Automation, digitisation bigger disruptors than Trump: Vishal Sikka

Sikka cautions that most of the work done Infosys can already be done with AI systems

Infosys chief executive Vishal Sikka (pictured) has cautioned that the tidal wave of automation and technology-fuelled transformation could make the traditional information technology services obsolete. And, asked employees to shift their behaviour to adopt to shifts in technology. 

“The mountains ahead are tall ones. There is no other way but to get there and go... if we don’t, we will be made obsolete by the tidal wave of automation and technology-fuelled transformation that is almost upon us,” Sikka, the first non-founder chief executive, wrote in a New Year letter to employees. 

Sikka, whose letter had the subject: ‘Answers are blowing