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ANSR Appoints Kirk Ball as Group Chief Information Officer

May 2, 2024 by Sujata Muguda 0 Comments #ANSR, #CIO, #GCC, #Kirk, #Kirk Ball, #Kirk Ball as Group, #Kirk Ball as Group Chief Information Officer, #Lalit Ahuja

India, 2nd May: ANSR, the global leader in enabling companies to build, manage, and scale global teams, announced the appointment of Kirk Ball as its new Group Chief Information Officer (CIO). With over three decades of experience in technology leadership and innovation, Kirk brings a wealth of expertise to his new role.

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Kirk joins ANSR from Giant Eagle where he was the CIO. Kirk has also served in technology leadership positions with companies like Kroger and Christ Hospital Health Network. Kirk has consistently delivered innovative and sustainable outcomes amidst volatile economic market cycles and digital transformations.

“The role of the CIO is undergoing a profound change in today’s digital era. The modern CIO is now a strategic architect of digital value, driving innovation and shaping the future of business,” said Lalit Ahuja, Founder & CEO of ANSR. “We are delighted to welcome Kirk to our leadership team. With his wealth of experience in crafting and executing GCC-enabled global technology teams, Kirk will play a key role in supporting our clients in developing the most efficient strategies for leveraging GCCs as drivers for enhanced value, change, and transformation throughout their organizations. Kirk will also provide coaching and mentorship to GCC leaders, ensuring alignment with organizational goals in support of the evolving CIO agenda”, he added.

Kirk will serve as a trusted advisor and partner to our customers, guiding them in determining functions that are best suited for the GCC and providing insights on their transformation blueprint. He will also serve as counsel to CIOs and CXOs on establishing new competency pods within their GCCs, offering insights into best practices and key performance indicators (KPIs) to monitor. Kirk will play a pivotal role in the company’s evolution into a GCC SuperApp, providing modular and adaptable solutions for companies to establish GCCs.

“I am thrilled to join the talented team at ANSR and embark on this exciting journey,” said Kirk. “I look forward to leveraging my experience to contribute to ANSR’s growth and success and to drive a positive change for broader the industry. I’m excited to join ANSR at a hypergrowth stage where we are setting up a new GCC almost every 2-3 weeks, which presents a tremendous opportunity for innovation and expansion.”

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ANSR collaborates with IBM to establish and operate Centers of Excellence

Dec 1, 2020 by Neel Achary 0 Comments #ANSR, #ANSR Consulting Inc., #Founder & CEO, #IBM, #Lalit Ahuja

Bangalore: IBM (NYSE: IBM) and ANSR Consulting Inc., the global market leader in designing, establishing and operating Global Capability Centres (GCCs), today announced a strategic collaboration to set up and manage Centers of Excellence (CoEs) in areas including cloud, analytics, artificial intelligence (AI) and automation for Global Capability Center (GCC) clients across the globe.

With more than 40% share of the global GCC market and an immense talent pool, India is seen as a hotbed for enterprise transformation and innovation through GCCs – a trend that is becoming even more important as clients look to accelerate digital transformation, rebalance project priorities and optimize costs in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

As part of this collaboration, ANSR will combine its proprietary GCC Playbook, GCC Consulting services expertise as well as its capability to design, build and operate GCCs with the deep industry and IT Consulting competencies of IBM Services. The partnership will also enable GCC clients to use the IBM Garage methodology – IBM’s unique approach for putting innovation at the heart of an enterprise along with cloud support and continuous delivery through co-creation, co-operation and co-execution at speed and scale. The IBM Garage methodology can help clients accelerate their migration to hybrid multi-cloud and accelerates application modernization to achieve their business goals.

This collaboration will be executed through a joint go-to market initiative for existing ANSR and IBM customers as well as enterprises that are seeking to set up GCCs in support of advancing the enterprise growth and transformation agenda.

While ANSR will set up and run GCCs using its unique ‘as a service model’, IBM will enable the clients’ transformation agenda by bringing in extensive industry knowledge and deep technology expertise globally.

“We are excited to partner with IBM and aim to provide our clients the best-of-breed combination of ANSR & IBM’s offerings and services. Clients will now be able to co-innovate and co-execute along with ANSR & IBM through this collaborative model. This will definitely enable an accelerated and hassle-free journey for our clients’ GCCs to become true transformation centers and an extension of the enterprise,” said Lalit Ahuja, Founder & CEO, ANSR.

“GCCs have now come a long way to become a true extension of the global enterprise. The COVID-19 pandemic has made the world truly borderless. It is imperative that the right partnerships across the GCC ecosystem are leveraged towards delivering value to the enterprise in relevant markets. With this collaboration, businesses will be able to take advantage of the vast universe of IBM’s intellectual property as well as research in specific industries along with ANSR’s GCC capabilities in a seamless manner. The CoEs will give clients access to world-class talent and solutions in a contactless, Dynamic Delivery model along with best of the breed Hybrid Multi-Cloud, Cognitive & AI capabilities,” reiterates Santosh Kulkarni, Global Leader – Global Capabilities Centers, IBM.