Restructuring IT for growth

When Andrew Campbell joined global equipment manufacturer Terex as CIO in 2016, the company had a twenty-year history of acquisitions. As a result, they had a bevy of small IT teams who dabbled in a number of different functional roles. Officially, the IT organization was one global team, but informally, business unit leaders had identified…

7 tips for improving IT-marketing collaboration

In many organizations, CMOs now spend more on technology than CIOs. Marketing budgets amount to 11.2 percent of company revenue, according to the 2018-19 Gartner CMO Spend survey. In fact, technology is now the single biggest area of investment for marketing, according to the report. As data and systems have become central to marketing strategy…

Oracle Co-CEO Mark Hurd dies

Oracle Co-CEO Mark V. Hurd has died at the age of 62. His death leaves the company in the hands of Co-CEO Safra Catz and the company’s founder, Executive Chairman and CTO Larry Ellison. Hurd had served as co-CEO of Oracle for just over five years alongside Catz. The pair served as presidents of the…

Creating the IT culture you need

In four years as CTO at CVS, Claus Jensen sponsored no technical training for his 500-person team. None. “That’s not to say technical training wasn’t available,” he’s quick to note. “But I didn’t sponsor any of it.” Instead, he sponsored 45 soft skill initiatives — a dedicated, intentional program of building what we often undersell…