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Real Transformation
Innovative organizations know that digital transformation is no longer a nice-to-have, but a mission-critical component to drive change.
   8 years ago
#DellTechForumDigital Transformation IndexWe’ve explored the status of digital transformation around the world and organizations' ability to meet changing customer demands. Hear more about this study and then explore the results at a #DellTechForum near you!  
Parna Ghosh
Leaving Comfort Zone, De-skilling, Re-skilling themselves, taking up challenging role in businesses. Disrupt business process to yield better results.
Srihari Palangala
(Selective) risk taking as well?
Prakash Bhatia
But CIO do face the challenges to take digital transformation ahead.
Parna Ghosh
CIO role is slowly transforming to CDO role worldwide
Kiran Belsekar
CIOs need to become change agents
Dell Technologies India
With so many responses shared, here is the third question https://www.crowdchat.net/s/85v9n
https://www.crowdchat.net/s/85v9n

Milind Khamkar
Acceptance and Adoption within various business functions, getting Partner echo system ready for cohesive working and aligning internal Talent to new technology changes and sustaining it further. #India_RealTransformation
Srihari Palangala
engraining the digital DNA?
Ajay Kumar Meher
(1/3) The major challenges faced by CIOs today are: The boundaries of job responsibilities are eliminating. Sometimes CIOs take into the responsibility of other CXOs which creates organizational politics, which slows everything. #India_RealTransformation
Ajay Kumar Meher
(2/3) The Maturity of service providers on awareness of Industry knowledge. Without a proper industry know – how the solutioning is partial. That’s make the available solution outside the market incomplete. #India_RealTransformation
Ajay Kumar Meher
(3/3) The skill enhancement of Organization. The employees are onto the old process and old way of working and when a major transition happens, the employees are not able to embrace the changes provided to them. #India_RealTransformation
Sangh Gautam
(1/3) First CIOs need to assess feasibility of disruptive technologies on a practical level in order to address business opportunities & current pain areas., & focus on addressing concrete business opportunities and problems. #India_RealTransformation
Sangh Gautam
(2/3) Secondly CIOs need to understand how these technology trends impact current and future system architecture and be able to map the journey into a feasible technology roadmap. #India_RealTransformation
Srihari Palangala
@ajay1511 Cannot agree more. Domain and business knowledge, including maintaining customer centricity drives a lot of the tech adoption
Kunal
(1/3) Top Management Buy-in as its difficult to measure the ROI immediately. Most of these technologies require a decent investment in terms of time and money. #India_RealTransformation
Sangh Gautam
(3/3) Lastly, they need to focus on hiring appropriate workforce while reskilling their existing workforce and if needed reorganizing the org structure. #India_RealTransformation
Kunal
(2/3) Business Support is lacking due to fear of job loss with increasing automation. #India_RealTransformation
Kunal
(3/3) Availability of Skilled Resources is scarce and expensive, which is where one is constantly looking for support in the vendor ecosystem. #India_RealTransformation
Avinash Velhal
(1/1) The three challenges faced are Cybersecurity, cost to revenue generation shift in systems, resources & skill sets to drive transformation. #India_RealTransformation #CIO
Kiran Belsekar
@ajay1511 The most important role of the CIO in the next five years may be that of change agent, something that goes well beyond the ability to understand the potential of technology and to actually bring it to life.
Kiran Belsekar
CIOs and their teams can’t possibly master infinite technology specialties, so CIOs need to stay aligned to digital transformation goals to avoid getting distracted.
Dr. Puneet Kaur Kohli
(1/2) In this digital age, crucial for CIOs to understand the importance of innovation. They should know how they can innovate & evaluate in order to meet the changing business objectives while meeting the demands of the customers. #India_RealTransformation
Dr. Puneet Kaur Kohli
(2/2) The top 3 challenges that CIOs face when they go about taking new mandate of DX are expanding their roles, making sure the team is well equipped; and knowing what innovations need to be deployed to maximize business revenue. #India_RealTransformation
Parna Ghosh
Role of CIO is evolving from a mere IT techie to Digital Business Transformer. CIO is expected to deliver business results through Digital Technologies.
Prakash Bhatia
agree as Innovation converting into Digital technology is the most precious commodity in IT for the next decade—is fuelled by diversity. The most innovative IT CIO will be the one that embrace a culture in which all employees feel free to contribute ideas and that will evolve it
Brian Pereira
Milind: I have been interacting with some international CIOs and CISOs and they have a lot of respect and admiration for Indian CIOs
Prakash Bhatia
agree as Innovation converting into Digital technology is the most precious commodity in IT for the next decade—is fuelled by diversity. The most innovative IT CIO will be the one that embrace a culture in which all employees feel free to contribute ideas.
Prakash Bhatia
Although digital transformation will vary widely based on organization's specific challenges and demands, there are a few constants and common themes among existing case studies and published frameworks that all business and technology leaders should consider as they embark on di
Kunal
(2/4) CIO must ensure that he “Simplifies” and not complicates. CIO needs to Act as a trusted advisor to CEO and align the company goals to the strategic technology initiatives. #India_RealTransformation
Srihari Palangala
you meant strategic business objectives, right Kunal?
Kunal
(1/4) CIO needs to unlearn the old and learn the new by constantly upskilling oneself. He needs to be more aggressive and not be afraid to experiment and for that matter be ready to “Fail” sometime. #India_RealTransformation
Srihari Palangala
Its great you mention that, at our Connected CIO Forum, one discussion is around the importance of skilling and re-skilling. And piloting use cases with emerging technologies.
Milind Khamkar
(4/4) We have seen with every technology transformation / disruption CIO role is getting to new maturity level and stronger. #India_RealTransformation
Milind Khamkar
(3/4) With conducive environment around many CIOs are ahead of their western counterpart in adopting new and innovative technologies. #India_RealTransformation
Srihari Palangala
thanks for sharing Milind, any specific areas you see where the India market has a stronger ecosystem - mobility for example?
Milind Khamkar
CLOUD and MOBILITY both seems to be going great