INM MAGAZINE VOLUME 8 | FEBRUARY 2016
CORPORATE INTERVIEW
Mrs. Snigdha Ghosh Roy
Vice President, ADP
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rs. Snigdha Roy started her career as a Systems Engineer at
CMC in 1996. She then worked for L&T and since then is an
integral part of ADP. She is currently the Vice President at
ADP - Global Product & Technology.
ADP is a comprehensive global provider of cloud-based Human Capital
Management (HCM) solutions that unite HR, payroll, talent, time, tax
and benets administration, and a leader in business outsourcing services,
analytics and compliance expertise. ADP's unmatched experience, deep
insights, and cutting-edge technology have transformed human resources
from a back-ofce administrative function to a strategic business
advantage.
Snigdha is a senior product leadership executive, with a passion for technology, developing customer centric products,
strong business & market orientation who leads product management (strategy/ road-map, conceptualization/
backlog), user experience design, development, devops & support of innovative solutions and business process
management initiatives for enhancing competitiveness, increasing revenues and improving customer experience (NPS).
Product experience includes envisioning, conceptualizing, developing and supporting highly reliable, available, intuitive
and innovative SAAS (cloud) solutions in collaboration with clients and ADP marketing, business strategy, sales,
Infrastructure and business operations teams.
Her domain expertise is primarily in investment banking and human capital management industry
1. Mam, what is your opinion on Entrepreneurship
driving innovations? Do multinational corporations
promote innovation or the does it have a negative impact
on the domestic rms given the size and scale of
operations and the nancial muscle power that the
MNCs have . . . .
“Large MNCs, like ADP are cognizant of the fact that
we cannot innovate at a pace that small players can.”
Large MNCs, like ADP are cognizant of the fact that we
cannot innovate at a pace that small players can.
Entrepreneurs are nimble in decision making, agile in
operations and possess a single minded focus on
executing their strategy to create value for customers
and stakeholders. Market & technology trends, user
needs and nancial ows are very uid making it
extremely challenging to track and lead disruptive
transformational changes. Therefore large MNCs look
forward to creating an ecosystem for players where we
can co-create value for the customers, shareholders,
employees and society. In fact many big rms have set
up corporate venture initiatives to encourage
intrapreneurship. We tell our employees that if you
have ideas with a good revenue model and you're ready
to execute it, we will provide the necessary platform to
take it to market. The encouragement could be in the
form of funding, or sabbatical, or infrastructure support,
etc basically enabling them to pursue their ventures.
Some rms partner with startups or academia,
especially in high risk research or new technology
projects. Some rms have discovered ecosystem
partnerships to be an excellent due diligence tool for
strategic alliances.
At ADP, we have our “Marketplace”, companies can
integrate employee data from ADP core services across
other business systems, providers or platforms. Clients,
partners and developers now have access to ADP's
application programming interfaces (APIs), which can
enable the exchange of data housed in ADP's databases.
By unlocking our APIs, we opened up a world of
possibilities to help companies create a unied HCM
ecosystem informed by a single repository of workforce
data. For e.g., you can create a survey tool or an employee
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