ClariTea Chat

Ask me anything is one of the best ways to share the knowledge with the audience. The best thing about these types of sessions is that there are no boundaries to the discussion of professional life. These session gives major learning and can cover a variety of topics. 

For this podcast, I went solo and had a session on “ask me anything .”I answered the live audience and some backlog questions from the previous session. In this podcast, we discussed Case studies of value-adding from ClarITea Chat by the audience as a guest. 

How do you bring entrepreneur spirit in your teams, as a leader? 

What are the important changes a leader should make / be aware in this era of Collaboration? 

Top 5 things to do for a Supply Chain Digital Transformation  

Experiences of networking while on the Golf Course?

Every organization is trying to digital with time. To manage digital transformation, we need a leader who is a digitally effective business leader. He should discuss the digital aspects as well as should be a business leader. Only then can he drive business value through this project.   

Successful digital business leaders understand the importance of inbound data and the process within the business. They should be playing a role of a good communicator. They should be creative enough to design a solution for a problem interestingly.   

For this podcast, I went solo and discussed the topic ‘Being an Effective Digital Business Leader .’In this podcast, I discussed, What is the agenda of IT? Which is the platform for conversation between CIO & Business leader? What is the Role of Business Leaders in Transformation through Technology? And How do you avoid potholes?  

In anyone's career, technical skills play a very important role. It tells about your knowledge, concept clarity, and many more. But as soft skills are also as important as your technical skills.  Soft skills are the ones that can take you to the next step easily.   

Especially if you are in a leadership position, soft skills matter more than technical skills. Soft skills are the habits and characteristics that characterize how you collaborate with others and operate alone. These abilities assist you in achieving success in the workplace and your employment position.  

For this podcast, I went live with Satish Rao, a Chairman & Managing Director at Firmenich, India – It is the largest privately-owned perfume and taste company. Take the Mirror Test

daily – have you earned being a human being.  

In this podcast, we also discussed his book Can I Fly: Learnings in going from a Chawl to CEO; what are CEO’s views & expectations from IT? What are Soft values and their role in driving transformation?  

Every organization is trying to do something new to beat the competition around. Some are trying to bring new technology, something new in marketing style, etc. But some organization is standing out by innovating and renovating.   

We all try to use innovative approaches but tend to ignore renovating approaches to solving problems. Many problems can be solved using renovation, then why think of a new innovative approach? We should always consider what is required for innovation or renovation.   

For this podcast, I went live with Jai Thomas, a VP-IT, Infra & Operations at VerSe Innovation – who runs Dailyhunt and Josh platforms. He builds technologies at a scale that helps unleash the potential of Digital India. His philosophy is “Success lies at the convergence of Renovation and Innovation .”Also, it is not about thinking of doing great things but starting to do things.”  In this podcast, we also discussed, Why we should get one focus on behavior and not goals? What is the difference between being shy and being introverted? How is an introvert a strength? How can you learn from both good and bad bosses?    

In any organization, human resource is the most important type of resource. Companies can have a lot of machinery, process, and assets, but ultimately it all revolves around human potential. Managing human potential is one of the very important tasks in any company.   

There can be different types of leaders in a company having different leadership styles. People prefer a mixed style of leadership depending on the situation. One of the most famous styles is the democratic and collaborative style of leadership.   

 For this podcast, I went live with Fin O'Leary, seasoned CIO, a digital business founder, and business transformation leader; Non-Executive Director, startup mentor, and a board advisor at BLUERIDGE. He harnesses digital trends and innovation to transform organization agility and drive business growth.  

Fin believes in Democratic and Collaborative leadership. And his philosophy is. Unless you have people on the train with you, you can’t reach your destination. In this podcast, we also discussed are key ingredients for becoming a cross-culture expert? How do you win political wars without casualties?  

Organizations have many projects going on simultaneously at the same time, and some projects reach to end and come into the category of a successful project. But few projects comes in the category of failed or failing project. These projects need to be recused.   

When a project fails, leaders and managers, instead of playing the blame game, should come forwards and take responsibility for the failure. Leaders should take responsibility, manage risk, and should do rigorous governance from the ground level to the top level.   

For this podcast, I went live solo and invited 3 of my regular viewer to share a case study of their professional life of recusing a failed program. In this podcast, we also discussed what the collaborative approach is? And how important is it to provide the correct deadlines?  

In this podcast, I answered the fascinating questions of Divya Shlokam(Content marketer and social media Evangelist) and Vijay Sethi( the Chairman Advisory Board and Chief Mentor, Mentor Kart, Ex-CIO Hero MotoCorp.) 

The discussion topics include the idea behind the emergence of ClariTea chat and its success, ways to expand the scope of ClariTea chat, how to engage the audience, and how to be prepared for the high-chat sessions.

Watch the whole podcast to get insight into what it feels like to run the ClariTea show from my point of view.

Data science has emerged as one of the driving forces in digital transformation. It a best to validate solutions offered for a problem. Any decision backed up with data can be taken very easily because data gives us proof that the decision is right.   

Data and its analytics play a major role in forming any business strategy and making decisions; it helps in introducing any new changes based on numbers.   

For this podcast, I went live with Asha Poulose Johnson, a VP and Global CIO of Data Analytics at GE Healthcare, the leading medical technology, and diagnostics player globally. Her philosophy is to Focus on solving problems by leveraging data and technology.   

In this podcast, we discussed, Why should one take outcome first and technology later; what is the thinking behind it? How to build a pacing career with thoughtful motherhood breaks? How important is people management, and what are the challenges related to it?  

Every organization focus on measuring the ROI of their project. But measuring the ROI of a big initiative and calculating your effort at every single level is not an easy task. That is why there is an emergence of a new way of calculating the success of a project which is KPIs ( Key performance indicators).   

KPIs are techniques and ways of calculating and measuring the performance of the project. This can be done by collecting data and putting that data into some standard metrics to calculate the performance of that project.   

For this podcast, I went live with V S Parthasarathy, an Ex-Group CFO, Group CIO of Mahindra Group - A federation of companies bound by one purpose – to rise. He is a firm believer - The team is everything. Everything else is nothing – lessons in servant leadership. . In this podcast, we discussed What is the real way of measuring the performance of a Project's ROI v/s KPIs? What is the importance of governance and federal structure of IT? What is the paradigm of IT 'Market In and Product Out' instead of 'Product In and Market Out'?

As the organization is becoming digital, it is opening new possibilities for the future. Now the organization can do much more than yesterday, with all the capabilities this modern infrastructure provides. But it is essential to decide the parameter than just randomly doing whatever comes into the way. With all the possibilities and abilities, an organization must learn to lean. Do things fast but in a poor manner.

For this podcast, I went live with V Srinivasa Rao, a former Chief Digital Officer of Tech Mahindra. He built pioneering systems, processes, and solutions for global enterprise clients. He believes in Visualizing and Designing the Future & also bringing team and stakeholders toward that shared Vision.

In this podcast, we discussed the concept of Lean digital thinking. How should enterprises leverage SI effectively? What is expected from CIO, and how can they fill those expectations?