Arun Gupta

People & Leadership Talent Management & Performance

Yes

Sometimes

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Are you happy in your current role?

Yes

Unsure

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To drive digital innovation, do you attend demos by tech startups / companies?

Disruptive & Emerging Technologies

Never Tried

Tried but discontinued

Trying but needs work

Adopted but impact is unclear

Adopted with measurable impact

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Who does the CIO role in your organization report to?

Team & Organizational Design

Global CIO

CEO

CFO

Board

COO

Other

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What percent of your IT leadership is women?

People & Leadership

5-9

10-14

15-20

20+

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What will your IT team look like in 2024?

Financial Management

Increase headcount

Stay flat

Decrease headcount

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What is the top area of investment for your IT team?

Financial Management

Cloud Migration

Digitalization

Infrastructure

Mobility

Security

Applications

Other

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What are your biggest barriers in achieving your IT goals?

Skills

Funding

C-Suite support

Technology stack

Culture

Other

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What is more important to your IT organization?

Optimize IT Costs

Support digital initiatives

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What is more important to your IT organization?

Run day-to-day IT

Deliver innovation

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Looking for a replacement for Murex Treasury Management solution. Any recommendations?

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Looking for a B2B vendor management platform to enable collaboration with our vendor partners. Any ideas? Ideally the platform should be able to integrate with SAP ERP and publish: 1. Credit/debit notes, expense claims 2. Inventory as on date 3. Open orders 4. Outstanding statement

Arun GuptaBoard Member at Hemas Pharmaceuticals, IT Strategy Consultant in Healthcare and Biotech8 months ago

ServiceNow and Salesforce have some solutions that you could look at. Both do case management and CRM well enough to do what you briefly described.

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Although there are a lot of tools out there from Microsoft Enterprise SSO for Apple devices to 1password the question that immediately comes to mind is the first "why?" in a series of 5 whys. If these are corporate ...read more

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What are your suggestions for tools that integrate Apple devices into the enterprise Single Sign On (SSO)?

Applications & Platforms Infrastructure Security & GRC+1 more

Arun GuptaBoard Member at Hemas Pharmaceuticals, IT Strategy Consultant in Healthcare and Biotecha year ago

Ensure you take exceptional meeting and project notes I found that the more cross functional the project (more diverse and numerous teams) the harder it is to get all participants together interactively even with Teams/Skype/WebEx/Zoom. ...read more

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What are the best practices and tips for effective communication for a 4-5 month cross-functional project?

Management Tools Peer Insights People & Leadership+3 more

Arun GuptaBoard Member at Hemas Pharmaceuticals, IT Strategy Consultant in Healthcare and Biotecha year ago

Applications & Platforms Peer Insights

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Does any one have recommendations on Point of Sale (POS) systems for retail stores - different formats like electronics and furniture? Open to on-premise and cloud, the backend is SAP IS Retail. Multi-lingual capability preferred.

Arun GuptaBoard Member at Hemas Pharmaceuticals, IT Strategy Consultant in Healthcare and Biotecha year ago

The Square POST is very good, not sure if it integrates with SAP. I also heard good things about the Shopify POS.

Operations Management Engineering People & Leadership

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I am conducting a benchmark study for the Pharmaceutical industry, it would be great to get some perspectives from members. What are the top 2 Business and IT priorities respectively, for the next 18 months?

Applications & Platforms Disruptive & Emerging Technologies Peer Insights+5 more

Arun GuptaBoard Member at Hemas Pharmaceuticals, IT Strategy Consultant in Healthcare and Biotech7 months ago

1. GenAI adaption and reduce operational cost.
2. Enhance Cybersecurity

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Has anyone used Planvisage as a Demand Planning tool? What are the pros and cons?

Peer Insights Strategy & Architecture Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)+4 more

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How many archetypes of CIO/CTO do you observe in the market?

Arun GuptaBoard Member at Hemas Pharmaceuticals, IT Strategy Consultant in Healthcare and Biotech3 months ago

A few, the enterprise, back office one: only running the support systems, infrastructure and help desk, the enterprise plus, same as before but also running business shared services (eg finance, procurement, ops), the product ...read more

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I recently discovered that our CMO has initiated a project with a development company for a major customer, which I had previously rejected in my role as CIO. I have several concerns about this project: 1) The budget is low, and the deadlines are unrealistic. 2) The project poses significant risks and could potentially harm the company. 3) We lack the necessary certifications required for this project. 4) There is a high likelihood of uncontrolled cost escalation. While this project might provide immediate financial benefits, especially given our current sales challenges and unmet objectives, I worry that the long-term risks may outweigh these short-term gains. Given these factors, should we proceed with this project or not? I would appreciate any advice or insights on how to handle this situation effectively.

