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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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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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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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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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In this interview, Intel CIO Archana Deskus discusses,

Archana’s purview as the global CIO of Intel
Archana’s experience coming up to speed in the role
Intel’s response to COVID-19
How COVID-19 will impact the future of work
How her team has been enabling the shift to remote work.
The company’s data-first mindset and their Corporate Data Office
How the company is using artificial intelligence
How the CIO role has evolved in Archana’s 17+ years in the post

Among a variety of other topics.

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In this interview, we discuss

Atish’s career path and his experience as CIO of a technology giant
How the CIO role is more similar to CTO roles that he has held in the past
The three main functions he oversees
His thoughts on the two biggest ways COVID will change the business world
The value an executive with technology expertise can bring to a corporate board

Among a variety of other topics.

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In this interview, we discuss

Scott’s purview as CTO
Tyson’s digital transformation and data strategy
How many companies are shifting from a reporting mindset to a predictive mindset
How COVID-19 has changed the way in which we work
The new normal that will be created by COVID-19
Scott’s advice to CIOs who have ambitions to join a board
Scott’s take on big data

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In this interview, we discuss

Vittorio’s purview as CIO
The three principles that are guiding the company through COVID-19
How COVID-19 has accelerated the company’s technology plans
Vittorio’s first 100 days as CIO
The two-pronged approach to P&G’s digital transformation
The importance of building and maintaining internal expertise
The evolution of the CIO role
Vittorio’s take on deep learning and machine learning

Among a variety of other topics.

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In this interview, we discuss Kevin’s upbringing in rural Virginia and why he felt he had to leave his hometown to pursue opportunity, how people can have successful careers by using sophisticated technological tools without having to move to technology hubs like Silicon Valley, Kevin’s thoughts on improving technology knowledge and expertise, the importance of teaching kids technology, how COVID-19 will make distance learning and working more prevalent, how AI and ML can be used for positive benefit with healthcare applications, such as disease detection, why everyone must play a role in shaping technologies future, not just a select privileged few, Scott’s take on synthetic biology, among other topics.

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In this episode, Mojgan discusses the company’s commitment to making innovation part of its DNA and the strategic pillars the company has put in place, which are focused on evolving the way the company works to drive integrated teams to push the blurring of lines between business and technology. First, the company leverages design thinking methodologies and always starts with the customer and works backward, and it has small multifunctional teams of technologists and business experts. Second, the company has developed a strategic architecture, driving modernization and simplification where appropriate. Lastly, but most importantly is talent, which the company considers its advantage multiplier. Mojgan cites that Travelers drives new skill sets and engineering talent in a variety of ways. We also discuss Mojgan’s view on the future of women in technology, and the revolution she sees happening in that regard, how Mojgan looks at the company’s 160-year old history as a position of extreme strength, how Mojgan’s diverse career path has colored her experience at Travelers, and a variety of other topics.

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