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Tata Consultancy Services to Collaborate with the Paley Media Council's Acclaimed Paley Dialogue Series, Featuring Conversations with American Express CMO Elizabeth Rutledge, Delta Air Lines CMO Alicia Tillman, and Host of Mad Money, Jim Cramer

NEW YORK, July 16, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- The Paley Center for Media announces a new partnership with Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) (BSE: 532540, NSE: TCS), a global leader in IT services, consulting, and business solutions, to host the cutting-edge conversations that are a signature of the Paley Media Council's acclaimed Paley Dialogue series. Under this new partnership, TCS will present a series of high-powered conversations in both New York and Los Angeles featuring influential leaders who are reshaping the way we do business.

Paley Dialogues feature timely and informative conversations covering issues such as brand evolution, digital transformation, and the impact of new technologies. The first Paley Dialogue event in this new partnership will feature a conversation with American Express CMO Elizabeth Rutledge and Delta Air Lines CMO Alicia Tillman. The two will discuss how to protect legacy brand integrity while embracing the new media landscape. The conversation will be moderated by Ad Age's Adrianne Pasquarelli and will take place on Wednesday, July 16 at The Paley Museum in Midtown Manhattan.

Other conversations in the series will include the 20^th anniversary of CNBC's Mad Money with host Jim Cramer discussing his groundbreaking career at the intersection of journalism, television, and Wall Street. Cramer will provide sharp insights into how media can influence market behavior and how today's investors—both institutional and individual—navigate an increasingly complex financial landscape. The conversation will take place on October 8. On November 13, Admiral James Stavridis, former NATO Supreme Allies Commander Europe, will discuss the intersection of media and global affairs, including disinformation, AI and deepfakes, leadership and credibility, cybersecurity, and other relevant topics. Both conversations will take place at The Paley Museum.

"We are proud to partner with Tata Consultancy Services to present a series of timely conversations that explore the rapidly evolving media landscape," said Maureen J. Reidy, President & CEO, The Paley Center for Media. "Together, we aim to bring leading voices from across the industry to the forefront, examining the trends, technologies, and ideas shaping the future of media and its impact on society." 

"The Paley Media Council is a vital forum for shaping the future of the media and entertainment industry. As the sector grapples with rapid digital disruption and shifting audience behaviors, it also faces the complex challenge of navigating the AI era — where AI represents both a significant opportunity and a disruptive threat. At TCS, we're helping media enterprises harness the power of AI to drive operational agility, and new revenue streams. We look forward to partnering with Paley in its Dialogue Series to cultivate thought provoking exchanges," said Kapil Varshney, Market Head, TCS - Communications, Media, Entertainment & Information Services Business.

Paley Media Council forums have come to be regarded as one of the most influential gatherings in the industry, bringing together global dignitaries, CEOs, thought leaders, and trendsetters from the world's most important companies including Netflix's Ted Sarandos, YouTube's Neal Mohan, Mattel's Ynon Kreiz, and AMC's Kristin Dolan among others. For more information on the Paley Media Council and its exclusive membership, please visit paleymediacouncil.

About The Paley Center for Media

Founded in 1975 by William S. Paley, The Paley Center for Media is the leading 501(c)(3) nonprofit cultural organization that owns and operates the renowned Paley Museum in New York, recognized as the city's "Best Museum" and "Best Children's Party Place" for two years in a row. The Paley Center sparks dialogue on the cultural, creative, and social impact of media, sports, gaming, tech, and entertainment through dynamic programming and deep industry ties. Visitors can attend premier events in New York and Los Angeles and access the renowned Paley Archive at The Paley Museum in New York and at the Beverly Hills Public Library in Beverly Hills.

About Tata Consultancy Services

Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) (BSE: 532540, NSE: TCS) is a digital transformation and technology partner of choice for industry-leading organizations worldwide. Since its inception in 1968, TCS has upheld the highest standards of innovation, engineering excellence and customer service.

Rooted in the heritage of the Tata Group, TCS is focused on creating long term value for its clients, its investors, its employees, and the community at large. With a highly skilled workforce of over 607,000 consultants in 55 countries and 180 service delivery centres across the world, the company has been recognized as a top employer in six continents. With the ability to rapidly apply and scale new technologies, the company has built long term partnerships with its clients – helping them emerge as perpetually adaptive enterprises. Many of these relationships have endured into decades and navigated every technology cycle, from mainframes in the 1970s to Artificial Intelligence today.

TCS sponsors 14 of the world's most prestigious marathons and endurance events, including the TCS New York City Marathon, TCS London Marathon and TCS Sydney Marathon with a focus on promoting health, sustainability, and community empowerment. TCS generated consolidated revenues of US $30 billion in the fiscal year ended March 31, 2025. For more information, visit www.tcs.com

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• The future of strategy isn't AI — it's the architecture of choice
• New MIT SMR and Tata Consultancy Services study urges leaders to treat decision-making as a system to be designed, not a skill to be exercised

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. and MUMBAI, India, July 15, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Tomorrow's most successful companies won't just use artificial intelligence to analyze data — they will use it to rethink, redesign, and rearchitect better decisions. A new report by MIT Sloan Management Review (MIT SMR) in collaboration with Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) (BSE: 532540, NSE: TCS), a global leader in IT services, consulting, and business solutions, reveals how leading organizations are deploying intelligent choice architectures (ICAs) to gain a competitive edge from better decisions.

