Podcasts Archive - Page 43 of 96

537: Timothy Kasbe, the president of Zoho, discusses why Zoho has decided to stay private and the freedom and long-term outlook the company has as a result, and how Zoho banks everyone’s salaries for three to five years. We cover Zoho Schools of Learning, and why IT needs to move away from being a function that supports the business to being one that drives the business. We discuss why Timothy decided to get a Divinity School degree, why he believes in the need to engage religious communities in science and math, lessons he has learned in cross cultural communication from living all over the world, among a variety of other topics.

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536: Maryfran Johnson, the host of CIO Leadership Live on CIO.com has had a non-traditional pathway to covering chief information officers. In this interview, we discuss why technology leaders should not look to align with the business but instead look to accelerate it and how CIOs are no longer fighting for a seat at the leadership table, but working towards keeping that seat. We also discuss Maryfran’s take on CIO board leadership, including some common factors of CIOs who make it onto boards. She also covers the benefits to companies who have CIOs on their boards, lessons CIOs can take from a board back into their home organization, her advice for CIOs looking to join boards, among a variety of other topics.

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535: S&P Global EVP & Global CIO Swamy Kocherlakota discusses

Some of the foundational elements of the company’s strategic roadmap
How the company is increasing the technology IQ of its employees
The company’s multi-pronged approach to innovation
The venture capital fund inside the company
Steps the company has taken over the past few years that helped prepare it for the pandemic
How the company has been able to serve its customers better during the pandemic

Among a variety of other topics.

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534: National Grid Group Chief Information & Digital Officer Andi Karaboutis discusses

The near- and long-term considerations when hiring new talent
National Grid’s omnichannel approach to training
The importance of being agile and focusing on consumer needs rather than product life cycles
The ways the company has utilized their external partnerships to create better energy solutions

Among a variety of other topics.

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533: GAP chief information officer and head of strategy Sally Gilligan discusses

The modernization journey Gap’s technology team has been on
How Sally leverages her strategy, finance, and supply chain backgrounds in her role
The interplay between the company’s enterprise, digital, and data strategies
Several aspects of the COVID-19 pandemic, such as how it forced agile and innovative thinking, how it accelerated several trends that were on the roadmap, some of the transformations the company made that helped prepare it for the pandemic, and some of the indelible marks of the pandemic that Sally believes will remain once we return to a new normal.
The benefits of having a diversity of talent in technology
The state of the union of women in technology
The importance of having a pipeline and role models for under-represented groups in technology

Among a variety of other topics.

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532: In this interview, we dive into several of the book’s themes, including People and Technology. Cynthia shares insight into how she motivates her team, and how robotic process automation can boost morale by automating repetitive tasks. We also discuss Adobe’s journey to become a cloud-native company, the ways in which enterprise architecture can impact culture, and a variety of other topics.

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531: SYKES chief strategy & marketing officer Ian Barkin discusses

How SYKES leverages technology inside the company
How SYKES uses data to deeply understand the buyer and design the best solutions for them
Some of the ways in which companies are mismanaging customer experience management
Why Ian believes RPA will be a foundation to organizational transformation for years to come
The major differences between RPA and AI/ML
The dangers of using intelligent automation capabilities, such as AI, too soon
Ian’s career path from strategy consulting, to business process outsourcing, to founding Symphony Ventures, to the C-suite of SYKES

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530: Northwestern Mutual CIO Neal Sample discusses

How being a mutual company, as opposed to a public company, allows IT and the broader organization to think with a longer-term perspective in mind and how that impacted the firm’s actions during the pandemic
The difference the company is making in local communities through initiatives such as Outsource to America and Hi, Tech
Why Neal decided to join Northwestern Mutual as CIO after having been promoted out of that role to the COO post at Express Scripts
How the CIO role has evolved to become an immensely influential role
How being a former national champion debater has served him well in business
How COVID and changing consumer expectations have massively accelerated the pace of business change
Why talent mobility is going to have a significant impact going forward

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529: FINRA SVP & CIO Steve Randich dives into several of the book’s themes, including Process, Technology, and Ecosystems. Steve discusses some of the sweeping changes he has made across his career, such as how he has inverted FINRA’s entire IT organization to be platform-oriented. Steve also shares best practices related to cloud computing based on the journeys he has led at NASDAQ and FINRA, his perspective on IT’s role in the business, among a variety of other topics.

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528: Neeva co-founder Sridhar Ramaswamy discusses

Some of the tough questions and interesting business challenges Sridhar faced during his time at Google
The consequences of an all growth at all costs mentality
Sridhar’s take on the Justice Department’s antitrust lawsuit facing Google
Sridhar’s experience at Greylock and why he joined the firm as an investor
The genesis story of Neeva
Why he felt the time was right to leave Google and start Neeva
The importance of having a great co-founder when starting a company
Why a customer first model lends itself much better to monetizing content on the web

Learn more about Neeva at http://neeva.com/

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