Yet the abrupt departure of the man seen as an innovator in the global software industry has raised fresh questions over Indian corporate governance practices."There has clearly been a failure on the part of the board to get the company in the situation where it is now. His brief was to turn around a faltering business.
"The company has not publicly identified potential successors, though the interim chief executive Pravin Rao, CFO Ranganath D Mavinakere, deputy COO Ravi Kumar S and Mohit Joshi, the head of banking, financial and insurance services, are among the top internal candidates, according to the company source."There may be some people who get excited by these kinds of challenging situations," said a senior Infosys source.
"But anyone who is comfortable and doing well will think long and hard before taking this job.Staying onIn shower niche an unusual move, the board of Indias No. Mr Sikka, the eventual choice who was plucked from a top job at SAP, was the first chief appointed from outside the group of founders."The new boss will be taking on a company in better shape than it was in 2014: Mr Sikka has led efforts to diversify Infosys away from basic IT outsourcing services into more lucrative new areas, like cloud, automation and artificial intelligence.3 per cent in the period.