At least 2,00,000 traders encountered difficulties in August, September, and October since there was no editing facility in summary return filing.
Nilekani is an organised person and his strength is simplification of complex ideas, said Murthy.
'The world has changed and nobody has the patience to start a project and wait for six months to look at the outcome.'
'We are only talking about 65,000 H1B visas a year, it is not going to go down drastically.' 'If the number reduces and when you spread that reduction across all the top IT services companies, the impact will be marginal.'
'There is large-scale sacking, and salaries in smaller companies are lower than the minimum wages of Rs 18,000 a month.'
IT firms are training employees of their clients and even aspiring IT professionals, in order to create fresh revenue streams amid shrinking deal sizes in traditional software maintenance, says Ayan Pramanik.
Will Infosys, which will announce its Q2 results on Tuesday, be able to break away from the single-digit growth rates the IT services sector has been seeing?
Bhanumurthy B M, president and chief operating officer, Wipro, tells Ayan Pramanik and Raghu Krishnan that service delivery through digital technology-enabled platforms will change the business dynamics for the company.
While the framework of service delivery and client-focused approach remains unchanged, Nilekani's suggestions, of taking start-ups with newer technologies to clients, are being implemented.
IT services firms would no longer focus on large volume hiring from campuses like they did at least two to three years ago, as demands of clients are changing.
At times of slow growth, India has seen number of graduates doubling since 2008 to almost 25 million in 2016
It will compete with rivals Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure
Delay due to rise in operating cost of telcos, late adoption of 4G network
With employees as brand ambassadors, can the company get the grime off its image?
'More than 900 companies believe that the majority of their employees worry about AI's role in potential job losses.' 'It makes employees anxious about working with machines or AI applications and fuels resistance to change,' says a Capgemini report.
The results will give an indication whether Nilekani would continue with the software plus services strategy adopted by Sikka, or tweak it to reflect his worldview of the explosion in data.
Infosys' first non-founder CEO had been granted 232,329 RSUs at Rs 5 a unit.
Firm's dented image following Sikka's exit could bring down revenues in the margin rich US market and force Infy to hire fewer Americans, as hiring locals in developed markets comes at a cost.
Under Neemuchwala's digital-first vision, Wipro has accelerated investments in automation, analytics, cloud and cognitive technologies over the past three years, says Ayan Pramanik.
Co-founder Nilekani could take the role of non-executive chairman, becoming a bridge between the board and Murthy, reports Ayan Pramanik.
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