Leadership paper / 01
Modernisation begins with a business capability
- Abstract
- An application replacement is easier to describe than the business change it is meant to enable.
Chief Information Officer India · Global perspective
Connecting technology investment to enterprise outcomes.
Experience in figures
- Applications retired
- 62%
- Simplified estate in three years
- Core platform availability
- 99.98%
- Through a full modernisation
- Run-cost released
- ₹740 Cr
- Reinvested in digital products
- Countries on one ERP
- 14
- From nine legacy systems
Mandate
Fields of practice.
- 01
Digital transformation
- 02
Cyber resilience
- 03
Enterprise architecture
- 04
Data governance
The journal
Further reading.
- 02
Resilience is a cross-functional rehearsal
A recovery plan is incomplete if the people who must make decisions have never worked through it together.
- 03
Technology adoption has an operating owner
A system can be available without becoming the organisation's way of working.
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The record behind the perspective.
In the boardroom
- Westmoor Housing FinanceIndependent Director · 2022 — Present
- The Digital Public Goods CouncilAdvisory Board Member · 2020 — Present
Recognition
- CIO 100The Technology Leaders Review · 2024
- Digital Transformation of the YearThe Enterprise Technology Awards · 2022
In conversation
- “Retiring 600 applications without breaking the business”The Technology Leaders Review · 2025
- “What boards should ask about cyber resilience”The Boardroom Review · 2024
- “Episode 98 — Technology debt is a strategy decision”The Leadership Ledger podcast · 2023
Made technology a boardroom conversation about outcomes, not acronyms.
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