Changing Face Of Cio – Rise Of The Business Strategist – Amit Kumar, Kasper Consulting

1. Changing Face of CIO – Rise of the Business Strategist Amit Kumar Kasper Consulting March 19, 2010 1

2. CIO = “Career is Over” I admit! 2

4. System Design (Tech Lead)

5. Business Analysis

6. Systems Analysis

7. Project Management

8. Large Change Management Initiatives – primarily related to IT

9. Managed IT (Data Center, Servers, Telecom Network, Bas, Development, Information Security, etc.)

10. Managed IT for Group

11. Managed IT for Asia3

13. System Design (Tech Lead)

14. Business Analysis

15. Systems Analysis

16. Project Management

17. Large Change Management Initiatives – primarily related to IT

18. Managed IT (Data Center, Servers, Telecom Network, Bas, Development, Information Security, etc.)

19. Managed IT for Group

20. Managed IT for Asia4 What have you done in your career?

22. Managing People

23. Managing Change

24. Understanding of the Business

25. Controlling Expenses

26. Managing Risks

27. Managing Large Capital Expenditure

28. Managing Budgets

29. Looking out for IT opportunities to help our businesses grow

30. Managing vendors

31. General Management (can manage all areas of IT and can deep-dive if required)That’s a lot! So why are we not heading Business Units? Why are we not being considered for CEO positions? Why are we not in the Board Room? Well, I couldn’t do it!

33. Reach out to the customers of my company

34. Reach out to my customers – users and branches. Would have taught me Business Development

35. Look out for job-rotation opportunities

36. After a large system change, continue interacting & connecting with business to measure business gains. Work out the cost-benefit (or P&L)6

38. Reach out to the customers of my company

39. Reach out to my customers – users and branches. Would have taught me Business Development

40. Look out for job-rotation opportunities

41. After a large system change, continue interacting & connecting with business to measure business gains. Work out the cost-benefit (or P&L)7 What more can you do?

42. I couldn’t rise from a CIO to get into the Company Boardroom Can you? 8