Indian IT Exec Mind Set
Down to Business: The Mind Set of The Indian IT Exec by Rob Preston at InformationWeek is an interesting observation of Indian IT Exec Mind Set from an American journalist perspective. Having talked to several American IT Exec. over the period of several years, Preston visits India for the first time. His observation compares and contrasts the mind set of Indian and American IT Execs. Here is the brief
• No. 1 thing keeping Indian CIOs up at night– finding and retaining talent.
• Most CIOs are laser-focused on business strategy. In a domestic economy still growing a torrid 8% a year, the tactics of IT infrastructure and application management are left mostly to senior staffers or outsourcers• Most of the Indian CIOs report to CEOs.
• The Indian CIOs take for granted that their businesses operate in a global context, so they apply that mind-set to all dimensions of their job, from sourcing to project development to customer service.
The last point was very interesting… US based CIO still have a legacy mind set of ‘inward’ pointing viewpoint. Globalization for the US based CIO is still an afterthought. Indian CIO’s had the luxury of being in the frontline of understanding how globalization has a direct impact on the bottom line. Thus they look at the business in the global context.
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