Chief Executive Officer Archives - Page 2 of 9

561: In this interview, Ken Lamneck, President and CEO of Insight, discusses how cyber attacks are becoming more and more sophisticated, and four ways companies can protect themselves from these attacks. He discusses the importance of companies embracing the seriousness of cybersecurity, why cyber has to go from being buried in IT to being part of the fabric of the organization, and how governments are starting to take on a greater role in cybersecurity. Lastly, Ken discusses why he thinks IT is going to explode in the next 10 years, how all companies are becoming IT companies, among a variety of other topics.

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560: In this interview, Hubert Joly, former Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Best Buy, discusses his personal philosophy on the goal of a business and why he viewed Best Buy as being more than just a technology retailer. Hubert goes on to share insight from his book such as how he identified weaknesses in Best Buy’s strategy and transformed the company to focus on collaboration with suppliers, alignment of interests of all stakeholders, and what he calls “human magic”.

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544: Jeff Immelt, the former CEO of GE, spent over 15 years running one of the world’s largest companies. In this interview, Jeff discusses his experience growing up professionally at GE, Jeff’s relationship with his predecessor and legendary CEO, Jack Welch, and Jeff’s story ascending to the CEO role. We discuss why Jeff decided to write the book about his time at GE, two things Jeff would have done differently if he had the chance to do them over again, and the digital push Jeff made as CEO. Lastly, we discuss what Jeff misses most about his time at GE, Jeff’s views on the global economy going forward, Jeff’s advice to younger individuals at the beginning of their careers, among a variety of other topics.

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541: Sunny Gupta, the CEO of Apptio, has driven his company to become a market leader with significant scale. In this interview we discuss the Technology Business Management Council the company created and its strategic priorities, the four areas where technology business management plays a role today, and Sunny’s advice for those low on the transformation curve. We discuss why there is no separation between the business and IT anymore, how Apptio integrates with other platforms to create a central financial technology decision engine, and Apptio’s experience going public and then going private. Lastly, we discuss four acquisitions the company has made in recent times, some of the emerging technologies Sunny has his eye on, and 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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512: Securiti.ai CEO Rehan Jalil discusses

Five problems companies are facing brought on by the explosion of data
Three of the biggest challenges in discovering sensitive data: the diversity of the systems, the massive scale of data, and the attack surface
The most common ways threat actors can breach data
Some of the ways companies can handle data internally to protect themselves from cyber attacks
Individuals’ legal rights to their data