Unperturbed By Failure Or Success
Ups and downs, success and failure these are part and parcel of life and Murali Mohan accepts them with an equanimity that comes from weathering many a storm

Power: The ability to think big and achieve it, while creating value to every stakeholder in the business

Life is full of challenges–face it. This is Murali Mohan's mantra. He has never been deterred by challenges in life and accepts it with a smile. After all, be it business or personal life, one is always exposed to threats and challenges. A right approach towards it is all it takes to keep one going. It is perhaps this very approach that has helped him to almost double his company's turnover, even when the going was rough. The company regis-tered a constant and significant growth even despite an economic downslide, financial crunches and high competition. The result is that today the Precision Group is one of the fastest growing system integration companies in the country.

Precision became a topic of conversations with all vendors and suppliers, soon after the company registered a 100 percent growth in 2002 and continued it for a couple of years. Though, the company has not been able to maintain this growth every year since, it registers a decent growth even now. And this is impressive, because it has also worked on creating a bigger base for itself, in terms of other business lines.

Murali and the other directors of Precision took a conscious decision of moving into solution providing from plain reselling in 2001. Their decision turned out to be a right bet and today, every solution provider is talking about value-addition and end-to-end services to sustain him or herself in business.

Try everything once
Murali has always tried to experiment with new things ever since his first job, which has given him an early-mover advantage in some cases. Fresh from college, he first joined in a share broking firm taking care of accounts and administration activities. He quickly realized that this was not his cup of coffee and decided to opt for a job, which could give him more interface with public and people.

He took up sales job in a pharmaceutical company and since then has remained a front-end sales person throughout his career.

Murali and Precision by that extension is better known as a HP partner today, though the company can trace its roots to HCL Infosystems. He met his business partners-TG Ramesh who now handles finance and Mathew Chacko who look after services at HCL. Murali's first brush with IT was in 1991, when his employer HCL offered him a transfer to its computer division. He worked at various levels and regions in HCL before starting Precision in 1996, along with Ramesh and Chacko.

Though, Precision had a humble beginning in 1996 with just one division, today it boasts of four divisions-Infomatic for system integration, Techserve for services, Galaxy for retail and Techonet for software and specialized solutions development. Last year, the group registered a turnover of Rs 155 crore. After having consolidated Precision's standing in the IT industry, Murali now wants it to be the numero uno system integration company in the tier-two level, within the next five years.

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