• Bring Back The Growth
Anupam Mittal
Chairman & MD, People Group
Raman Roy
CMD, Quatrro BPO Solutions
Nirmal Jain
chairman, India Infoline
Arun Kanchan
CEO, BSES
Adi B. Godrej
Chairman, Godrej Group
Anand Mahindra
Vice Chairman & MD, M&M
Ashok Soota
Chairman & MD, MindTree Consulting

Bring Back The Growth

KPMG's Exec Dir., Head IT Advisory,Global Head-Sourcing, says CIOs agenda for 2010 is to launch organizations on a growth path.

 

 

Interviewed By :Kanika Goswami
Kumar Parkala
Exec Dir. KPMG
  • Will the coming upswing give CIOs and innovative IT a chance to play a more significant role than they ever have? 

    Kumar Parkala :

    I agree that IT innovation will be critical in helping business organizations recover faster from the global financial crisis. It is extremely important for an organization to continue to innovate to remain in business - runs the risk of commoditization.

    IT has always been an enabler for business transformation and also plays a very important role in various organizations within the enterprise to improve operational efficiencies. On both those fronts, innovation is absolutely critical. And the CIO, as the leader of the IT organization, definitely has a significant role to play in helping organizations recover faster from the impact of the global financial crisis - as well as coming up with innovative solutions that will drive the recovery and the business strategy of a company. This includes looking at innovative service delivery opportunities using IT. The CIO needs to be become chief innovation officer using IT.

     

  • Are a CIO’s cost-cutting days done?  
  • Is that the single most important thing a CIO should focus on in the next few months? Or is there something else? 
  • What avatar of the CIO does India Inc need right now: the visionary, the pragmatist, the value creator; the cost-cutter; or the business leader? 
  • Do you agree that the toughest part of being a CIO is making choices and selling them to management? 
  • And how would you rank a CIO’s HR skills?  
  • The new economic order is likely to see more M&As. What should CIOs be prepared for?  

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