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ITNEXT Magazine January 2014
1. Next100 special: Leaders in the making
f o r t h e n e x t g e n e r at i o n o f c i o s
New
Visionaries
They have the vision, exuberance and hunger to get the top
IT seat, driven about bringing value
to the corporate table
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They are
Ambitious to
Inspire
Wonder what that’s about? The
Next100 winners of 2013. Of course!
This year’s winners are a combination
of vision, exuberance, driven by the
ambition to get to the hot seat of a CIO,
plus the corporate table if possible.
Ambitious to the extent that their next immediate goal is to be on the jury of
the coveted Next100 awards themselves and gear up to meet the parameters
required of the jury!
The most interesting change in them was that they were bang on track
with the changes that the industry is witnessing and clearly clued into the
transformation that IT roles are going through.
The most heartening part of the entire Next100 process was this: these future
CIOs admitted there was a lot of learning to do--in terms of actually understanding
the characteristics of the CIO in real life scenarios, hitherto unknown.
The cover feature of the current edition of ITNext focuses on unearthing
the winners’ minds and getting a glimpse into what changed their thought
process and how the entire Next100 selection process impacted their
personality and career progression.
Most winners believe that the selection process in general and jury
interviews in particular changed their thought process and helped them take
various challenges positively, in their stride, while giving them the push to
take the right approach in addressing the IT and business conundrum.
It was important for the winners to understand how to get to the crux of
a problem, to buy in the line of business and build the steps necessary to
align with IT. Winners did see a major boost to their confidence and their
capabilities as they cracked tough challenges to receive the coveted Next100
award; this also influenced them in other ways: making them ambitious
enough to adorn the new top-notch role and also helping in creating a career
trajectory for peers. The jury too dispensed guidance to the winners and
participants on areas of improvement.
“Most winners believe that
the selection process in
general and jury interviews
in particular changed
their thought process and
helped them take various
challenges positively”
Geetha Nandikotkur
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Le a der s h i p M a n ag eme n t
Customer is
the biggest
motivator
“Breakthroughs always come from the ability
of an organisation to look outside its current
environment”
and vice-versa. Being too much the expert on one
domain restrains innovation.
Most of the time, huge business opportunities
come from simple observations and not through
deep analysis of the customers’ world. Sometimes you will just have to throw away the rule
book and simply observe the world and the customer to come up with ideas. If we really want
tranformation, we need to let our teams look at
other source of inspiration.
Soft Insights
M
ost of the time, huge business opportunities come from simple observations
and not through deep analysis of the
customers’ world.
Former CEO of Sainsbury Bank and Managing
Director of Eurostar UK, Hamish Taylor now
advises clients like Time Warner, General Motors
and Citibank. In the past, Taylor has also worked
with PG, British Airways, and PriceWaterHouse
Coopers. Taylor believes that to be innovative, a CIO
needs to start thinking differently in the way he
looks at his customers.
Domain Expertise
It is important for an enterprise technology
decision-maker to have domain expertise. However, too much focus on a single domain could
hinder innovation.
Despite being a non-IT guy, I have something
to share with every CIO, and which is common
to every business. Breakthroughs always come
from the ability of an organisation to look outside
its current environment. The environment can
be outside the industry or outside a discipline.
For instance, marketing can learn from finance
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world of your customers like feelings, outlook,
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driven by what your customer wants, their behaviour is driven by what their customer wants. So, if
you don’t understand your customer’s customer,
how can you understand what drives your customer who is doing business with you?
There is a huge disconnect between seniority
and customer insights. Another problem with
senior employees is the more seniority one attains,
he or she moves further away from the customer.
But at the same time with seniority, people take
bigger and important decisions. So, this creates
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8. Update
I n d u s t r y
Forces To Drive
Enterprise Software
TRENDS | Enterprise software buying is increasingly shaped by the
Nexus of Forces, according to Gartner, Inc. Gartner said that technology providers must realize that the disruptive forces of cloud,
information, mobile and social will reach mainstream status in 2014
and create new technology requirements, drive new purchasing and
establish new competitive realities.
“Starting in 2014, the enterprise software markets will undergo their
greatest level of disruptions, growth and new opportunities since the year
Telecom
Finding Value for Mobile Services
The telecom industry is at crossroads
today where subscriber growth
4.07
has tapered off. Telecom operators
are now more focused on reducing
churn and increasing average
revenue per user (ARPU) instead of
concentrating on adding subscribers It has given
as in the halcyon period up to 2010, me a feeling
of security
when India added up to 20 million
subscribers in some months.
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trends
deals
products
services
people
Starting in
2014, the
enterprise
software
markets will
undergo their
greatest level
of disruptions,
growth.
Base: All respondents (2,152)
4.04
3.87
3.87
3.81
3.76
It has kept
me in touch
with my
family
It enables It helps
save time
me to
coordinate
with others
It has
allowed
me to
expand
my social
network
It has
brought
me closer
to my
parents
3.75
It has
reduced the
frequency
of meeting
my friend
and
relatives
2000,” said Tom Eid, research
vice president at Gartner. “By
2017, Gartner estimates that new
IT buying based on the Nexus of
Forces will drive more than 26
percent of total enterprise software
market revenue, up from 12 percent
in 2012. This represents more than
$104 billion to new worldwide
enterprise software revenue from
cloud, information, mobile and
social initiatives in 2017.”
Eid said that the nexus forces
must be evaluated, analyzed
and understood as adjacent and
synergistic and not solely as
independent or nonconnected.
“While there has been a great
deal of excitement from the vendor
community regarding cloud,
information, mobile, social, and
other forces and technologies,
adoption in organisations and
businesses has yet to catch up with
the hype,” said Eid. “Adoption
trends of new technologies
frequently take many years before
reaching maturity, stability and
broad market usage. The nexus
should be seen as a development
and design philosophy rather than
as a packaged product.”
While the use of collaboration
technologies, data analytics,
mobile devices and software as a
service (SaaS) has been in effect for
more than a decade, their adoption
and popularity have increased
significantly over the last few
years. Vendors’ offerings continue
to improve, and usage benefits
are becoming more tangible.
Gartner expects that new revenue
generation and growth rates
derived from the Nexus of Forces’
impact on enterprise software
markets will far outpace overall
market growth through 2017.
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Most Indian Cos Are Concerned
About BYOD Security Privacy
TRENDS | Almost half (45 per
cent) of Indian organisations are
concerned about the security and
privacy of their enterprise mobility initiatives, the second highest
figure in the Asia Pacific and Japan
(APJ) region after China, according
to a new global study commissioned by CA Technologies.
The study surveyed 1,300 senior IT
leaders worldwide and shows that
43 per cent of Indian companies
are deploying mobility initiatives
to increase the security of mobile
access to data and applications.
Despite these concerns, Indian
organisations are advancing faster
than every country in APJ apart
from China in their adoption of
a single, company-wide mobility
Almost half of
Indian organisations are concerned about
the security and
privacy of their
enterprise mobility initiatives.
strategy. Nearly all (85 per cent) of
respondents either have a strategy
already or plan to do so within 12
months. This compares with 95
per cent in China, 60 per cent in
Singapore and 49 per cent in Japan.
Among the study’s specific
findings:
In India, it’s all about the customer: Apart from the need to
increase security, the main drivers of mobility initiatives are
increased demand from customers using mobile devices (43 per
cent) and improved customer
support (31 per cent)
BYOD was all about IT reacting to
demands from employees. Mobility changes the way the business
operates: Indian organisations
have had to make changes in the
wake of the increased adoption of
mobile devices:
41 per cent have had to rethink
their IT strategy
36 per cent have had to redesign their security strategy and
policies
31 per cent have had to change
the structure of the
organisation
quick byte
Around The World
Sony’s PS 4 Outsells Xbox
One in First Few Weeks
Microsoft has sold 2 million Xbox One
video game consoles in its first 18 days of
release around the world, the company said
Wednesday, trailing the 2.1 million PlayStation
4 consoles Sony sold in 15 days.
Microsoft launched the Xbox One on Nov. 22
in 13 countries. The PS4 was released a week
earlier. Results for both companies are meeting
analysts expectations. The Xbox One is priced at
$499, $100 more than the PS4.
John Chen, CEO, BlackBerry
“Our ‘for sale’ sign has been
taken down and we are here
to stay. We’re going back
to our heritage and roots —
delivering enterprise-grade,
end-to-end mobile solutions.
In short, reports of our death
are greatly exaggerated”
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10. ASK THE EXPERT
Top 2014 Trends to Equip
Server Rooms with More
benefits
Innovations
in BYOD,
Cloud,
Outsourcing
Models
to make it very challenging
to see server room
infrastructure in the
traditional sense, hence
new innovations are
critical
What are the emerging trends that you observe
in a server room which would drive better
efficiency?
Some of the critical trends that we observe in
2014 which could drive better efficiency include:
Right sizing of Infrastructure
There is growing acceptance of the principle of
modular design. Organizations are realizing that
over-building infrastructure for server rooms leads
to increased CapEx and OpEx and thus becomes a
drain on the companies’ financial resources. With the
advent of new technologies as well as consumption
models, organizations are taking a re-look at strategy
with respect to capacity planning for server rooms.
dossier
Amod
Ranade
General Manager,
Datacenter Business Development
Schneider Electric
IT Business, throws
light on the trends in
2014 that will rule
server rooms within
a data center that
can drive energy
efficiency and save
costs
sumer of energy in a server room, after IT equipments.
