Be yourself Vishal Sikka, former boss tells Infosys chief
As
Vishal Sikka takes to the stage on Friday to announce Infosys’ results
for the first time as its CEO, his former boss had this advice for him -
“Be Vishal Sikka.”
BANGALORE:
As Vishal Sikka takes to the stage on Friday to announce Infosys'
results for the first time as its CEO, his former boss had this advice
for him - "Be Vishal Sikka."
Leo Apotheker, who was co-CEO of SAP, where Sikka was CTO, and then the CEO of Hewlett-Packard (HP), said, "I'm sure he will do whatever he thinks is the right thing to do for Infosys. The last thing he needs is a bunch of people who don't have the facts to give him advice."
Sikka is expected to announce major policy changes on Friday.
Apotheker had nothing but fulsome praise for Sikka's technology acumen. "I had the pleasure of working for him or he had the pleasure of working for me, that's a relative narration. You could ask him if he enjoyed it or not, but I enjoyed working with him," he said.
Apotheker, now the vice-chairman and independent lead director in Schneider Electric, was in Bangalore on Thursday to lead a panel discussion on `Smart Cities' hosted by Schneider.
Apotheker believes Sikka was brought into Infosys to augment revenues from products and IP. "Today, you can't be a successful IT company if you don't own IP. Trying to put more into a service company is a smart strategy," he said.
Talking about Indian IT, Apotheker said the industry had got global recognition for championing the global delivery model and not because of labour arbitrage. "People have a misconception about what made the Indian IT services companies successful. Many believe it was labour arbitrage, that's wrong. What made these companies successful was that they came up with another way of delivering IT services which was much smarter. The cost differential was the icing on the cake," he said.
The former HP boss also feels vindicated by his successor, Meg Whitman's recent decision to split HP into two -- one focused on software and services and the other on PCs and printing. "It's always a good feeling to know that you were right," he said.
Apotheker had proposed separating the PC business back in 2011, but that and some other decisions were met with an internal backlash, leading to his ouster just after 11 months on the job. "I was always convinced that it was the right thing to do. I have said it numerous times since and remained convinced that it was the right thing to do and obviously now they are doing it. I just hope that they will execute well and they will be successful. I am sorry to see 55,000 jobs being destroyed. May be if they would have done it sooner, it wouldn't have happened like that," he said.
Leo Apotheker, who was co-CEO of SAP, where Sikka was CTO, and then the CEO of Hewlett-Packard (HP), said, "I'm sure he will do whatever he thinks is the right thing to do for Infosys. The last thing he needs is a bunch of people who don't have the facts to give him advice."
Sikka is expected to announce major policy changes on Friday.
Apotheker had nothing but fulsome praise for Sikka's technology acumen. "I had the pleasure of working for him or he had the pleasure of working for me, that's a relative narration. You could ask him if he enjoyed it or not, but I enjoyed working with him," he said.
Apotheker, now the vice-chairman and independent lead director in Schneider Electric, was in Bangalore on Thursday to lead a panel discussion on `Smart Cities' hosted by Schneider.
Apotheker believes Sikka was brought into Infosys to augment revenues from products and IP. "Today, you can't be a successful IT company if you don't own IP. Trying to put more into a service company is a smart strategy," he said.
Talking about Indian IT, Apotheker said the industry had got global recognition for championing the global delivery model and not because of labour arbitrage. "People have a misconception about what made the Indian IT services companies successful. Many believe it was labour arbitrage, that's wrong. What made these companies successful was that they came up with another way of delivering IT services which was much smarter. The cost differential was the icing on the cake," he said.
The former HP boss also feels vindicated by his successor, Meg Whitman's recent decision to split HP into two -- one focused on software and services and the other on PCs and printing. "It's always a good feeling to know that you were right," he said.
Apotheker had proposed separating the PC business back in 2011, but that and some other decisions were met with an internal backlash, leading to his ouster just after 11 months on the job. "I was always convinced that it was the right thing to do. I have said it numerous times since and remained convinced that it was the right thing to do and obviously now they are doing it. I just hope that they will execute well and they will be successful. I am sorry to see 55,000 jobs being destroyed. May be if they would have done it sooner, it wouldn't have happened like that," he said.
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