Let me start by first thanking a few individuals. First, Latha Chandradeep, who brought me into Cybermedia, and then, Anil Kumar, CIOL head. Next comes Thomas George, my very good friend.
When I first joined CIOL in 2004, there was absolutely no talks about semiconductors and electronics—fields I had experience of having worked earlier. However, within two months, I had to return to Hong Kong to my previous job, and there ended my inaugural stint with CMIL.
STINT NO. 1
My next stint was in 2007. I had the onerous task of building a new team from scratch. It was difficult and needed a lot of effort. I had great support from Sigi Achappa, Usha Prasad, Abhigna Ng, especially. Abhigna started a site on Developer, Usha, on SMB, and Sigi managed Enterprise. All the three mini-sites were runaway successes.
Productivity tools in a downturn for biz transition was a story done by Usha. She went to meet IBM for a story around service-oriented architecture (SoA) and its benefits in the global marketplace. Another interesting story she did was how today’s SMBs are the corporate houses of tomorrow! SMBs need to be ‘ERP ready’ to embark upon an IT implementation, is added to that list.
Sigi did a story with xerox Modicorp. around improving the efficiency in document output management. S. Anantha Sayana, then Head Corporate IT, Larsen & Toubro Ltd, and a Champion CIO winner of EnterpriseConnect Awards 2007, told her about the need to innovate for the next quantum jump. With Sage Software, her story on CRM apps will be mobile enabled has stood the test of time.
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