Traditionally, cooling for server rooms was not looked
at from a high sensible cooling perspective; this has
resulted in multiple installations, where comfort cooling
is being used for server room cooling. This has a direct
impact on the efficiency as well as performance of the
cooling infrastructure.
IT manufacturers are also adapting their equipment so
that they are able to be deployed at higher temperature
and wider humidity conditions.
Organizations in the air-conditioning industry
are adapting to this phenomenon by creating “High
Sensible” cooling products that are able to leverage
this new capability of IT equipment and help reduce
energy consumption.
Efficient Cooling
8
Management tools
People have realized the importance of focusing on cooling infrastructure. Cooling is the second highest con-
IT managers have always been challenged by the lack
of visibility of their server room infrastructure; as a
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“The maximum consumption of energy takes place in the IT
equipments in the server rooms”
result,capacity management and efficiency monitoring
has been difficult to implement. Schneider Electric has
recognized this need and has created a management
platform for server room infrastructure, so that this visibility can be provided over the protocol that IT managers
are more comfortable with (SNMP/TCP/IP), while being
open to receiving information on all the protocols that
are prevalent on the iBMS side. This provides the unique
bridge between the facility world and the IT world in an
organization, which results in stronger integration of the
two to create efficient server rooms.
How much focus should senior IT managers
lay on the server management initiatives
within a data center?
Even in the best run server rooms, the maximum consumption of energy always takes place in the IT equipments. Hence, the importance of energy saving in IT
equipments cannot be overlooked. Technologies like
virtualization are enabling IT managers to exploit their
servers by driving higher CPU utilization. Thus, senior IT
managers should have a strong focus on server management initiatives in their server rooms and data centers.
DCIM solutions that are able to provide IT managers
with the visibility to their IT asset utilization are a strong
enabler for this strategy.
What are the emerging trends that you notice
in server rooms which can be leveraged by IT
managers?
Designing efficient server rooms is always a challenge, as
most organizations lack the technical resources required
with infrastructure experience of power and cooling. We
are thus seeing a trend where organizations in the infra
industry are putting together pre-designed / pre-integrated solutions for server rooms.
Schneider Electric has been a pioneer in this field with
the launch of InfraStruXure and InfrastruXure for SMB
IT solutions in the space of data centers and server
rooms respectively. There is a rapid increase in various
cloud based services that are offering an alternative to
in-house deployments as well.
How do you see the career growth for server
managers in an enterprise?
70%
IT experts
measure their
job success
based on
ensuring the
reliability of
IT services
by improving systems
resilience
The silos of IT/Business/Finance/Infrastructure
are fast disappearing. As a result, there is a great
demand for professionals with exposure to more than
one field, and this is growing.
Among IT Managers, 70% measure their job success
based on ensuring the reliability of IT services by improving systems resilience and mitigating potential downtime.
Meeting productivity goals is important to all the IT
experts; they want to complete meaningful IT projects
on time. Instead of service delivery, however, 32% of IT
experts want to help the business achieve an established
goal or outcome; rapid improvements in virtualization,
hardware and software are providing important opportunities for IT professionals to boost employee productivity
and lower business costs.
What are the best practices needed to
re-design server rooms for better efficiency?
Right sized IT
Right sized Infra (Scalable, Modular)
Efficient Power Architecture
Efficient Cooling Architecture
High Density capability
What are the new technologies that can be
disruptive to server rooms?
With the innovations in BYOD, Cloud, Outsourcing models
for deploying IT, it’s becoming very challenging to see
server room infrastructure in the traditional sense. These
technologies provide an opportunity to deploy IT closer to
the user (BYOD) or centralized (Cloud) and allow IT manager to think out of the box, and create innovative architectures that are more efficient.
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12. Point of view | Airtel
are you ready for the any-to-any
enterprise video wave?
by Sukesh Jain, CMO, airtel business
Introduction
What happens when you are stuck in traffic five minutes before a discussion with
a US client around service strategy? A
secure video connect with your client via
smartphone would be an instant relief.
Similarly, inagine your marketing team
discussing event execution, all huddled
up in a conference room. Suddenly they
want to rope in a supplier who has no
access to video infrastructure other
than Lync. What would help is a video
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infrastructure that connects any two (or
more) enterprise video platforms – Lync,
Cisco, or Polycom.
Such scenarios will very soon become
the reality of the enterprise world. And
any-to-any enterprise video alone can
help extend this real-time ease to enterprises. By enabling video on any device,
network and platform, any-to-any enterprise video establishes seamless crossenterprise-connect between multiple
stakeholders—clients, suppliers, teams.
Enabling Any-to-any
enterprise video is not
easy
Before going deeper into how to enable
any-to-any enterprise video, we need to
understand the challenges It throws at
IT teams. These are at multiple levels
-network, platform and Rol.
Network Obstacles
Any-to-any enterprise video would
result in massification and diversifica-
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tion of video endpoints beyond traditional devices (roam-based VC) that
have ridden an traditional networks.
Enterprises will be forced to open up
their connectivity infrastructure to the
mobile and cloud-based networks that
are the underlylng connectivity layer of
the platforms and devices expected to
be used for video connect in the future.
These include video roams, exchanges,
UC endpoints and mobile clients.
Managing Quality of Service (QoS) and
security for this diversified infrastructure is a challenge.
Further, any-to-any enterprise video
would require that the enterprise ride
on a framework that can interconnect video exchanges that traditionally
worked in silos. In other words, one
would need media/transport interoperability, where an enterprise using
VC on MPLS from one service provider
can connect with a VC running on MPLS
from an alternative service provider-or
an ISDN connection.
Platform Challenges
Achieving seamless interoperability
between devices and platforms is
not easy in an any-to-any enterprise
video environment. It would necessitate a Polycom end point to talk to a
Microsoft UC client, which in turn must
converse seamlessly with a Cisco end
point. Holistically managing these
multiple endpoints, including interoperability with moblle/cloud-dependent networks, demands expertise in
complex video deployment.
RoI pressures
Rol is another area of concern in
adoption of any-to-any enterprse
video. A deployment would demand a
strong video core with interconnects
to service providers, device manufacturers and so forth. Further, it would
need to sync perfectly with traditional
VC solutions (room-based equipment, or free desktop VC software)
to protect legacy investments. Only a
managed any-to-any video service in
a pay-per-use model can overcome
both these challenges.
Cloud-based any-toany enterprise video
services
are the need of the
hour
A cloud-based service can make
cross-enterprise video a reality. The
service would need to be built on
a strong foundation of video interconnect agreements with multiple
network providers/device OEMs. lt
should possess a strong video core
that can give enterprises video top-up
over connectivity, extend video rooms
to commercial video software users,
establish secure video calling within
and across networks/devices, achieve
auto redundancy, and be able to auto
scale. The cloud makes all this possi-
ble. Here's how a cloud-baesd any-toany enterprise video service works:
Top up your connectivity
with video
Cloud-based any-to-any enterprise
video lets you top up connectivity with
holistic video enablement. Simply put,
an enterprise MPLS VPN would be
video-enabled and connected to the
service provider's cloud-based video
core, which gives the enterprise access
to 1) businesses video-connected to the
core, and 2) the video core of similar
service provider's.
This means a lot for an enterprise: It
allows point to multi-point video calls
beyond the enterprise network, to an
entire ecosystem - of partners, clients
and suppliers -who could be residing on
a different service providers video core.
Unlike non-cloud based video, such
a service would enable this with minimal changes in network configuration
-giving the enterprise the ease to
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14. Point of view | Airtel
for an enterprise's video service. That
is, when the bridge ports of an enterprise get exhausted, video calls can be
connected to the cloud video core. This
makes the enterprise's infrastructure
always ready for any scale. Further, in
case of an in-house video bridge disaster, the cloud-based core can also act
as backup video infrastructure, providing almost automatic redundancy. All
these benefits can be availed in a pay-
per-use model.
The Way ahead
retain native IP schema, providing
access over public or private internet or ISDN and so on. Further,the
enterprise gets the flexibility to easily
avail advanced features over the airbridge overflow services, telepresence
interoperability and SIP enablement.
Enterprises will have access to
updated video services all the time.
Extend video rooms
to commercial video
software users and SIP
Devices
Enterprises are demanding the video
enablement of any device, any platform including low cost smartphones,
commerdal VC software and SIP-based
devices. It would help to balance the
capital and operational investment of
the enterprise on video.
A cloud-based any-to-any video core
helps enterprises save on video bridge
and associated infrastructure by providing seamless integration with commercial VC software clients like Microsoft
Lync. Similarly, SIP-compliant devices,
which go beyond H323 protocol-based
devices to support Presence and instant
Messaging, can be easily connected to
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cloud-based any-to-any video cores.
This will help customers integrate
currently isolated VVoIP islands, with
easy management via video-call control
platforms.
