Murthy Bids Adieu: Asks Infoscions To Focus On Productivity, Intelligent Software
BANGALORE: Amid emotional upsurges and nostalgic memories, Infosys Chairman Narayana Murthy finally called it a day and bid farewell to his fellow infocions, and asked to focus on individual productivity and use intelligent software to survive and sustain in the IT industry.
"In any industry where work is streamlined we must be able to measure productivity of each individual. The manufacturing industry has done this a long time ago. The software industry, however, has not embraced this idea yet," Murthy said in his farewell address to employees and investors at the company's 33rd annual general meeting.
Asserting that employees were the company's biggest and most valuable asset, Murthy said the software industry had not kept pace with the state of the art of computer science, which had progressed to such an extent that intelligent software could be used to do a lot of work done by human effort, improve productivity and lower cost of operations.
"I believe the silver bullet for this company and this industry in the medium and long-term will be in how much of what we do today can be done faster and cheaper by employing intelligent software," Murthy told about 1,000 shareholders present at the AGM and many more through webcast.
Admitting that team work was as equally important to measure and recognize as the performance an individual, Murthy said the company had started to measure the productivity of its engineers across service lines.
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