Infosys today announced Aikido, a next generation service offering in design thinking, platforms and knowledge-based IT (KBIT).
Together, Ai, Ki and Do, help bring together existing Infosys services to serve strategic priorities of global businesses. Ai, Ki and Do combine into Aikido, the east Asian martial arts, and just as Aikido aims to understand the forces, and redirect these it into a fundamental strength, our Ai, Ki and Do services will help combine the knowledge and energy in an enterprise towards its strategic path and priorities.
These services are aimed at helping clients address three key aspects of their business: a non-disruptive renewal and simplification of their existing landscapes; introduction of new offerings and business models in a dynamic business environment; and creating a culture of innovation in their organizations.
The first of these services is Ki – Knowledge-based management and evolution of landscapes which captures the knowledge within an organization – in its people, in its structures and systems over long periods of time. Ki is a large scale, modular service to help renew enterprise landscapes.
The services in this space will include: Knowledge based IT strategy which will involve KBIT assessments; Knowledge curation services; Knowledge based cost optimization; and knowledge based innovation.
The service offering on Design Thinking and design-led initiatives that will provide Infosys the framework for finding, understanding and defining the problems that are most important to clients and their businesses.
The services under Design include: Strategic Design Consulting; transformational digital experiences; and enablement of a future workforce and workplace leveraging Infosys’ extensive capabilities in education and training, facility management and sustainability.
Ai refers to platforms, and platforms as a service to build intelligent solutions. Ai is about platforms that help to harmonize and unify the disjointed initiatives in enterprises – and help build solutions to emerging business problems.
Ai will include: Infosys Information Platform; Service Automation Platforms; Mobile platforms based on Skava; Edge suite of innovative, cloud-hosted business platforms and software products offered to clients as ‘Pay-as-you-use’ services.
In addition, Infosys plans to offer platforms to address the internet of things (IoT) and application programming interface (API) requirements of its clients.
Dr Vishal Sikka, chief executive officer, Infosys said, “I am very excited to announce three service offerings: Ki in Knowledge-Based IT, Do in Design Thinking, and Ai in Platforms. This is an important step to further accelerate the execution of our strategy to renew existing services and move into entirely new areas, as well as to tie together our existing service lines to the strategic priorities of our clients.”
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