Rohan Narayana Murty is the founder of the Murty Classical Library of India as well as Soroco, a digital transformation start-up, which specializes in automation utilizing artificial intelligence assets, and is also a junior fellow of the Harvard Society of Fellows.
He is the son of NR Narayana Murty, the founder of IT giant Infosys, and Sudha Murty, a philanthropist, writer, and engineer. He owns a stake in Infosys worth $700 million, making him the second biggest shareholder in the firm.
Murty is also Rishi Sunak, UK’s Prime Minister’s, brother-in-law.
He attended the Bishop Cotton Boys' School in Bangalore for his education. For his higher education, he went to the US and pursued an undergraduate degree in Computer Science at Cornell University.
In 2011, he attained a Ph.D. in Computer Engineering from Harvard University.
Currently, the 39-year-old is working to increase the productivity of white-collar professionals.
The start-up, which has headquarters in Boston and Bangalore, uses machine learning to acquire a real-time snapshot of how individuals in teams do tasks.
Using methods akin to Toyota Motor Corp.'s ground-breaking efforts to minimize waste in manufacturing decades ago, Murty's Soroco collaborates with large international firms to streamline office tasks.
The start-up gathers information to examine trends in how users interact with software across teams and offers remedies to work out bugs, increase productivity, and lower costs. Better technology, automation, and avoiding repetitive tasks are some of the plausible solutions.
According to a recent article in the Harvard Business Review, Murty has said that employers have been worried that employees aren't working as much as they should ever since moving to a work-from-home policy. He claimed that despite more production, worries about underperforming personnel still exist.
Such strategies, according to Murty, only serve to reinforce the notion that management and teams frequently disagree. He calls these strategies oppressive and demoralizing for workers.
He emphasizes the use of empathy as a vital tool to boost employee morale and performance.
It can enable management in comprehending the viewpoint of the employees and revealing what is wrong with the setting in which they operate and how it may affect them.
Empathy focuses on the team and the environment in which people operate rather than a particular person.
Murty has collaborated with Arjun Narayana and George Nychis, two MIT alumni, for his software development.
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