Challenges in a startup
Starting any new service in Infosys is like setting up a start up except for the fact that you don’t have to look around for investment! But it comes with many other challenges in terms of the pre-set norms that you need to abide by within Infosys.
To start with, how do you get things done in a system which is tuned only to the standard ADM services that we have been offering for the past 25+ years? How do you work around the system to manage new financial models, new roles that you need and the quality systems that take care of only defects delivered per lines of code? We don’t get the support that we need since we are not even 100 people and we are not generating revenue- but we need all the support to start generating revenue!
Then there are challenges that the team has to grapple with- new domain, new team and new customers. With so many different skills that we need, how do we structure our team? Who takes responsibility for what? You also have significant issues in terms of prioritization- Infosys sets targets for us. To meet the targets, we need to do prospecting, pre-sales and recruitment in addition to on-boarding, capability building, project management and also be innovative to differentiate. What do we do first?
Let us closely look at what we have been doing in the past one year and see how we want to move forward.
