Facilitating Digital Transformation through Applied Research

ICT discipline wants utilized analysis to drive enchancment for the welfare of society

SP Jain School of Global Management is an Australian enterprise college offering trendy, related, and sensible international enterprise training. With campuses within the dynamic enterprise hubs of Dubai, Mumbai, Singapore, and Sydney, SP Jain World is famend for its multi-city undergraduate and postgraduate packages in addition to doctoral, govt, and short-term on-line packages. For its flagship World MBA program, the B-Faculty has been ranked by a number of reputed worldwide publications such Forbes, Occasions Increased Training- Wall Avenue Journal, Monetary Occasions, and The Economist.

S P Jain World is registered as an Institute of Increased Training by the Australian Authorities’s Tertiary Training High quality and Requirements Company (TEQSA). Upon commencement, college students obtain a level conferred by SP Jain Faculty of World Administration, Australia. The B-Faculty is registered as a Non-public Training Institute (PEI) by the Committee for Non-public Training (CPE), Singapore, and permitted by the Information and Human Improvement Authority (KHDA), Authorities of Dubai, UAE.

 

An Ardent Chief with Excellent Contributions

Dr. Karippur Nanda Kumar works as Professor of Info Expertise at SP Jain Faculty of World Administration, Singapore. Karippur is answerable for instructing utilized enterprise analysis and business collaborations within the areas of expertise administration and digital enterprise throughout SP Jain campuses in Dubai, Mumbai, Singapore, and Sydney. The eminent trainer is actively concerned in utilized analysis in areas reminiscent of ICT insurance policies, digital management, enterprise digital transformation, digital provide networks, and innovation administration. Karippur holds a Grasp’s and a Ph.D., from the Indian Institute of Expertise, Delhi. In 2018, he has been conferred as a Fellow of the Singapore Pc Society for excellent contributions and the development of the tech occupation.

 

One-of-a-Variety Experiences to Seize Alternatives

Karippur has over 30 years of expertise as a pacesetter and scholar-practitioner within the regional ICT business. He was concerned in creating a number of nationwide ICT Grasp plans for over 20 years in Singapore and rolled out a number of nationwide collaborative initiatives efficiently for ICT expertise improvement in partnership with main business gamers, associations, and main universities of Singapore. His lengthy years of expertise have offered appreciable alternatives to work with the decision-makers and senior administration of native and abroad authorities businesses, universities, analysis institutes, MNCs, native enterprises, and business associations. The establishments and organizations have helped him to achieve insights into the wants and gaps in expertise improvement versus the business wants.

Karippur has been a robust believer in nurturing the tradition of making self-help teams {and professional} improvement communities to profit the business and society. For instance, previously, he and the crew have collaborated to prepare IT Conclave occasions that foster collaborative data creation by means of utilized analysis, sharing of case research, and finest practices at Mumbai, Dubai, Singapore, and Sydney in partnership with Singapore Pc Society, Australian Pc Society, and NASSCOM, India.

 

Harmonizing Efforts with Challenges

Karippur remembers that he kick-started his profession within the business as a tech skilled. Within the preliminary years, he has labored on various tech roles reminiscent of programs analyst, IT architect, IT venture supervisor, and govt advisor previous to a number of management roles. Steady upgrading of tech expertise in addition to constructing enterprise area expertise and management expertise are essential for fulfillment on this international business and there have been very restricted alternatives these days for buying these expertise. It was additionally not straightforward in these days to construct and increase one’s skilled community and achieve advantages from mentorship from seniors.

 

Efficient Methods for Collaboration

Karippur considers the significance of understanding the function and impression of digital transformation on buyer expertise in creating a transparent technique on this space within the first place. He provides that then, it’s doable to speed up the event of smarter and digitally linked services with an agile strategy. It is usually necessary to evaluate the governance points and work towards establishing a digital governance framework to speed up organization-wide collaboration for progressive product improvement.

 

Co-Creating Fashionable Options with Disruptive Applied sciences

Karippur states that the rising consciousness of digital transformation throughout Asia is placing a highlight on how organizations consider innovation, management, and associated practices. The tempo of transformation has accelerated, particularly on this COVID-19 pandemic period. However digital transformation requires a reimagining of enterprise practices to derive most worth from digital applied sciences reminiscent of synthetic intelligence, the Web of issues (IoT), massive information, and cybersecurity. It’s about envisioning how organizations carry collectively information, individuals, and processes to supply related and customized providers to their prospects and maintain a aggressive benefit within the digital world. He provides that leaders’ potential to co-create and drive a imaginative and prescient that’s clear and significant for the group’s digital transformation is essential. Leaders have to have the flexibility to precisely sense environmental change together with potential shifts in expertise, competitors, and prospects. Leaders right this moment must be pure collaborators who proactively join and collaborate with companions and key stakeholders for progressive digital enterprise concepts and alternatives.

 

Simplifying Management Effortlessly

Karippur opines that essential attributes of tech executives should embody digital expertise literacy, the flexibility to cope with ambiguity and complexity, essential considering and problem-solving expertise, enterprise area expertise, management, and interpersonal expertise, and a world mindset.

 

Suggestions for Budding Tech Leaders

The business resides within the digital age stuffed with alternatives for younger professionals for driving enterprise transformation by means of the progressive use of digital applied sciences throughout all enterprise domains.  Based on Karippur, a few of the challenges that companies face right this moment embody organizational silos, legacy processes, and cultural resistance to alter. There’s a lack of digital management whereas many enterprises are confused about digital transformation with a restricted understanding of what to do subsequent, who ought to lead it, and how one can measure success. Being an opportunist, Karippur sees it as a possibility. He states, “Your digital expertise literacy, potential to speak, empathize, clear up issues, assume critically and creatively, and affect individuals will show you how to stay agile and reply positively to challenges and bounce again from adversity.” He additionally advocates all rising tech leaders to contribute again to the business and society by doing extra volunteering and being a part of skilled improvement communities.

 

Assembly Enterprise Necessities with Artistic Programs

Digital acumen is important for enterprise leaders in right this moment’s technology-driven, hyper-competitive world. At SP Jain Faculty of World Administration, the crew develops graduates to behave as catalysts, rushing up digital transformation and disrupting conventional considering and enterprise fashions, says Karippur. The programs are aligned to this goal and allow college students to ask the proper questions to border the problems, synthesize info to create enterprise worth, innovate utilizing design considering, and leverage rising applied sciences and platforms. With the accelerated funding in digital transformation, Worldwide Information Company (2020) predicts over 65% of Asia Pacific Gross Home Product (GDP) will probably be digitalized and spending is prone to attain US$1.2 trillion between 2020 and 2023.

He provides that business leaders, governments, and academia have to work intently collectively to make sure that their economies and organizations are well-positioned to profit from digital transformation. Enterprise faculties ought to additional speed up collaborations with business to align the curriculum, particularly within the areas reminiscent of digital management, buyer expertise design, and enterprise mannequin innovation, and undertake extra internships and digital transformation initiatives.