The Ambitious Business Plan Of Narayan Murthy's Son, Rohan Murty
NDTV
Rohan Murty owns 1.45% of Infosys, whose market value is about $80 billion, making him the second-largest individual shareholder of the outsourcing giant founded by his father Narayana Murthy.
Rohan Murty saw his father build Infosys Ltd. into one of India's national champions by pioneering a novel strategy of outsourcing technology services. Now the 39-year-old is attempting a no less daunting task of using data to make white-collar workers more efficient.
The billionaire Harvard alum's Soroco works with global corporations to streamline office tasks, using techniques similar to Toyota Motor Corp.'s pioneering efforts decades ago to eliminate waste in manufacturing.
The company collects data to study patterns of how workers use software across teams and suggests fixes to iron out kinks, boost productivity and reduce costs. The solutions can be better technology, automation, standardization and preventing repetition of tasks.
The startup, based both in Boston and Bangalore, gets a real-time view of how people in teams get work done by using machine learning. Customers include drugmaker Bayer AG, engineering giant Robert Bosch GmbH, candy and petfood maker Mars Inc. as well as some Wall Street banks and global online retailers.
