Comments on: Think Flat – Does It Sound Negative?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 08:30:58 +0000

May be, it suggests Infosys is thinking flat in terms of hierarchy instead of thinking top down..

By: krishna

krishna — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 04:31:04 +0000

I agree with anonymous…

The idea ‘world is flat’ has somehow caught up with infosys.

While their main goal is to scale up (as said by Mr. NRN during an interview with NDTV along with Bill Gates), their goal for the world seems to be get flat….

I think the “peter principle” is finally catching up with Infosys guys.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 26 Sep 2006 14:38:00 +0000

NASA is to Space,
Google is to Innovation,
Vint Cerf is to Internet,
Richard Stallman is to Open Source,
Jesse James Garrett is to AJAX,
Lakshmi Mittal is to Steel,
[and Bush is to War ],
what is Infosys’s crediblity in talking about the Flat World? Could someone explain, please?

Is it that, Tom Friedman visited the Infosys campus in Bangalore and mentioned it in his book? I think the Western-style campus with lawn, golf course and swimming pool flattened him! Does this give Infosys any credibility to talk about the flat world concept?!

Companies like Wal-Mart operating its departments in various countries in collaboration, are the real flat world companies who can talk about it. Infosys just rolls on its GDM wheels, with a lot of push from its PR gimmicks and hype. The deliverables from Infosys is just the same as (if not worse than) those of the other silent Indian IT players like TCS, Wipro or CTS. Now Infosys is shamelessly trying to capitalize on Friedman’s book. Isn’t it true that Infosys proves to be shameless opportunist? Don’t you agree with me?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 23 Sep 2006 16:03:00 +0000

true.
and what gave infosys the power to talk about the flat world? I dont think Infosys as a flat world company. It just got lucky and a better operating environment. It has done nothing to make the world flat not does Infosys operate in a flat world. It is just operaint with uts cheap cost and bidy shopping, that is all. Its all hype!!!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 03 Sep 2006 18:19:00 +0000

The world is being flattened by the US or its alleys. They had tried to flatten Vietnam and Cuba. They flattened Afganistan. They flattened Iraq. They are planning to flatten Lebanon.
Work closly with the US, they will help us either flatten India and Pakistan, or they use us to flatten other nations!

By: Annie

Annie — Sun, 27 Aug 2006 15:39:00 +0000

hey sree, i guess this is going to become an eye opener critic review of the ‘think flat’ hype! your company rocks in PR and media hype da!

By: ravi pillai

ravi pillai — Tue, 22 Aug 2006 12:24:00 +0000

sree, nice review. i also got confused when i read about the infosys blog first.
i read tom’s book. i feel it is just perception about globalization from usa’s point of view.