BANGALORE, INDIA: Excerpts from interview with Sanjeev Kumar, group CIO, Adhunik Group of Industries
CIOL: Major technology investments at your enterprise?
Kumar: Plant Automation, Servers, ERP reimplementation, Enterprise mobility, Integrated Collaboration and Cloud etc.
CIOL: Any overhauls of significant scale or value?
Kumar: ERP upgrade from SAP ECC 5 to SAP ECC6 with EHP 5 and Collaboration suite on Microsoft Cloud
CIOL: Strategy for future?
Kumar: Bring in Organization agility, flexibility, adoptive and adaptive abilities, predictive and prescriptive business capabilities thorough aggressive IT
CIOL: Areas of interest from recent tech-breakthroughs
Kumar: Enterprise Mobility, Cloud, Data-centre outsourcing, Big data etc
CIOL: Advice to peers in terms of lessons, mistakes or challenges you experienced
Kumar: Be a change manager, drive projects for tangible business results and use IT more as a business driver than just an enabler.
CIOL: IT as a competitive differentiator/innovator/business value centre at your organization - How?
Kumar: In this uncertain economy and ever changing quick phases of businesses IT has turned into a business and growth drivers. We have been able to extend control rooms (of plants) to board rooms and connect every shop floor to top floor for quality and quicker decisions protecting spirit of business vis a vis adhering to policies and rules..
CIOL: Anything else you feel worth sharing
Kumar: Use IT to drive business and growth to the fullest.