A ‘first 100-days’ plan for the new CIO

When SAIC, the large government technology services provider, acquired Engility, a smaller engineering services firm, Engility CIO Nathan Rogers became CIO of SAIC.

While SAIC’s retiring CIO, Bob Fecteau, had built a high performing team, Rogers still faced the huge challenge of integrating two large companies in a short timeframe. “We had to get people on the same systems quickly,” Rogers says. “You cannot move on from an ‘us and them’ culture when you are running two different email systems.”

Not only that, Rogers and the rest of the executive committee saw the integration as an opportunity for transformation, particularly in the areas of human capital management and CRM. “SAIC leadership saw the Engility acquisition as a chance to change the way we do business and differentiate ourselves in the market,” says Rogers.

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