In the last few decades, newspaper houses grew by acquiring other players in the industry. This led to the proliferation of different IT systems within the same organization. Infosys’ expert advocates a Shared Services approach to standardize and centralize
... IT systems. According to our expert, Shared Services reduce overheads as a result of decentralized operations, enable pooling of IT operations staff and ensure cost savings.
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.
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.
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.
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."