These companies are breeding grounds for future CIOs
Are some companies better at developing IT leadership than others? Data seems to suggest so. A little analysis of the data for winners of NEXT100 for last seven years shows that some companies have consistently produced winners. Often called future CIOs, NEXT 100 is the only award for IT professionals in India who have it in them to become CIOs. The winners are selected by a rigorous process... By CIO&Leader
Enterprise IT: It’s a man’s world. And it is not going to change soon
Only 3% of Indian CIOs are women. The data is based on our analysis of 250 selected profiles of CIOs in large Indian companies. That probably does not surprise you much. What is really worrisome is that the figure is only marginally better among the next generation leaders. An analysis of the last seven years NEXT100 winners data reveals that just 4% of them are women. NEXT100 is one-of-... By
Now shops in Dharavi use IoT devices to lure customers
For commoners, Mumbai's Dharavi is just another slum that inhabits about 1 million people. However, calling it a slum is an understatement considering it is a nucleus of small scale industries. For students at Industrial Design Centre (IDC) at Indian Institute of Technology-Bombay (IIT-B), these are one million opportunities. In collaboration with Swansea... By IT Next
Nearly half of respondents feel that diversity is a barrier to employee progression: PwC
PwC conducted a global, cross-industry survey of business, Diversity and Inclusion (D&I), and HR leaders who develop and execute their organizations' D&I strategies to understand what programmes their organizations have in place, and the impact they are having on employee experience. The survey found that globally, organizations are committing to D&I at higher rates than ever,... By CIO&Leader
Five facts you should know about Chief Digital Officers (CDOs) in India
Digital transformation, the phrase used to describe the change needed by enterprises to compete in the new digital era, often implies very specific and different things. Yet, there’s a growing consensus that some sort of adjustment is needed by businesses to remain relevant. The discourse around digital transformation has—almost from its beginning—been accompanied by an intense debate on who... By CIO&Leader
The global devices market is stagnating: Gartner
Worldwide combined shipments of PCs, tablets, ultramobiles and mobile phones are projected to remain flat in 2017, according to Gartner Inc. Worldwide shipments for these devices are projected to total 2.3 billion in 2017, the same as 2016 estimates. There were nearly 7 billion phones, tablets and PCs in use globally by the end of 2016. However, Gartner does not expect any... By CIO&Leader
The shift is complete: In 2016, cloud services spend overtook cloud tech spend
If 2015 was the year in which cloud became mainstream, 2016 saw cloud emerging as the dominant IT model. A testimony to that is the fact that in 2016, the spend on cloud services finally overtook the spend on cloud infrastructure hardware and software. In aggregate, cloud service markets are now growing three times more quickly than cloud infrastructure hardware and software, according... By CIO&Leader
India among top 10 destinations for hyperscale datacenters
India features among the top ten countries that host hyperscale datacenters even as the United States continues as the dominant leader accounting for 45% of such centers—more than the combined share of the next nine countries. New data from Synergy Research Group (SRG) show that the number of such datacenters hit the 300 mark in December, after a flurry of year-end datacenter openings by Amazon... By CIO&Leader
WEF lists down five leadership challenges for 2017
Firstly, they will have to come to grips with the Fourth Industrial Revolution, which is redefining entire industries, and creating new ones from scratch, owing to groundbreaking advances in artificial intelligence, robotics, the Internet of Things, self-driving vehicles, 3D-printing, nanotechnology, biotechnology, and quantum computing. These technologies have only begun to show their full... By CIO&Leader
'We have moved a few critical workloads to the cloud'
CIO&Leader spoke to Sachin Jain, CIO-Global IT Operations & CISO at Evalueserve, as he shares his outlook on 'the year that was' for technology and business. Tell us about some of the IT implementations that you completed in the year 2016. We are working on the successful deployment of cloud, mobility and analytics, and moving towards sustaining both our business and... By Sachin Nandkishor Mhashilkar
Anil Kumar Singh is now CIO & General Manager at Krishak Bharati Co-operative Limited
Anil Kumar Singh is now CIO & General Manager (Management Services at Krishak Bharati Co-operative Limited. Prior to the appointment, Singh, who is an IT NEXT 100 CIO-2014 award winner, was Additional General Manager (MS) at KRIBHCO Ltd. Singh has over 32 years of experience in the IT Industry, which includes consultancy, software application development, maintenance of... By CIO&Leader