By Guest Author Narayanan Raman In this post I speak with Filippo Passerini, CIO of Procter & Gamble (P&G), one of the most reputed global consumer goods firms. Filippo discussed two salient aspects of his approach. First, he said that ideally, any IT endeavor should start from the IT strategy layer of the IT stack,
By Guest Author Narayanan Raman In today’s post, I speak with John McDermott, CIO of Xerox Corporation, the global document management company. Like most CIOs, John’s foremost priority is to manage the IT costs of his organization. Although Xerox’s IT costs have been declining by an average 8% per year for the past six years,
By Guest Author Narayanan Raman In the previous four articles, I spoke to CIOs from the corporate world, three from United States and one from India. I thought that in order to gain a well-rounded understanding of CIO priorities, I should interview a CIO from the public institutions space. This article discusses my interview with
By Guest Author Narayanan Raman In the previous three articles, I talked to CIOs of IT consulting and IT services organizations. In this article, I shift gears and speak with Raj Rawal, SVP and CIO of Burger King (BK), the second largest fast food hamburger chain in the world. Raj’s challenges, although similar to those
By Guest Author Narayanan Raman In the first article in this series, I talked about CIO priorities at Accenture. In this article, I speak with Mark White, principal and CTO at Deloitte Consulting. According to Mark, the top focus area for CIOs and CTOs is cloud computing. Let’s see what Mark has to say.
By Guest Author Narayanan Raman The ‘CIO Priorities’ series attempts to gain insights into one of the most serious, interesting, and challenging questions facing the technology industry, which, as you might have rightly guessed, is “What are the priorities of enterprise CIOs today?” This question is serious given the constrained nature of cash flows, thanks