In this fast-changing technological landscape, we are witnessing organizations at all scales and levels undertaking transformational journeys. Every organization today realizes the potential and...
May 12, 2023
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Gaurav Kumar, Co-Founder and CTO of a start-up that specialises in the food delivery business appears to have been dealing with nightmares. His frown lines are becoming deeper, indicating that he has...
Jul 18, 2022
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A thriving startup segment drives innovation, disrupts the status quo, provides new employment opportunities, and significantly contributes to economic growth. India's startup ecosystem is currently...
Jul 04, 2022
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To accelerate value creation, CIOs and IT executives should focus on three key areas – leading from anywhere, nurturing connections and reaching beyond, according to Gartner.
Mbula Schoen, senior...
Oct 19, 2021
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Women comprise 41% of the supply chain workforce in 2021, up from 39% in 2020, according to a recent survey by Gartner. Every leadership level saw an increase in representation, except the executive...
Jun 17, 2021
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70% of hiring processes of new CIOs rank individual determination and sensitivity as two critical personal characteristics in 2021, according to Gartner. As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to shift...
Jan 06, 2021
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The world is experiencing an unprecedented crisis that is causing chaos in the global economy, disrupting supply chains, and transforming society. The new reality is accelerating business model...
May 28, 2020
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The year 2019 witnessed key CISOs moving to different companies or taking up new positions within the same company. Presenting to you a list of 60 such CISOs...
December 2019
Amit Jaokar moved to...
Dec 30, 2019
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Like recent years, 2019 too saw quite a few CIOs moving to newer responsibilities. Most of these involve changing the organizations. Unlike in the developed markets, few CIO appointments are by...
Dec 23, 2019
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Even though the topic of gender diversity in technology has received much attention in the boardroom and many organizations are taking steps to improve C-suite diversity, it is no secret that the...
Mar 07, 2019
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Digital Transformation from the Trenches: Transformation Strategies for the Digital CIO
by Vivek Vishnu (July 2018)
Publishers: Authors Upfront
Pages: xviii+224
Price: INR 695
One of the biggest...
Sep 11, 2018
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There are two kinds of organizations. One is where a user applies IT for business and the other where the user are the producer of IT products or services. In the case of former, the degree of...
Jun 06, 2018
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Any CXO position is a combination of expertise and added layers of “big picture thinking” ability and leadership. A CIO/CISO without a strong IT background is a Chief Operating Officer , or a Chief...
Jun 04, 2018
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For years, IT leaders have treated Return on Investment (ROI) as testament of a successful IT initiative. For most CIOs, realizing a hard ROI wasn’t always easy and it wasn’t necessary that every...
May 02, 2018
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In my view, there is no need to keep separate budget allocation in the name of digital.
When we talk about enterprise IT, we always talk about a larger frame of implementation of IT In any enterprise...
Apr 05, 2018
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If you keep digital budget as part of IT budget, there is a high possibility that it might be reused in some form that is not really digital spend. The bigger reason, however, is that every executive...
Apr 04, 2018
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IT transformation has become a priority for enterprises globally. In order to successfully drive this transformation, CIO-CFO collaboration is important as these are the major players who provide the...
Mar 28, 2018
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LinkedIn has unveiled the 2018 Top Companies list for India. The annual ranking highlights the 25 companies in the country that are most sought-after by professionals, based on proprietary LinkedIn...
Mar 21, 2018
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CIOs are exerting greater influence over approving digital business ideas to optimize costs: Gartner
IT cost optimization in organizations is focused on enabling business optimization over cost cutting, according to a recent survey by Gartner.
According to Gartner analyst Stewart Buchanan,...
Mar 21, 2018
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I do not agree with this view. Information Security function has been ever evolving since its conception. However, depending on the size of the organization and the way the security function or the...
Mar 13, 2018
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Unlike many other areas—most notably banking and telecom—India’s organized retail is nowhere close to its counterparts in developed and even many developing markets. Significant part of Indian retail...
Mar 13, 2018
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At the time of writing this, the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum is on at Davos. India, of course, is getting a lot of mindshare, not just because of the plenary speech of prime minister...
Mar 13, 2018
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According to Grant Thornton, the professional services company, that has tracked the progress of women in business around the globe for 14 years, explores how business leaders think and feel, and...
Mar 12, 2018
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Many years ago when cloud deployments were at their peak, during an interview, an Indian woman CIO was talking about how tough it was for her to say goodbye to legacy hardware and deploy a hybrid...
Mar 07, 2018
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In the last few years since "making the workplace attractive for the millennial workforce" became a CIO responsibility, I have asked several Indian CIOs on how they plan to make their workplace...
