{"id":2492,"date":"2020-11-30T21:50:00","date_gmt":"2020-11-30T21:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/projects\/horsesforsources\/infosys-save-uk_113020\/"},"modified":"2020-11-30T21:50:00","modified_gmt":"2020-11-30T21:50:00","slug":"infosys-save-uk_113020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.horsesforsources.com\/infosys-save-uk_113020\/","title":{"rendered":"Infosys can save the UK from Economic Fossilization. Here’s how"},"content":{"rendered":"

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In today’s world of constant fake news it was refreshing to get some real<\/em> news that literally made me choke on my 57th microwaved frozen chicken\u00a0jalfrezi\u00a0of the year.\u00a0 The fact that this real news<\/em> emanated from the Daily Mail<\/a> (the UK equivalent of the New York Post or Air India’s in-flight\u00a0magazine) was an indicator of how bad today’s media has become.\u00a0 Also, the fact that my head of marketing actually reads<\/em> the Daily Mail gives me serious concerns for our 2021 marketing strategy…\u00a0<\/p>\n

Anyway, let’s get to the point.\u00a0 Our Chancellor of the Exchequer\u00a0(CFO for you corporate types), “Dishy” Rishi\u00a0Sunak\u00a0is married to the daughter one of India’s IT industry’s founding godfathers, none other than\u00a0Akshata Murthy, daughter of Narayana\u00a0Murthy, the man who created Infosys.\u00a0 Like that happened<\/em> and no one’s\u00a0noticed until someone at the Daily Mail discovered this… and they wed in 2009.<\/p>\n

The UK is in a mess so bloody big we need to redefine “mess”<\/span><\/p>\n

If a depression-driven Covid catastrophe wasn’t bad enough, the mother country is going into a catatonic depression so bad, it may lead to an economic\u00a0fossilization<\/em> (that is my term for something worse than a depression) when we throw a no-deal Brexit into the mix… due end of 2020.<\/p>\n

Anyone observing the thrilling performance of the Indian-heritage service providers this year will observe how the leaders have somehow kept the IT outsourcing industry actually growing<\/em> a little bit, despite a predicted 8-10% nosedive that analysts many predicted.\u00a0 And this owes a huge amount to its standout performer of 2020, Infosys, which has chugged along signing megadeals\u00a0and reinforcing its commitment to the cloud at a time when enterprises are desperate for a partner to help them pivot at breakneck speed into the cloud model.<\/p>\n

Anyway, as a disillusioned British born analyst (and global citizen) I suddenly see hope…<\/p>\n

I have a lot more faith in these entrepreneurs from Bangalore than the current old-boys network running Her Majesty’s economy into the ground.\u00a0 I always knew Rishi\u00a0was the only smart one in there, and now we have the evidence.<\/p>\n

So… now good old Infosys\u00a0has no choice butto bail us out as they married into… the UK!\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I am sure they will appreciate some free advice on the governance team that can drag us quickly out of our current predicament, so here’s an initial strawman architecture:<\/p>\n

UK Prime Minister:\u00a0 Ravi\u00a0Kumar\u00a0S.\u00a0<\/strong> No one\u00a0spins it better than old Ravi… all he has to do is bulldoze our media with pics of his new baby girl all over twitter and have us guessing forever on the mysterious “S”…<\/p>\n

Chancellor:\u00a0 Pravin\u00a0“UB” Rao<\/strong>… this man can keep a ship sailing through any storm<\/a>.\u00a0 This current crisis stuff is child’s play compared to rogue CEO’s in private jets and dodgy Israeli automation purchases..<\/p>\n

Head of the UK Coronavirus\u00a0Task Force:\u00a0 Vishal\u00a0Sikka<\/strong>… time to dust off the former CEO to convince the UK public that we needn’t worry about Covid\u00a0as “AI will provide the answer” (after showing up 30 minutes late to every briefing).<\/p>\n

Brexit\u00a0Secretary:\u00a0 Salil\u00a0Parekh<\/strong>… who better to carve us out of the EU than the king of the carve-out deal himself?\u00a0 He’ll even do the deal on the golfcourse showing the rest of Europe how it’s done.<\/p>\n

Head of Cybercrime:\u00a0 Mohit\u00a0Joshi.<\/strong>.. who better to arm our cyber-defenses\u00a0than the man who can iron-wall any bank still running on Cobol\u00a0mainframes?\u00a0 Easy, just move all our sensitive data onto Finacle and the Russians and Chinese will go crazy trying to figure out what the hell we just did…<\/p>\n

Vaccine Distribution Czar:\u00a0\u00a0Radhakrishnan\u00a0“Radha” Anantha<\/strong>… who better to command the British vaccination process than\u00a0InfosysBPM\u00a0kingpin\u00a0Radha\u00a0himself, who will ensure everyone needs to “calm down and just focus on the outcomes”.\u00a0 If things get a bit dicey, he will take questions from his kitchen where we’ll be far more interested in what on earth his kids are sneaking out of the fridge while he’s too busy talking to us…<\/p>\n

But what about Rishi\u00a0himself?<\/span><\/p>\n

Oh, he’s far too smart for us.\u00a0 Can’t you get him to take over from that Modi guy?\u00a0 Rishi\u00a0makes money appear from magic, you know?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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