Xpedeon CEO Featured in Hindustan Times with Insights on Digital Transformation

Xpedeon's CEO, Janak Vakharia, recently penned a thought piece for the Hindustan Times, tackling the urgent demand for digital evolution in India's construction and infrastructure domain. The piece explores how the sector, while managing bold public infrastructure targets and substantial private funding streams, still runs on legacy methods that restrict growth and performance.

The Digital Disconnect on Construction Sites

Step onto a large infrastructure site in India now and witness a sharp divide: modern equipment runs beside workflows still handled through Excel files. Janak notes that this dependence on fragmented tools, manual oversight and document-heavy operations has grown untenable for a field built on scope, speed and reliability. The sector needs more than mere technology uptake; it calls for a full digital nerve centre and enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems provide that base.

Breaking Down Operational Silos

Construction and infrastructure ventures carry natural intricacy through their staged structure, vast vendor networks and broad geographic reach. Without a shared digital spine, teams work in bubbles, creating cost spikes, approval lags and gaps in tracking. Janak stresses that the absence of live data and cross-unit integration breeds rifts between site work, financial control and firm-wide strategy, a trend seen across distinct regions.

The Competitive Edge of Smart Building

Janak forecasts that in five years, India's most competitive infrastructure firms will not just be those who build quickest, they will be the ones who build wisest. These groups will run on platforms that merge cost, time, compliance and data into fluid streams. ERP will move from being an IT spend to becoming a strategic edge that marks industry frontrunners.

A Cultural Shift in Progress

The drive toward ERP uptake signals a wider cultural change within the infrastructure domain. Construction firms have long shown restraint in welcoming fresh technologies, partly due to scattered industry models and the challenge of aligning diverse contractors and partners. Yet, global infrastructure markets prove that prompt digital uptake links closely with performance gains and risk cuts. In zones across Europe and West Asia, ERP-linked platforms now support predictive upkeep, carbon monitoring and AI-powered scheduling, methods that not only trim delays but also match projects with global sustainability norms, a trait more and more tied to funding and cross-border teamwork.