From Innovations To Jobs: Inside Lenovo India's Gameplan

From Make in India, Al innovations to strategy shift, Shailendra Katyal, Lenovo India MD, shares his playbook for the market.

- BY SHRABONA GHOSH

For any mouse potato - Lenovo is synonymous with PCs - a global brand, thriving locally for 20-plus years in India. The brand secured the second position in the overall PC market in India, with a 20.3 per cent share in 2Q25 and 19.6 per cent in 1H25, according to an IDC report. “We celebrated 20 years of going global and we’ve grown significantly over the last two decades in India. The future here looks even brighter,” said Shailendra Katyal, vice president and MD, Lenovo India. Lenovo's portfolio spans across its phone business (Motorola), PCs, tablets, server and storage vertical. The technology disruption with AI has led to stronger demand for its products. In the first quarter of FY25/26, Lenovo India clocked $960 million in revenue, marking a 34 per cent year-on-year (YoY) growth. For the fiscal year FY24/25 Lenovo India's revenue stood at $3.37 billion, 67 per cent YoY growth compared with the previous year.

The aspiration doesn't stop here, the company is pushing the pedal to reinvent itself in the country. With innovations shaping up the future of businesses, is it really possible to predict how opportunities will shape up for the next decade or so? Katyal breaks that down for us in this exclusive conversation.

INNOVATIONS & AI INITIATIVES

For the past six decades, humans have been trying to make the machine more sentient and intelligent. And finally the expectations are coming together in the last two to three years. Katyal believes artificial intelligence (AI) is still at the early cusp of evolution. Lately, the entire conversation has moved from computational power to agentic AI.