Welcome to Infosys' Learning Services blog
Hello and Welcome to Infosys' Learning Services blog. I am Gaurav Rastogi, Head of Infosys' Learning Services practice, and I will be blogging along with my other colleagues from Infosys. Let me tell you what you can expect from this blog - you can expect open discussions, profound insights, half-baked ideas and an inside look into the life of a startup within a big company.
Learning Services within Infosys has been around for a couple of quarters now. We're reaching out primarily to Infosys' client base to start up the service, and to bounce off ideas about what we can do for them.
So far, this has been an exhilarating journey - very clearly the industry is in a flux, and the time is right for someone like Infosys to enter.
How much do we share?
This is a big problem for any corporate blog. Should we lay it all in the open, or should we be coy and only dance around the subject of what we do, and how we're doing it! This is the same problem that all startups have with respect to how much they reveal, and who can scoop them if they publish before hitting the market. This medium (blog) is experimental to me (as a corporate blog, that is), and I guess our confidence will only grow over time.
What do we talk about?
To be frank, most corporate blogs are boring, and usually places where corporate press releases and white papers go to die. I'm not sure we want this blog to be set up that way. Also, if we want puff pieces, we can just call the PR guys, no?! Instead, we would like to share with you some success stories, some failure stories, and some questions that can only be answered by a collective crowd (i.e. all of you). (For a list of not-boring corporate blogs, check out this list).
Welcome again to this blog. I sincerely look forward to your feedback because, if you weren't going to write, I would rather write in my personal diaries and wait to be famous before selling out!
Comments
I believe this 'Learning services blog' is an excellent initiative and a right step towards true collaboration, across organizations. With the boundaries of organizational operations shrinking now more than before, what better way to virtually bump into each other to comment on common issues!
Posted by: Sudhindra Balaji | November 23, 2008 1:26 PM
Thanks Sudhindra. The trick is to keep the forum interactive and honest. The content has to be provocative enough to inspire comment and feedback, while the ideas being shared have to be "bland" enough to avoid giving away too much of propreitary information!
Then there's the issue of responsiveness on the part of the authors!
Keep writing!
Posted by: Gaurav Rastogi | December 3, 2008 6:07 PM
Hi Gaurav,
The idea of a Learning Services blog is excellent, especially in light of the innovative thrust of your new service line.
I think that the trick is to get clients to talk about their needs and challenges. It's all about the conversation and the relationship. Disclosing specific ideas and solutions comes later ... and most likely off-line.
I'll be sure to link to your blog from mine:
http://chasingthetale.wordpress.com/
Kind regards,
David Welch
Dallas, TX USA
Posted by: David Welch | April 16, 2010 1:49 PM