Infosys CEO Vishal Sikka feels a far bigger disruptive force is emerging in the IT industry “than the flat world shift from about 20 years ago” is automation, enabled by artificial intelligence (AI). This article is a Video about Vishal Sikka interview on Bloomberg Quint about IT Jobs being affected by Donald Trump becoming president, New Avenues for Job.
Some of comments of Infosys CEO Vishal Sikka are:
“We must bring massive automation to enable innovation. If a human has done it once, it should never be done by a human again. This must be our aspiration.”, he feels. He said the point of automation is not about replacing people, “it is about amplifying people and enabling them to focus on the work only people can do — we automate to free people to innovate, and we power this through education.”
“All our clients look to us for help with innovation, in bringing digital and computing technologies to their businesses’ future… In all my meetings with clients, in all their communication, this is crystal clear. They no longer want engagements that deliver to a bottom line, they need to see the value, the proactive generation of innovation in their engagements with vendors. And increasingly, the need for IT innovation is outside the IT team”
Sikka believes that the current global delivery model should be transformed into a virtual one, based on value delivered, and make the location of the person doing the work irrelevant.
Infosys is betting that their relentless focus on automation will allow them to make their margins, which is a bet on the future and on their execution capabilities.
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