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Indias leading industry conglomeratesLarsen & Toubro,
TVS Motors and Hindalco Industriesbagged the Champion, Gold and Silver CIO
awards in the Above Rs 1,000 crore category for IT implementations at the CIOL-Dataquest
EnterpriseConnect Awards 2007
In the Below Rs 1,000 crore category, manufacturing companies
continued the good show with Eveready Industries India, Roots Industries and
Hikal winning the top three honorsas the Champion, Gold and Silver CIOs,
respectively.
In the Individual categories, there was an interesting mix of
winners, with insurance and financial services companies bagging majority of the
awards.
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Whos Who |
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Pioneer: Adopts cutting edge/emerging technologies ahead of
time |
| An
Innovator: Innovates on a existing technology/application for
use originally not intended for |
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Advocate: Contributes towards acceptance of IT within the
organizationtop management and end users |
| An
Extended Manager: Creates value for the business by connecting
strategic external stakeholders |
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A
Processer CIO: Positively impacts business processes through
successful use of IT |
Mahindra & Mahindra Financial Services won the Pioneer
award, and SRL Ranbaxy took home the Innovator award. The BFSI segments
growing strength was evident in the other individual categories as The Oriental
Insurance won the Extended Manager award, SBI Life Insurance took the honors as
the Advocate, and Bank of India grabbed the Process award.
Commenting on the winners, Vivek Kulkarni, former Karnataka IT
Secretary and CEO of Brickwork India said: "The winners have all
implemented complicated IT solutions and it has been a tough decision to choose
the winners. However, ultimately, the jury came to a consensus decision and
elected the top slots." He added that the manufacturing companies
implemented most of the latest IT solutions and hence, they emerged as the
winners.
The Unsung Heroes
The CIO has virtually been the unsung hero of the enterprise. It is common
to see reports about certain enterprises doing brilliant IT implementations.
However, what people do not realize is that such IT implementations have been
made possible by processes and people. Within enterprises, people devise these
processesread, the CIO.
Delivering the opening address at the event, Anil Kumar, senior
vice president, CIOL said "As leaders of technology, CIOs have, for a long
time, been unsung heroes. So, the theme for this years event is CIO Oscars.
CIOs have been instrumental in delivering technology to all, without many
knowing it. There has been a heterogeneous mix of verticals in the nominations
received by CIOL. In quite a few places, there were close calls, some ending in
photo finishes, in terms of points."
He cited an instance of Ashok Soota, a jury chairman in the
first award event of this series, who said that he would like to implement the
EnterpriseConnect Awards questionnaire as the KRA for his CIO.
Stellar Performances
In his address, Abraham Matthew, president, CIOL, and CEO, Cybermedia Dice,
said that since CIOs were drivers for innovation and growth of the IT sector,
they deserved due recognition.
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| Enterprise Connect Awards
Jury Members, Rahul De, Subhas Patil, Shyam Malhotra, Vivek Kulkarni, Alok
Shende, Prasanto Kumar Roy, Probir Mitra with CIOL editor Pradeep
Chakraborty in the back |
CIOL, along with Dataquest, conceived and developed the
Enterprise Connect Awards in 2004 around a framework that recognizes a CIOs
leadership qualities, business-technology understanding, people orientation and
performance through pioneering and innovating efforts. Thus, the CIOs Oscar
spawned in the IT firmament with the glitter that can add further sheen to the
shining stars, who are known by the designation chief information officer,"
said Matthew.
He added that the EnterpriseConnect Awards recognized and
rewarded excellence among CIOs in enabling their organizations to become more
efficient and competitive, and that the awards had become the standard and a
synonym for excellence and merit among Indian CIOs.
"My expectation from you, the super CIOs is for you to work
on the aspect of getting exposure for managing business globalization. How many
of you are global CIOs? From your own workplace, do you see yourself as a Global
CIO? It is all about practices and processes that would be accepted. Perhaps,
CIOL and Dataquest need to think of a category for awarding this as
well," he concluded.
I strongly commend ITs
role in the way it has changed the face of communication at the company.
We have adopted many pieces, from informal email to intense use of web
conferencing, meetings, and webcast
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Champion
CIO Award
Large Enterprise Category |
Anantha Sayana
head, Corporate IT, Larsen
& Toubro |
L&T effectively used
IT to achieve its business goals, especially in the areas of procurement
order cycles, project management, order fulfillment, engineering and
development of new products thanks to its IT governance structure.
Some of its key projects were: an automated disaster recovery management
system for business continuity; software-as-a-service (SaaS) for financial
product training: RFID-enabled stores management system; a Web service
integration tool; and an e-learning portal for employees.
"We have done a host
of things with IT. But the reason we succeeded is the way we put it all
together. We made sure that there were no mindless solutions and so we
achieved customer optimization, efficiency and standardization at all
levels. We put some solutions for enterprise and some as niche
solutions," said Sayana. "I strongly commend ITs role in the
way it has changed the face of communication at the company. We have
adopted many pieces, from informal email to intense use of web
conferencing, meetings, and Webcast. Today IT is at a stage where we have
achieved hundred percent automation for every business process," he
added. |
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If you look at IT from
an IT perspective, it wont work. But if you undertake every IT
initiative from a business perspective, results and the difference are
starkly visible
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Gold
CIO Award
Large Enterprise Category |
TG Dhandapani
CIO, TVS Motors |
The two-wheeler
manufacturer leveraged IT to streamline its business. An efficient dealer
management system monitors retail, sales and stock levels online. Its
manufacturing system has enhanced productivity, transparency and data
accuracy. A product lifecycle management solution has integrated design
and manufacturing to reduce lead-time by six months. Some of its key
projects include an online business model for outsourced manufacturing and
mobile computing.
"Implementation of
IT to the base level was not easy. But we tried to make it so by bringing
in business orientation for every IT project. Said Dhandapani, "About
20% of our total IT spending, which is in the range of Rs 6-8 crore per
annum, is injected on technology for business. But, we have a different
mindset for IT. We dont do IT for the sake of it. If business demands,
we go ahead with the investment. Our target is not budget but
deliverables. IT at TVS is not bound by budgetary control. IT does not
cost, IT pays." |
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