Drive Innovation through Process, Metrics and Governance

Infosys' expert believes that companies can achieve innovation by ensuring that product lifecycle management integrates the product development process and aligns it with the needs of customers. According to him, process, metrics and governance must drive innovation.

Will your organizational knowledge retire with your workforce?

The manufacturing industry must focus on knowledge retention and sharing to deal with retirement of its knowledge workers, according to David P. Spencer, Vice President, Discrete Manufacturing, Infosys, in an article in Manufacturing Business Technology.

Infosys’ Virtual Manufacturing Enables End-to-End Services for Aircraft Manufacturers

Infosys has made the transition from designing solutions for aerospace and defense customers to product development in India. Livemint.com has put the spotlight on Infosys' 'virtual manufacturing' model that helps global... aircraft manufacturers save time in designing aircrafts, minimize costs and develop product extensions.

'Flat World enhances innovation'

N.R. Narayana Murthy, Chairman & Chief Mentor, Infosys delivered the keynote speech at the inauguration of the Dell Distinguished Lecture Series at the University of Texas, Austin.

'Outsourcing Outsourcing - The world is flatter than you think'

In September, a New York Times article described how companies like Infosys are having many American graduates fly in for six months of training in Bangalore followed by assignment options anywhere in the world, including... America. Further, AMR Research wrote about Indian companies setting up numerous near-shore delivery centers in US time-zones. There you have it - India is outsourcing outsourcing.

'The report of my death was an exaggeration'

So wrote Mark Twain after learning that a reporter was sent to investigate whether he had died. This quote came to mind upon reading the latest in a recent spate of articles predicting the decline of India as the leading global sourcing destination.

'You can't run companies the old-fashioned way anymore'

Infosys Co-Chairman Nandan Nilekani believes that globally companies are going through a new challenge. "This challenge, in some sense, is similar to what companies went through a hundred years ago. It is a combination... of demographics, emerging economies, globalization, technology, flat world and regulation. There is a fundamental change in the way companies are run today."

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