These AI-empowered systems strike a novel balance between automating processes and augmenting human insight. ICAs actively generate new strategic options, learn from results, and reshape the landscape of possibilities that executives consider. Rather than simply supporting human judgment, ICAs fundamentally transform how decisions get made. Humans and machines can and should work better together.

"Winning With Intelligent Choice Architectures" details that competitive advantage now flows not from better human judgment alone but from building superior systems that expand, refine, and optimize the choices humans ultimately make.  

The year-long research into ICAs that was conceptualized and executed jointly by MIT SMR and TCS drew insights from business leaders and top executives across six major industries. These included experts and pioneers from Mayo Clinic, Sanofi, Cummins, Walmart, Meta, Mastercard, and Pernod Ricard. The research identifies a critical shift: AI is moving from adviser to architect. Companies that master this transition are pulling ahead of those still trapped in traditional decision-making frameworks.

"ICAs flip the script," said Michael Schrage, MIT Sloan IDE research fellow and report coauthor. "They do not just learn from decisions — they learn how to improve the environment in which decisions are made. That's not analytics, that's architecture."

Organizations embracing ICAs do not just automate decisions; they design how they govern decision environments. The result? Decisions become faster, smarter, more accessible, and more accountable. Both human and machine agency are clearly defined, auditable, and aligned with purpose. "This isn't AI as copilot," said David Kiron, editorial director, research, of MIT Sloan Management Review. "This is AI and humans working together as architects to redesign how people perceive, weigh, and act on choices."

The ICA Imperative

The report outlines how enterprises in financial services, health care, manufacturing, and logistics are prototyping ICAs that extend decision literacy and shift executive roles from arbiters of choices to curators of choice ecosystems. It warns that success depends less on AI capability and more on organizational readiness, urging companies to reflect on questions like:

• Does the company treat decision-making as a designable process?
• Do leaders know what choices they're not seeing?
• Are governance and incentives aligned to optimize option quality, not just decision speed?

Ashok Krish, head, AI Practice, TCS, said, "By augmenting human judgment with machine intelligence, ICAs shift AI from task automation to building superior decision environments. They enable more trackable, traceable outcomes that ensure accountability for complex situations with multiple decision-making factors. They help align talent development strategies with organizational goals, making it easier to identify and nurture high-potential employees in the AI era. Ultimately, ICAs foster environments where human choices and AI work together seamlessly to create connected organization intelligence, where decisions are smarter and more informed."

Decision Rights Are Now a Design Problem

Based on these research findings, the authors warn that if leaders do not explicitly assign decision rights in ICA-enabled systems, those systems will assume them. Machine learning models will set priorities, trade-offs, and defaults — often without visibility, oversight, or accountability.

Sankaranarayanan Viswanathan, VP and head of business innovation, Corporate Technology Office, TCS, said, "The real challenge for enterprises isn't just making better decisions — it is recognizing that decisions are merely the outcome of the choices they privilege or overlook. What we need are systems that foster intelligent choice architectures — enabling the organization to see, understand, and act with awareness. Accountable AI demands clarity not only in outcomes but in the choices considered, the priorities weighed, and the trade-offs accepted. Without this, intelligent systems will silently assume decision-making authority — often without oversight or recourse."

Strategic Takeaway

ICAs signal a profound shift: The future of competitive advantage lies not in better decisions but in better-designed decision environments. This redefines leadership, not as simply making the call but as architecting the arena in which better calls can be made.

ICAs are not the next stage of automation; they represent the future of choice itself. They reframe choice-making as a design problem: structuring, surfacing, and expanding meta choices that influence outcomes before options are consciously considered.

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Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) (BSE: 532540, NSE: TCS) is a digital transformation and technology partner of choice for industry-leading organizations worldwide. Since its inception in 1968, TCS has upheld the highest standards of innovation, engineering excellence, and customer service.

Rooted in the heritage of the Tata Group, TCS is focused on creating long-term value for its clients, its investors, its employees, and the community at large. With a highly skilled workforce of 613,069 consultants in 55 countries and 202 service delivery centers across the world, the company has been recognized as a top employer in six continents. With the ability to rapidly apply and scale new technologies, the company has built long-term partnerships with its clients — helping them emerge as perpetually adaptive enterprises. Many of these relationships have endured into decades and navigated every technology cycle, from mainframes in the 1970s to artificial intelligence today.

TCS sponsors 14 of the world's most prestigious marathons and endurance events, including the TCS New York City Marathon, TCS London Marathon, and TCS Sydney Marathon with a focus on promoting health, sustainability, and community empowerment.

TCS generated consolidated revenues of over US $30 billion in the fiscal year ended March 31, 2025. For more information, visit www.tcs.com.

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