Process Management IT Strategy & Roadmap Peer Insights+1 more

Arun GuptaBoard Member at Hemas Pharmaceuticals, IT Strategy Consultant in Healthcare and Biotech4 months ago

Do you need to accept the project? Why not let the CMO do it as they selected the supplier?

Relationship Management People & Leadership

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How can new executives succeed when replacing a former leader who failed?

Arun GuptaBoard Member at Hemas Pharmaceuticals, IT Strategy Consultant in Healthcare and Biotech7 months ago

First, ask to what extent the executive (CEO?) knows the extent of the presumed "damage" to the environment. Then admit, that you don't yet know the extent of the damage. in the ensuing multiple meetings, "take ...read more

It is a real challenge. The added value is the innovation that should translate into benefits for the way of working and the well-being of employees themselves. Often, it is an 'intangible' advantage that certainly ...read more

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How are you showing IT value other than ROI?

Process Management

Arun GuptaBoard Member at Hemas Pharmaceuticals, IT Strategy Consultant in Healthcare and Biotech7 months ago

Process Management Security & GRC Threat & Vulnerability Management

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What is the best way to do a security assessment to ensure the system or network is secure or properly setup? Would you outsource external consultants or setup internal team?

Arun GuptaBoard Member at Hemas Pharmaceuticals, IT Strategy Consultant in Healthcare and Biotech7 months ago

Before you do an assessment make sure you have defined the framework you want to follow. NIST etc. if your goal is to mature the security organization over time then, definitely get an external assessment. You will need ...read more

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Can you suggest additional benchmarks, studies and statistics regarding the digitalization efforts within the pharmaceutical industry? Additionally, could you recommend any specific reports or studies where I can find more detailed data on this topic outside Gartner? I'm particularly interested ( but not only) in initiatives such as SIMIT digital twin, Paperless systems, Electronic Batch Records (EBR), Augmented Reality (AR), Virtual Reality (VR), and any other innovative digitalization practices being adopted.

Arun GuptaBoard Member at Hemas Pharmaceuticals, IT Strategy Consultant in Healthcare and Biotech8 months ago

Some that I see, not taking vendor names

Electronic Logbooks - R&D & QA
Digital content library - Marketing

Process Management Culture & Values IT Strategy & Roadmap

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How does cultural strategic thinking play a part within an organization when it comes to aligning IT goals with business objectives?

Arun GuptaBoard Member at Hemas Pharmaceuticals, IT Strategy Consultant in Healthcare and Biotech8 months ago

In my mind, you need a culture that deliberately makes sure the connection between Business goals and Technology goals are understood. By that I mean, everyone in IT should be able to tie the activities they perform to helping ...read more

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Looking for a B2B vendor management platform to enable collaboration with our vendor partners. Any ideas? Ideally the platform should be able to integrate with SAP ERP and publish: 1. Credit/debit notes, expense claims 2. Inventory as on date 3. Open orders 4. Outstanding statement

Arun GuptaBoard Member at Hemas Pharmaceuticals, IT Strategy Consultant in Healthcare and Biotech8 months ago

ServiceNow and Salesforce have some solutions that you could look at. Both do case management and CRM well enough to do what you briefly described.

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The most rigorously evaluated (know that as a past judge) and coveted award for me as a CIO was the "CIO 100" from CIO Magazine. Received a total of 6 across 2 companies that I worked with, and then they decided to ...read more

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What “best of” lists, or awards, in tech, do you think are actually meaningful and worth paying attention to? Why so?

Arun GuptaBoard Member at Hemas Pharmaceuticals, IT Strategy Consultant in Healthcare and Biotecha year ago

Relationship Management Mentoring & Coaching

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What are some options for me after retiring as a CIO? How do I start investing now to set up for success later?

Arun GuptaBoard Member at Hemas Pharmaceuticals, IT Strategy Consultant in Healthcare and Biotecha year ago

If you haven't, you should start investing into the aspects of life beyond work (e.g. relationship, volunteering, personal projects) and find other fulfillment outside of work.

This book might be a good read:
The ...read more

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