Tarun Pandey, 2013 Honoree
- Title
- Vice president, IT
- Employer
- Aditya Birla Financial Services Group
- Location
- Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Characteristic most important in an IT hire:
- A willingness to learn, unlearn and relearn.
- How are you turning your IT department into a services organization?
- Our prime focus is on enabling strong governance, a service delivery framework, processes and a service-oriented attitude. My team is continually undergoing regular soft-skill and technical trainings. We are also creating complete, consolidated single services dashboard consisting of strategic and operational dashboards across various businesses to gain complete visibility.
- Boldest IT prediction:
- As IT becomes all-pervasive, consumer privacy will cease to exist.
- How do you evaluate emerging technologies?
- Emerging technologies should fulfill at least two of these criteria: Total cost of ownership and operations; sustainability and evolutionary road map; future fit with business needs.