Background
After completing his engineering from Ranchi, Mudit Agarwal worked at Tata
Steel before pursuing a post graduate diploma in management from IIM Lucknow. He
then joined HCL as a consultant. Then followed a five-year stint with HLL. He
took over as the CIO of Domino’s Pizza India limited earlier this year.
Present job profile
As a CIO I am supposed to work as a facilitator in implementing business
strategies through the use of IT and at times, suggest areas where IT can help
the business better. I am involved in providing strategic inputs as well as
planning and implementing solutions that help the business.
Challenges at work
Managing priorities and the business expectations from IT. But IT is not a
magic wand that will make your problems vanish. Moreover, with constraints on
resources, there is a limit to what you can bite at a time. There is an immense
number of options and one has to make a judicious choice so that the investment
is protected for years to come.
Professional mistake
After I finished my engineering, I joined the raw materials division of TISCO
and worked in the mining department. But that was something I didn’t really
enjoy doing and so needed to get out of that place.
Achievements
I am happy with what I am and what I have. But it’s still too early in life
to say that I have achieved something. I have a loving and caring family and
some good friends on whom I can always depend.
Something close to your heart
It’s not fair to consider a politician young at the age of
58 while a layman retires at that age from the services sector. If the country
was run like a corporation by a team of professionals, we would be in a
different world.
As told to Amit Sarkar