Video Overlay Networks
Of late, organizations have been talking
about deploying video overlay networks
for room based VC over data VPN
Networks. This requirement is driven
by the very nature of video applications
and user requirements: Collaboration
not only within the CUG but also outside
the CUG. However, enterprises wanted
isolate CUG and non-CUG networks from
a security point of view. The demand for
interoperability- that is, letting a desktop
user collaborate with a room VC - makes
such isolation even more challenging.
Only a service provider can deliver such
inter- VPN video communication without
connecting two VPNs.
Auto redundancy and auto
scale for video
Cloud based any-to-any video also
provides auto redundancy and auto
scale for video investments. The video
core serves as a port-burst platform
Cloud-based any-to-any video services
promise an easy start, run and care
for enterprise video collaboration.
However, enterprises need to be
cautious when selecting a partner to
implement it. Here are five things that
you should search for in a potential
partner for any-to-any video:
1. Experience in implementing end-toend managed video services
2. A strong global connectivity backbone
and partnerships with service providers
3. End-to-end understanding of conferencing-audio,video and web
4. Strong video concierge services with
geographically spread video support
centers and VIdeo NOCs
5. Integrated SLA and unified billing
Begin the hunt and begin riding the video
collaboration wave!
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The NEXT
BEST 100!
They have the vision, exuberance, and hunger
to get the top IT seat. Most importantly, they
are driven about bringing value to the corporate
table. The NEXT100 2013 award winners
are aggressive, the cream of the crop: the
industry must watch out—for they know what
it takes to be a Future CIO
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NEXT100 2013 Award Winners
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20.
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winners’ DEMOGRAPH
he gala night of Next100 2013 celebrated
the future IT leaders of India with a
glittering function at Hyatt Regency, Pune on
December 14. Like every year, 100 senior IT
managers across the country from different
companies, with the skills, talent and the
spirit to become CIOs, were felicitated with
the Next100 awards.
The winners were rewarded for their
significant work in IT in their respective
organisations that exemplified the best IT
practices, efficient managerial skills and
the change they brought to the businesses
through their IT strategies.
All award applicants participated in an extensive series of activities that
tested their techno-commercial, management and leadership skills. The final
evaluation and selection of NEXT100 award recipients was made by a prestigious
committee of technology and business leaders who judge applicants on career
accomplishments, professional expertise, skills and potential to be CIOs.
NEXT100 Award Process
It all started with the opening of the application process on 25th June 2013. The six
month award process brought in eminent CIOs across organisations to evaluate the
applicants through a thorough process. Tests like online psychometric tests were used
to assess personality traits and leadership styles of the applicants. Each candidate was
independently interviewed by two jury members with reference checks of qualified
candidates done with work supervisors and designated referees. A prestigious jury of
51 CIOs shortlisted the winners in the final lap of the rigorous process.
What the Selection Criteria were
The awards signify ITNext’s mission
to enable senior IT managers and
aspiring CIOs to walk on the growth
curve. The industry recognised that
the Next100 awards is testimony
to the fact that 1732 IT managers
registered on the Next100 website
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Jury Anecdotes
Photo Feature: Next100 Moments
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Technology Award Winners
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wINNERS’ DEMOGRAPH
1,732
399
Candidates completed the
personality profile and
leadership style tests
IT managers registered
for NEXT100
70%
49%
a
of the winners
are from DelhiNCR, Mumbai and
Bangalore
of the winners
manage teams
ranging in size from
11 to 50 people
291
Interviews were
conducted by the
jury members
to nominate themselves for self-evaluation. About 399
candidates completed both the personality profile and
leadership style tests.
Why Next100?
The principal objective of the NEXT100 program is
to help aspiring CIOs and senior IT managers become
professionally successful. The awards program aims to
bring to the forefront experienced IT managers who have
the skills, talent and spirit to become CIOs.
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Award winners
celebrate birthdays
in February
November
523
Referee and supervisor
feedback reports were
received
Common Technology Expertise
IT Operations Management, IT
Strategy Planning, IT Project
Program Management and
Vendor Management
Vikas Gupta, Director, 9.9 Media Publisher, ITNext,
says, “The intensive three-stage selection process
commences with self nomination for awards by applicants;
administration of psychometric tests that diagnose
personality traits and leadership styles; personal interviews
and reference checks. As in the past years, the jury members
decided on the selection criteria, and interviewed all
shortlisted candidates. The final list of award winners was
generated through a proprietary scoring model that employs
calibrated weights to various factors.”
23. Frequent
Breakdowns
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77%
of the winners
have 12 to 22
years of work
experience
48%
of the winners
receive an annual
compensation
ranging from Rs 20
to 35 lakhs
Popular Qualifications
B
achelors: Engineering
Technology, Computer Science,
Electronics and Commerce
Masters: Management Studies,
Computer Applications, Computer
Science
Certifications: ITIL, Project
Management, Cisco Microsoft
While a select few have made it to the NEXT100
list this year, the entire IT manager community has
offered unstinted support, encouragement and active
participation in all NEXT100 related activities.
Vikas adds, “I would also like to acknowledge with
thanks the contributions made by the members of the
NEXT100 awards jury who took an active part in shaping
this program. They have spent many hours reviewing
the selection process, making suggestions and actively
guiding the outcome.”
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66%
of the winners are
aged between 35
and 45 years
24. Methodology
The selection of the fourth cohort of NEXT100 award
winners commenced in late in June 2013. The entire
IT manager community was invited to apply, through
a series of e-mails and print advertisements. By the
closing date, more than 1,700 aspirants had registered
for the rigorous process.
As in the past year, the selection of the award
winners was a three-stage process. In the first stage,
all aspirants were required to complete a detailed
application form—and provide personal and professional
information, including education, technical skills and
work experience. The second stage was the testing
stage, where all award aspirants took psychometric
tests that evaluated their personality profiles and
leadership styles. Both tests were administered by Parisbased Central Test, and the test reports identify the
work attributes, leadership and managerial style of the
applicants. All applicants who completed the two tests
received a free copy of the detailed assessment report.
Using a set of criteria defined by the NEXT100 jury,
a short list of candidates was identified for interview.
Every shortlisted candidate was independently
interviewed by two jury members. Separately,
independent recommendations were solicited from each
candidate’s designated referees.
The scores and evaluations assigned to all candidates
in every stage of the selection process were input
into a proprietary scoring model that assigns carefully
calibrated weights to various factors. The final list
of award winners was created as an outcome of this
scoring model. To ensure that the NEXT 100 awards
are completely fair and unbiased, no member of the
editorial team is involved in the selection or elimination
of the award winners, nor are editors and staff of IT Next
magazine a part of the jury panel.
As in past years, the NEXT100 awards program
draws on the knowledge and support of the CIO
and CFO communities. Fifty-one senior executives,
who collectively represent many hundreds of years
experience in IT and management, were involved as
advisors and selectors this year. The jury panel debated,
deliberated and decided on the award winner selection
process—and conducted detailed interviews of all
shortlisted applicants.
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Personality Test
Managerial Style
Inventory Test
In the stage 2 of the
NEXT100 application
process, all aspirants were
administered two tests—a
personality test and a
managerial style test. Both
tests are administered by
Paris-based Central Test.
The Central Test
Personality Inventory
for Professionals
(CTPI-R) test provides
an assessment of work
related personality traits
that play a crucial role in
performance. According to
the test designers, CTPI-R
conforms to the standards
of scientific validation set
out by the International
Test Commission, and the
American Psychological
Association.
The workplace
competencies are
conceptualized as
“clusters of knowledge,
skills and attitudes that
are predictive of superior
performance in a given
job”. According to Central
Test, the competency
scores in the CTPI-R are
not a ‘direct assessment’
of competencies but an
‘assessment of proximity’
of the test taker to the
profile of others who
have demonstrated
a high level of that
particular competency.
The assumption behind
this method is that people
with similar profiles will
be more likely to exhibit
similar abilities. The scores
on each competency
also give an indication
of the extent to which
the person is trainable
on each competency.
As the score are derived
from an assessment
of proximity to an ideal
profile, they give an
indication of the extent
to which the candidate is
psychologically inclined
towards high performance
on a specific competency.
The second test, the
Management Style
Inventory Test, assesses
a candidate’s aptitude for
leadership and identifies
their managerial style.
Based on seven primary
management dimensions
(Innovation, Global Vision,
Conceptual, Reflective,
Affiliation, Intervention
and People-Oriented),
the test compares the
candidate’s profile to
typical management roles,
including those of Chief
Executive, Motivator,
Project Manager,
Entrepreneur, Expert,
Strategist and Executive
Manager.
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WINNERS’ DEMOGRAPH
Personality Profile
Workplace
Competencies
The CTPI-R test has been standardized on an international group
of 5000+ working and managerial professionals. The test uses a
continuous scale of 0 to 100% to deduce 21 competencies that are
relevant in the workplace. The conclusions are based on statistical
studies and theoretical models.
This year’s NEXT100 award winners exhibited high scores on
competencies like Challenge Orientation, Reliability, Mentoring
Others and Authenticity, and scored relatively lower on Caution,
Supervision and Influencing.
The CTPI-R
test provides an
assessment of work
related personality
traits that play
a crucial role in
performance. It
evaluates test
takers on 19
distinct personality
and behavioral
characteristics that
are grouped into:
People Management,
Perception Mode,
Self Management
and Change
Management.
