Ten years ago, Chief Information Officers, Chief Technology
Officers and IT Heads were actively engaged in technology
procurement and deployment and in “keeping the trains
running.” They were in essence demonstrating technological
leadership. That continues today. However, technology ROI is no
longer measured in terms of the project success or scale. Rather,
it is measured in terms of business yield. And so the CIO has moved
on from a role of ‘IT Leader’ to that of
‘business enabler’ or ‘enterprise leader’.
And this is what our jury was looking for when selecting the
InformationWeek Global CIOs this year.
InformationWeek magazine created the Global CIO Awards to
acknowledge and recognize CIOs who are adapting well to this
transformation. This annual award is presented to CIOs around the
world in recognition for their direct contribution to the business
through strategic decisions, innovation and cutting edge
projects.
The recipients of the InformationWeek Global CIO 2011
award (in no particular order of ranking) are:
1. Vijay Sethi, Hero MotoCorp
2. VS Parthasarathy, Mahindra & Mahindra
3. Girish Rao, Marico
4. Umesh Jain, YES BANK
5. KT Rajan, Allergan India
6. TG Dhandapani, TVS Motor Company
7. N Nataraj, Hexaware Technologies
Jury for Global CIO
The winners were assessed by an external jury comprising of:
• Arun O Gupta, Customer Care Associate
& Group CTO, Shoppers Stop Limited
• Kunal Pande, KPMG Director -
Management Consulting
• Dr. Nilay Yajnik, Professor and Chairman
– Information Systems Area, Narsee Monjee Institute of
Management Studies , Mumbai
• Dr Pradeep Pendse, Dean
IT/e-Business/Business Design and Innovation, Welingkar Institute
of Management, Mumbai
• Sanchit Vir Gogia, Sr. Analyst, Forrester
Research
• Sandeep Phanasgaonkar, President and
CTO, Reliance Capital
Complete details of the process and profiles of the seven
winners appear in a Cover Story in the September issue of
InformationWeek magazine (India).