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Paritosh C. Basu
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Agenda
Decision Management - Present Imperatives Mapping of solution applications to decision points Value additions through IT enabled applications Hypotheses for CIOs and CTOs
Decision making and control are two fundamental components of industrial management Fleischman and Tyson
Introduction
CFOs in India believe that industry / sector pressures will increase challenges and opportunities over the next three years
Industry / Sector Changes Over the Next Three Years
Imperatives of a Growing Economy
Need for faster decision making Product/Service Demand Growth Pressure to reduce cost base Demand for external transparency (e.g., Board, shareholders, taxpayers, regulators) Ability to atract and retain talent Access to short term liquidity/long-term capital
39% 53%
ISA
Top Challenges
Global
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As a result of these factors, a majority of India Finance organizations believe that they have to make major changes to respond.
ISA N = 129 to 133; Global N = 1,844 to 1,905 Source: IBM Institute for Business Value, The Global CFO Study 2010
Business insight
Objective financial data validates that decision making supported by business insight contributes to outperformance in enterprises in India
Business Insight Contributes to Financial Outperformance
Revenue Growth 5 Year CAGR (2004-2008)
India 68% more 29.4%
17.5% 17.5% 11.4% 12.5% 9.4%
Trend is visible - Sustained value generation skill and not ownership is the ultimate criteria for occupying the Drivers seat
A plan cannot be said to exist unless there are committed resources and directions to go ahead. - Do we all need to change attitude?
Global Country
Experimentation
Corporate
Creative
Intuitive
Questions
1. Is our IT system ready and capable of serving these approaches? 2. Has IT graduated to the system for business Information and not data? 3. Are our data, processed information and documents ringring-fenced?
Structured
Programmed
Source: Management - A Global Perspective, Wheirich & Koontz
Questions
Do we distinguish and furnish information for
Structured and unstructured problems? Programmed and nonnon-programmed decision?
Questions
1. 2. Are our IT team members and systems proactive to prevent trappings? Do we facilitate decision process leading to way out from traps?
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It is time to ponder on the following comment Best brains in the world are busy solving problems of the rich, who actually have no problems when compared to those of the poor. - Sam Pitroda
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