196. Why George Horta Focuses on People and Process Before Technology

Dissecting Popular IT Nerds

Technology

5 • 49 Ratings

🗓️ 15 June 2023

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

George Horta George Horta is the Vice President Information Technology at ACS Industries. He is responsible for managing, leading, and cultivating a team that operates internationally. In George’s work, he focuses on the people and the process. The technology comes when those pieces are properly in place. Why George Horta Focuses on People and Process Before Technology George emphasizes the importance of being able to clearly communicate the value of IT in words other teams within the business can understand, as he explains in today’s episode. This increases the likelihood of buy-in and allows you to implement changes that could significantly improve processes within the business.

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0:00.0	Hi, Nerds. I'm Michael Moore, hosting this podcast for dissecting popular IT nerds.
0:13.8	I'm here with George Horta, Vice President of Information Technology for ACS Industries Incorporated.
0:19.8	Welcome to the program, George.
0:21.6	Thank you for having me.
0:23.8	You know, I think if you've heard this podcast before, you know, it's time for our
0:29.4	random access memories segment.
0:32.4	This is where we ask you have three questions and these questions are meant for answers.
0:38.4	It should be just top of your head, and it's fun.
0:40.2	It's just a nice breaker that we do.
0:42.3	And your first question is if all the computers in the world shut down tomorrow,
0:50.2	what job would you do instead?
0:54.0	Creating novelty products, like selling gag gifts.
0:59.3	Okay.
1:00.4	Can you give me an example of a gag gift you would sell?
1:05.2	Yeah, so I got this idea, so copyright before.
1:10.1	I've got to get some of great ideas there.
1:12.4	You're good.
1:12.8	You've got a little bit of time before this goes to air so you can just, you know,
1:15.9	quickly run to the patent office.
1:17.3	Run out, run out to the copyright patent office.
1:19.8	All right, so I would create a, I think I would create a,
1:22.1	I would start with us, a gag seasoning.
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