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Alok Shende, member of the
jury, enlightened the gathering of some of Indias best CIOs with an
overview of the EnterpriseConnect award selection process. He said that it
was a difficult choice for the jury while deciding the winners.
As about how the CIOL-Dataquest
awards was different and Shende said, "The starting point itself goes
in a very robust fashion, that is, the questionnaires are sent out and
nominations are invited. The questionnaires not only look at what
enterprises do in terms of anecdotes, but also, a lot of quantitative data
is asked for. When the jury is taking a call, they not only look at what
has been done, but also the impact that followed."
The framework followed for
the CIOL-Dataquest EnterpriseConnect Awards questionnaires essentially
comes from business and IT alignments. He said that the questionnaire
looks at both the internal and external impacts of IT. The second aspect
was that it looked at the demand aspect coming in for IT and the supply
that was coming from CIOs. Another aspect was that not only did data come
in raw form, but there was also a process for putting that data in a
logical sequence.
Shende said, "From a
contextual perspective, Ive seen some awards where you go on the
Internet and vote. There is no return in that kind of award as anyone can
go and have as many clicks as possible. It doesnt bring the competitive
aspect, it doesnt bring the leadership part."
According to him, some key
understandings that came out were:
The jury liked
quantifications. As compared to companies of similar size, who probably
did similar work, the jury was able to give a quantitative justification
and quantitative outcome of what the enterprises were able to do.
"For some of the projects that were done, what has been the net
outcome? That was the first thing," he said.
"Another surprising
thing was, when you compare Indian firms, you could see that they are not
behind, when compared to some of the multinational firms. The traditional
ideas are that MNCs are probably better at drawing the IT architecture,
implementing, and drawing benefits. The answer is no. You can clearly see
that Indian firms are really on the ground."
"We saw that many of
the companies who were able to achieve good outcome from the investments
they made, ideally, were the ones who kept business and IT together. They
were able to make the alignment," he elaborated. "These were a
set of people with great vision who went about implementing and making
impact on the business stance." |
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