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Business Strategies
Green IT has captured substantial white space this year but CIOs are not
considering it top priority is 2008, and that is why only Henkel CAC and
Zapak.com showed inclination toward focusing on this strategic area. However,
compliance confirmation was the top preference with 11 of the companies CIOs
possibly focusing on it in 2008. Outsourcing got its share of the pie with SLR
Ranbaxy, India Today, Arvind Mills, Fortis, CFC, and five other concentrating on
it next year. Zapaks CIO, Sudipto Majumdar, has rated recruitment 9 out of 10,
and so have six others, showing that recruitment would remain a focus. Apart
from that, managing vendor relationship had eight of the CIOs, including, Eagle
Services, Sharekhan, Thomson Press, Oriental Insurance, and CFC and others
responding in an affirmative.
Whos the Best
We also asked CIOs for names of enterprises that they think have integrated
IT successfully and the response was a mix of names from banking, telecom, FMCG
and many other sectors, both private and government. NSE, ICICI Bank, Vodafone,
Airtel, HDFC, and ITC with its e-Choupal, and Reliance Infocom were common
choices. For a few, enterprises like M&M, HCC, IFFCO, HDFC, Allergan, Ranbaxy,
Asian Paints and Maruti fit the bill. In the aviation vertical, Kingfisher, Jet
Airways were considered a success story in IT integration by the CIOs. But,
there were a few CIOs who also thought that the news and views doing the rounds
is not enough to arrive at a conclusion, and, thus, preferred not to reply.
Bharti Airtel, ICICI Bank, HDFC were, however, the most popular in the lot, and
even without in-depth research, we can see why.
Even with a small sample size, there seems to be a trend reflecting on how
the chiefs of technology are planning ahead and planning wise. It is clear that
virtualization is playing strong on the minds of CIOs and security is a major
concern, hence the reason for a good number betting big on it. Maybe, the next
time we do this survey, in 2009, green IT and mobile application of business,
that fell behind slightly, would be more of a priority.
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"The biggest challenge in 2008 will be
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| We asked the
CIOs what they think will be the biggest challenge for them in 2008. Here is
what some of them said:
Convergence of media and even faster obsolescence
Dhiren Savla, CIO, Kuoni Travel India
Managing expectations in a high growth market with multiple conflicting
priority areas
Arun Gupta, CIO, Shoppers Stop
Ramping up of IT infrastructure and consolidation of enterprise
applications. Quick deployment of IT applications will have to match the
shortened go-to-market cycle of new businesses
Anup Mandal, CIO, India Today Group
Embedding IT in Healthcare providers (doctors), management and customers.
Proving by execution that technology can do a lot for health
Manish Gupta, CIO, Fortis
Sustaining the huge Hardware and WAN infrastructure for all 900+ offices to
keep downtime at the minimum level and keep the INLIAS application be
available for the company as a whole
SK Chanana, CIO, Oriental Insurance
Employees of the organization are true assets. Hiring the right talent,
molding them to suit our environment while also retaining them is going to
be the challenge
Radhakrishna Pillai, CIO, SRL Ranbaxy |
Shikha Das
With inputs from Stuti Das
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