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Case Studies
Genpact Cut IT Costs by Rs 50 Crore to Retain Customers
In recessionary times, customers are dearer. Genpact knew that and to provide more value to its customers, it did something unusual: It cut IT costs.
Suzuki Motors Reduced Customer Complaints Through Automation
Suzuki Motorcycle India takes a hard look at its manufacturing line and weeds out manual processes.
How Eveready Brought Down its Forecast Errors
Battling inefficient manual systems, Eveready Industries’ new businesses were reporting 60 percent forecast errors. Here's how its CIO turned that number into75 percent accuracy rate.
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CIO Mentors Insights from the CIO Governing council
Beware: Change Ahead
The fear of change is an irrational fear finding roots in our belief in certainties.
What We Put At Stake
CIOs need to partner early with the business and help it succeed in an increasingly risky world by shepherding innovation and grooming security effectiveness.
CIO Debate
Job Rotation: Harmful or Helpful? : Ayes or Nays
A.K. Mohanty
Central Bank of India, Head-IT
Job rotation promotes higher levels of organizational commitment and motivation. This helps curb attrition.
Chandan Sinha
GHCL, CIO
Once employees are trained in different job functions, they look for greener pastures. This aggravates the problem of attrition.
Is the IT-as-a-Profit-Center Strategy Just Bunk?: YES or NO
Shikha Rai
Canon India, Sr. Director –IT
Running a profit center dilutes the focus of the IT department. The CIO’s job is to make the company profitable, not IT.
Satish Pendse
HCC, President, Highbar Technologies & Group CIO
When CIOs move to head profit centers, their careers enter an orbit where the opportunities are virtually limitless.
Solution Centers
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Extra-ordinary stories of business transformation in Indian enterprises enabled by the judicious use of IT. Find real examples of CIOs who are driving this change and get executive viewpoints on how IT places a critical role in their businesses.
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Latest White Papers
Migrating to SharePoint 2010 Made Easy
Orchestrate Virtual Application Networks And Accelerate The Move To The Cloud
The cloud is a desirable destination where applications and information are readily available and can be consumed quickly, efficiently, and anywhere. But the path to the cloud can be filled with unseen challenges, including the network itself.The legacy networks used today limit business and the ability to freely move applications to the cloud.
This whitepaper shows how to accelerate the move to the cloud and talks about the tools and processes that predictably automate previously manual processes, streamlining orchestration of both physical and virtual resources to give businesses speed and reliability.
PDF DownloadCloud Computing Models for Data Warehousing
Today most organizations are looking at cloud as a way to lower data center and IT provisioning costs. While cost reduction is a real benefit, there is more value in the increased speed, flexibility and ease of delivery in cloud environments. The only way to gain these advantages is by changing the approach and practices for delivering applications and data. The real change in IT is a change to how work is done rather than adding a new technology.
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Latest Strategy Guides
Business Intelligence
Business Intelligence refers to software applications that helps turn raw data into information. This information in turn helps organizations take critical decisions, cost-cuttings and identify business opportunities.
Business Intelligence guide will answer these questions:Software as a Service (SaaS)
Vendors tout the software-as-a-service (SaaS) delivery model as an easy way to deploy applications. SaaS promised easier, speedier and cheaper implementations. But is SaaS all it's cracked up to be?
Software as a Service (SaaS) guide will answer these questions:Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)
The idea behind SOA is that technology should be expressed in chunks that business people can understand rather than as an arcane application such as ERP or CRM
Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) guide will answer these questions:Virtualization
Virtualization allows you to run multiple operating systems simultaneously on a single machine. It has its roots in partitioning, which divides a single physical server into multiple logical servers.
Virtualization guide will answer these questions:Green IT
Managing information technology sustainably can reduce corporate energy bills and keep toxins out of landfills. Thinking "green" with IT can help companies manage raw materials more efficiently and increase revenue.
Green IT guide will answer these questions:
Mobile Security
Mobiles are allowing mobile e-mail, Internet and even corporate network access. Critical enterprise information is leaking onto mobile devices whose risk of loss is much higher than it is for PCs at the office.
Mobile Security guide will answer these questions:
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