India is the move that changed Target forever ft. Lalit Ahuja
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🎯 Big global bets can start with a simple conversation As e-commerce began reshaping retail in the early 2000s, traditional giants like Target faced a hard truth: transforming from brick-and-mortar to a tech-led company needed an entirely new approach. Lalit Ahuja shares how a chance lunch meeting in 2004 with Bob Ulrich, Target’s legendary CEO, sparked the idea of building Target India, not as a support arm, but as a core engine for digital transformation. The insight was clear: 🔺 Transformation couldn’t be built from headquarters alone 🔺 Outsourcing lacked ownership, context, and empowerment 🔺 Real change needed a dedicated, deeply embedded tech ecosystem That moment laid the foundation for what would become Target India. Sometimes, industry-defining moves begin far away from bo…