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Breaking Views: Shared Services in Newspaper Operations

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.

'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' former 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."