The test results are reported
on a scale of 0 to 10, with
0 implying a low level and
10 implying a high level
of conformance to the
behavioral characteristic.
A collective analysis
of the personality
characteristics of the
NEXT100 award winners
indicates that they scored
high on attributes like
Assertiveness, Tactical,
Rational, Emotional
Stability and Vision, while
scoring relatively lower
on Trust, Adaptability,
Developing Others, and
Action Orientation.
People Management
Perception Mode
Self Management
Change Management
Challenge Orientation
Authenticity
Quality Orientation
8.0
Stress Tolerence
7.0
Caution
Vision
40
3.0
1.0
Conflict Resolution
0.0
Trust
2.0
Experimentation
10
Decision making
Tactical
4.0
Influencing
20
Developing Others
5.0
Adaptability
30
Innovation
Developing Others
6.0
Networking
5.0
Affiliation
7.0
6.0
Flexibility
8.0
Action Orientation
0.0
Lively
Conscientiousness
Team Building
Reliability
Rational
Self Confidenc
Understatnding Others
Registent
Initiative
Business Acumen
Strategic Planning
Mentoring Others
Conducting Change
Other Applicants
Affiliation:
Assertiveness:
Supervision
NEXT100 Winners
To be kind, affectionate and open towards others at work
To express and defend one’s opinions and rights in an open, yet
correct manner
Control:
To have one’s own way of doing things, and to gain power
Developing Others: The desire to support, mentor and encourage others to help them
reach their potential
Tactical:
The tendency to be tactical and diplomatic when dealing with others
Trust:
To be dependant on, and trusting towards others
Conscientiousness: Carry out tasks in a thorough, meticulous and organised way
Rational:
Refers to the way information is perceived and judgments made
Rule-conscientious: To strictly follow the rules and moral standards established by
society
Commitment:
To draw satisfaction from being dedicated to one’s job
Self Confidence
Rule Conscientiousness
Emotional Stability
Commitment
Surpassing
Other Applicants
Optimism
NEXT100 Winners
Optimism:
To hold positive expectations, and easily recover from failures
Surpassing:
The tendency to be ambitious, driven and competitive
Emotional stability: The ability to recognize one’s own emotions and to control emotional
reactions
Self-confidence:
The tendency to have self-confidence, and believe in one’s potential.
Lively:
Energetic, outgoing and full of life
Experimental:
The desire to explore and innovate, sometimes to the detriment of
existing solutions
Adaptability:
The ability to accept change and novelty
Visionary:
Tendency to understand trends and patterns, and anticipate future
events
Action-oriented:
To take initiative and risks, choose action over reflection even if there
is uncertainty
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winners’ DEMOGRAPH
Management Style
Management Profiles
The Management Style Inventory
test assesses a candidate’s
aptitude for leadership measured
on seven management-related
dimensions. Attributes like
Innovation, Global Vision,
Conceptual and Reflective
Thinking, Affiliation, Intervention
and People-Orientation are
measured on a scale of 0 to 10,
with 0 indicating a low level and 10
indicating a high level.
is measured on a scale of 0
to 100%.
The Management Style
test also provides an
indication of how a
candidate’s profile
conforms to a variety of
seven management roles,
including that of Chief
Executive, Strategist,
Expert, Project Manager,
Entrepreneur, Executive
Manager and Motivator.
The proximity to each role
The management profiles
exhibited most frequently
by the NEXT100 award
winner group are that
of Strategist, Project
Manager, Executive
Manager and Motivator.
The profile that was least
commonly displayed was of
that of Chief Executive.
The NEXT100 group scored high on
Global Vision, Reflective Thinking,
People-Orientation and Innovation.
Other Applicants
NEXT100 Winners
Other Applicants
Chief Executive
Global Vision
90
7.0
80
6.0
70
5.0
Innovation
NEXT100 Winners
Conceptual
4.0
60
Strategist
Enterpreneur
50
40
3.0
30
2.0
20
10
1.0
0
0.0
Executive Manager
Project Manager
People Orientation
Reflective
Motivator
Intervention
G
lobal Vision:
Conceptual:
Reflective:
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Affiliation
To approach situations from a generalist rather than a specialist
angle. Look at a project’s objectives first before examining the
technical, financial and human resource requirements.
To use theoretical concepts and analytical models to approach a
problem or situation.
To exhibit a calm and collected composture, and maintain equanimity
by controlling emotions.
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Expert
Affiliation:
Intervention:
Endowed with a spirit of openness and a charisma that generates
enthusiasm and motivation for the team.
A tendency to work and make decisions independently, often with a
managerial perspective.
People-oriented: Placing a priority on the level of satisfaction experienced employees,
team harmony, individual progress and the integration of a certain
code of ethics.
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winners’ DEMOGRAPH
The Winning
Experience—Says it All
The 100 winners of the Next100 2013 awards went through rigorous tests to be the
chosen few among the 1732 applicants. It wasn’t easy to be selected as the Future
CIO as 51 jury members evaluated them thoroughly.
There were fun moments, thrilling moments and moments of fear, too.
ITNext made an attempt to understand the winners’ perspectives, bring out their
experiences, capture the overall experience as they made it to the list of 100.
The ITNext survey responses from the 100 winners threw light on the different
aspects of the selection process, their cherished moments, and special moments
from the interviews and pride, which they feel has brought about a sea change to
their confidence.
Here’s a snapshot of their journey to the final destination.
How would you rate
the Next100 selection
process—from initial
application to the
declaration of results?
Excelent
78%
Good
Fair
22%
How would you rate the various stages
of the application process?
Application form
78%
Personality
Inventory test
45%
Poor
Very Simple
Simple
Difficult
Very Difficult
51%
47%
29%
22%
8%
8%
Jury
interviews
0% 0%
0
2%
0%
1
0
1
0%
2
3
Taking it in a
Positive Stride
51%
39%
Management
Style Inventory
test
0%
Unacceptable
12%
8%
2
3
The Interview changed my thought process
Arvind Kumar Yadav, GM-IT, LT Food
“I enjoyed both my jury interviews but my first
interview was one of my best interviews. He
asked me to share my career journey.
My experience of having worked with Polaris Software
as an ERP consultant and as IT Head of LT Group helped
me a lot. The jury member focused more on my innovations
and their applications in business. I had a list of innovations
which I shared with him and he examined them in detail.”
Satinder
Gupta
Dy. General
Manager
(IT), Jubilant
Lifescience
Limited
“It was a great
experience to interact
with the 2 Jury
members. It helped me
to understand where
exactly I stand and
helped me to accept it in
a positive way and move
forward in the same
direction. I am sure that
the interaction will help
all the particpants as
every candidate will lack
in 1 or more skills--these
can be improved with
time and can help us
grow as an individual.”
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WinNERS’ DEMOGRAPH
What would you consider your most cherished
moment in the entire award journey?
41%
The first call received
Very useful
Receiving the award letter
( pre award functon)
Neither
useful
16% 16%
10% 10%
Meeting the
Next100 team
Other, liease spcify
8%
0
1
2
3
4
5
Sameer Chaudhry
GM-IT, DFM Foods
“It was a great experience to
interact with the Jury. The
questions were in line with
what was expected from a
CIO and how the candidates
could apply their IT / technical
knowledge to help the business
to ensure the right alignment
between IT and business. The
questions were well structured
and objective.”
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22%
Somewhat
useless
0%
Very useless
I understood the right alignment
between IT and business
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78%
Somewhat
useful
Participating in the
Next100 award event
Meeting the Next100 jury
members
How would you rate the
usefulness of the CTPI Pro
personality and workplace
competencies test report?
0
1
0%
2
3
Jury interview
helped me mould
and align myself
Michael D’
Souza
Sr. Manager,
Mahindra Vehicle
Manufacturers
“The Jury members were cordial.
They stuck to the time given and
were very quick in understanding
my role and responsibilities. They
touched upon my vision, goal and
aspirations and my professional
alignment as a future CIO. They
challenged my abilities in finding
the underlining thoughts and
vision in taking up higher roles
as a CIO. Finally, they helped
me mould and align myself to
the areas in which I needed to
sharpen my skills in as I went up
the career ladder.”
29. WinNERS’ DEMOGRAPH
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How has winning the
Next100 award made
a difference to your
professional life?
How would you rate the various aspects
of the jury interview?
Excellent
Good
FairPoor
Unacceptable
Length of the
interaction
36%
My peer managers take me more seriously
2%
I am actively approaching by placement
consultants/head hunters
32%
I now have increased responsibilities at work
75%
48%
66%
Depth/extent of the
interaction
My organization has publicly recognized
my achievement
65%
53%
16%
53%
47%
I have started to look for new opportunities
outside my current organization
45%
30%
Discussion about your
work experience
MY juniors respect me more
35%
32%
2%
I have got a promotion (or expect to get one)
32%
24%
Discussion about your
domain knowledge/
technology expertise
My seniors/top management knows me
24%
I have started look for new opportunities
within the organization
Discussion about
your leadership or
business skills
2%
0% 0%
0
2%
0%
1
0% 0%
2
3
2%
4
I got to ponder over real life scenarios
Sashi Bhushan Vyas
Senior Department Manager, Usha International
“I was really impressed by the eagerness
of the Jury to evaluate me. During the
interview, they were quite friendly and gave
me enough space to express myself freely. We started with
my professional journey so far and then moved on to my
qualifications, expertise, achievements, challenges, team
management and leadership skills. I was given examples
of various real life scenarios and was asked how I would
handle them. I particularly remember one instance during
this whole interview process. The feedback I got from
them is something which I will always apply in my career.”
