Welcome back to you've been her. We got Craig Gerke on the show MBA, ITL. You've

2025, Orby, CIO of the year, 2004 finalist.

Why don't we just start there?

We've heard of this for a long time.

Everyone's heard of the Orby Awards and everything, but what does it really mean?

Why did you win that award?

What was it?

So Orby is an award done by Inspire Leadership Network.

It's a great network.

Primarily, it's all driven by other CIOs. It's not

vendor driven as much. It's got a lot of any of the election, all the reviews are all done by

former Orby winners. And so it's your peers doing it. So when you can write something up,

you can actually make it pretty technical. You can

actually put the details in, but then you also have to deliver the value and show how you delivered

value in what you did different. And so what did I do? So I was recognized year one just because we

had initiated this large project when I stepped into jacuzia. So coming in the door, we had a few

large projects that said, hey, we need a single data platform. We need a single CRM solution. We need a

single ERP. We had 14 ERPs across the business. So definitely didn't need that many. So we put in a

roadmap to replace those with a single ERP, a single CRM system,

and then first was built out a data layer where we could look at the entire business

and one paint of glass and say, hey, how are we actually doing without a dozen financial

analysts and people on the finance side pulling spreadsheets together

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