INFOSYS TECHNOLOGIES - THE BEST

AMONG INDIAN CORPORATIONS

GROUP 6
 OVERVIEW
Infosys Technologies is Indias most popular
and best managed IT company.
Founded by N.R. Narayana Murthy and six of
his colleagues, with a partly sum of Rs.10000/-
as capital.
It has today, a global presence of 32 sales
offices in 16 countries, 33 global software
development centres and one business
continuity centre.
It established Infosys Foundation, a trust, with
objective of supporting the unprivileged in the
society.
 Vision
To be a globally respected corporation that
provides best-of-breed business solutions,
leveraging technology, delivered by best in class
people.
Mission
To achieve our objectives in an environment of
fairness, honesty and courtesy towards our
clients, employees, vendors and society at large.
 C-Life Principles of core values
Customer Delight
Leadership by Example
Integrity and Transparency
Fairness
Pursuit of Excellence
 Infosyss Key to Success
Giving employees a world-class environment
to work and learn.
Giving employees a high quality of life and
wealth creation opportunities.
Looking at potential employees ability to
learn and assimilate technical knowledge and
skills.
Replacing obsolete technology regularly to
remain at the cutting edge.
 Infosyss Key to Success cont...
Emphasizing constantly on quality by
benchmarking against the best processes in
the world.
Diversifying income sources to minimize risk
of revenue.
Complying with accounting standards of
advanced countries and ensuring strictest
adherence to corporate governance.
 What are the factors that have contributed to
Infosys remaining Indias most admired
company?
It strives to be the best company both commercially
and ethically not only in India but also globally.
They have developed a strong management system.
Provides world-class working environment, quality
service
People-centric approach: to motivate employees
Driven by values:
ethical organization,
Value system ensures fairness, honesty, transparency and
courtesy
Strong focus on corporate governance
Ahead in corporate social responsibility
 Awards and Achievements
In 2000, National Award for Excellence in
Corporate Governance by the Government of
India.
In 2001, ranked no.1 by Business World-IMRB
Survey, among reputed companies in India.
Voted as Indias best company for 6 years in a
row, between 1996 to 2001, by Asia Money Poll.
Won Global Most-Admired Knowledge
Enterprises(MAKE) Award for 2004.
Won Most Respected Companies Award 2004.
 One of the factors that have helped Infosys achieve an
unparalleled success in its business is that it has focused on a
people-centric business enterprise. Do you agree? Substantiate
your answer.
People-Centric company
Infosys follows people-centric approach over the years.
Employees strength has skyrocketed.
They focus on skilled employees.
They train their employees to get the best out of them.
The quality of their employees distinguishes them from
their competitors.
Benefits of people-centric approach
Motivates employees
Increases job satisfaction of employees
Quality service
 To what extent do you think the success of Infosys can be
attributed to the unwavering commitment to the ethical trilogy
of business ethics, corporate governance and corporate social
responsibility?
Business Ethics at Infosys

Infosys has unveiled a Code of Ethics for its finance professionals

and a whistleblowers policy to encourage and protect
employees willing to share information on frauds, but who
choose to be remain anonymous.
In terms of ethical behaviour, Infosys has an unwavering
commitment to best global practices and has been driven by its
vision to become a global player. It was one of the first Indian
companies to adopt voluntarily the stringent US GAAP.
The culture of ethical behaviour in the organization emanates
from the top and percolates down to the managerial and
employees level.
 Corporate Governance at Infosys
Infosys has become large public company that conforms to
internationally benchmarked standards of corporate governance.
It has been rated highly in several corporate governance reports,
including one by the rating agency CLSA, which has given it a high CG
Star grade.
It has started implementing best international governance practices.
To implement best corporate governance practices, ensure
An independent and proactive board
Independent committees to decide executive compensation and for
nomination and audit purpose
An independent audit system.
Infosys has put in place all these governance practices and has seen to
their yielding fruitful results for the overall welfare of the
stakeholders.
 Corporate Social Responsibility
Infosys has used its wealth and standing to
contribute to improvements in community.
Infosys established the Infosys Foundation, a trust,
to aid destitute and the disadvantaged people.
 Infosys Foundation
Objective: to support unprivileged in society.
Successful projects in following areas:
Health Care: constructed many hospitals, donated
costly equipment's
Social Rehabilitation and Rural Upliftment:
constructed orphanages, girls hostels.
Learning and Education: the foundation has
undertaken A Library for Every School
Arts and Culture: coordinated a project to donate
cassettes and players among rural schools.
 Conclusion
The founder and chief architect of Infosys, N.R.
Narayana Murthys vision is to harness
technology and the free market to create jobs
and to alleviate poverty.
Infosys has created thousands of skilled, well paid
jobs and furthered opportunity for Indians to
develop their expertise and skills.
It is a company that the entire world looks up to,
in terms of sticking to ones sound ethical
judgement and doing business the Right Way.
It continues to set standards in everything it does.