Analysts say the deep-rooted changes which the new CEO is putting in place will bear fruit over the next few years
Few changes at the top in a company have been as keenly tracked as those at Infosys. Whether it was the return of the iconic NR Narayana Murthy, back from retirement in a bid to reverse the IT major’s sagging fortunes, or the appointment of top SAP honcho Vishal Sikka as the CEO (the first non-Infy founder to get the job), the corporate world, Infy-watchers and analysts have been following every move. And rightly so. After all, here was a company, for long the toast and evidence of Indian enterprise, going through a prolonged rough patch despite multiple attempts to steady the ship. Infosys had been losing ground to competitors, thus changing the pecking order within the Indian IT sector. TCS and Cognizant were making rapid strides and Infosys had to do something dramatically different to wrest its place back at the top of the heap.
(This story appears in the 07 August, 2015 issue of Forbes India. To visit our Archives, click here.)