migrated to an age of abundance — i.e., we have a plethora of technologies, resources and data. Technologies like artificial intelligence (AI), cloud, and Internet…