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‘A CIO has to be much closer to his core business’
 Infrastructure Agenda 2008 got off to a rousing start with the first leg held in the garden city of Bangalore on 17th January, 2008, followed by the Nation’s Capital New Delhi on 23rd January with the final leg held in Mumbai on 25th January 2008. The first edition of Infrastructure Survey 2008, published in the December 2008 issue saw responses from 100 IT heads from all over the country.
The star attraction of each leg was the hour long panel discussion with each panel made up of top IT honchos of the respective cities, and moderated by Group Editor.
The panel themes for each city more or less centered on identifying new technologies and managing technology spending and aligning it with business priorities. The consensus was that it is very important for the companies to understand the actual business benefit of technology, analyze where they can save money, and identify how it can give them an edge over their competitors and the technology is helping them to attain such goals. 
While CIOs drive technology initiatives, their ultimate goal is to leverage that technology to add value to the business. But as a Bangalore panelist pointed out “A CIO has to be much closer to his core business than technology per se."
A Delhi panelist pointed out that since his business is catering to different kind of people from what usually other enterprises are targeting - farmers and villagers – he has factor in the fact they may hardly know technology. “For us, technology should only be a factor that can deliver the services to the right set of audience," he opined.
According to a Mumbai panelist, while companies have different kinds of challenges, CIOs should maintain simple outlook towards any technology. Hey shouldn’t adopt new technology because it is new. “We are very careful about its success and redundancy. We usually take time by analyzing the maturity of the technology," he concluded.
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