The Strategic Imperative Agentic AI is emerging as a strategic priority for manufacturers because operational complexity is rising faster than traditional systems can handle. As plants scale, leaders must coordinate production, maintenance, quality, energy, supply chains, and compliance across increasingly interconnected environments. In this context, AI is no longer just a tool for automation or analysis. It is becoming a mechanism for orchestrating decisions across workflow

The Strategic Imperative India’s BFSI sector operates at national scale, powering a USD 4+ trillion economy and processing record digital transaction volumes. Data now sits at the core of onboarding, lending, payments, wealth, and insurance. With the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023, privacy is no longer an operational detail. It formally recognises customers as Data Principals and financial institutions as Data Fiduciaries with explicit accountability. For banks, i

The Strategic Imperative India’s manufacturing sector is entering a defining decade, with ambitions to raise its GDP contribution to 25 percent and unlock a trillion-dollar output opportunity by 2035. Many organisations have initiated AI, IoT, and automation programs, yet only a small proportion have scaled digital into enterprise impact. The challenge is execution maturity. CIOs and IT leaders are now expected to architect intelligence into brownfield environments, align IT

Episode 3 of CXO Strategy Exchange with Mr. Baskar Babu Ramachandran, CEO, Suryoday Small Finance Bank and Mr. Cyrus Daruwala In this edition of CXO Strategy Exchange , Baskar Babu Ramachandran , MD & CEO of Suryoday Small Finance Bank , shares how one of India’s most distinctive financial institutions is redefining inclusion at scale. Founded as a microfinance institution in 2009 and transitioning to a licensed bank in 2017, Suryoday represents a new generation of banks buil

Episode 1 of CXO Strategy Exchange with Mr. Avinash Naik, President & CIO, Bajaj General Insurance and Mr. Cyrus Daruwala What does it actually take to win in insurance when everyone has access to the same technology? In the inaugural episode of CXO Strategy Exchange, Mr. Cyrus Daruwala sits down with Mr. Avinash Naik, CIO, Bajaj General Insurance to unpack the real operating model behind one of the industry’s most quietly aggressive innovators. Inside this episode, Avinash a

Episode 2 of CXO Strategy Exchange with Mr. Mohit Rochlani, CIO, Star Union Dai-ichi Life Insurance Company Ltd. and Mr. Cyrus Daruwala In this episode of CXO Strategy Exchange , we dive into the intersection of business strategy, distribution scale, and digital transformation with Mr. Mohit Rochlani, Chief Information Officer at Star Union Dai-ichi Life Insurance (SUD Life) . A joint venture between Bank of India , Union Bank of India , and Japan’s Dai-ichi Life Holdings , S

Brief overview India’s manufacturing edge will come from genuine IT–OT convergence at enterprise scale. This whitepaper outlines a practical blueprint: a unified data layer across ERP, MES, SCADA, and sensors; an edge–cloud architecture for real-time control with fleet-level analytics; AI at the line to catch defects and predict failures; and zero-trust security throughout the estate. It also details the operating model that sustains this stack : CIO–COO governance, KPI-linke

For most of the last decade, manufacturing technology decisions were optimised for cost, scale, and efficiency. That playbook is no longer sufficient. Global shocks from geopolitical conflicts and trade realignments to cyber risks and supply volatility have pushed manufacturing leaders into a new operating reality where resilience, visibility, and adaptability are as critical as throughput and margins. Boards are no longer asking whether to invest in digital capabilities, but