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...Infosys is targeting a long-term restructuring of the company's revenue base, decreasing the U.S. share from the current 65% to 40%, while raising the proportion coming from the Middle East, Latin America and Asia from about 12% to 20%. "The U.S. continues to grow," says S. Gopalakrishnan, CEO of Infosys, but "we can get higher growth rates in [emerging] markets...
...host of other possible transgressions. According to reports in Indian newspapers, investigators for the Andhra Pradesh Crime Investigation Division have discovered Satyam funds were diverted into Maytas Properties and Maytas Infrastructure, property companies owned by the Raju family. Two senior partners of Satyam's auditors, Price Waterhouse, S. Gopalakrishnan and Srinivas Taluri, have also been arrested and charged with conspiracy, among other allegations. "SEBI will mainly look into any falsifications that may have had a [stock] price impact," says Anand Prasad, a partner at Delhi-based corporate law firm Trilegal. "They will look into how shareholders and the markets...
...Gopalakrishnan, one of the founders and the current CEO, says Infosys built that culture from the ground up. "We said, If we're going to make it a success, there have to be some rules, some common values, some structure to the whole thing." That included a strict ban on nepotism and a compulsory retirement age of 60. Founding CEO N.R. Narayana Murthy, who still flies coach despite a net worth estimated at $1 billion, says the break with the past was deliberate: "We had to aspire to global standards, especially if we wanted to attract investors from abroad." When...
...have been global, the company was--and is--run in an unusually communal fashion. In the U.S., says Murthy, "the CEO is the emperor." At Infosys the CEO is more like a chief justice, presiding over arguments and casting a vote only when necessary. "Ultimately, I will decide," says Gopalakrishnan. "But I usually don't need to. We try to foster a much more collegial, consensus-based environment that allows the best information to come...
...deeper into the company. Each division will have its own decision-making council, with at least one employee under 30, while the team at the top may eventually double. As well as sharpening Infosys' customer focus, "the restructuring is also partly about refocusing and re-energizing our staff," says Gopalakrishnan...