02.05.2015

INSIDE THIS ISSUE

Deploying Analytics and IoT to Produce More Food
Fixes for Your Flawed IT Organization
WEBINAR: CIO Transformation Stories - Part I of IV
Featured Executive Placement: Business Relationship Executive at DTE Energy

Hi Friend,

Remember the “not invented here” philosophy, where companies would eschew solutions that did not originate within their four walls? With every company becoming a technology company, that approach must go the way of the dinasours.

“I am pushing on my organization to take an external lens and am rewarding those activities that bring in insights from the outside,” says Jim Swanson, CIO of Monsanto, the $15.8 billion agriculture company. “There is a lot of innovation going on in the world. If we spend some time on the outside, we may learn something.”

Read all about how Monsanto IT is helping farmers unlock “digital yield” in my latest blog on CIO.com.

Martha

1. Deploying Analytics and IoT to Produce More Food

To feed the world’s population in 2050, farmers will need to double their yields. “We are using information technology to get them there," says Jim Swanson, CIO at Monsanto. "We are turning data into food.” In my latest blog on CIO.com, Swanson shares his three approaches for developing and delivering predictive analytics and IoT technologies which, he says, are the keys to unlocking digital yield.

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2. Fixes for Your Flawed IT Organization

IT Organization Fixes by Peter Waterhouse

If your IT organization could take a ‘selfie,’ would it illustrate a unified dynamic team driving digital transformation and delivering value to customers? This week's guest blogger, Peter Waterhouse, finds that in most enterprises, the IT organizational picture is flawed. "In a business world addicted to software," he writes, "such flaws can prove fatal."

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3. WEBINAR: CIO Transformation Stories - Part I of IV

There is no harder task than moving an IT organization from order-takers to order-shapers. And that’s just transforming IT. CIOs are leading cultural, business process and even business model transformations every day. Join me for the first of a four-part webinar series, in partnership with the CIO Executive Council, as I talk with three CIOs–Joe Spagnoletti of Campbell Soup Company, Victor Fetter of LPL Financial, and Phil Stevens of Army and Air Force Exchange Service–about their experiences leading transformation. February 24, 2pm ET, free of charge.

Webinar details and registration

4. Featured Executive Placement: Business Relationship Executive at DTE Energy

Heller Search was recently retained to recruit a Business Relationship Executive for DTE Energy, a Fortune 500 electric utility serving millions of gas and electric customers in Southeastern Michigan. For this role, we identified Gunju Oyeleye, who will manage a team of more than 100 and report directly to the CIO. Gunju brings over 20 years of experience in IT strategy, planning and program management to DTE. Most recently, he led IT Enterprise Program Management efforts at Delphi Inc. Gunju earned a Bachelors degree with honors in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Lagos in Nigeria, Masters and Ph.D. degrees in Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering from Penn State University, and an Executive MBA from Michigan State University. Congratulations, Gunju!

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Martha Heller
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