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Publication of Harvard Business School

Enabling Business Strategy with IT at the World Bank

23rd Aug 2018


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Mr. Mohamed V. Muhsin is a former Vice President and Chief Information Officer (CIO) at the World Bank where he was responsible for aligning information technology with the organization’s business strategy. Mr. Muhsin successfully led the implementation of major reforms in enterprise-wide business & information systems, global telecommunications and video conferencing. The work he accomplished is featured in the Harvard Business School Case Study, Enabling Business Strategy with IT at the World Bank.

Mr. Muhsin has also worked in senior positions in the private sector in Sri Lanka. He served for several years as the Group Financial Director of Zambia’s Industrial and Mining conglomerate (ZIMCO) and as advisor on state enterprise reform in the office of the then President of Zambia, Dr. Kenneth Kaunda.

Mr. Muhsin’s experience includes working as a Strategic Management Consultant and Director on international corporate and Foundation Boards. He is also the Chairman of the Islamic Community Center of Potomac in Maryland, USA. He is a freelance columnist and journalist. Mr. Muhsin is a Fellow of The Institute of Chartered Accountants of Sri Lanka.

Enabling Business Strategy with IT at the World Bank

In the spring of 2003 Mohamed Muhsin had prepared for his annual review of IT strategy and performance with Management Committee of the World Bank.

He had constituted his presentation around two key questions: How could IT help the core business serve clients better? How to measure and communicate the value that IT contributed to the business.


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Columns by Muhsin

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Of life after debt; traps and wisdom

Time was when Ceylon had no debt. And the ‘$hylocks’ of that world had little interest in affluent Ceylon to capture pounds of flesh. But times and tides have changed. A...

Of Tweets, Trumpets & Triumphs

The last time I checked, the Twitter Meter showed 650 million tweets had been sent out worldwide within the last 24 hours – some 7000 tweets per second. Now if I was writing...

Of autism, literary brilliance and hidden potential

Last week there was the horrific and incomprehensible tragedy in Portland Oregon, USA. Two Muslim teenage young ladies on a train, one of whom wearing a hijab, were subjected ...

Of anti-supremacist heroes, Ramadan and coexistence

Last week there was the horrific and incomprehensible tragedy in Portland Oregon, USA. Two Muslim teenage young ladies on a train, one of whom wearing a hijab, were subjected ...

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Lighter side of Muhsin

Of waists, hips, coffee and grunts!

Now that all the eating and drinking is over and you’ve made your New Year resolutions, it’s good to read on! Waists and hips Before you any further, do go and get a measuring tape! Then get to work. Try answering the question: what’s your Waist-to-Hip Ratio (WHR)? Let’s begin:  First measure your waist at […]

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03 Jan 2020

Indrajit Coomaraswamy: Classy sportsman, super banker

A Google search,  or even the Guinness Book,  will not yield anyone who has the twin attributes of having captained both his country at Rugby and the Banking Industry as a Central Bank Governor, Fed Chairman or Chancellor of the Exchequer. Except our own Indrajit Coomaraswamy. With a true Shakespearean flavour he was gentle, purposeful […]

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30 Dec 2019

Rt. Royal-Trinity Bradby Specials –1956-1965

His shoulder was dislocated, elbow smashed, nose broken and his Jaw popped out only to be jutted back again. And yet rugby and the Bradby was his life. That was Mike de Alwis the Trinity Scrum half of the 1956 team, who went on to Captain Sri Lanka. If Mike was a  ‘gutty’ player of […]

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14 Jun 2019

When Bradby’s last charges go thundering

A herd of humanity was hurtling down Independence Drive the main street of Lusaka. They were yelling in unison ‘Kavolala, Kavolala’ –“Thief, Thief” in the local dialect. Running ahead at thunderbolt speed to save his life was the subject of the attack.  It was the Bradby weekend in 1979, forty years ago. As  Bradby fever […]

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10 Jun 2019

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