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…

The turnaround: Inheriting digital transformation

When Doug Saunders joined Advanced Disposal as CIO in 2017 he quickly learned that technology consumption at the $1.6 billion waste management provider was fragmented across “digital fiefdoms,” including sales, marketing and other departments. “It was who screamed the loudest and had the most political clout,” Saunders recalls. “The CEO [Richard Burke] was frustrated by…