Aruna Dayanatha

My transition from IT to HR gave me a better understanding of the antagonism that exists between IT professionals and users. Even to recognize the techniques used by IT professionals to manipulate the user, as well as the disadvantages that the user faces.

As I considered this, it came to me that the user's digital leadership should be stronger or wider than the IT professional's view of the same.

I am an MBA-educated IT professional. I'm working on my PhD, which is likewise in the field of IT leadership. I began my career as a programmer and worked my way up to become an IT manager. Throughout my career, I've worked on system design and development, infrastructure management, and IT strategy creation.

I've taken over as the project manager for ERP implementations in Sri Lanka, Hong Kong, and China.

BCS, the Chartered Institute for IT, has granted me a charter (UK). I serve as a judge for the National ICT Awards of Sri Lanka on a yearly basis as a Chartered member. There, we evaluate the quality of IT systems that have been developed.

On the request of a company where I worked, I became an HR professional. They asked me to be in charge of their strategic HR. The first task was to minimize employee absenteeism from 13.5 percent to 6%.

I've led HR teams in the hospitality, manufacturing, and finance industries. My most recent HR project was to fine-tune a bank's HR system in order to support its strategy of expanding from 28 billion dollars to 50 billion dollars.

As a council member of the Institute of Personnel Management of Sri Lanka, I have been involved in national HR. Editor, Chairman of the Technology Committee, Deputy Chairman of the Research and Publication Committee, and Assistant Secretary are among the positions I've held.

I was given the honor of chairing Sri Lanka's National Human Resources Conference, which is South Asia's largest. Through great conception, my committee and I were able to construct the conference. The number of participants increased from 700 to 1200 as a result of the increase. This is the biggest number of people that have ever participated, and the record is still standing.

My conceptualization abilities grew as a result of my PhD studies. Learning about knowledge production inspired me to come up with fresh business solutions.

I've been effective in developing new concepts such as paperless business, design thinking framework, and impact assessment of information systems.

They entrusted me with the post of convener of the Operations Improvement Committee (OIC) at one of the manufacturing businesses where I worked . I was the ISO QMS Management Representative.

This project gave me a lot of experience with operations management and general management.

We were fine-tuning organizational structure and processes in order to increase productivity.