16%
I am now invited to different kinds of meetings/interactions
Jury discussions
were intriguing
Anantha Rao
Mangalagiri
Chief General
Manager (IT),
Odisha Power
Transmission
Corporation
“The jury members were cool and
pragmatic. They touched upon
managerial challenges, risks of the
sector etc. Particular discussions to
elicit my capability in identifying,
estimating, evaluating and
mitigating risks were intriguing.”
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jury anecdotes
Hitesh K Arora
Director CIO, Max Life
Insurance Company
Sudesh Agarwal
CIO, Landmark Group
Some Grilling,
Some Thrills
It’s not easy to handle the
position of a CIO. Who knows it
better than the CIOs themselves?
So, when they evaluate senior IT
Managers who aspire to be CIOs,
it goes without saying that the
evaluation is quite a grilling task.
Sudhir Pal Arya
Group CIO, Amtek
Group Of Companies
Ajay Bakshi
Vice President Process Automation
Improvements, Hinduja
Global Services
Here are some interesting anecdotes shared by jury members of
Next100 2013 . Also, moments they found amusing, plus a lot more on
the applicants, winners and the areas they needed to work on.
“Very enthusiastic learner
who took the process
very seriously. One of the
candidates passionately
explained the project. It
showed the ownership and
devotion”
T G Dhandapani
Chief Information Officer, TVS Motors
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Sanjeev Kumar
Group CIO PresidentBusiness Excellence,
Adhunik Group of
Industries
Creative, Talented
and Fresh Minds
“The standard of candidates or the applicants (may
be a result of a meticulous initial filtering done by
9dot9) has certainly improved. I have taken 7-8
interviews, all very good. I could also sense that, as
this recognition is much respected by the industry,
many candidates have been inspiredand I can see
that they are leveraging ITNext as the platform for
a big career leap and launch. In the process, we are
getting very fresh minds, creative and good talent
that would strengthen the IT fraternity as a whole.
Overall, the event offers very good platform to the
industry and nation. As for areas of improvement,
handling uncertainties is important; a CIO’s role is
not simple, it’s getting redefined every 6 months for
the last 10 years. As a CIO, one does not get time to
breathe. Handling stress and remaining creative at
the same time is quite challenging. So, candidates
need to learn to enjoy the turbulence.”
31. jury anecdotes
Rajesh Chopra
Senior Vice President IT, East India Hotels Ltd
Ramachandran
Muralidharan
CIO, Syntel Ltd
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Yagnesh Parikh
Executive Vice
President CTO, ICICI
Securities Ltd
Tamal Chakraborty
Global IT Director,
Bata Shoe
Organisation
Looking Beyond the Award
“One of the interviewees was so eager that he called
me three to four times and convinced me to hear
him beyond the questions I had for him. He also
wanted my feedback about him and asked me if I
could become his mentor. My suggestion to applicants would be to get out of the project mode, and
talk about how they can manage themselves and
their targets.”
Manish Choksi
President - Home
Improvement,
Supply Chain IT,
Asian Paints Ltd
T G Dhandapani
Group Chief Information
Officer, TVS Motor
Company Ltd
Prashun K Dutta
Chief Information
Officer, Tata Power
Company Ltd
Rajesh Garg
Divisional Director
Head - Global Delivery
Managed Services,
Rolta India Ltd
Man Mohan Goyal
Chief Information
Officer, Phillips Carbon
Black Ltd
Vishnu Gupta
Director Chief
Information Officer,
Jana Core Health
Solutions India Pvt Ltd
Sachin Jain
CIO, Evalueserve.com
Pvt Ltd
Anil Kumar Kaushik
GM - IS (IS), Bharat
Petroleum Corporation
Hilal Khan
Head - Corporate IT,
Honda Motor India Pvt
Ltd
Kinshuk Hora
Head - IT (India
Sub Continent ),
GlaxoSmithKline
Consumer
Healthcare Ltd
Jayantha Prabhu
Chief Technology
Officer, Essar Group
Mukul Jain
Senior Vice President,
DLF Pramerica Life
Insurance Company Ltd
Mahesh Kumar
Pinnamaneni
CIO, Aurobindo Pharma
Ltd
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S Shivashankar
Group Chief Information
Officer, SPIC Group
jury anecdotes
Subhashish Saha
Group CTO, Apeejay
Surrendra Group
Dhiren Savla
CIO, VFS Global Group
“I find most candidates
having command
on the domain with
sufficient knowledge
and quite mature to be
the Next CIO. However,
they need to work on
managerial skills
a bit”
Shailesh Joshi
Vice President and
Head - Corporate IT,
Godrej Industries Ltd
Sriram Krishnan
Executive Vice
President – I T, ING
Vysya Life Insurance
Company Ltd
Samir Dhaga
Vice President - IT,
Bharat Business
Channel Ltd
Yagnesh Parikh
IT, ICICI Securities
Nandkishor Dhomne
Chief Information
Officer, Manipal Health
Enterprises Pvt Ltd
Jijy Oomen
Executive Vice
President Group IT
Head, Bajaj Capital Ltd
Sundaram Ramasamy
Executive Director (IS),
Indian Oil Corporation
C M Sharma
Global CFO, Aegis Ltd
Rahul Mahajan
Vice President Information Technology,
K Raheja Corporate
Services Pvt Ltd
Aruna Rao
CTO, Kotak Bank Ltd
They Could Push
Beyond their Boundaries
“Candidates come prepared, they know results of
psychometric and managerial capability tests and they
do thorough homework as to who will conduct the
interview. They guess intelligently what the questions
could be and what possible turns in the answers are.
They delighted me really in the QA sessions. One
of them really impressed me when he narrated his
story. This gentleman was working as an IT manager
of a hospital. He was called upon when a CEO of an
organisation, a patient in this case, wanted to set up
a virtual office to carry on his operations. The CEO was
impressed. Later, the interviewee was offered a job in
the CEO’s organisation at a senior level. This shows how
a junior IT manager can walk that extra mile to make an
impression not only within the periphery of his work but
also outside his call of duty. This is definitely a good
example of managerial skills.”
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Jagat Pal Singh
CTO, Cybage Software
Pvt Ltd
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jury anecdotes
Vinod
Sivaramakrishnan
CIO, Wal-Mart India
Yashpal Soni
Assistant Executive
Director (IM), Dalmia
Cement Ltd
Rich Strader
Centre Head, Ford
Technology Services
India Pvt Ltd
Girish Rao
CIO, Marico Ltd
Candidates took it
like it was a Real Job Interview
Parmeswar Menon
Vice President Head
Channel Systems, SBI
Life Insurance Company
Ltd
Suhas Mhaskar
Head - IT, Innovation
Transformation,
Mahindra Mahindra
Group
Niranjan Bhalivade
Chief Information
Officer, CEAT Ltd
Francis Rajan
Vice President - ICT,
Bangalore International
Airport Ltd
Mukund Prasad
Director - Group
HR,Business
Transformation Group
CIO, Welspun Group
Subhash C Mittal
Senior Executive
Director (MS IT)
Group CTO, IFFCO Ltd
Vijay Sethi
Vice President
Information Systems
and CIO, Hero MotoCorp
Ltd
Dheeraj Sinha
Group Head - Corporate
Management Services,
Apollo Tyres Ltd
“Post award engagement with the candidates and
further assessment to ensure that the winners stay
on course to becoming a CIO is important. I felt that
most of the candidates needed to have more of an
all-round appreciation of IT from different aspects
and a 360 degree view of their portfolio; technical
depth is one of the aspects for and a pre-requisite
to becoming a CIO. Most of them felt that it was
almost like a job interview and treated it like one
(smiles). They should look at the entire Next100
award process as more of a career gap assessment.
The other aspect that needs to be drilled into candidates is that the Next100 award does not mean that
one can become a CIO immediately but a stepping
stone towards it.”
