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Among other topics, Joe discusses the following issues with Metis Strategy:

A description of HudBay Minerals’ metals mining business and the impactful role technology plays in enabling the company’s push for growth
His priorities for the near term around perfecting their newly rolled out ERP, leveraging geological survey and discovery technology, as well as improving wireless communication for their many disparate operations
How, as a CIO in a new industry, Joe utilized a company-wide survey to understand the true perception of IT across the organization
The inclusive governance model that HudBay uses to ensure that all the right players are included in decision making
HudBay’s organizational structure that has a central CIO function, central architecture, and shared services for IT infrastructure
Eye on the trends: Technology that supports all mining operations, especially the geophysical exploration technology, growing ease and power of improved communications, and the further out potential for robotics to reduce costs amid rising fuel and labor costs

Joe AbiDaoud’s Biography

Joe is the CIO at Toronto-based metals mining company HudBay Minerals. In that capacity, Joe supports more than 1,400 employees, with the majority of them in Flin Flon, a long time mining community in northern Manitoba where copper and zinc ore are extracted from a mine a mile underground.

Prior to his time at HudBay, Joe was the Head of IT at Direct Energy Home & Business Services. His past experience also includes time as a Senior Consultant at Keane Canada, as a Senior Analyst at AT&T Canada, and as an Analyst at ScotiaBank.

In 2011 Joe received a Computer World Premiere Top 100 Leadership award. In 2009 he was named a Top 25 CTO by CW Magazine and was recognized by the magazine for a Top 100 IT Project.

Joe has an Engineering diploma from St. Mary’s University and a Technology diploma from The Information Technology Institute.

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Among other topics, Nick discusses the following issues with Metis Strategy:

His priorities around integrating the business suite of applications across the company
The four layers of K. Hovnanian’s business suite: master data, best of breed business apps, system integration, and business intelligence
The importance of framing business colleagues not as “customers”, but rather as partners, in order to stress that IT be seen as peers
K. Hovnanian’s use of technology to enhance the customer experience through the implementation of a buyer’s portal and electronic payment process
The company’s approach to dynamically solicit customer feedback
His team’s approach to talent management, focusing on: performance objectives, conducting a skill inventory, standardizing job descriptions, providing comprehensive training classes, and encouraging job rotations and career development
Eye on the trends: mobile computing enabling the workforce on the go, enabling enterprise systems and BI for the smart phone, and taking advantage of competition in the cloud computing market to reap cost savings

Nick Colisto’s Biography

Nicholas Colisto to the broadcast, Nick is the Vice President and Chief Information Officer of Hovnanian Enterprises, Inc., a large residential homebuilder.

Prior to joining Hovnanian, he held key information technology leadership positions at large organizations including Pepsi-Cola, Priceline.com, Hyperion Solutions, Boehringer-Ingelheim, and Bayer Corporation (formerly Sterling Winthrop).

Nick is active in many CIO networks and educational forums. He is also the recipient of many industry awards, including the 2010 CIO 100 by IDG’s CIO Magazine, the 2009 InfoWorld 100, and the 2009 and 2010 InformationWeek 500.

Nick has a B.B.A in management information systems and a M.S. in information systems from Pace University.

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