Anantha Sayana’s experience with Information Technology dates back to pre-IT days. In this period of over two decades, he has seen the evolution of many platforms, technologies, and applications in Banking, Manufacturing, and Service Industries.

Perhaps it's not surprising that, as head of corporate IT for an engineering-centric group of companies, Anantha Sayana took a measured approach to improving IT effectiveness. He led an enterprise-wide exercise that systematically measured the maturity levels in each of L&T's businesses on five dimensions: IT-business alignment, value delivery, IT risk management, support and service, and total cost of ownership. At the same time, his team worked on an enterprise architecture aimed at making generic processes common across the company, while letting business units keep the niche processes they need to have agility and competitive advantage.

Anantha Sayana has been with L&T since 1995. He was initially at the Corporate Audit Services departmment where he headed the Information Systems Audit. In his current role as Head - Corporate IT, his work is now focused on bringing together IT at L&T’s various business units to work with synergy on realization of benefits, optimization, service, and risk management. 

Anantha Sayana is closely associated with the Information Systems Audit and Control Association (ISACA). A founder Secretary and a past President of the Mumbai Chapter of ISACA, he has served as a member of the International Test Enhancement Committee of ISACA USA for the CISA examination for three years. He was also a contributing editor on the editorial board of ISACA’s journal, writing a regular column on I S Audit for over three years.

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