Vijaya Shanker
Global CIO. Symphony
Teleca Corporation India
Pvt Ltd
Durgashankar
Subramaniam
Executive Vice President
- MA Secretarial,
Mahindra Mahindra
Group
Gopal Shukla
Senior VP - Business
Systems Group,
Hindustan Coca-Cola
Beverages Pvt Ltd
Anthony A Thomas
Chief Information
Officer, Vodafone India
Services Pvt Ltd
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36. cover story
celebrations
The Jury Table:
Next100 Jury part
of the Awards
evening
Jury engrossed in listening to the sufi
ghazals during the awards nite
Next100 2013 Awards Celebration Time
December 14, 2013. The evening was special for all
the Next100 2013 award winners as they received
the coveted title at the gliterring function at Hyatt
Regency, Pune. Some exciting cherished moments of
winners and participants at Awards Nite
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cover story
Tech workshop
The morning Tech
sessions: Next100 2013
winners engrossed in
the morning technology
sessions conducted by
industry thought leaders,
sharing insights on the
emerging technology
trends
cio round table
Discussion on Leadership: The Jury part
of the CIO Round Table deliberating on
the theme, ‘Leaders of Tomorrow’
Jury Round Table: R. Giridhar,
Group Editor 9,9 Media sharing
insights during the Jury Round
Table
N Geetha, Editor, IT NEXT
shares interesting insight
about the future leaders with
the jury during the round table
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celebrations
Networking Lunch
Peer Network: Not missing out on any
opportunity to network with the industry
peers over tea
Networking time:
Next100 winners network over lunch
IT NEXT showcase:
The recent editions of IT
Next showcased
Award Night
Proud Winners: Winners enjoying the
award function
Relaxing time: Entertaining audience with sufi ghazals as part of the Awards
celebration
Delivering a
Keynote Speech:
Alok Kumar, MD,
Sears Holdings
Vikas Gupta
Director CoFounder, 9.9 Media
on Next100 Awards
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Applause: An award winner adding
to the beat of famous sufi ghazal, ‘Dum
mast Kalandar’
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Next100 Award Presentation
Proud Moment: First batch of Next100 winners with their
trophies
Exuberance: Second batch of Next100 winners posing for a
prized moment
Exciting moment: Third batch of Next100 winners reckoning
the winning moments
All smiles: Fourth batch of NEXT100 winners are overwhelmed
to receive the award
All Set: Fifth batch of NEXT100 winners all set to adorn the
CIO’s role
Winning Moments: Sixth batch of NEXT100 winners are proud
to be the chosen few among the 1732 applicants
Fulfilling: Seventh batch of NEXT100 winners find the
moments fulfilling
Dream Come True: It was a dream come true for the Eighth
batch of NEXT100 winners
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celebrations
Next100 Award Presentation (continued)
Joyous Moments: Kudos to the Ninth batch of NEXT100
winners
Moments to Remember: Tenth batch of NEXT100 winners will
never forget these wonderful moments
Special Nite: It was indeed a special night for the Eleventh
batch of NEXT100 winners
Geared Up: Twelvth batch of NEXT100 winners are all geared
up to don the new role
Next100 Book launch
Next100 Book Launch:
Raj Kumar Sharma,
VP-Sales, Arkadin Confer
India alongwith
Raj Kumar Sharma
Vice President - Sales,
Arkadin ConferIndia
congratulating winners
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Jury Felicitation
Honouring Jury Members:
First batch of Jury Members
along with Vikas Gupta, Director
Co-founder, 9.9 Media
After the rigorous evaluation:
Jury Members along with Geetha
Nandikotkur, Editor, IT NEXT
felicitation to partners
Krishna Kumar
Chief Operating Officer,
9.9 Media felicitating
Neeraj Trivedi, Senior
Sales and Business
Development executive,
Juniper
Viral Thakkar
Head Regional Operations
(West), NxtGen receiving
a memento
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celebrations
Fecilitating the Sponsers (continued)
A memento was
presented to Reena
Sharma, Account
Management Lead, West,
HCL
Senior Executive
from TE Connectivity
felicitated by Krishna
Kumar, COO, 9.9 Media
AL Jagannath, Director,
VMWare India being
felicitated
Token of Thanks to
Raj Kumar Sharma, Vice
President - Sales, Arkadin
ConferIndia
Ajaykumar Joshi
Senior. Manager –
Enterprise, Kaspersky Lab
– SA being felicitated
Anil Nama,
CIO, CtrlS being
presented a memento
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44. Platinum Partner
Premier Partner
NEXT100 Book
Partner
To find out more
about NEXT100 visit
itnext.in
Principal Partners
Supporting
Partners
organized by
a brand of
TECHnology Partners
45. Ajay Ajmera, Banswara Syntex | Raja Anand, SIS | Arup Banik, EIH | Sanjay Bardiya, Adhunik
Metaliks | Kiran Belsekar, Sony Entertainment Television | Umesh Bhapkar, Tata Technologies |
Ramesh Bhashyam, TVS | Shailesh Bhirangi, Orissa Manganese Minerals | Subhrajyoti Bose, Trelleborg Sealing Solutions | Abhijit Burse,
India Factoring and Finance Solutions | Sajith Chakkingal, Barclays | Anirban Chakraborty, Future Group | Pradeep Chankarachan, Harman
International India | Sameer Chaudhry, DFM Foods | Sanjay Chhokra, Mayar India | Sushma Chopra, Sony Entertainment Network | Rajesh
Dangle, Crompton Greaves | Michael Dsouza, Mahindra Vehicle Manufacturers | Krishnakant Gaitonde, Birla Sun Life Insurance | Mitesh Garg,
Philips Electronics India | Seema Gaur, IFFCO | Gaurang Doshi, Essar Group | Ram Gollapudi, TTSL | Paresh Goswami, Welspun Group |
Shivakumar Gowda, Tejas Networks | Arun Goyal, Sistema Shyam Teleservices | Jayant Gupta, Hindustan Petroleum Corporation | Satinder
Gupta, Jubilant Life Science | Krishnananda Hegde, SABMiller India | G Venkateshwaran Iyer, JSW Steel | Gaurav Jaggi, Gates India | Sameer
Jain, Ericsson India Global Services | Vikas Jain, Ernst Young | MD Jegadeesh Kumar, Tata Communications | Shijo Joseph, Gujarat Gas |
Shriram Joshi, Mahindra Mahindra | Ashok Kannan, Ashok Leyland John Deere Construction Equipment Co | Manish Kapoor, MTS India | Vineet
Kapoor, Aon Corporation | Rajesh Karir, Evalueserve | Raghvendra Kaushal, Future Generali India Life Insurance Co | Samir Khare, Fullerton India
Credit Company | Hemant Kulkarni, Kirloskar Electric Company | Apoorva Kumar, GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Healthcare | Brajendra Kumar,
Bangalore Metro Rail Corporation | Jagdip Kumar, Cosmo Films | Lalit Kumar, JBM Group | Santhosh Kumar, Mahindra Mahindra Financial
Services | Suresh Kumar, Chemmanur International Group | Anil Malhotra, Minda Industries | Anantarao Mangalagiri, Odisha Power Transmission
Corporation | Prince Mathew, K Raheja Corporate Services | Alok Mathur, DSCL SUGAR | Srikanth Mattipalli, Tyco | Manoj Mauni, Kotak
Mahindra Bank | Yogesh Mishra, Sistema Shyam Teleservices | Neyaz Mohammad Reyaz, LG CNS India | Rajiv Nandwani, Tata Communications |
Udayar Nedunchezhiyan, Bangalore International Airport | Saurabh Nigam, CRISIL | Pankaj Patel, Vodafone India Services | Pragnesh Patel,
Reliance Power | Gaurang Pathak, Atul | Laxmikant Phadnis, Mahindra Mahindra | Sekhar Pidathala, AXA Business Services | Umesh Potdar,
Mahindra Vehicle Manufacturers | Binayak Pradhan, Samsung Data Systems India | Rajendra Prasad, PPIL | Prem Rajpal, Sistema Shyam
Teleservices | RP Rath, Quatrro Global Services | Swarup Roy, Electrosteel Castings | Deepak Sachdeva, Great Offshore | Sahil Sagar, Aditi
Technologies | Kr Satish, Philips Electronics India | Ajeet Saxena, IFFCO | Rajesh Sehgal, Minda Industries | Arindam Sengupta, Wipro Consumer
Care Lighting | Devang Shah, GMDC | Mohit Sharma, Sahara India | Sudhir Sharma, Somany Ceramics | Sushil Sharma, Mahindra Mahindra
Financial Services | Parag Shimpi, Mahindra 2 Wheelers | Vipin Shotriya, Sutlej textiles and Industries | Ashish Shrivastava, Writer Corporation |
Abhishek Singh, Fareportal india | Dinesh Singh, Mahindra Mahindra Financial Services | Kartikeya Singh, Pernod Ricard India | Sanjay Singh,
Quatrro Global Services | Sanjay Singh, Sir Ganga Ram Hospital | Udayveer Singh, Cairn India | Vinod Singh, Ericsson | Vishwas SK, Aditya
Birla Management | Daljit Sodhi, Aviva India | Anurag Sonpali, Future Generali India Life Insurance | K Tirumala Rao, LT MHI Boilers |
Amrut Urkude, NSSL| Rajesh Verma, Bharat Petroleum Corporation | Jaswinder Virk, Evalueserve | Shashi Bhushan Vyas, Usha
International | Arvind Yadav, LT Foods
2013 AWARD WINNERS
Sudesh Agarwal, Chief Information Officer, Landmark Group | Hitesh K Arora, Director Chief Information Officer, Max Life Insurance
Company | Sudhir Pal Arya, Group CIO, Amtek Group Of Companies | Ajay Bakshi, Vice President - Process Automation Improvements,
Hinduja Global Services | Niranjan Bhalivade, Chief Information Officer, CEAT Ltd | Tamal Chakravorty, Director - IT Test, Ericsson Global Services India
Pvt Ltd | Manish Choksi, President - Home Improvement, Supply Chain IT, Asian Paints Ltd | Rajesh Chopra, Senior Vice President - IT, East India Hotels Ltd
| Samir Dhaga, Vice President - IT, Bharat Business Channel Ltd | T G Dhandapani, Group Chief Information Officer, TVS Motor Company Ltd | Nandkishor
Dhomne, Chief Information Officer, Manipal Health Enterprises Pvt Ltd | Prashun K Dutta, Chief Information Officer, Tata Power Company Ltd | Rajesh
Garg, Divisional Director Head - Global Delivery Managed Services, Rolta India Ltd | Man Mohan Goyal, Chief Information Officer, Phillips Carbon Black Ltd
