{"id":1020,"date":"2015-07-11T17:24:00","date_gmt":"2015-07-11T17:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/projects\/horsesforsources\/infopact-or-genosys_070815\/"},"modified":"2015-07-11T17:24:00","modified_gmt":"2015-07-11T17:24:00","slug":"infopact-or-genosys_070815","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.horsesforsources.com\/infopact-or-genosys_070815\/","title":{"rendered":"#Crazymergerideas – Infopact or Genosys?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Two CEOs clearly up to no good… Genpact’s Tiger Tyagarajan (left) and Infosys’ Vishal Sikka (right)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
One of the great things about HfS is the fact we never partake in gossip or idle speculation.\u00a0So let’s change “never” to “rarely”…<\/p>\n
I was happening to be Uber-ing myself aimlessly around the streets of San Francisco last week when I happened to drop in on Infosys’ sexy new Design Thinking center (I think that’s what they call it) in Palo Alto, where I caught two of the industry’s finest minds having a sneaky cup of coffee.<\/p>\n
Now, before you all jump to conclusions that Vishal Sikka and Tiger Tyagarajan are about to join forces, they are actually old friends and neighbors, and this was purely a social call… \u00a0but it did get me thinking about\u00a0what if<\/em> Infosys and Genpact got a little more intimate with each other…<\/p>\n
Pros:<\/span><\/p>\n
Challenging the old way of thinking.<\/strong> Infosys’ fresh Design Thinking approach and Genpact’s re-imagination of business processes are very well aligned. \u00a0Both firms have jumped on the importance of challenging current thinking and instilling that across<\/em> their organizations (and not a CoE approach).<\/p>\n
IT services meet BPO… on steroids.<\/strong> A great IT services firm meets a great BPO\/operations process management firm. \u00a0This would be a real powerhouse. \u00a0What’s more, Genpact is the largest “process pureplay” breaking new ground in terms of its sheer scale and size – where it takes the business next, there is no written rule book available.<\/p>\n
BPaaS at a global scale?<\/strong> \u00a0Infosys EdgeVerve + Genpact’s emerging process consulting capability would be very interesting. Scalable BPaaS solutions that could be industrialized at a global level… the mind boggles at the possibilities to realize a long-held industry vision.<\/p>\n
Cross-client synergies.<\/strong>\u00a0Great upsell opportunities across major clients, especially in horizontal process areas where Genpact is market leading, such as finance and accounting solutions or procurement where this combination would create an even stronger challenger to Accenture than they are individually today.<\/p>\n
IT autonomics + RPA + AI potential.<\/strong> Interesting combination of automation capability across IT autonomics (Infosys) and robotic process automation (Genpact). \u00a0Would also be a nice playground for Vishal to put his Ph.D. in artificial intelligence into practice. \u00a0These two could certainly build a cognitive+autonomics+analytics computing platform that differentiates itself in the market alongside the likes of Watson, Holmes, ignio, Amelia etc.<\/p>\n