In his first letter to Infosys employees, the company’s first non-founder CEO and Managing Director, Vishal Sikka, said that his plans for the company included reinforcing focus on IP and products and platforms to drive new scale and economics.
Interestingly, Mr. Sikka, considered new to the world of IT services, seems to be keen on working with the start-up community — amplifying their reach and accelerating their roadmaps — to achieve this. However, he emphasises that this has to be done “without disrupting the foundation that has got us to where we are.” “By laying greater emphasis on improving our ability to learn and to identify opportunities of the future, we will build a sustainable business,” he writes.
In a video message, titled ‘The Road Ahead’, and in the letter, he articulates his plans for the way forward. Writing that being obsessive about performance would be an agenda he would personally drive, he said: “We are going to continue to foster their great ideas and ideals (of the company founders), and be obsessive about our performance so we can delight our clients and be really proud of what we do together.”
In another video chat with an Infosys employee, Mr. Sikka said that his top agenda was to partake in the reshaping of the world using technology. “I am really excited to bring software to our clients in great new areas. This is a great opportunity of our times to build amazing, innovating application to solve problems of our times. I will do that based on the deep values and culture our company has had over the past three decades,” he said. His top priorities would be to learn and improve learnability at the company, and find ways to improve on the way the company does business.