Feb 27, 2018
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Research firm Gartner advises security and risk management leaders to take a balanced approach to tackling a new class of vulnerabilities. Security researchers have revealed three major variants of...
Feb 15, 2018
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CIOs today are leading change and driving digital transformation in their respective organizations. Their love for experimenting with new technologies dates back to the back-office days. However...
Feb 14, 2018
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The world is witness to the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting taking place in Davos, Switzerland. Davos 2018 is one of the first world conferences this year to discuss Gender Equality on a global...
Jan 25, 2018
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On 24 August 2017, in a historic judgment, a nine-judge bench of the Supreme Court ruled that right to privacy is a fundamental right, while hearing a case on the legality of Aadhar.
“We are...
Jan 25, 2018
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The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say Thank you. In between the two, the leader must become a servant and a debtor - Max De Pree
Leadership is a subject of...
Dec 26, 2017
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Leadership is the art of motivating a group of people to act towards achieving a common goal.
Leadership captures the essentials of being able to inspire others and being prepared to do so. Effective...
Dec 26, 2017
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Leadership has a different meaning to each individual. Few say “Leadership is an art to encourage and motivate people to achieve a common agenda” while others say “Leadership is a winning combination...
Dec 26, 2017
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“Who is a leader?” - My 13-year old son asked me one day. This got me thinking. Having spent some time in the leadership spectrum, this is a hard truth to live by. You have to constantly ask yourself...
Dec 20, 2017
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With changing threat landscape and information technology priorities, organizations and leaders must change the way they observe the security landscape. Over the last two decades, new risks can be...
Dec 13, 2017
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The definition of leadership is ever changing. In the coming years, it will continue to change as more and more millennial join the current workforce. Millennial, however, are already empowered with...
Dec 11, 2017
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As the role of chief data officer (CDO) continues to gain traction within organizations, a recent survey by Gartner, Inc. found that these data and analytics leaders are proving to be a linchpin of...
Dec 06, 2017
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In 1978, Transformational Leadership was introduced by expert, James McGregor Burns, in his book “Leadership”.
He explained it as a process where followers of a leader are developed to the higher...
Dec 05, 2017
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According to 2018 Gartner CIO Agenda Survey, 51% of CIOs surveyed in India reported that they are taking charge of innovation and 49% have indicated that they are heading up digital transformation...
Nov 17, 2017
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The skillsets of the technology leader are changing. Sankarson Banerjee CTO - Projects National Stock Exchange of India Limited says that there are bigger tasks that project management that come...
Nov 13, 2017
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In computer science class, students learn how to think in a structured and logical manner. This allows them to break down problems and develop algorithms that consider all scenarios, not just the...
Oct 30, 2017
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Intel India has trained 9,500 developers, students and professors across 90 organisations in the past six months in the emerging field of artificial intelligence (AI).
Intel India has...
Oct 11, 2017
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It is ironic that in a culture where sacred texts start with teaching the importance and characteristics of the divine ‘wholeness’ (the invocation of Isa Upanishad), thinking in whole or ‘system...
Oct 10, 2017
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In the IT and security circles, Sunil Varkey, VP & Chief Information Security Officer at Wipro Limited, is a well-known name. A veteran in the field, Varkey has spent over 23 years of...
Oct 09, 2017
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Gartner has revealed its top predictions for 2018 and beyond. Gartner's top predictions will enable organizations to move beyond thinking about mere notions of technology adoption to focus on the...
Oct 06, 2017
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One thing that we have addressed time and again that the role of the CIO is changing or needs to change. The advent of technologies such as artificial intelligence, machine learning, big data...
Oct 06, 2017
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As data becomes ever more distributed across multiple systems, organizations have to cope with increasingly complex ecosystems and digital business requirements. The Gartner Hype Cycle for Data...
Sep 28, 2017
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It is exactly one year since Raghuram Rajan relinquished his charge as RBI governor. As I was going through his newly released book, I Do What I Do, it was good to be reminded of the expectations he...
Sep 12, 2017
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Early this year, CIO&Leader did a story to find that the consistent improvement in the hiring of women over the last year is indicative of a trend that is slowly bridging the gender divide....
Sep 11, 2017
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Airlines and airports are embracing new technologies and turning to artificial intelligence (AI) to support their customer service. Over the next three years 52% of airlines plan major AI...
Sep 07, 2017
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The security landscape is changing so fast, that every day seems like you are preparing for combat.
While the CEOs of the world are busy bringing about digital transformation and changing the...
Apr 07, 2017
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