Eminent CIO's Of India 2026

Strengthening the Digital Backbone for Business Performance

 

Ranganathan Vaidyanathan Iyer
Gr. CIO & Sr. EVP - JBM Group

 

The digital strategy is focused on building resilient, scalable capabilities that accelerate business outcomes. Through disciplined investment governance and a modern operating model, JBM is strengthening its core platforms, improving accountability, and enabling faster, reliable execution across the enterprise.

 

Disciplined Digital Investment for Enterprise Resilience
We treat technology investments as long-term capability building—not one-time spend. We maximize value and resilience through disciplined investment governance and by engineering reliability into the platforms and integrations that keep our plants running and our compliance strong.

Value governance: Every initiative has an executive sponsor, measurable success criteria, and a named benefit owner. Benefits are reviewed after go-live (e.g., at 90 and 180 days) to reinforce outcomes and enable course correction.

Protect the digital backbone: We modernize and safeguard ERP–MES–PLM and high-volume interfaces to reduce operational risk.

Standardization and reuse: Shared integration patterns, master data governance, and reusable components reduce cost and speed delivery across business lines.

Reliability engineering: Monitoring, alerting, and runbooks for mission-critical systems, with defined recovery targets (RTO/RPO) for plant and finance operations.

 

Redesigning IT Governance to Accelerate Business Outcomes
We are reimagining IT governance to move faster and deliver outcomes that matter. By shifting from project delivery to product and platform ownership, we create clear accountability, sharper prioritization, and sustained value—so every digital investment strengthens performance across businesses.

Operating model: Business-aligned IT–Business councils that prioritize roadmaps for ERP, MES, PLM, supplier connectivity, employee services, and Industry 4.0 initiatives.

Portfolio governance: A single demand intake with clear categorization, stage gates, and quarterly reprioritization based on value, compliance, and delivery capacity.

Architecture & standards: Reference architectures for integrations which are in-ward looking, outward looking, IoT / Industry 4.0 which ensures reducing point solutions and improving reuse.

Delivery governance: Standard templates and controls for requirements, solution design, testing, cutover, and post go‑live support—applied consistently across plants and business units.