Stanley Black & Decker CIO Rhonda Gass

January 20, 2021

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Rhonda Gass

CIO of Stanley Black & Decker

Rhonda Gass is the chief information officer of Stanley Black & Decker, a $14 billion manufacturing company operating in 3 segments: tools, an industrial business, and security products. As CIO, Rhonda is responsible for technology strategy, delivery, and technology operations for all of the business technology in the company, as well as digital risk management for all areas of technology. Prior to joining Stanley Black & Decker, Rhonda was the vice president of information technology at Dell.

Episode Overview

523: Stanley Black & Decker CIO Rhonda Gass discusses

Why Rhonda formed an enterprise IT organization to consolidate all of IT across the company
Why Rhonda has aligned IT to the company’s three strategic pillars: financial performance, innovation, and responsibility
The company’s North Star innovation model, which has the data platform positioned at the core and 4 interconnected platforms
Ways in which IT’s standardization and modernization helped prepare the company for the pandemic
The company’s 4 top priorities once the pandemic hit
Rhonda’s path to a public board
Her advice to others wishing to do the same

Among a variety of other topics.

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“"It is very important that you have the strong rapport with the leadership of the company you serve on because you want to make sure that you can make a difference and feel comfortable doing so with those board members and not just be a seat at the table and tick a box. If I think about other advice for me, it was network, value your networks. You never know when the opportunity is going to meet with the occasion.""