Honing Your Vendor Smarts

Savvy CIOs are learning new skills to forge tighter bonds with vendors. Here's how you can too.

PLUS

Talent strikes a target no one else can hit. And UST Global strives to build a talent pool to secure the future of IT.

AND

IT helps Manappuram Finance shield its gold.

ABOUT FACE!

CIOs are giving their teams new marching orders to turn their attention from internal issues to external customers, who have ultra-high expectations.

PLUS

There’s no loose thread in Sterlite Technologies’ plan to strengthen India’s digital infrastructure.

AND

Why enterprises are turning to agile skills.

Boards on Cyber Alert

Fear of cyberattacks has corporate directors on edge. CIOs must steer the conversation toward managing business risk.

PLUS

Not Competing with Logistics Startups

Rubal Jain, MD, Safexpress, on why it isnt in competition with logistics startups.

AND

THE Data-Driven CFO

Lupin's CFO on managing the information supply chain.

Deconstructing IT

IT departments are constantly reorganizing, but a few companies have gone so far as to break the traditional IT department into pieces.

PLUS

Is Vistara's Service Focus Enough?

Phee Teik Yeoh, CEO, Vistara, on why he believes a focus on service and innovation will make Vistara India's airline of choice.

AND

Channeling Social Media

SET (Sony) uses social media to tweak content.

The New Math

Today's data-driven business runs on the almighty algorithm. But if you are not careful, those geeky formulas can stir up legal and ethical trouble.

PLUS

Make in India Isn’t Good Enough

What we need to ensure is that our import policies don’t hurt local companies, says S.M. Lodha, Chairman, Indsur Group.

AND

Prepare for a digital afterlife

Now your social accounts can be inherited.

Customer Connect
A look at how top IT shops model their workflow and business processes to incorporate communication and interaction between IT and its customers, and how the setup benefits the business, and IT workers’ careers.
PLUS
Arundhati Bhattacharya, Chairperson at SBI, on how new technologies are linking the bank’s wide network of branches across India.
AND
Analytics keeps Virginia Credit Union safe

Journey to the Digital Enterprise

What does it really mean? How do you get there? Here are five emerging models.

PLUS

Happiest Minds' Chief Strategy and Marketing Officer says disruptive tech will drive differentiation.

AND

Straight-talk from a CIO with a marketing role.

2015 Techtonic Shift

Changes in the business environment and technology will make 2015 an interesting year. Here's how to prepare.
PLUS
The highlights of one of the biggest events of the year, where IT's roadmap for 2015 is decided.
AND
At TVS Motor Company, mobility is brand identity.

9th Anniversary Special Issue

Doing Social Right: Social media is more than just amassing likes. Companies are using advanced social techniques to drive business agendas.

PLUS
Nine Lessons Worth Adopting: New technologies and leadership skills that will change your outlook.

Good Medicine, Ricoh Helps Siemens India Drive Efficiency and Sustainability, Social Media Plays Spy, The Cloud Goes Rural and more...

The Fine Print, Choose your Vendors Wisely, CIOs who serve on Boards sharpen their Business skills, Match made with Analytics and more...

COMMITTED TO EXCELLENCE:
NEW DELHI’S NEW DATA CENTRE, A Mole in Your Bay, Towards Growth,Together, The Robot Apocalypse, Wasted Wearables?, Security Vendor Promises That Don’t Deliver and more...

The Price of Data
Figure out the rupee value of your information assets. Then you’ll know what the ‘I’ in CIO is really worth—and how much to spend protecting it.
PLUS
As technology and business become more interdependent, being a jack of all trades is inevitable. Srinivasan Iyengar, COO, Reliance Life Insurance, is leveraging his past experience as CIO to enhance the company’s operations and aligning business with IT.
AND
Our endeavor is to build a strong team replete with motivation, curiosity, insight, engagement, and determination to sustain and grow in an ever-changing business enviro nment, says Sunil Siddharth Lalbhai, CMD, Atul.

Future-looking CIOs are taking a leap of faith with unconventional technologies to take their businesses ahead. You can too.

