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The Enterprise Connect Awards 2008 were presented to the winners in various
categories in Mumbai. CIOL, in association with Dataquest instituted the
Enterprise Connect Awards to recognize and award the pioneering work done by
CIOs in large and medium enterprises. Constituted in 2004, these awards are an
extension of the vision for CIOL Enterprise.
The Winners
The awards have a broad turnover classification for organizations above Rs
1,000 crore and below Rs 1,000 crore and each of these categories have three
awards: Champion CIO, Gold CIO and Silver CIO. Rajesh Uppal of Maruti Udyog is
the Champion CIO this year in the above Rs 1,000 crore category. Daya Prakash of
LG Electronics India won the Gold CIO award and Rajat Sharma of Shree Cements
won the Silver award.
In the below Rs 1,000 crore category, JS Puri of Fortis Healthcare received
the award for the Champion CIO, while Vinay Hinge of JK Helen Curtis and Satish
Kotian of Dewan Housing Finance won the Gold CIO and Silver CIO honors. Apart
from these awards, individual awards are given under the categories of Pioneer,
Innovator, Advocate, Extended Manager, Process and Eco-smartness.
C Mohan of Reliance Life Insurance Company received the award for the Pioneer
CIO while BR Bhat of Corporation Bank bagged the Innovator CIO award. Dinesh
Kumar of National Thermal Power Corporation won the Process CIO award. Shrikanth
P Gathoo of Bharat Petroleum won the award for Extended Manager while Dr RS
Tyagi of the All India Medical Sciences
bagged the Advocate CIO award. Nagaraj Bhat, Applied Materials, received the
award for the Eco-smart CIO.
An eminent jury headed by Ganesh Natarajan, chairman of Nasscom, selected the
winners. Anantha Sayana, head, corporate IT, L&T; Arup Chowdhary, head, IT,
Eveready Industries; Heminder Ahluwalia, executive advisor, executive programs,
Gartner Asia-Pacific; Prof DK Subramanian, dean and professor (Rtd), Indian
Institute of Science, Bangalore; Pradeep Gupta, managing director, CyberMedia
and Shyam Malhotra, editor-in-chief, CyberMedia Publications were the other jury
members.
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Jury Speak
Pradeep Gupta, CMD, CyberMedia set the ball rolling by pointing out some
interesting trends that the jury spotted during a rigorous assessment process.
IT is clearly playing a far more strategic role as we see, it is heartening to
see it taking centerstage. Also, we have seen many applications woven in
alignment to specific lines of business. As he remarked about how IT is going
24x7 and non-stop, he mentioned that IT will have to take a new shift in view of
the future, as it will see its users going more mobile and demanding than ever.
Talking of Green IT, Gupta left the audience with a thought to mull over: Green
IT is surely a theme now, but whose KRA (key result area) is it at the end of
the day?
Ganesh Natarajan also shared his pleasure at seeing Indian CIOs evolving to
what they are today as he talked about various nominations and the awards. I am
truly impressed with the Green IT award. It goes to show that green is not just
about e-waste or virtualization of servers but much more. He urged the industry
to reflect seriously on the social divide that is a challenge. Events like the
one at Singur are symptomatic of a major malaise. We should focus seriously on
inclusivity.
The Enterprise Connect Awards are built around a framework that recognizes a
CIOs leadership qualities, business-technology understanding, people
orientation and performance through pioneering and innovating efforts. In the
last four years, a total of 500 large enterprises have participated in the
Enterprise Connect Awards. The former winners include Tata Motors, Reliance
Industries, CESC, ICICI Bank, North Delhi Power, Reliance Infocomm, Bharti Tele
Ventures, TVS Motor Company, State Bank of India, Gati, Fortis Healthcare and
many more.
Pratima Harigunani
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