Building an AI-Powered, Data-driven Organization

Start Date: 19 Sep 2026 | Early Bird Deadline: 20 Aug 2026 | Register By: 01 Sep 2026

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Program Overview

Most organizations recognize the transformative potential of AI, Generative AI, and Advanced Analytics, yet struggle to convert technology investments into tangible business value – a challenge repeatedly highlighted by Gartner. Recent CIO and AI adoption insights indicate that 70–80% of AI and advanced analytics initiatives fail to deliver measurable outcomes, primarily due to weak strategic grounding, poor prioritization, and insufficient alignment with core business objectives.

This program equips senior leaders with a practical, value-centric framework to transform their organizations into truly data-driven enterprises. Participants learn how to identify, prioritize, and operationalize AI and analytics initiatives that are directly aligned with critical business performance drivers ensuring measurable impact on revenue growth, cost optimization, operational efficiency, and customer value.

The program emphasizes moving beyond experimentation to disciplined execution. Participants emerge with a clear, actionable roadmap that converts AI and analytics investments from isolated pilots into consistent, scalable value generators, enabling organizations to reduce risk, accelerate value realization, and maximize returns from their data and AI portfolios.

Faculty

With over three decades of Leadership experience in Technology and business transformation consulting, Krishna Pera has worked across industry verticals. In his last assignment, he was the Head of Global Business Services for a Singapore-listed $35bn Food & Agri Supply chain company, and prior to that, he was the Chief Operating Officer of a Murugappa Group-owned KPO specializing in digital content solutions for global R&D, and information-media companies. During his career, he has set up and scaled several businesses from zero base to over 3000 people & 100 Mn+, and successfully turned around one mid-sized services company, after operationally merging acquired entities in the USA. Prior to that Krishna was heading Pharma & Life Science at Satyam.

Krishna is a published author & considered an expert in areas such as Data-driven Organization, GCCs / Shared Services, Global Supply chain Management, Technology-enabled Business-Transformation, etc., and is a frequent invitee to conferences on related subjects. Krishna was an invitee speaker at “Economic-Times – Global Business Summit 2023, New Delhi, organized by BCG.”

Krishna Pera has pioneering experience in setting up and scaling Shared Services Centers, Captives, and ODCs for Fortune 500 companies – specifically for Pharma, Agri-Food, Biotech companies, including globally the first ever ODC in an FDA compliant (validated) environment for a global top-3 pharma company. Decades of experience managing implementations and global rollouts of various enterprise technologies (incl. SAP, i2, Middleware, CRM, PLM, etc.) has provided him with a unique understanding of strategic information lifecycle management in transnational firms, as well as every conceivable issue faced by managers in making informed decisions.

Krishna’s book, “Big Data for Big Decisions: Building a Data-driven Organization, published by Taylor & Francis, USA” is a top-seller in the field of enterprise analytics strategy. Krishna teaches a course titled “Building a Data-driven Organization” at leading Business Schools.

Krishna has an in-depth understanding of ‘data’, both structured and unstructured, and substantial experience in building search-retrieval & repurposing solutions. Currently, he runs a consulting entity focused on enabling companies on their journey to become data-driven organizations. His articles on data-driven organization published in Data Science Central are very popular with thousands of views and are frequently quoted by noted Data Science Experts and Global consulting companies. Krishna considers working towards a ‘scalable process-driven success’ as against ‘people-dependent success’ as the biggest challenge in most organizations.

Krishna is a strong believer in leveraging technology for business transformation. He mentors several startups developing innovative products and solutions and has been part of the jury at the HYSEA Annual Startup Awards & extensively written on the subject.

Krishna Pera has a PGDM from IIM, Bangalore (Class of 1992, and Graduate Degrees in Law, and Engineering, besides a Diploma in Supply-chain Management.

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/krishnapera/