Wipro Technologies, the IT services business of Wipro Limited announced that Laxman Badiga, Chief Information Officer (CIO) has been featured in the first-ever Global CIO 50 List instituted by InformationWeek, the business technology market’s multimedia brand. Badiga is among the ten CIOs from leading Indian organizations, spanning diverse industry verticals, to have made it to the Global CIO 50 List.
Badiga is responsible for driving key initiatives at Wipro, such as Green IT and using IT to effectively provide remote working and collaboration, via the ‘Wipro Extended Work Environment’. This has led to improved resource utilization, enabled virtual training, reduced travel spend, and increased efficiency in the recruitment process.
The CIOs were selected based on their strategic contributions to their companies, as well as for their market leadership, innovative IT-enabled business practices and results, and by their overall achievement and impact.
India, with 10 CIOs on the list, is second only to the US, and ahead of Europe, China, Brazil, Japan and Korea, in terms of representation. The CIOs from India join 40 others from across the globe on this prestigious list that features the world’s foremost IT leaders impacting the business world, chosen from leading corporations all over the globe.
“The CIOs named in the InformationWeek Global CIO 50 reflect three major themes we found in our recent research study,” says Bob Evans, Global CIO senior vice president. “CIOs are focusing on working to spend less money on internal IT issues and more on external, customer-facing projects. They are also developing and refining new ways to capture and communicate the business value of IT and finally, they are shifting the internal outlooks of worldwide IT organizations to reflect global perspectives.”
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