The Enterprise Impact of New Technology - with Sanjay Srivastava, Chief Digital Strategist at Genpact

CIO Exchange Podcast

Today’s technologists have to interpret the industry’s past, present, and future. At Genpact, Sanjay Srivastava uses data strategy and process design to help businesses make a plan and avoid disruption in the future.

As Genpact’s Chief Digital Strategist, Sanjay designs and runs thousands of digitally-enabled processes and services. In this episode of the CIO Exchange, Sanjay discusses the ideal mindset of a technologist, the evolving tech ecosystem, and the value of data. He also gives advice on bringing analytics and plans to the board, so your business is set up for success.

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Key Quotes:

“The reality is all of our businesses today are one great idea away from complete disruption. And so you gotta be really focused on, what is gonna come through tomorrow that is gonna change my industry? That'll disrupt my ecosystem? Or that might take my business model away? And that requires a very different way of thinking.”

“The reality is all of our businesses today are one great idea away from complete disruption, and so you gotta be really focused on what is going to come through tomorrow that is going to change my industry, that'll disrupt my ecosystem, or that might take my business model away. And that requires a very different way of thinking.”

“There needs to be a balance, right? You have to be an inside out person to be really effective at a CXO role in a Fortune 500 company. And by that I mean you need to understand the current business. You need to understand your domain. You need to know your stakeholders. You need to be able to champion large shifts in direction and you know, transformation for across the company. And, if you didn't have the credibility, if you didn't have the internal sort of stakeholder support, you couldn't get there. And, to be able to do all of those things, you need to be an insider.”

“Today, I can tell you that in terms of results, achieved or outcome driven, data driven projects are probably delivering the highest level of value. And the reason they're doing that is, number one, there's an understanding that this is important. And number two, the toolkit tree that we have has changed.”

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Time stamps:

00:24 How Sanjay became an entrepreneur

05:25 Having a conversation with C Level executives

08:02 Why you should stay on top of emerging trends

10:37 The key to a successful startup

13:55 The role of the technologist

15:18 The ideal team culture

17:20 Having a business-first mindset

20:54 Keeping up with the changing industry

23:27 The evolution of tech tools

25:32 The value of data

37:26 How to speak the language of the board

43:25 Don’t underestimate emerging tech

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