BANGALORE: We don’t know about tsunamis, or earthquakes or falling asteroids or extra-terrestrials’ vacation plans. Water, fire or hurricanes? Now, next year or next century? We leave that job to mystics and astro-sapiens.
But the world we inhabit is almost on the verge of a sharp edge. The world of technology and IT, as much as we love the status-quo, will cease to be the way it is.
And like dinosaurs, we can see the meteors before they arrive. You can see them. I can see them. He can see them. We all have been going through this hunch that gradually is being validated by many reports and forecasts.
It’s more than a sixth sense moment now.
What has been started by Internet, Cloud or tablets is albeit, just a starting.
It’s not just about those legacy systems, black racks, aging systems, out-of-fashion portables, depleted machines and drying-up codes. It’s not about hardware, software or bloat wares.
It’s about the way IT has been thought of. The way it is whipped up. The way it is scooped out, spooned and sipped in.
The very family tree of IT and Business has been uprooted and redesigned.
The good and scary part is - we are living through this big wave of change as it happens.
Many things that we live with would either make their way to junkyards or graveyards or museums.
The big question is which ones, when and where? The big question is not about why but how, and not about answers but questions. What questions should we be asking at a cusp like this? Is your neighbor asking the same questions? Are we dealing with outdated questions while someone else has already leaped forward to bigger ones?
We don’t know the answers to be frank. But we know some questions and we know a place that will celebrate them.
C-Change 2012. From February 23rd to 25th 2012, at Kollam, Kerala, will help you find just the very questions that will be the ‘sesame’ voice for future.
For many, the name ‘C-Change’ needs no introduction at all.
This year too CIOL and Dataquest present the Ninth Business Technology Forum, C-Change 2012. Yet again, this Annual forum creates a platform that brings together the top 100 CIOs and business leaders for a peer to peer interaction, learning and knowledge sharing about technology from business perspective. It has traveled from Egypt to Nepal to Goa and is going to Kerala’s backwaters this time to touch some front burner issues.
Transformation, Business Alignment, Cross-Functional Integration, Strategic Value Creation, Impactful evolution and Change Management are not the X-Factors or the rainbows to chase anymore.
They are hygiene factors for any organization today. CIOs deal with this new-generation imperatives and take on the challenge of navigating fast-changing technology DNA and new intersection points for IT.
A CIO's tech vision has to be a business vision in this new universe. So CIOs have to think better, sharper, and swifter for steering business progress on the new tech road path.
C-Change 2012 is themed around this very orbit to bring and share some of the finest experience from the achievers, the outliers, the experts, the specialists and the mavericks. Last year C-Change saw stellar influencers like Subroto Bagchi, Devdutt Patnaik, Rajeev Ratna Shah, Dr. Ashok Jhunjhunwala.
Like always the event would be about game-changers and the list of maverick achievers that would be revealing their magic mantras as speakers this time is proof enough that the event is about radical thinking. Like R Ray Wang, International Analyst who not only blogs at Forbes CIO Central and for Harvard Business Review but has also been recognized by the Institute of Industry Analyst Relations (IIAR) as the Analyst of the Year, and in 2009 he was recognized as one of the most important analysts for Enterprise, SMB, and Software. His blog ‘A Software Insider’s POV’ was listed in the top 20 of Jonny Bentwood’s Technobabble 2.0 Top Industry Analyst Blogs.
Or leaders from the metaphysical realms like Sadguru—Isha Foundation who will take CIOs through the universe of Inner Engineering. Or reincarnation heroes like Dilip Chabria, better known as DC, who will share some gorgeous secrets from the world of cars and design. The event is not just about great cocktails but great toastmasters too. Like Sumitra Manamohan who has been working on bringing changes in individuals and the society using her toastmaster craft.
The Triumphs and Tensions of Technology; The board meeting: Corporate law, policy issues, taking decisions and talking beyond technology; Leading billion dreams: How CIO can take advantage of the opportunity by forging effective alliances to transform tech eco-system of the world; The CIO's role in strategy direction; The good and bad economics of technology: how CFO look at tech investment; The Consensus Rating: The art of decision making. Is it Fair process or the right process? All these are mere glimpses of conversations and thought-stirrings that will happen at C-Change 2012.
It will be more than a Think-tank congregation. It would be a submarine that will silently tread the waters of the future through the periscope of wisdom shared, wisdom questioned and wisdom re-engineeered.
With ‘Lead, Align. Transform’ as its guiding theme, C-Change 2012 will be about Advantage CIO in every sense.
The world meanwhile will go on. But if you have been looking for Noah, you might find him here.