How Rohan Murthy, Harvard alum is building a productive office culture

This billionaire is an alum of Harvard University and his firm Soroco works with global firms to streamline office operations. And using similar data, the firm is trying to study patterns of how workers are using software across the teams and are fixing the issues among them and helping to boost productivity and reduce costs.

Rohan Murthy came into the limelight after his brother-in-law Rishi Sunak became Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. Rohan Murthy is the son of Narayana Murthy, Founder of Infosys.

Rohan at a very young age followed his father’s footsteps and took all his leadership skills in making a novel strategy for outsourcing technology. Now, he is looking for the same data process to make white-collar workers more efficient.

This billionaire is an alum of Harvard University and his firm Soroco works with global firms to streamline office operations. And using similar data, the firm is trying to study patterns of how workers are using software across the teams and are fixing the issues among them and helping to boost productivity and reduce costs.

The solution can be prevented by better technology, automation, standardization, and preventing the repetition of tasks.

The startup is based in Boston and Bengaluru, it gets a real-time view of how people in teams are getting work done by machine learning. The major clients include drugmaker Bayer AG, engineering tech titan Robert Bosch GmbH, candy, pet food maker Mars Inc., Wall Street banks, and global online retailers.

Murthy, Chief Technology Officer of Soroco said in a recent interview that the manufacturing industry needs to refine processes to make blue-collar workers more productive and efficient as there is a lack of gap in the digital transformation.

Murthy is the first to come up with the concept, dubbed task mining in industry parlance. Other tech behemoths such as Microsoft, International Business Machines Corp., and SAP SE all have similar offerings but are struggling to make much of a dent in the daily inefficiencies of white-collar work.

Murthy believes that he has found a more effective way to approach this. And he has a strong sense that Soroco’s software can collect data and map patterns across entire teams, uncovering inefficiencies and waste that top executives can’t see revolving around.

Murthy further pointed out that Soroco’s machine learning software can detect steps along the way that require a significant amount of manual work and recommended automation across various locations. This helps in cutting down the production time thus helping in reducing steep complaints from the clients.

Murthy teamed up with Arjun Narayan, a computer scientist from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and George Nychis, a PhD from Carnegie Mellon University to create Soroco in 2014.

The startup is seeking to expand at a time when the pandemic has hastened the proliferation of digital devices and apps used by more than half-a-billion office workers around the world.

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