| Vishnu Gupta, Director Chief Information Officer, Jana Core Health Solutions India Pvt Ltd | Kinshuk Hora, Head - IT (India Sub Continent ),
GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Healthcare Ltd | Mukul Jain, Senior Vice President, DLF Pramerica Life Insurance Company Ltd | Sachin Jain, Chief Information
Officer , Evalueserve.com Pvt Ltd | Shailesh Joshi, Vice President and Head - Corporate IT, Godrej Industries Ltd | Anil Kumar Kaushik, General Manager - IS
(IS), Bharat Petroleum Corporation Ltd | Hilal Khan, Head - Corporate IT, Honda Motor India Pvt Ltd | Sriram Krishnan, Executive Vice President – I T, ING
Vysya Life Insurance Company Ltd | Sanjeev Kumar, Group CIO Group President - Business Excellence, Adhunik Group of Industries | Rahul Mahajan, Vice
President - Information Technology, K Raheja Corporate Services Pvt Ltd | Parmeswar Menon, Vice President Head Channel Systems, SBI Life Insurance
Company Ltd | Suhas Mhaskar, Head - IT, Innovation Transformation, Mahindra Mahindra Group | Subhash C Mittal, Senior Executive Director (MS IT)
Group CTO, IFFCO Ltd | Ramachandran Muralidharan, Chief Information Officer, Syntel Ltd | Jijy Oomen, Executive Vice President Group IT Head, Bajaj
Capital Ltd | Yagnesh Parikh, Chief Technology Officer, ICICI Securities Ltd | Mahesh Kumar Pinnamaneni, Chief Information Officer, Aurobindo Pharma
Ltd | Jayantha Prabhu, Chief Technology Officer, Essar Group | Mukund Prasad, Director - Group HR,Business Transformation Group CIO, Welspun Group |
Francis Rajan, Vice President - ICT, Bangalore International Airport Ltd | Sundaram Ramasamy, Executive Director (IS), Indian Oil Corporation Ltd | Aruna
Rao, Group Chief Technology Officer, Kotak Mahindra Bank Ltd | Girish Rao, Head - IT, Marico Ltd | S Shivashankar, Group Chief Information Officer, SPIC
Group | Subhashish Saha, Group Chief Technology Officer, Apeejay Surrendra Group | Dhiren Savla, Chief Information Officer, VFS Global Group | Vijay
Sethi, Vice President Information Systems and CIO, Hero MotoCorp Ltd | Vijaya Shanker, Global Chief Information Officer, Symphony Teleca Corporation India
Pvt Ltd | C M Sharma, Global CFO, Aegis Ltd | Gopal Shukla, Senior Vice P resident - Business Systems Group, Hindustan Coca-Cola Beverages Pvt Ltd | Jagat
Pal Singh, Chief Technology Officer, Cybage Software Pvt Ltd | Dheeraj Sinha, Group Head - Corporate Management Services, Apollo Tyres Ltd | Vinod
Sivaramakrishnan, Chief Information Officer, Wal-Mart India Pvt Ltd | Yashpal Soni, Assistant Executive Director (IM), Dalmia Cement Ltd | Rich Strader,
Centre Head, Ford Technology Services India Pvt Ltd | Durgashankar Subramaniam, Executive Vice President - MA Secretarial, Mahindra Mahindra
Group | Anthony A Thomas, Chief Information Officer, Vodafone India Services Pvt Ltd
JURY
46. cover story
Past Winners’ Success Tale
Life after Next100—
Past Winners on a Roll
Next100 awards have evidently impacted the careers of the winners of the last three editions.
The award not only positioned them as future CIOs but instilled confidence in the minds of the
management towards empowering them with more responsibilities. Some have grown in the
same organisation, some have moved to new organisations at top roles
Here are some thoughts on how they made a difference to themselves and their organisations
and how the Next100 award changed their lives.
I Learned how to
Balance Tasks Efficiently
The journey for Amit Phadke has been
Amit Phadke
Vice President - Systems and
Technology, Accleya Kale Solution
(Next100 Winner 2010)
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fruitful ever since he won the Next100
award in 2010. He had to ride through
challenges and strike a balance between
operational and business goals. But he
did it efficiently.
He had been on the service provider
side from 1999 to 2008, and worked in
various capacities and roles handling
technical support, pre-sales, project
management and business development.
Later, he joined Bharti AXA Investment
Managers (Mutual Fund) as Senior
Manager IT. He had a thorough
understanding of both the sides of the
table i.e., as a service provider and end
user; this helped him take informed
decisions, thereby making every project a
grand success.
Phadke recollects, “I later joined Accelya
Kale Solutions Ltd (Erstwhile Kale
Consultants Ltd) as AVP – Systems and
Technology heading IT and operations.
Today, I work in the capacity of Vice
President – Systems and Technology. The
Next100 award gave me the confidence
to accelerate my journey in IT, provided
me with good networking opportunities
within the IT community, knowledge
sharing and an opportunity to sharpen
skills through various initiatives taken by
ITNext or the IT community.”
Amit wants to continue to consolidate
in the years ahead. His focus will be
inherently on new technologies which
are technically better and cost effective.
Collaboration, BYOD, social media will be
key areas to look at to help business grow.
47. Value Contributor
to Business
Bringing Process
Innovation
Sharat Airani
CTO, Intellinet Datasys Pvt Ltd
(Next100 Winner 2011)
More Confident
about Focus on
Strategy, Execution
and Result
Sharath Airani nurtured his interest in IT by learning
QBASIC, COBOL, PASCAL on DoS 3.2 and UNIX. He started
to manage, maintain and monitor mail server on UNIX
and helped pre-sales support.During his 15-year stint, he
bagged many awards and recognition. NEXT100 is one of
the most important awards in his career.
He says, “The IT road map is changing very fast. It
is not only about using new gadgets at some level or
holding compute power and application delivery anymore.
IT has moved much beyond that. Some of the industries
fear change and lack of continuous learning or wants to
stay away from a constantly evolving learning process.
This directly depends on affordability and applicable
governance. The result is that the adoption of new
hardware technology, new software, and new development
techniques requires training, recruitment, changes to
process and most of all, buy-in from senior management
and involving IT in business strategy.”
Airani adds, “Honestly, among all the awards, NEXT100 was the one which was outstanding in this phase.
We discussed this award and the team on the other side
of the table accepted me as a next gen leader. This was
substantiated by the NEXT-100 award.”
Now his responsibilities include focusing on strategy,
creating business value with Business IT Strategy,
customer satisfaction, IT lead business innovation
and transformation, and leading the team focusing on
results and execution.
Beena Nayar joined IT in 1985 as a programmer, using C
as the programming language. Beena says, “The Next100
award has given me confidence as I was judged by eminent
CIOs across the country and I knew I was doing things
right. I have worked as a value contributor for business
by bringing in process innovation, business process
re-engineering through technology initiatives.”
This included managing several IT projects such as
the re-implementation of ERP, which included several
business processes being re-defined and improved and
implementation of IT applications focused on streamlining
and standardisation of processes across the organisation
and building in appropriate controls to ensure that data
and process hygiene is maintained, and automating,
Beena Nayar, Head-IT, Forbes Marshall
(Next100 Winner 2011)
Forbes Marshall has a new plant at Chakan. The
manufacturing facility is being moved/set up there
in a phase-wise manner. IT is involved in setting up
connectivity, data center and ERP at the new location.
Looking at the road ahead, Beena says, “Several
initiatives have been planned for business process
improvement, business analytics and focused on helping
business in decision making. We are also implementing
mobility solutions, in supply chain for improving material
traceability and reduction of throughput time.”
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Past Winners’ Success Tale
Award brought me
the Top Seat at Shalimar
At ITNext, our constant effort to
pave the way for senior IT managers to
get the top seat has impacted many
careers, many lives.
Our Next100 awards, an industry
recognition for skills, talent and
business minds of IT managers across
industries, have shaped the careers
of many IT managers, helping in
positioning them become CIOs. That’s
why we call them “Future CIOs.”
Ashok Jade, then AGM-IT at Videocon
Industries is now CIO, Shalimar Paints.
The exuberant CIO says, “Being a
Next100 Winner impacted my career.
The Next100 Award and the entire
activity including various tests,
interviews, learning, mentoring, really
transformed the way I looked at things.
The award has been important for me
to get the top seat in Shalimar Paints.
It also boosted my confidence and
Ashok Jade
CIO of Shalimar Paints
(Next100 Winner 2012)
groomed my thought process towards
being more mature. The award is the
main contributor to my success.”
He adds, “The entire journey of the
Next100 award has given me a lot of
confidence and learning. Various tests,
interviews, and the award function
really contributed a lot to achieving
this; mainly, it boosted my confidence
and made my thought process mature.
ITNext’s efforts to keep us in touch
continuously, connecting us with various
people at the top in the industry is really
great and I appreciate it.”
