Podcasts Archive - Page 48 of 96

487: Ryder senior vice president and chief information officer Rajeev Ravindran discusses

An overview of Ryder and Rajeev’s purview as CIO
The IT function’s four strategic goals
The company’s approach to eliminating technical debt
The COVID-19 pandemic, including:
- Why Ryder was prepared for it
- How the company has created a sense of community throughout it
Rajeev’s take on a variety of rising trends, such as AI modeling, robotics, and autonomous vehicles

Among a variety of other topics.

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486: Emmet B. Keeffe III, Operating Partner at Insight Partners and founder of Insight IGNITE, discusses:

The three parts of Insight’s investment thesis
An overview of the company’s digital acceleration program, Insight IGNITE
The challenges of communication between IT and the rest of the business
How Insight Partners can save IT leaders many trips to Silicon Valley by finding tech globally
How the COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated many of the areas the company has invested in
The four types of boards that exist based on the size and maturity of those companies and the assistance each needs from its directors
The increased importance on creativity for humans with more AI and automation
Emmet’s take on IoT, the cloud, automation, 5G, and RPA

Among a variety of other topics.

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485: Ally Chief Information Data and Digital Officer Sathish Muthukrishnan discusses

Sathish’s three-pillared IT strategy, which is focused on driving customer value, creating a compelling financial trajectory for all its shareholders and investors, and executing that through great culture
The company’s transition to a mobile workforce due to the pandemic
Sathish’s experience being onboarded largely in quarantine
The approach Sathish used to create his data strategy
What he has learned from his prior experiences as CIO

Among a variety of other topics.

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484: Lenovo CISO Jason Ruger discusses:

How Jason has navigated working with three variations of the same company
How Lenovo operates as a global firm
The pandemic’s impact on the company
How the fact that Lenovo has a major manufacturing operation in Wuhan, China led to early warnings as to the issues that arose related to COVID-19
How the pandemic has led to a 3x increase in cyber attacks and the methods Jason and his team have undertaken to counteract them
Jason’s CIO and CISO responsibilities and how he segments his thoughts processes related to each

Among a variety of other topics.

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483: NetApp CIO Bill Miller discusses

Bill’s purview as the CIO of NetApp
How the company works with external partners to build capabilities
How the company acts as an internal first user
The Cloud One Platform and The DevOps framework the company has built
How the company works with external partners to build capabilities
Bill’s view on how COVID-19 will impact the world in the long term
The importance of CIOs getting advantages out of data
The biggest threats to CIOs today

Among a variety of other topics.

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482: Index Ventures Partner Shardul Shah discusses

Shardul’s thoughts on how COVID-19 has accelerated a tech-enabled shift to an employee-focused culture rather than customer-focused culture
How a younger workforce deals with unprecedented economic shock
How investment decisions and collaboration have been impacted by virtual communication
How his investment philosophy is tied to empathy and community
The story of the least successful investment he’s ever made

Among a variety of other topics.

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481: Marstercard President of Operations & Technology Ed McLaughlin discusses

How Ed balances innovation with risk mitigation
How security can be used as a strategic weapon
Ed’s thoughts on the current pandemic, including how it will result in a permanent shift in certain behaviors
Why bold pronouncements about the future of work can’t be made just yet.
Ed’s view on blockchain
Mastercard’s lab group, whose job is to investigate new technologies

Among a variety of other topics.

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480: Former Cisco CEO John Chambers discusses:

John’s experience with previous financial crises
The playbook he is running with his 18 startups through the current pandemic.
Why John went into venture capital after his time at Cisco
Why John is partnering with 18 startups, rather than just one
How the current crisis has impacted John’s investment theses.
The playbook John ran when making acquisitions at Cisco
The successes and failures he has experienced with digital transformations
The impact COVID is going to have long-term including how
- COVID has and will continue to accelerate the shift to digital
- Why the top ten companies in each industry will be shuffled, and
- Why we won’t have an environment where everyone works from home

Among a variety of other topics.

This episode was recorded live at the 2020 Metis Strategy Digital Symposium.

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479: Ocean Spray Cranberries Chief Digital and Technology Officer, Jamie Head, discusses:

Jamie’s purview as Chief Digital and Technology Officer
Ocean Spray’s five-year plan to transform from a cranberry business to a health and wellness business
The company’s innovation plan, the digital hub his team is building
The company’s relationship with the farmers who grow the cranberries
How the company approaches external partnerships
Jamie’s interest in the health and wellness space

Among a variety of other topics.

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478: Reid Hoffman is an iconic Silicon Valley entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and author. Perhaps best known as the co-founder and former CEO of LinkedIn, he is currently a partner at the venture capital firm Greylock Partners, where he focuses on early-stage investing. He hosts the podcast, Masters of Scale. In this interview, we discuss:

The current pandemic and the economic crisis
How one must lean on one’s ecosystem for insights and support while offering the same back into the ecosystem
How the pandemic has caused previous market failures to move to market readiness
The importance of entrepreneurs co-designing their go-to-market strategy
The precise definition of blitzscaling and its application to large companies

Among a variety of other topics.

This episode was recorded live at the 2020 Metis Strategy Digital Symposium.

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