Executive
Shailendrra Guptaa
Organizations where I learned the lessons of my life
Professional Accomplishments
– Briefed Board of Directors of $13B in revenue on Information Security Incident & program describing specific initiatives in a language they could understand
– Led development of Business outcome focused development of Global IT strategy & technical Architecture
– Led development of Information Security Strategy that continually manages risk to IP
– CIO for a high-tech firm located in NY. Responsible for all aspects of IT, specially alignment of IT activities with business priorities
– Enabled a $5B start-up bank in Saudi Arabia with the best practice IT Strategy, and Governance
– Worked with SPX Corp., and Re-negotiated six vendor contracts to save a total of some $3M to optimize operating costs
– Implemented strategic planning, governance and portfolio management processes
– Achieved $50M savings by consolidating active projects down to 40% of initial number
– Delivered a 50% increase in corporate profit achieved by reducing IT cost by 30% (eliminating waste and excesses) without impacting the business and critical operation
– Achieved $47M savings annually on $2.2B in MRO purchases across 13 business units
– Implemented a B2B eProcurement solution to achieve this cost reduction
– Enabled an $800M global SAP implementation at 187 plants & offices across 50 countries for Eli Lilly
Talks and Articles
Visualization: Where photography and data analytics come together
– A talk I gave at BI & Analysts Summit in Oct 2022
– BI gurus and Data analysts wanted to get a glimpse of an amalgamation of my passion for photography and professional use of data analytics.
Click here for the presentation and taking points
Recovering a twice failed ERP implemention
– They know they need SAP to continue to stay competitive in the global market place, but they have heard horror stories
– The President even said “I despise IT” just because the SAP implementation was going south even after two rough starts
Click here for the essential guidance
– In the manufacturing world IT should only one focus that is to enable business to stay competitive
– IT is not for the techies, rather a tool that non-techies can leverage mush better
Click here to learn how one global organization achieved it.
– The bad boss happens to everyone, so you have to develop a plan
Click here to read my interview for a Wall Street Journal article