Smart Sync

This issue is a practitioner\'s guide to working with the business and revolutionizing it using analytics, cloud computing, mobility and outsourcing.

PLUS Ashish Chauhan on growing BSE with technology in this month\'s View from the Top

AND Learn how to adapt security to a brave new world

Hybrid Hyperdrive

In the last six months, there\'s been a sudden surge towards the hybrid cloud. 

For the first time ever, the number of Indian CIOs pointing their enterprises towards a hybrid cloud model is equal to those focusing on private cloud. What gives?

PLUS

Find out how technology has transformed NCDEX in this month\'s View From the Top with Samir Shah.

AND

Learn how Mitra Biotech uses analytics to quicken cancer treatment in this month\'s case study.

Sizing Up SDx

The promise of a software-defined future is hard to resist, but getting there will require implementing SDN. There\'s where things start to go off script. 

PLUS

Learn how IT quickens the pulse of Apollo Hospitals in this month\'s CXO Agenda and learn how TVS\' IT department puts its spin on shelf engineering.

Lasting Legacy

One in every five Indian CIOs will retire in the next two years. Do you have a succession plan?

PLUS

Discover the surprising truth behind Thomas Cook\'s online push in this month\'s CXO Agenda and learn how Mahindra Reva gave India its very first smart car.

#NewAgeBusiness

Four Indian businesses decide to stop merely talking about social media and do something with it. Their stories show you what you could be missing out on.

PLUS
THE STATE OF THE CIO 2014 ANNUAL SURVEY

A bad economy, a shrinking job market, and an underperforming rupee seem to have jolted CIOs in 2013.Shaken, CIOs aren\'t as optimistic about the next year as they normally are. Their bleak outlook around compensation, IT budgets, the business and their roles are clear indicators of their growing scepticism. Read the complete study developed with the inputs of 386 IT Leaders from across India.

Making IT in 2014. It took courage, grit, and guts to wade through 2013. Brace yourself,
2014 could be tougher. Here’s how to beat the odds.

8th Anniversary Special Issue. Anniversaries are a time to trace how far you have come and the new possibilities that lie ahead. As CIO turns eight, we bring you a collection of stories from the bygone era of technology and the near-future of IT

Counter attack

Combat information security’s five big challenges – awareness, insider threat, mobile security, budgeting and BYOD. Learn why now’s the time to up the security ante and discover ways to get around information security’s top bug bears.

All Star CIO s
In a year filled with uncertainty, the CIO 100 winners stood apart. They have overcome trying conditions, they have shown mettle and leadership, they have brought business benefits. Meet this year’s most astute Indian IT leaders who demonstrate what astute leadership looks like and the business benefits they bring to the table.

Thrifty & Loving it

Challenged by the slowdown, three ingenious CIOs won great business benefits with frugal IT budgets shedding light on inexpensive ways to implement IT projects, the importance of in-house expertise and how startups can save costs along the way.

Mobile Maneuver

Security potholes, UI
curves, and a flood of
devices. How four CIOs
are steering through mobility’s roadblocks.

The Perfect Pitch

The three buy-in challenges most CIOs don’t like talking about—and how to beat them.

The Unvarnished Truth About Big Data

There are plenty who believe that beneath big data’s shiny exterior, companies will find the hollow ring of tin plating. Will big data reveal itself to be just another IT fad?

90 Days or Less.

The IT department has always suffered the reputation of being too slow. For years, users complained that IT just wasn’t fast enough. It’s why, they said with shrilly self-righteousness, they were forced to go around it, giving birth to the phenomenon we know as shadow IT.

But none of this is new. Here’s what is: An even greater need for speed and agility from the business. If CIOs thought their departments were already being pushed too hard to roll out IT projects quickly, they’re not going to like what the future has in store.

When Outsourcing Works...or Fails.

There\'s a new normal in the outsourcing world and the success - and failure - of a CIO\'s 

outsourcing strategy depends on how well you adapt to it. 

This issue examines how successful firms are changing the outsourcing game.

You\'re Hired!

Learn about eight classic mistakes to avoid before you make an offer this hiring season.

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