DIGITAL LEADER 2018:PARTHA PROTIM MONDAL:ATUL LIMITED

ATUL LIMITED | MANUFACTURING

PARTHA PROTIM MONDAL, GM –IT

KEY IT SPENDING AREAS FY 2018-19

- Cloud Based Enterprise Mobility (Customer Experience)

- Supply Chain Process Automation through Blockchain

(Process Automation)

- Shop-floor Automation through Industry 4.0 (AI, ML

and Machine Integration through IoT, Digital Twins)

- Data Centre Modernization

- Information Security

5 KEY SOLUTIONS DEPLOYED IN 2017-18

- Cloud based Enterprise Mobility (mobSales Application

for retail salesforce)

- E MS Integration (Shop Floor Energy Meters Integration)

Business Analytics with Open Source Data Warehouse

- Salesforce CRM

- Collection Process Automation through (Financial

Cash-Flow Enhancement)

WHAT DOES DIGITAL MEAN FOR YOU?

Digital Transformation is to inculcate the ‘NextGen’ technologies to metamorphose the Organization’s

business process and model towards digital age with optimal growth and efficacy. The fusion of innovative

technologies along with business transpose the customer satisfaction to customer delights and takes the customer

experience to new heights. In this era of digital world, being Digital is driven solely by Customer centricity.

NAME 3 BEST PRACTICES FOR ALIGNING IT WITH NEW NORMAL BUSINESS DEMANDS

• Be Agile, Open and Adaptive to change – Flexibility and adaptability to change is the new normal.

Understand business requirement, through analysis on ‘demand-response’ to address uncertainty, adaptability

to change management, choose apt ‘NextGen’ technologies that suits best for the business, agility to

eliminate the impediments and enforce the changes and finally delivery excellence.

• Customer Experience – The utmost focus to be given to provide delighted customer experience with

technology evolution. Organization’s goal & Digital Transformation Strategy ought to be formulated to

render the delightful offerings to the customers.

• Digital Transformation Strategy – Organization’s digital strategy should be amalgamated with business

model and methodology and should be strongly focused to meet the organization’s goal. Project

portfolio Management plays a crucial role to recognize the business critical projects and subsequently execute

the same to ascertain business demand and strategic

priorities are taken care of.

WHAT IS THAT ONE KEY MESSAGE YOU WOULD LIKE TO GIVE TO IT VENDORS?

In today’s digital transformation era, with changing business models and methodology, the vendor should

strive to understand the customer’s requirement in specificity and deliver modern age technology solution

to business problem based on intuitive and prevalent business intelligence. Vendors should be focused

to deploy innovative solution, which can lower the complexity and cost of ownership, easily implementable,

which leads to faster ROI and ensure to bring forth best practices from other organizations.

SIGNIFICANT MILESTONES AS CIO (CURRENT AND PAST ROLES)

Inculcate the Digital Transformation strategy and best practices amongst the IT team and business stakeholders

to align all concerned with Organization’s Digital Strategy along with short term and long term