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Indradyumna Datta | Group CDO | Jindal Steel & Power Ltd. in conversation with Arvind Kakru | Director | Rockwell Automation India & Khushbu Soni | Host, Chief Editor | CIO News   Catch Indradyumna Datta talking about the line of business of his company and where all the company has its presence and the future expansion plans. He spoke about how his company has transformed its goals and KPIs to multiple areas. He explained about the plans to make his company very digitally matured organisation by implementing digital across the functions and value chain.   He also said:  “We have broadly transformed our goals and KPIs to multiple areas throughout the value chain of mining to iron-making to steel-making to mills and the logistics part”  “Many organisations tend to get stuck into one of the functions or operation areas but, for us, digital is across the functions and value chain and that’s how we want to make JSP as a very digitally matured organisation”  Arvind Kakru said:  “I would bring an element of convergence of IT & OT on how do you ensure to seek your operations and improve productivity with converged work architecture is also critical to look at your operation network and your IT network and create an environment to issue resolution to ensure that the downtime is very less”  “When you have connectivity and data, it’s very critical to ensure that you have all the networks secured and have proper cyber compliant programs, vision and execution in place” Listen to the exclusive interview now!   #digitalleaders #technology #rockwellautomation #cios #ctos #voiceofcio #cionews

Ramesh Rajagopalakrishnan | CIO | Grasim Industries Limited & Arvind Kakru | Director | Rockwell Automation in conversation with Khushbu Soni | Host, Chief Editor | CIO News Catch Ramesh Rajagopalakrishnan talking about how his company is trying to convert the challenges faced due to pandemic in opportunities to ensure business continuity. He spoke about the digital vision and mission of his company which provides a direction of change. He explained about how the customer journey experience at various stages can be improved by his company by embracing different key points of the customer journey.  He also said:  “When we talk about a digital mission, the essence of it is core to our strategy and operations”  “In the journey of a customer there will be various changes. We should be embracing key points of the customer journey and improve the customer experience”  Arvind Kakru said:  “I think from a digital strategy point of view, evaluating the business case first will be more successful rather than evaluating from a technology point of view because technology is very complex and unless it gives you value for the business, that path is not going to be easy in the future”  “There has to be evaluation of comprehensive digital transformation for manufacturing and also in some cases what happens is best practices coming from different areas can be adopted” Listen to the exclusive interview now!   #digitalleaders #technology #rockwellautomation #cios #ctos #voiceofcio #cionews

Dilraj Singh Gandhi | Chief Digital Officer (CDO) | TAFE – Tractors and Farm Equipment Limited in conversation with Khushbu Soni | Host, Chief Editor | CIO News   Catch Dilraj Singh Gandhi talking about farmer empowerment in terms of decision-making, providing right information, informing about right set of processes by combining digital with his company’s front-end vision. He said the thinking of his company is to benefit the farm work. He spoke about the back-end vision of his company which is to empower the employees in a way that they become the best. He explained about the criteria for building a digital transformed organisation that involves changing the people’s mind-set, change management and handling change management, making people unlearn the legacy and creating an adoption. Also, it is important to assess the success of implementation.   He also said:  “Whatever we do, we envision, or we try to create, either at our functional level or at the organisation level, we think about farm work as a core intend to be benefitted. This is our front-end vision”  “Our back-end vision is to empower the employees with the data, insights, and right productive tools, right set of various technologies, so that they can be the best of what they are supposed to be”  “Even if I am a digital officer, technology is the last worry for me. The biggest important thing is that the business model must be right”   Listen to the exclusive interview now!   #digitalleaders #technology #rockwellautomation #cios #ctos #voiceofcio #cionews

Bhuwan Lodha | Chief Digital Officer – Automotive Sector | Mahindra Group in conversation with Arvind Kakru | Director | Rockwell Automation India and Khushbu Soni | Host, Chief Editor | CIO News Bhuwan Lodha talks about his priorities that include the strategies his company is considering for achieving the vision of becoming a digital innovator in the automotive industry. He spoke about the time, efforts and resources that the company has invested in emerging technologies, specifically AI, IoT, manufacturing technologies and AR/VR, to ensure that we see the results and bring them at scale to our businesses. He also said:  “Digital is a centre stage of innovation at Mahindra & Mahindra and we always keep looking for ideas which will not just take us closer to the customer, but also take us closer to the next level of innovation”   Listen to the exclusive interview now!   #digitalleaders #technology #rockwellautomation #cios #ctos #voiceofcio #cionews

Priyabrata Sarangi | CIO | DCM Shriram in conversation with Arvind Kakru | Director | Rockwell Automation India and Khushbu Soni | Host, Chief Editor | CIO News   Priyabrata Sarangi talks about his company’s different line of businesses and the plans of his company about the digital transformation journey. He said about the process to successfully complete the journey of digital transformation for companies in the chemical industry. He also explained about the challenges companies in the chemical industry face while going through the process of digital transformation journey. He said about the latest proven digital and sustainable technologies and practices, which he plans to adopt to scale the current IT infrastructure and IT security management in the current COVID times.   He also said:  “We are spreading our business as well as transforming our whole process with the new digital platform”  “It is very important for an IT leader to make a roadmap for the organisation and roadmap consists of new strategies in terms of whether the business is ready for digital transformation”  “My strategy is 100% cloud. Already I have achieved 60% cloud, in next two years I will achieve 80% to 90% and some small part will be hybrid”   Hear the exclusive interview now!   #digitalleaders #technology #rockwellautomation #cios #ctos #voiceofcio #cionews

Manoranjan Kumar| CIO | Shree Cements Ltd. in conversation with Arvind Kakru | Director | Rockwell Automation India and Khushbu Soni | Host, Chief Editor | CIO News   Manoranjan Kumar talks about the line of business of his company, Shree Cement’s latest acquisition, plans for starting new line of businesses, brands the company owns. He touched upon the challenges technology leaders in the similar industry face and also shares his views about the strategies for making the company a digital innovator and digitally transformed organisation in the cement industry.   He also said:  “We identify the evolving technologies available in the market and adopted by people or they are planning to adopt for their business and if these technologies are useful for us, then we have to identify in which areas these technologies can be helpful for our business”   Hear the exclusive interview now!   #digitalleaders #technology #rockwellautomation #cios #ctos #voiceofcio #cionews

Ranganathan Iyer | Group CIO, EVT-IT | JBM Group in conversation Khushbu Soni | Host, Chief Editor | CIO News   Catch Ranganathan Iyer talking about different business segments of his company and his organisation’s journey. He spoke about the role of technology partners in different business avenues. He said about the technology trends and explained how to understand and resolve business pain-points.   He also said:   “What we have done is, first try to resolve the business issues, try to understand the different pain-points and try to have intervention of any of the technologies”   “Because of pandemic, we had a very difficult situation which has given us a right way of deploying technology”   Listen to the exclusive interview now!

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Catch Dr. Ram Lal Markanda talking about the future of digital transformation in the state of Himachal Pradesh. He spoke about IT projects been started in the state. He spoke about the advancements done in the health institutions and schools. He spoke about the initiatives taken for the growth of education in the state such as starting new courses in colleges and signing MoUs with big industries so that students should get job placements. He spoke about the concept of transforming his Government in to e-Government and e-offices. Listen to the exclusive podcast now!