Romain Apert likes to tell a story he heard from a mathematician who talked about the analogy of a dark room, and how a person attempts to find the light switch but bumps into an object when they move to the left or the right — but as they continue moving forward, they gain more information to make sense of the room.
“Finally, one day, you find your way to the light switch,” says Apert, vice president and global CIO of Mars Wrigley. Whereas once, CIOs were “just a bunch of leaders who used to be very successful in a room that was focused on standardization, simplification and globalization, where it was very much back office,” now, “these leaders have been thrown overnight into a dark room.” The challenge, as Apert sees it, is for them to find their way to the switch.
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