CIO Leadership Summit: Leveraging The Upturn
Key Highlights
Gourav Jaswal
Synapse, FounderGourav Jaswal has extremely wide and varied business interests. He feels that if one knows what is at stake and is willing to accept it, nothing is out of reach. His concepts of using heuristics to understand why people make the choices they make, he feels, should be a part of management curriculum. This would at least help to put in places safeguards, help understand customer behavior. Though it may not be a leadership characteristic, it will certainly allow informed decisions through an insight into the marketplace. The fact remains that heuristics is surely influenced by the social environment, but it also has thousands of centuries of evolution processes behind it, so while our racial preferences may be due to environmental influences, our fixation with using only one piece of information to make decisions, is due to our evolving brain. And that information should be utilized for understand business behaviors.
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Sanjay Nayak
Tejas ?Networks, Co-founder, CEO & MDAn interview with Sanjay Nayak reveals that he and the co-founders of Tejas were quite lucky financially when they started their business in the early 2000s. They managed to secure an initial capital of nearly 5 million $ and have flourished ever since. Starting in India was perhaps most beneficial to the. To develop products, you really need to be close to the market. It is very difficult to sit in India and imagine what a customer in Silicon Valley wants, or vice versa, he said. According to him, India is also favourable because it provides ground to leverage innovation. Work can be easily done in India at a much lesser cost. At the same time, this increases the chances of growth because if a company would spend double the amount in R&D, the work would still be done in half of what it would cost in the US.
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Sumit Dutta Chowdhury
Reliance Communication, CIOOperating in an intensely competitive telecommunications sector Reliance Communication knows that it has to stay ahead of the curve. The organization is in the business of communication so it is important that their internal communication channels are efficient. To this end, Sumit Chowdhury, CIO, Reliance Communications opted for a Web 2.0-enabled intranet to boost internal communications, coordination and cooperation. In an interview with CIO TV, Sumit Chowdhury, CIO, Reliance Communications shares the benefits of the Web 2.0-enabled corporate intranet.
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