Infosys’ Vishal Sikka reveals future plans, will aggressively increase automation, reduce people
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Sikka said the company will aggressively work towards automation across top customer projects and reduce its bench.
Sikka wants to make Infosys a $20 billion company by 2020 and is going to focus on driverless cars and automated driving.
"We see now digital connectivity, we see now computing making its way into places where they were never before -- so if you look at some places where we inhabit, cars for example, assistive driving, driverless car infrastructure has become quite commonplace...assistive driving capabilities are there in every car now...we do a lot of this work, we do a lot of this work in our own driving and automation of the driving experience for companies like Toyota and Boeing and so forth," said Sikka.
Meanwhile, Infosys is presently working on projects in areas including industrial internet and also on technology components of machines such as landing gears for airplanes that GE builds.
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Infosys also plans to up revenue productivity over the next four years to about $80,000 per employee, from current levels of $50,000 per employee.
Sikka also wishes to its bench through the Zero Bench initiative that the company has put in place internally, Sikka said.
"81% utilization means 9000 people are sitting on the bench. This is more than the number of application developers I had at SAP..that's also more than the number of engineers at Facebook. So, I said, unless you guys are building a Facebook, this is a colossal waste of human potential," said Sikka.
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