Digital transformation may seem like an easy task to undertake on paper, but most of the time, it isn’t. In this Discover Dialogues podcast, Sagar Aluri narrates the journey of his career, from his early days working at a state-owned energy company to leading multi-million-dollar SAP, analytics, and enterprise modernization projects. He shares valuable insights on trust and organizational survival that he gained on the ground and that now drive how he advises enterprises on investing in digital transformation.
Key Themes Covered
- How leadership buy-in and clearly articulated goals dictate whether the transformation process gets off the ground or comes to a halt
- “Phase zero”: doing your homework on payback period and ROI before allocating any transformation budget
- Calculating ROI by focusing on concrete and intangible results, not just projections
- Basics, benchmarks, and breakthrough: a three-step formula for where to spend transformation budget
- Modernization vs. integration: aligning the process with real organizational pains, rather than offering a one-size-fits-all solution
- The hidden price tag of being out of date: when the cost of being stuck in the past spills over to affect more than just the business
- Organizational Change Management (OCM): aligning people, processes, and technology to drive adoption and make transformation stick
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Host and Speaker
Sagar Aluri
Sagar Aluri is a recognized thought leader on strategy and operations and is an expert on digital business transformation in a fast‑changing world. He is leading the Global Digital Business Transformation services at YASH Technologies and works with a range of global and domestic companies across sectors, helping them transform their businesses with a holistic focus on People, Process and Technology. Having played various roles including the “C” Level – both as a customer as well as in Consulting, he has seen various facets of running and transforming organizations, bottom‑up as well as top‑down.
Sagar played a key role in National Mining Policy formulation and Coal Sector Reforms adopted by Sri TL Shankar committee of Government of India while working with a large Public Sector. He was actively involved in the successful organizational turnaround employing more than One Lakh personnel.
He has to his credit a couple of publications both nationally and internationally and is an India Region Council Member – NASSCOM.