{"id":4431,"date":"2014-05-08T19:35:26","date_gmt":"2014-05-08T19:35:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marketingteacher.com\/infosys-swot\/"},"modified":"2014-05-08T19:37:50","modified_gmt":"2014-05-08T19:37:50","slug":"infosys-swot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marketingteacher.com\/staging\/5483\/infosys-swot\/","title":{"rendered":"Infosys SWOT"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>SWOT Analysis Infosys<\/h1>\n<p>Infosys is one of the largest businesses in India with a turnover in excess of $4 billion in 2008. The company specializes in Information Technology (IT) and consulting. N.R. Narayana Murthy and six others started the company in 1981, and it is now the largest IT company in India with its headquarters in Bangalore (although it was started in Pune). It employs more than 90,000 IT professionals and was famously rated &#8216;Best Employer in India. Would you like a lesson on <a href=\"https:\/\/marketingteacher.com\/staging\/5483swot-analysis-marketing-tools-from-marketing-teacher\/\">SWOT<\/a> analysis?<\/p>\n<h2>Opportunities<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>At a time of recession in the global economy, it may appear that   some companies will reduce take up of services that Infosys offers.   However, in tough times clients tend to focus upon cost reduction and   outsourcing &#8211; with are strategies that Infosys offers. So hard times   could be profitable for Infosys.<\/li>\n<li>There is a new and emerging market in China as the country undergoes   a huge industrial revolution.<\/li>\n<li>The strategic alliance between Infosys and Schlumberger gives the IT   company access to lucrative business in the gas and oil industries. <\/li>\n<li>There has been a trend over recent years for European and North   American companies to base some or all of their operation in India. This   is called an offshore service. Essentially there is a seamless link   between domestic operations and services hosted in India. Examples   include telecommunications companies such as British Telecom and banks   such as HSBC that have customer service and support centres based in   India. Think about the times that you have made calls to a support line   to find that the adviser is in Mumbai or Bangalore and not in your home   market.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Threats<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>India is not the only country that is undergoing rapid industrial   expansion. Competitors may come from countries such as China or Korea   where there are large pools of low-cost labor, and developing   educational infrastructures such as universities and technology   colleges.<\/li>\n<li>Customers may switch to other offshore service companies in other   countries such as China or Korea.<\/li>\n<li>Other global players have realised that India has the benefit of   low-cost, highly-skilled labor that often speaks English and is   culturally sensitive to Western practices. As with all global IT   players, Infosys has to compete for skilled labor and this may have the   effect of driving up wage levels, and making it more difficult to   recruit and retain staff.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Bibliography<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Infosys\">Wiki &#8211; Infosys <\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/www.infosys.com\/\">Infosys&#8217;s own official site<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/businesstoday.digitaltoday.in\/index.php?option=com_content&amp;task=view&amp;id=2257&amp;issueid=39\">Business   Today &#8211; The Best Companies to Work for in India<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/businesstoday.digitaltoday.in\/index.php?option=com_content&amp;task=view&amp;id=2468&amp;issueid=39\">Business   Today &#8211; 20 companies to watch in 2008<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p class=\"note\"><strong>Disclaimer: <\/strong><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\tThis case study has been compiled   from information freely available   from public sources. It is merely intended to be used for educational   purposes only.<\/p>\n<p>It operates in a number of business sectors from banking to retail, and its services tend to encompass end-to-end IT solutions which includes a whole bundle of added-value solutions from infrastructure to software engineering. This <a href=\"https:\/\/marketingteacher.com\/staging\/5483swot-analysis-marketing-tools-from-marketing-teacher\/\">SWOT analysis<\/a> is about Infosys.<\/p>\n<h2>Strengths<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Since the company is based in India its competitive advantage is   enhanced. The Indian economy, despite weak economic indicators such as   relatively high rates of inflation, has low labor costs. The workforce   has relatively high skills levels in Information Technology. Couple   these two elementstogether and you have an operational basis that offers   low-cost based, highly skilled competitive advantage. Trained Indian   personnel often speak very good English and are sensitive to Western   culture, underpinned by India&#8217;s colonial past.<\/li>\n<li>Infosys is in a strong financial position. The business turned over   more than $4 billion in 2008. This means that it has the capital to   expand, and also the basis to leverage potential investors.<\/li>\n<li>The company has bases in 44 global development centres, most of   which are located in India, although the company has offices in many   developed and developing nations. This means not only that Infosys is   becoming a global brand but also that it has the capability to support   the global operations of multinational clients.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Weaknesses<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Infosys on occasion struggles in the US markets, and has particular   problems in securing United States Federal Government contracts in North   America. Since these contracts are highly profitable and tend to run   for long periods of time, Infosys is missing out on lucrative business.   Added to this is the fact that its competitors do well in terms of   securing the same Federal business (and one should also take into   account that many of its competitors are domiciled in the US and there   could be political pressure on the US Government to award contracts to   domestic organizations).<\/li>\n<li>Despite being a huge IT company in relation to its Indian   competitors, Infosys is much smaller than its global competitors. As   discussed above, Infosys generated $4 billion in 2008, which is   relatively low in comparison with large global competitors such as   Hewlett-Packard ($91 billion), IBM ($91 billion), EDS ($21 billion) and   Accenture ($18 billion).<\/li>\n<li>It is sometimes argued that Infosys is weaker when it comes to   high-end management consultancy, since it tends to work at the level of   operational value creation. Competitors such as IBM and Accenture tend   to dominate this space.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Infosys SWOT is one of 50+ FREE examples of SWOT analysis on Marketing Teacher.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-swot-analysis-examples"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marketingteacher.com\/staging\/5483\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marketingteacher.com\/staging\/5483\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marketingteacher.com\/staging\/5483\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marketingteacher.com\/staging\/5483\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marketingteacher.com\/staging\/5483\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/marketingteacher.com\/staging\/5483\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4431\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marketingteacher.com\/staging\/5483\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marketingteacher.com\/staging\/5483\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marketingteacher.com\/staging\/5483\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}