ClariTea Chat

In today’s world, networking is considered the most critical aspect of a career, but what’s more important is building meaningful relations and networks. Connecting and engaging with people is a key to building meaningful relationships. It helps you grow in your career and take on challenges.For this podcast, I talked with V. Subramaniam, an OTIS veteran who started as its India CIO in 2000.He is currently the transformation & Digital leader for EMEA.

He has worked in the electronics, manufacturing, FMCG, and engineering industries. He has a philosophy that leadership is a journey, not a destination that you achieve in a span of time.In this podcast, we looked at the growth journey of transition to a global IT Leader; how can you transform processes using technology? How can you overcome challenges by partnering with people? And the importance of building a relationship.

Today most organizations experience change that comes too often; change can be related to technology, process, and culture. Bring changes is easy but sustaining those changes and driving them is difficult.  To drive change and transformation in an organization, you need to involve and engage leaders for it. There can be different ways of involving leaders in your transformation journey. It is an art, and everyone should learn that art.  For this podcast, I went solo and discussed engaging leaders in your transformation journey and answered live audience questions.  In this podcast, I discussed How can you make leaders comfortably related to change management?

How can you address the fear of failure? And how can you prioritize time and generate conviction and trust towards your idea? 

Most organizations are trying to transform themselves as part of change management. It plays a vital role because it’s a stepping stone towards success.It transforms the process and makes it more effective and efficient. But while, implementing change management requires you to change people first, then the process, and finally the organization.

In this podcast, we saw how you can change people and make them flexible about the changes? Why do people fear changes?

What are the first principles you as a leader needs to follow to be a change catalyst in the organization? And different case studies related to CRM transformation and change management.

In this world, we need to constantly learn, reskill and update our existing skills and refine them for future growth. And this requires continuously reaching out for new learning and opportunity. To reskill and grab the new opportunities, you need to break the barrier of your comfort zone. 

One of the crucial aspects of breaking the comfort zone is discomfort, which people do not want to face. So, they tend to settle in their comfort zone and do not fight hard to come out of it. But this is the biggest barrier to your growth. 

For this podcast, I talked with Venkatesh Natarajan, a veteran at Ashok Leyland. He has been CIO since 2010 and is currently CDO. He believes in leveraging experts, co-opting business leaders in transformation, and continuously trying to learn new technologies. 

In this podcast, we looked at how one should leverage partners and top management to manage change? What all learning can one take from their competitors, and what can we expect after the transition from IT to Digital? And we will also see the importance of breaking the comfort zone and why is it necessary?

A business is started to fulfil the need or demand of customers, and in return, you can get value for your product or services. But the primary need of a successful business is its customers.Nowadays, the customer's needs are being evolved on a day-to-day basis, for which businesses also need to develop at the same rate. That is why transformation plays a vital role in every industry.For this podcast, I talked with Mohammed Wasim, a veteran at PublicisSapient. He has played roles from transformation consultant to IT Leader to P&L Leader. He firmly believes that the customer is the king, no matter who that customer is or from where he belongs. In this podcast, we looked at how to implement digital transformation in organizations successfully and how you should put your customer at the center of transformation? Why is change management the need for an hour, and what is the learning from the growth stories of Wasim?

In this Ep#7 of the ClarITea Chat podcast, Jagdish engages in an insightful and deeper conversation with Arun Gupta. Arun’s Journey started from college, representing Mumbai University in an Electronics’ fair, studied hardware course in NIIT, got into NELCO doing average 6 customer calls in a day carrying a 10 kg toolkit. 

He would visit customer offices and watch the EDP officers and think - “That’s where I want to be some day”. Even when he didn’t know how but he believes that somehow the universe conspires for you to be there if you are true to your goal. He believes in “Quit at your best” and discusses, how this belief led him to become a Vice-President at the age of 32.

Leaders, if you are thinking of expanding technology benefits beyond ROI and building a high-performance team, but don’t know how and where to start. Jagdish Belwal talks about decoding the art of finding ROI with technologies, & ponders over in this podcast what all things to focus on in business other than ROI. Here Jagdish and his guest will discuss:

● Expanding technology benefits beyond ROI and focusing on the impact on business.

● Importance of connecting IT with business. Why and how?

● Tips to Build high-performing Team.

In the bonus, you will also get to know why do you need an advisor or consultant for an organization? Remember, “Hiring a consultant is like taking a second piece of advice from a doctor because you are not sure about the first one.

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About ClariTea Chat:

For Digital Transformation, Technology is necessary but not sufficient - it's evident from only 17% of the technology programs delivering expected Business Value or ROI. The ClarITea Chat helps you learn the art of managing IT through the experiences and case studies from accomplished CIOs and Business Leaders.

In this Ep#5 of the ClarITea Chat podcast, Jagdish engages in an insightful and deeper conversation with Kalpana Maniar, former Group CIO Edelweiss & Volunteer, Isha Foundation. Kalpana engages in an insightful and touching story from her life journey, from finance to technology to leadership and finally to her calling - philanthropy. She shares gems of wisdom like – “pain is inevitable, suffering need not be” to Garud drishti (eagle’s view) and Sarp drishti (snake’s view).

In this Ep#6 of the (reverse) ClarITea Chat podcast, Jagdish engages in an insightful and deeper conversation with Divya shlokam. Divya is a personal branding diva, coach, and in the top 25 to follow on LinkedIn-by-LinkedIn Lounge. She hosts an awarded global business show. She runs "Leverage LinkedIn Global Initiative" with a goal to impact 6 million people.

In this Ep#4 of the ClarITea Chat podcast, Jagdish engages in a refreshing discussion with Dr. Boris Piwinger, Global Head of IT Portfolio & Innovation at Ottobock. Dr. Boris shares insights about his journey from ivory tower of mathematics to a doer consultant – IT leader. He shares insights about leveraging consultants the best way, building a Digital Core, balance between CIO and CDO roles; and his personal adventures of apnea diving. Plus enriching audience question answers.

In this Ep#3 of the ClarITea Chat podcast, Jagdish engages in an intellect-stimulating discussion with Vijay Ramachadran, Storyteller & knowledge Navigator. Vijay has researched for 25 years how organisations absorb technology and change. He conducts an Annual Digital Transformation audit – the research I quote when I mentions 83% of technology programmes fail to deliver ROI. Vijay shares insights about his decades of observing how CIO roles have shaped up.