HANDLING VUCA OR "VOLATILITY, UNCERTAINTY, COMPLEXITY, AND AMBIGUITY"

Mohana MD, Chief People & Culture Officer, Better Place, explains how they follow a three-pronged approach: upskilling through cultural integration, upskilling through experiential learning, and upskilling through courses.

BE ADAPTABLE TO CREATE RIGHT SYNERGY BETWEEN PHYSICAL AND VIRTUAL

According to Arppna Mehra Vice President, Human Resources, Global DTS and HR Head for HARMAN India, ability to analyse and interpret large amounts of data has grown in value. Employees should be familiar with data mining, data warehouses, and data visualisation

GENERATIVE AI MADE SEARCH, DISCOVERY AND CONTENT CREATION EASIER

Our students are encouraged and guided to develop small apps using ChatGPT LMM technology, says Dr Abhijit Dasgupta, Director - Bachelor of Data Science, SP Jain School of Global Management

COVID TAUGHT US TO BE MORE INVENTIVE

Our experience under Covid has exposed us to new digital technologies, teaching pedagogies and implementation of a variety of assessments, says Dr. Maneek Kumar, Dean, School of Engineering & Technology, BML Munjal University

DELHI BELLY FOR BOMBAY KA BABU

\"In retrospect, I was fortunate to have been at the right magazine at the right time, when India was taking off,\" says Raju Chellam, who remembers the glory days of the 1980s and 1990s

Innovations transforming the startup landscape: From Cloud, Al to Cybersecurity

TiE Mumbai recently kicked off its Thought Leadership Series Round Table Discussions focusing on the tech startup community. The discussion was on Digital Native Businesses Emerging Models, Managing Scale Cloud Security and moderated by Dinesh Varma, Prisma Cloud Regional Leadesr India South Asia, Palo Alto Networks and Minu Sirsalewala, Executive Editor Special Projects, Dataquest. Excerpts and insights from the discussion

Ignore chips at your own peril!

I have always loved saying this: Without semiconductors, we are dead!

TO BE ON THE CUSTOMER’S RADAR ONE NEEDS A GOOD MAP

Cartographers have discovered continents and Silk-routes in the past. But today Cloud-mapping can be a great tool for businesses specially for realtime data, marketing levers, visitation data, asset management and store performance. Anthony Villanti, Managing Director and Founder, GapMaps sketches a picture and shows how.

Cloud-HoppingNot exactly Pub-Hopping

Imagine yourself in a fast lane on a superhighway. After a few exhilarating minutes of hair talking to the wind, and Beatles blazing in the stereo; you realise that your car is not yet ready for this speed, this road, this toll-tax. You want to change lanes. To slide into a road that matches your driving style, fuel tank and speed limit. But can you?

INDIA BECOMING STRONGER ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE PANDEMIC

Digital transformation has various facets— ones that emerge from CX needs and ones that arise from the need to do things faster and better internally. Sumanta Ghosh, SVP and Head Technology, Aegon Life Insurance, explains

CIOs NOW EXPECTED TO DRIVE INNOVATION

According to Irshad Saifi, Director IT and Digitization CDIO), Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas Co, organizations now expect ClOs to understand business processes and come forward to solve them using technology.

CIOS ARE KEY AS BUSINESS AND TECH HAVE BECOME INTERTWINED

According to Sreekrishnan Venkateswaran, CTO, Kyndryl India, ClOs are responsible for successful post-Covid business outcomes in the face of all the changes that took place during this period.

FROM TECH TO STRATEGY: THE CIO TO CXO SHIFT

The traditional responsibilities of the ClO are expanding beyond the realm of technology and into business strategy. As a result, many ClOs are making the transition from CIO to CXO, taking on a more strategic and holistic view of the organization and its needs.

THE CIO TO CXO JOURNEY: TRANSFORMING IT LEADERSHIP

An enriching career spanning over three decades, with stints at Nestle, HCL, Airtel, Vodafone (Hungary) and now running her own company, Amrita Gangotra has been a leading technology leader and instrumental in launching pathbreaking technology solutions in her various roles. From a successful technology leader to a successful business leader, her perspective.

30% improvement in productivity at Shriram Capital with Accops solution

Sendil Kumar Venkatesan, Chief Technology Officer, Shriram Capital Ltd

INDIA AS A PRODUCT NATION

Products will help scale up our selfresilience and kick-start job creation for high-end value jobs and blue-collar workers We need to identify 100/500 products for the next 5/10 years and go after designing and manufacturing these in India.

WHEN "SNAKE CHARMERS" ALSO DEVELOPED GREAT SOFTWARE

When I was asked by the current editor of data-quest to write about the early days of dQ and its influence, the first thought was: Why? What, if any, is the relevance of something that happened 40 years ago?

THE BIBLE OF THE IT INDUSTRY MARCHES ON

It’s really a pleasure to talk to you on the occasion of Cyber Media turning 40 years old along with our first product Data-quest.

Tool For New Wave Of Learning

In partnership with EY-P, Lenovo has launched its SmarterEd Digital Maturity Index tool for educational institutes. The SmarterEd Digital Maturity Index will help institutes understand. their technological needs better and pave the way for the new wave of learning.

Roadmap to digitization

The Internet Governance Forum IGF) is a multistakeholder platform bringing together representatives from various groups, considering all to be at par to discuss public policy issues related to the Internet.

GreenLake Edge-To-Cloud New Offerings

HPE with a continued focus on its GreenLake edge to cloud everything as a service has added a slew of new offerings and partnerships to make a compelling proposition to its customers.

Connecting the Remote Dots

Ease of Use, simple setup, and quick configuration of Accops solution enabled Straive to connect their remotest employees in a jiffy. Their on-premise workforce is down by 50% and overheads are down by 20%

DIGITAL PAYMENTS FEASIBILITY CLOSE TO SEVEN MILLION TRANSACTIONS IN A DAY

The OND quarter witnesses a festive season in most parts of the world. We have seen a surge in liberal spending as the market is opening up and people are gearing up to spend on Luxury and travel.

NOT 'AN ERA OF CHANGE' BUT 'CHANGE OF AN ERA'

Goldilocks in Scuba-gear How deep is Salesforce’s India going? The perfect person to answer that question is someone who does not shy away from adventures, and is always up to venture into a new, unfamiliar and exciting environment.

DATA IS NOT FOR THE FEW

It’s for everyone and it is being made more useful and simple with Al, Cloud, Synthetic Data and intuitive skills. Here’s why and how...

A template for attaining sustainable growth throughout the world

The 7th Edition of the Ideal Village Conference was held at Banaras Hindu University’s Swarantrata Bhavan. The conference was organised by Stanford University, WHEELS Global Foundation, Pan-lIT Alumni, and Banaras Hindu University to look at the best practices from successful rural transformation implementation

COLLEGES GAINING FROM STRONG TECH TAILWINDS

The DQ-CMR rating of engineering colleges has achieved reputation and is highly sought after for the insights it delivers directly from the ground up, addressing the prerequisites of all stakeholders for the past sixteen years. In a time when digitalization has become fashionable, the DQ-CMR Digital Index Survey, now in its third edition, emphasises the use of ICT in engineering institutions for technical education.

CLOUD IN THE SILVER LINING

Cloud behemoth Amazon Web Services (AWS) is on a spin with newly-minted offerings that flank the Cloud core well

SEARCHING FOR THE FIRST PAGE

A major chunk of the company’s revenue pie comes from enterprise, IT and Cloud areas

GREAT POTENTIAL FOR THE FUTURE

Intel has invested more than 8 billion in India to date and aims to further expand its R&D and innovation in India