IT - Now an Enabler of Business

Sachin Gupta
Sr. Vice President & CIO, Havells

“As far as transformation is concerned, I think we are seeing it across businesses and verticals.  Within the businesses the transformation is a key goal. One of the things that we as IT leaders have to keep in mind is we are looking at the transformation across the value chain of the business.

The role of the CIO has changed, it was role of a provider and now it becomes more of a business partner. A CIO now sits with the senior management discussing visions, strategy of the business with everybody and also suggest how technology can help organisations achieves their goals and visions. From a technology perspective, it used to be very difficult to talk about technology to your business leader, today it has become very simplified as a marketing head or a CMO understands technology as much as I understand. 

Laptop today has now become a model it’s something which you had to have, and just like a phone it is becoming more of a fashion statement. So it is becoming more difficult to say this is the laptop you should have, it is more like this is the laptop we are getting in and you need to support it. Both have some positive and negative side and with that comes a big security question. So to achieve that balance with the security and privacy issues as a CIO we want to do and give the best of the tools or the sleekest of the models.”