Infosys® Technologies Ltd.: Growing Share of a Customer’s Business James A. Narus D.V.R. Seshadri* March 2004 * James A. Narus is Professor of Business Marketing‚ Babcock Graduate School of Management‚ Wake Forest University in the U.S.A. D.V.R. Seshadri is Visiting Professor at Indian Institute of Management Bangalore‚ India. We gratefully acknowledge the significant contributions of Infosys executives and managers in providing case information. CASE QUESTIONS TO ADDRESS 1. Looking
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Cross Cultural Management in INFOSYS INTRODUCTION Infosys Technologies Limited (BSE: 500209‚ NASDAQ: INFY) is a multinational information technologyservices company headquartered in Bengaluru‚ India. It is one of India’s largest IT companies with over94‚379 professionals (including subsidiaries) as of June 30‚ 2008. It has nine development centers inIndia and over 30 offices worldwide. Its annual revenues for the fiscal year 2007-2008 exceeded US$4billion with a market capitalization
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Geerte Hofstede analysis Globalization is nowadays evidential in nearly every aspect of life. It can be shortly described “as the world is getting smaller”[1]. “The term describes the growing political‚ social‚ cultural‚ economic and technological interconnectedness and interdependence of the world today. As communication technologies advance‚ cultures continue to overlap and influence each other.”[2] What are the differences especially in cultural dimensions in countries like Germany and the United
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Victor Delbreuve 1) Cultural dimensions = critique of HOFSTEDE‚ TROMPENAARS‚ PROJECTGLOBE 2) Look for your country HOFSTEDE (rating : do you agree ; give examples) 1)a) HOFSTEDE The research findings of Hofstede‚ describe the cultural features‚ and assists in clarification of some cultural and behavioral paradigms in organizations in different countries. Five cultural dimensions which based on them Hofstede classified the countries are as follows: Individualism against collectivism:
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Infosys was founded on 2 July 1981 by seven entrepreneurs‚ Nagavara Ramarao Narayana Murthy‚ Nandan Nilekani‚ Kris Gopalakrishnan‚ S. D. Shibulal‚ K Dinesh and with N. S. Raghavan officially being the first employee of the company. The founders started the company with an initial investment of INR 10‚000.[6] The company was incorporated as "Infosys Consultants Pvt Ltd." in Model Colony‚ Pune as the registered office.[7] Infosys headquarters in Bengaluru‚ India Infosys went public in 1993
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Mr. Prashant Gupta is interested in investing in equity shares of Infosys and Hamdard. Infosys Technologies Ltd. (NASDAQ: INFY) which was started in 1981 by seven people with US$ 250. Today‚ it is a global leader in the "next generation" of IT and consulting with revenues of over US$ 4 billion. It offers span business and technology consulting‚ application services‚ systems integration‚ product engineering‚ custom software development‚ maintenance‚ re-engineering‚ independent testing and validation
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Hofstede cultural dimensions analysis with multinational business management _______France‚ Britain‚ Germany ‚ Italy Today‚ the world economic integration process ‚ the company’s multinational operations has become an unstoppable trend . But the Eastern and Western cultures have a huge difference . It is easy to generate conflict in business management . Cross-cultural management refers to: multinational companies operating in the presence of various cultural
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Case Study Analysis Infosys: Financing an Indian Software Start-Up Introduction Infosys is small software development venture which provides information technology (IT) consulting services for international clients. The company is located in Bangalore and was founded back in 1981 by a small group of skllfull entrepreneurs‚ with very little equity of 1000$ and without backing from a large companies. Mr. R. Narayana Murthy is the CEO and chairman and Nandan Nilekani is the president and chief
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initiatives carried out by software giants Infosys Limited‚ to understand the motivations behind these initiatives and benefits to Infosys and society. The report was prepared for the purpose of a report writing exercise in Management Communication. A survey by means of a questionnaire was carried out to determine the level of involvement by employees in these activities and to obtain a general idea of the various activities being carried out at Infosys as part of their CSR. A total of 10 employees
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perspective of their similarity to the cultures in Estonia and the Scandinavian countries. This research paper then uses the scores obtained from the application of Hofstede’s indices to Sweden to calibrate the Lithuanian and Latvian values to the existing Hofstede database. The reason this journal was chosen was due to the fact that it documents the application of Hofstede’s dimensions to Latvia for the first time. This was something which the group found quite interesting. In addition to this‚ we were
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