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Chief Information Officer · India · Global perspective

September 2026 edition

Ishani Srinivasan

Connecting technology investment to enterprise outcomes.

Leading article

Connecting technology investment to enterprise outcomes.

By Ishani Srinivasan · Chief Information Officer

I connect enterprise technology decisions with the way an organisation serves customers, manages risk and gets work done. My experience spans systems modernisation, information governance and the development of technology operating models that business leaders can understand and support.

I see the CIO's role as a bridge between long-lived architecture and immediate business needs. Progress requires a clear view of dependencies, a realistic transition path and a willingness to make difficult choices about the legacy estate. It also requires technology teams that listen well and business teams that share ownership of the change.

My leadership centres on trust, practical sequencing and transparency. I want the organisation to know what its technology enables, what it depends on and where resilience needs attention.

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From the desk of Ishani

Enterprise technology must support change while keeping essential work dependable. I begin with business capabilities, make dependencies visible and agree ownership of the transition with operating leaders. Resilience and adoption belong in the investment case from the start.

— Ishani Srinivasan

In this edition

Dispatches from practice

Case 01

Enterprise modernisation

A fragmented application estate was making business change harder to coordinate. I established an enterprise roadmap grounded in business capabilities, mapped critical dependencies and agreed a staged transition with the operating teams. The work gave sponsors a clear view of what each phase enabled and prevented local projects from creating new enterprise constraints.

Case 02

Resilience programme

Resilience had been discussed as a technical topic detached from business continuity. We mapped critical services to their technology dependencies, clarified recovery responsibilities and rehearsed decision-making across teams. The programme made ownership visible and turned resilience into an operating conversation involving the people who would make decisions during disruption.

Case 03

Data transformation

Different business units used the same terms for different measures. I convened business owners and technology leaders to establish shared definitions, ownership and practical controls around important data. We began with specific decisions that needed better information, allowing the value of governance to be demonstrated through everyday use.

The full record of leadership work →

Appointments

Westmoor Housing FinanceIndependent Director · 2022 — Present

The Digital Public Goods CouncilAdvisory Board Member · 2020 — Present

Honours

CIO 100The Technology Leaders Review · 2024

Digital Transformation of the YearThe Enterprise Technology Awards · 2022

As reported in

The Technology Leaders Review“Retiring 600 applications without breaking the business” · 2025

The Boardroom Review“What boards should ask about cyber resilience” · 2024

The Leadership Ledger podcast“Episode 98 — Technology debt is a strategy decision” · 2023

The record

Chief Information OfficerAldermoor Group · 2020 — Present

Vice President, Enterprise TechnologyFairhaven Holdings · 2016 — 2020

Head of Enterprise ArchitectureMeridian Consolidated · 2011 — 2016

Programme Director, Core SystemsWestmoor Housing Finance · 2006 — 2011

Letters to the editor

“Made technology a boardroom conversation about outcomes, not acronyms.”
Priya Raman, Chair, Risk Committee, Westmoor Housing Finance
“Modernised the core while the business kept running at full speed. A rare combination of courage and care.”
Marcus Hale, Chief Executive, Meridian Consolidated

An invitation

Correspondence welcome.

Ishani welcomes conversations with boards, chairs, search advisers and editors.

Open to
  • Board appointments
  • Advisory roles
  • Speaking invitations
Write to Ishani

office@ishanisrinivasan.example