"Green shoots of economic recovery and fledgling signs of optimism are here. Manufacturers must look to four strategies to become leaner and more nimble to gain competitive advantage in the new ...
post-crisis world," according to B G Srinivas, Member, Executive Council, Senior Vice President and Head, Manufacturing, Infosys Technologies, in 'The Manufacturer".
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Develop-to-order companies must have flexible capacity in design and development to meet demand, according to experts from Airbus and Infosys.
Global companies that adopt Lean principles can capitalize on advanced technologies to effectively eliminate waste in their operations.
Flat World companies can sustain their competitiveness by evaluating global sourcing strategies with service providers. Customers and service providers need to focus on strategic imperatives across each phase of the sourcing...
cycle. We examine the key priorities in procurement, transition and service delivery from the perspective of customers and service providers.
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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.
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.
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' 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."