Vivek Kale has more than two decades of professional IT experience during which he has worked with consulting organizations like TCS, Tata Unisys (now merged with TCS), i-flex solutions (now merged with Oracle Corp.), Syntel US and a couple of startup businesses. He has handled and consulted on various aspects of enterprise-wide information modeling, enterprise architectures, business process re-design, and e-business architectures.
He also has industrial experience having worked as Group CIO of Essar Group (now ArcelorMittal Nippon Steel (AM/NS India) the steel/oil & gas major of India, as well as Raymond Ltd., the textile & apparel major of India. He is a seasoned practitioner in enhancing business agility through digital transformation of business models, enterprise architecture and business processes, enabling the Process-Oriented Enterprise, and enhancing IT-enabled enterprise intelligence (EQ).
He is the author of books on cloud and big data computing. He is author of Inverting the Paradox of Excellence: How Companies Use Variations for Business Excellence and How Enterprise Variations Are Enabled by SAP, Agile Network Businesses and Digital Transformation of Enterprise Architecture.