vishal sikka like other hands on technologists like bill-gates, sridhar pichai... is a top class resource who was passionate to transform infy. but the saas-bahu kind of environment detracted him.
the real reason seems to be the difference in styles and value systems. the difference between self indulgent cowboy agents and frugal ant like principals. performance doesn't look to be a reason at all here.
The article in nutshell tries to prove that Dr.Sikka was incompetent to deliver. If one was to link with similarities of NaMo having given an inkling of what he will make India during his tenure, one will find that he has miserably failed and that to meet with his guidances he will have to give x% more. The targets are fixed and people work on that targets, and may be 7 years down the line we find that the targets were little too much. That some weeks back somebody had stated that in IT a CEO must get minimum of 9 years to show results. Given that Dr. Sikka talked about reasons for him to resign, they are not fully irrelevant. One can say that the constant hankering was directed to the Board and not to CEO and that the Board should have resigned en block. In the end I believe that the whole episode will not make any person of international fame to enter Indian business as a paid employee.
Re: Sikka Quiting
by Sudhir Bisht on Aug 24, 2017 10:52 AM
Hi Rashmi, I appreciate your point of view. You have tried to compare NaMo and ViSi! Let me put things in this manner. Vishal Sikka's appointment was done by the Board of Infosys and Narendra Modi was selected by the Parliamentary Board of his party. NaMo would never resign if one of the co-Founders of his political party (say LKA) keeps distracting him by the drumbeats of criticism. What matters to NaMo is the continued support of the MPs. Shri Narayanan Murthy who is just a co-Founder.
Re: Sikka Quiting
by dhananjay kritu on Aug 24, 2017 12:09 PM
Yes, forever India has to work in traditional bania style even though not suited for international competitive business success
Re: Re: Sikka Quiting
by CHAKRABORTY I on Aug 24, 2017 02:09 PM
r u indirectly hinting infosys became a lala company or a bania style company just because N Murty raised a few questions???? U r over simplifying things.. Sikka chickened out unable to perform as per his KPI's. Out burst from Murty was a manna from heaven to Sikka which he used as an excuse to quit. As Mr.Bisht rightly said Sikka was a CTO material not CEO material. On the other side maybe murty could have joined the board and raised these questions if he was concerned about corporate governance.
Re: Re: Re: Sikka Quiting
by shibaji rakshit on Aug 24, 2017 02:42 PM
NRN simply cannot digest someone steering Infosys much better than he and his coterIe did
Re: Does the target meant only organic growth
by mandeep dhillon on Aug 24, 2017 10:27 AM
It was always impossible. If the company has to grow faster than the market, it has to opt for M&A
Misgovanance of Infosys and some scame and nepositism and Audit report on paying more money to buy one Israile Firm forced him to regined with excuse will be best option rather fire after one year. Also last quarter financial result ended june 2017 have doubt on correctness.
Sickening Sikka must be thrown out from Infy, immediately. He is unfit to become a clerk in Infy. He must not be allowed to continue to be executive Chairman of Infy to avoid further damage to Infy and its share holders...
In fact one needs a CTO material to be CEO, not an accountant or sales type ! The writer, blissfully ignorant, doesn't realize that SAP and Oracle, besides Microsoft's are platforms on which the IT services fortunes are built. The initial days of code fixes for y2k etc. and maintenance got them arbitrage from labor costs - that was the era of narayana murthy. Nilekani realized he won't be able to convince murthy or didn't fit the bill himself in the longer run, conveniently side stepped into limelight with aadhaar, in a tech-impoverished governance. Nothing wrong with that.
Gone are the days when you can grow companies through relationships, or optics through fudging numbers. If such an analysis is done, not one company in India and many in India won't pass the muster!
So Sudhir Bisht would do well to read Omkar Goswami's column which holds the mirror to Murthy's senility, tragically revealed
Re: Taking sides
by nara SIMHA on Aug 24, 2017 09:52 AM
Good Rebutt. Don't you feel that the yera on year growth charted to achieve itself may be unreal considering hat changed environment grom the good old days? One cannot blame Murthy for being a nagger on the astronomical compensation. Earning too much money is a distraction & no way contribute to the quality of the strategies.
Re: Taking sides
by shyamsunder kurudi on Aug 24, 2017 09:56 AM
It is the classic logic of qualitative reasoning, All CEOs are made from CXOs, some CTOs may CEOs but not all CTOs are CEO stuff.
Dr Sikka ,now to vindicate himself, should have opened the report on Panaya to Founders atleast ,that too when he is claiming that everything is hunky dory.That would enhance his prestige and reputation.NRN or his cofounders will come on board soon and they are going to rip off Sikka for his undoings.Probably to camouflage all these things and poor performance , he chose this escape route