Ashok started his career as a
programmer in 1997, with Videocon
International. Jade’s mandate at
Shalimar is to transform the business
and implement “IT Enabling Business
Growth” in the real sense. His focus is
on Infrastructure excellence, CRM, BI,
Market Connect.
Helped in Proving his Mettle in
Driving Business Benefits
Overwhelmed Atul Vij, VP of UNO
Minda Group says, “To me as an IT
person (as my background is non IT),
the award made a huge difference.
Earlier our initiatives used to get no
attention unless we were able to
prove that they had been deployed
successfully elsewhere. With this
award, we got the liberty to take the
lead on our own for proving our mettle
and show business benefits too.” Plans
had been announced to outsource SAP
Atul Vij
Vice President, UNO Minda Group
(Next100 Winner 2012)
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deployment and place team members
back into the functions. However,
this award showcased the team’s
competence, which in turn convinced
the CMD and management to allow Atul
and his team to continue as a corporate
resource team to support units.
Atul says, “This year, we have already
received 4 proposals for business
partnerships from interested partners.
Plans are all set to establish our team as a
profit center. I got the Next100 award last
year. This helped me showcase how we
have leveraged IT for catalysing initiatives
for operational excellence as a model case
for benefit to ACMA members.”
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CtrlS Data Center VISIT
Fun time at
the CtrlS
Data Center
A
fter the glittering night at the Next100
Awards in Pune, the winners were all excited
to take the bus ride to Mumbai where they were
scheduled to visit CtrlS Data Center in Mhape,
Mumbai on the Day 2 of the event.
They took a tour to the data center where CtrlS
executives showcased the Rack Space of 5,000,
Datacenter space of 2,00,000 Sft, Power Capacity
of 30 MW and a eight zone security level.
Next100 winners take a front view of the data center
Winners engrossed in an engaging session on data center trends
at CtrlS
Winners registering for the data center tour
In an interative session on the emerging trends of data center
Next100 winners walking into the CtrlS Data Center
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CtrlS team responding to the questions from the winners
51. technology awards
cover story
IT Next
Technology
Awards 2013
IT NEXT awards are the stepping stones for many
IT managers to their career growth. These awards
celebrate the rich knowledge and business acumen that
IT community bring to their organisations,
exemplifying the change that IT can make.
The IT Next Technology awards have been instituted by IT Next Magazine to honour the
distinguished Senior IT Managers and IT Managers who have been a part of or played a critical role
in deploying .IT solutions for their enterprises. The awards were presented during the Next100
awards event. The awards had eight categories – Enterprise Voice Data Solutions Award, Network
Innovation Award, Datacenter Solutions Award, Virtualization And Cloud Computing Award,
IT Solutions Award, IT Infrastructure Management Award, Enterprise Security Award, and
Broadband Network Technologies Award.
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technology awards
Enterprise Voice
Data Solutions Award
Winner
Amandeep Hunjan
Manager – IT Support
Orange Business Services
Amandeep Hunjan receiving award from
Nitin Bhandari, Associate Vice President –
New Products Partnerships, Vodafone
ABOUT VODAFONE
As organisations expand their operations beyond boundaries, their branch offices need to
communicate and share data to manage their business operations. Their business-critical voice and
Data Applications need a reliable and secure communication channel to run seamlessly. Backed by a
state of art network infrastructure Vodafone’s Wireline Voice and Data Services help organisations
connect offices and save up to 30% on communication spends.
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Network Innovation Award
Winner
Anurag Sonpali
General Manager – IT
Future Generali India
Anurag Sonpali receiving award from
Nikhil Dudwadkar, Channel Marketing Manager and
Neeraj Trivedi of Juniper
ABOUT JUNIPER
Juniper Networks is the industry leader in network innovation. We stand as a response and
challenge to the traditional approach to the network. We tackle all aspects of the network–
across the domains of routing, switching and security–to help solve our customers’ toughest
challenges so they can compete and thrive into the future. We are innovating in ways that seek
to empower everyone in an increasingly connected world.
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Datacenter Solutions Award
Winner
Tarun Sharma
Asst. General Manager Management Services,
Gujarat Gas Company Ltd.
Tarun Sharma receiving award from
Viral Thakkar, Head Regional Operations (West),
NxtGen Datacenter Cloud Technologies
About Emerson
Emerson (NYSE: EMR) is a diversified global manufacturing and technology company. We offer a
wide range of products and services in the industrial, commercial, and consumer markets through our
Process Management, Industrial Automation, Network Power, Climate Technologies, and Commercial
Residential Solutions businesses. Recognized widely for our engineering capabilities and management
excellence, Emerson has approximately 135,000 employees and 235 manufacturing locations worldwide.
About NxtGen
NxtGen provides Data center and Cloud services from their own high density data center (HDDC)
facilities or they can deploy centrally managed On-premise data centers (OPCD™). Their Enterprise cloud
services provides options and assists it’s customers to implement a private cloud on premise and move
into the Hybrid cloud world by creating IT infrastructure for the long term – “Infinite Data Center”.
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Virtualization And
Cloud Computing Award
Winner
Paresh Haria
CTO, PCS Technology Ltd.
Paresh Haria receiving award from
R Giridhar, Group Editor, 9.9 Media
ABOUT VMWARE
VMware is the leader in virtualization and cloud infrastructure solutions that enable businesses
to thrive in the Cloud Era. Customers rely on VMware to help them transform the way they
build, deliver and consume Information Technology resources in a manner that is evolutionary
and based on their specific needs. With 2012 revenues of $4.61 billion, VMware has more than
500,000 customers and 55,000 partners. The company is headquartered in Silicon Valley with
offices throughout the world and can be found online at www.vmware.com.
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IT Solutions Award
Winner
Ankur Goyal
Sr. Manager – Technology Solutions Group,
DLF Pramerica Life Insurance Company Ltd.
Ankur Goyal receiving award from Apurba Dutta, GM
Business Head - System Integration, Wipro
ABOUT WIPRO LTD
Wipro Ltd. (NYSE:WIT) is a leading Information Technology, Consulting and Outsourcing company that
delivers solutions to enable its clients do business better. Wipro delivers winning business outcomes
through its deep industry experience and a 360 degree view of “Business through Technology” helping clients create successful and adaptive businesses. A company recognized globally for its
comprehensive portfolio of services, a practitioner’s approach to delivering innovation, and an
organization wide commitment to sustainability, Wipro has a workforce of 140,000 serving clients
across 57 countries. For more information, please visit www.wipro.com.
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IT Infrastructure
Management Award
Winner
Atul Vij
Vice President – Group IT Improvement Cell,
Minda Industries Ltd.
Atul Vij receiving award from Reena Sharma,
Account Management Lead, West , HCL
ABOUT HCL
HCL Infosystems Ltd. with revenue (LTM) of US$ 1.6 billion (Rs. 9,040 crores) is India’s Premier
Distribution and IT Services and Solutions Company. HCL Infosystems’ has one of the largest sales
distribution network in the country and provides value added distribution for partners including
last mile connect and support in marketing and promotions for Telecom, IT , Office Automation
and Consumer Electronics products covering more than 15000 towns across 664 districts in
India. Our distribution business has an unparallel network that reaches more than 100,000 retail
outlets, over 800 Direct and Micro Distributors and over 12400 Channel Partners across India. In
the services space the Company has robust services offerings such as a comprehensive portfolio
of Infrastructure Managed Services, Enterprise Application Services, System Integration Services,
Office Automation Services, Managed Print Services, Life Cycle Services and After-Sales Support
Services. HCL Learning, the Company’s learning solutions business, serves the entire spectrum
of education and training requirements across schools colleges, individuals and enterprises and
offers Digital Content Learning Solutions.
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Enterprise Security Award
Winner
Vinay Wandrekar
Senior Manager – IGM,
Sandoz Pvt. Ltd.
Vinay Wandrekar receiving award from
Altaf Halde, Managing Director,
Kaspersky Lab – South Asia
ABOUT KASPERSKY
Kaspersky Lab is one of the fastest growing IT security vendors worldwide. Today it is firmly
positioned as one of the world’s top four leading antivirus vendors*. Kaspersky Lab continues to
further improve its market position, demonstrating higher growth rates than the market in general.
According to the company’s 2011 unaudited financial results, Kaspersky Lab’s global revenue grew by
14% compared to the previous year and reached $612 million. Today it’s the world’s largest privately
held vendor of endpoint protection solutions.
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Broadband Network
Technologies Award
Winner
Jaisingh Varma
Senior Manager – Technology
Cenveo Publisher Services (I) Ltd.
Jaisingh Varma receiving award from JN
Mylariah, Country Manager Technical, TE
Connectivity
ABOUT TE CONNECTIVITY
TE Connectivity is a $13 billion world leader in connectivity. We design and manufacture
products at the heart of electronic connections for the world’s leading industries including
Automotive, Energy, Industrial Equipment, Communications, Consumer Devices, Healthcare,
and Aerospace and Defence. Our long-standing commitment to innovation and engineering
excellence helps our customers solve the need for more energy efficiency, always-on
communications and ever-increasing productivity. With nearly 90,000 employees in over 50
countries, TE Connectivity makes connections the world relies on to work flawlessly every day.
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