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Do you think Infosys days are gone and it should fire S. Gopalakrishnan?

By Amarendra Bhushan for CEOWORLD Magazine Updated:December 5, 2008

Do you think Infosys days are gone and it should fire S. Gopalakrishnan?

It seemes to be the clearest indicator of the state of the Indian IT industry in on decline. Infosys Technologies, has decided to freeze all recruitment for the next fiscal.

Flash Point:

- S. Gopalakrishnan yet to reach target of hiring 25,000 people this year as promised.
- Infosys hired 16,000-17,000 personnel so far this year.
- Total employee strength to over 1 lakh people.
- Infosys is still on second place to TCS.
- TCS has over 1.21 lakh employees (adn has to plans to freeze recruitment)
- Even Satyam has taken 5,200 on board.
- Next year Infosys plans very little hiring from the campuses.
- Infosys only spends about $170 million a year on training, which is way less then its US or European competitor
- According to Gopalakrishnan, the industry could see its growth rate halving to 15%.

Results

Over utilisation rate of employees, e-locate them between departments and places which will make employees lives difficult. But do you think India’s largest software exporter’s Gopalakrishnan cares for all this?

Profile:

S. Gopalakrishnan
Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director
Infosys Technologies Limited

S. Gopalakrishnan (Kris to his colleagues) is one of the founders of Infosys Technologies Limited. As Chief Executive Officer, he plays a key role in defining the company strategy and in using technology and innovation continuously to maintain its leadership of the industry.

On June 22, 2007, Kris took over from Nandan M. Nilekani as the CEO and Managing Director of Infosys Technologies Limited. Kris previously served as Chief Operating Officer (since April 2002), and as the President and Joint Managing Director (since August 2006). His responsibilities included Customer Services, Technology, Investments and Acquisitions.

Kris’ initial responsibilities at Infosys included management of design, development, implementation and support of information systems for clients in the consumer products industry in the US. Between 1987 and 1994 he headed the technical operations of KSA/Infosys (a joint venture between Infosys and KSA at Atlanta, USA) as Vice President (Technical). In 1994, Kris returned to India and was appointed Deputy Managing Director of the company.

Kris is currently the Chairman of Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management (IIITM), Kerala, and Vice Chairman of the Information Technology Education Standards Board (BITES) set up by the Government of Karnataka. He is on the board of directors of the National Internet Exchange of India. Kris currently chairs the Confederation of Indian Industries (CII) Apex Council on Services. He is also a member of ACM, IEEE and IEEE Computer Society.

Kris holds M. Sc. (Physics) and M. Tech. (Computer Science) degrees from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras. He began his career with Patni Computer Systems (PCS), Mumbai as a software engineer in 1979 and quickly rose to become an assistant project manager by 1981. His seminal contribution during his stint at PCS was the development of a distributed process control system for controlling LD converters at Rourkela Steel Plant.

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