How Aditya Birla Renewables used a top-down, dashboards-first bet on Wrench to digitise project delivery — and put live project KPIs in front of the Chairman's office.
Hear it firsthand from the CIO who led the rollout — why digitising came before scaling, and the counter-intuitive bet that got leadership on board fast.
Founded in 2011 doing captive solar projects for sister companies. In 2024–25 the Chairman's and strategy offices set out to scale it into a real business — and the leadership drew one clear line.
The EDMS existed — but only for document workflows and approvals, not project control. There was no end-to-end project management system, and barely any team to build one.
“We evaluated multiple tools — and spoke to several Wrench customers — then decided: Wrench is the platform.” Prem Kiran Udayavarma · CIO
Clear from day one that change management would make or break it, IT pushed the business to get its house in order first.
The plan was construction + scheduling first. A few weeks in, Manesh flipped it: start with the dashboards, even before the transaction systems and workflows existed.
