“ When the board requested me to come back, I knew I needed somebody by my side who is intelligent, smart and is new to the industry to the point where he would not accept status quo," Murthy recalled.

As Rohan's continuation with the company on a token compensation of Re.1 per year was co-terminus with Murthy's term, he stepped down with his father.

"My brief or charge to Rohan was to bring fresh and new perspectives from his world, to think from the left field, to not accept status quo and ultimately focus on how Infosys can use technology to differentiate in the marketplace," Murthy's said in his farewell address.

Some of the major initiatives Murthy took with the help of Rohan were measuring productivity of every employee and using intelligent software.

The father and son duo built an instrumentation to collect data at various points of the software development cycle and then used it (data) to build models to measure productivity of every techie in the company, based at its development centres worldwide.

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