While changes in the past year were brought about by Infosys’ co-founder and the then Executive Chairman N R Narayana Murthy to bring the company back to high growth, Sikka, who is joining Infosys after a 12-year stint at German technology major SAP, will drive the reorganisation.
“I am looking forward to taking the leadership responsibility on Aug 1, and looking forward to a great transition that must follow my little transition. A great transition and its set of challenges and opportunities that await my new company, as well as every company in our industry, and indeed as software reshapes the world around us, every company in the world,” Sikka wrote in his personal blog. He added transformation at a company was really about transformation of its people.
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Sikka, who has been writing his blog ‘Timelessness – Musings on constants and other invariants’ since 2008, usually posts personal experiences and thoughts about travel, technology and other topics. In his latest post, Sikka also talked about his resignation from SAP.
“Among the tons of calls that I received in the aftermath of the news (of leaving SAP), there was one that was going to be very significant in shaping, in bringing about, another transition, both in my life and in that of a large company's,” Sikka wrote. “This was from a recruiter leading the CEO search for Infosys, a pioneering Indian IT company. Within a couple of weeks I found myself being swept by another massive wave,” he said, adding that he was looking forward to his new role.
When several large infotech services companies were at the crossroads of automation and tradition, Sikka wrote, companies could not use disruption as an excuse.
“Disruption is not an excuse, a fait accompli, it is simply an opportunity to learn new skills and to develop new products and services, and processes and economics,” he wrote.
“An opportunity to renew ourselves and our organisations. And it comes down to having anchors that help us guide through such a change. Competencies and processes follow from these, and then the products and services delivered, and the relationships, the economics, etc. emerge. But the grounding, the anchors, determine how the organisation transitions,” Sikka added in his post.