Insight of My Company and its IT Strategies Carzonrent India Pvt. Ltd. is a complete Car Rental company involve in Car Rental, Radio Taxi, Leaseing, Limo and many others. As our business is completely driven bt IT have all necessary equipment in place i.e call centers, data center, PRI, IVRS, Servers, Firewall.
Views on new technologies as per company vision and business requirement, we will go with both the technologies because it will help us in consolidating our datacenters and maintain HA Mode on hardware and software level.
Resources to Keep Updated with Latest Technologies With the magazines, seminars and conferences and IT social Network ( not social sites), meeting with friends who are in good company at good positions. Also my vendor work for me a s a consultant and always educate me for new technologies.
Team Size Our team has 4 application developers , 3 server admin, 1 security expert, 8 resident engineers
Biggest Pain Point Downtime, performance optimization, asset tracking
Technology to Address Pain Points Who else can help me other than technology, yes it will help me and I am targeting to closed this issues within this year.
Slowdown Impact on IT Innovation As a service industry not for us because we are technology driven organization so nothing happen.
Expenses on IT Systems We spend more than 5 Cr on IT Systems.
IT Budget Upgrading Plan We are trying to cut down the budget every year with the help of innovations.
IT Leader – Manager First or Technologist First Technologist first, other wise he can manager manpower not technology in long run
Relationship Between CIOs and CEOs As per CEO, CIO is the only person who can align the business growth path as per CEO vision with the help of strategic plan / Enforcement of Policies and procedures / analyzing the past records with BI .
Advice/ Suggestion CIO should join a company with atleast 5 years stability plan than only he can strategic plan IT Road Map for a company with vision and surely he will help to grow more than expected. Because if CIO move very frequently then company’s Vision surely hamper.