Women in IT

Chandana Gupta, Associate Director of Consumer Sales, Acer India

  1. What is your core strength as a leader?

My core strength lies in my optimistic attitude. I have always focused on opportunities rather than obstacles. I think that a solution-based approach, helps you get the most favourable result and also enables creativity and innovative thinking. Another key quality that I believe one should have is “Persistence”. There will be failures along the way and it’s very important to learn how to deal with these failures. Also, I strongly follow work life balance philosophy and emphasize people to follow it too, because balance plays a very important role in professional success.

  1. What kind of major decisions have you taken that have changed the future of the organization?

My Biggest achievement has been to build Robust Infrastructure for our products in the Market which is “Channel”, who are the brand ambassador for any IT Company and their products. A strong and scalable distribution model, development of core channel partners who will co-own the market development from a long Term perspective to build mutually beneficial relationship are the few things which comes to my mind.

Building Strategy to reach deep into India upcountry markets in an organised Small Format Exclusive Retail few years back really helped to build strong foundation for growth and subsequent growth in market share.

  1. What are your views on the growth of Indian IT market landscape?

From the past few years, the Indian IT landscape has moved forward in leaps and bounds. Organizations are getting digital through secured cloud solutions. Also, Government Initiatives like ‘Make in India’ and ‘Digital India’ are enabling the enterprises to grow at an unmatched speed. At the same time, the government is also catalysing the consumer and end user by promoting various initiatives like cashless economy.  Adoption of technology across all sectors is enabling businesses to crash the barriers and provide unparalleled opportunities to grow seamless.

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