Day 13 in India

Day 13-January 15, 2014

  As our final day in Mysore began, we met with Dr. Subraya the director of the entire Infosys-Mysore training operation.  We were expecting just a brief meeting for us to show our appreciate for providing us with great lodging and hosptitality, but it quickly turned into a wonderful information sharing session that ran much longer than any of us intended. 

  We were on the Infosys-Mysore campus at a very unique time.  On the day we arrived, the campus was hosting a Global Stategy Planning meeting with representation from 1000+ Infosys leaders from all over the globe.  Dr. Subraya told us about how all the associates of Infosys are one of the true assets of their company.  He spoke of  the importance of sharing knowledge with them in order to help them grow individualy and help continue the growth of the organziation as well.

   One thing I took away from our meeting was the fact that  these meetings are great methods of knowledge management in themselves.  For this meeting there were Board of Directors, Senior Administrators, Department Heads and even 400 "youngsters" representing the common associates who work at Infosys.  At this 3 day meeting, everyone was on an equal level.  2nd year associates could sit and question the CEO or board members over lunch or as they passed on campus.  All levels of the organization were represented at this one gathering with the sole fact of informing everyone else about the goals, paths, concerns and problems that everyone is facing.  This knowledge sharing is a great method to make sure everyone, no matter of their title, is ensuring Infosys is heading in the right direction. Together they used the knowledge they shared to help shape the future of Infosys all around the world for the coming year. 

  Next begins the travel back to Bangalore for a day & then the first leg of our long journey home.  Look for more reflections later.

**all pictures were from the road from Mysore to Bangalore.

   Random Thoughts/Pictures of the Day

  Today is another Holiday in India called Sankranti or Makar Sankranti that marks the beginning of Spring. 

Our professor gave us a traditional food offering for Sankranti & wished us all a Happy Sankranti.  You can read more about it here. Makar Sankranti

I knew the Lion's Club was an International Organization, but I never thought about Lion's clubs in India until I began seeing their signs in the towns we passed through. 

I am always amazed at the number of people stuffed inside of one vehicle or on one motorcycle/scooter

Market we stopped at today

Monuments along side the highway leading to Bangalore.