Artificial Intelligence & robotics: Will exit affect Infy's tech edge?

It was only over the last 10 days that there were serious murmurs about Vishal Sikka -- Infosys's rockstar CEO, as described by a company founder -- hanging up his boots. But none who know N R Narayana Murthy expected an outcome any different than this. "Mr Murthy quoting independent directors as having said Sikka'is not CEO material but CTO material' suggests loss of confidence. It seems he bought into their assessment. Hitherto, there was comfort within the company's leadership team that Mr Murthy's battle was essentially with the current board," said a senior Infosys executive of two decades.