For decades the face of Big Tobacco, Phillip Morris International (PMI) is leaning into IT to remain relevant in an industry undergoing disruption. With light shed on its dark history of concealing scientific evidence of the health impacts of smoking, cigarette smoking has reached its lowest levels among adults in decades, spurring the $80 billion company to consolidate its corporate IT and customer-facing channels into one global IT function as part of a push to become a more vertically integrated company.
To facilitate this shift, CTO Michael Voegele is modernizing legacy systems and processes with cloud services and agile delivery models. Voegele, who was hired away from Adidas Group in early 2019 to orchestrate PMI’s tech overhaul, is also reskilling employees and hiring key tech talent to implement and manage these changes.
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