Speed Meets Durability: The Engineering CIO Mindset
InformationWeek, Friday, November 14th, 2025
Trained as an engineer, CEO of L&T Technology Services Amit Chadha discusses the double-edged nature of abstraction in a rapidly shifting business and technology environment: Always test your assumptions.
The CIO mindset is often heavily focused on data and software . But keeping a close eye on other factors that play a key role in IT management, such as physical infrastructure and external economic forces, is crucial to the job as well. While computer science training is key, CIOs also benefit from utilizing the guiding principles of engineering such as redundancy, durability and scalability.