CIO 2.0 Conversations » CIO 2.0: Interviews: Recent Episodes
Francois Gossieaux
I had a great time conducting this CIO 2.0 conversation with Rolf Kleiner, the Chief Innovation Officer at Kelly Services. Rolf has a long history in starting up new business and joined Kelly Services in 1995 to start a scientific staffing operation for the company. He grew that part of the business to $200 million [...]
My CIO 2.0 conversation with Casey Coleman, who is the CIO at the US General Services Administration (GSA) was truly enlightening. Casey started off by describing the role of the GSA, which is to provide common business services and shared services to the rest of the Federal Government. You can think of the GSA as [...]
I truly enjoyed interviewing Ari Lightman, who is a Professor of Digital Media and Marketing at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) as well as the Director for their CIO Institute. Ari is an engineer at heart and had a very diverse background in industry prior to joining the academic ranks – with stints in multiple start-ups, [...]
I had the pleasure to talk with Francoise Legoues, the VP of Innovation in the office of the CIO at IBM. We discussed innovation, culture as well as some big trends affecting companies worldwide. Francoise is a long time IBMer. She started in their Physics Department after getting her PhD in Physics from Carnegie Mellon [...]
Dan Greller, the former CIO at Legg Mason, and currently technology innovation consultant, speaker and writer (with a great blog), was kind enough to join me for my second CIO 2.0 Conversation. Dan has 30 years of experience managing global technology organizations, mostly within the financial services industry. Having first entered the job market when [...]
As CIO at Monsanto, Shirley is a member of the strategy team. Becoming a member of the strategy team came with a change in role for IT - that from being an order taker to a strategic partner sharing responsibility for the business's growth. They morphed from being the implementers of ERP systems and other technologies to a team that now worries about customer space transformation though information and technology, advanced decisioning, and customer and product pipeline. And while the IT department at Monsanto supports all functions, most of its resources are dedicated to R&D and the customer space.