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74. Digital Transformation & Selling The Value of IT

You've Been Heard

Philip Howard

Tech News, Technology, Business, Management, News

0.00 Ratings

🗓️ 29 August 2020

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Bryan Blount Digital disruption represents a game changer, and I feel that technology skills alone will not produce effective CIOs. Financial acumen, good understanding of business strategy, and strong leadership capabilities are essential attributes for a CIO. I believe that technology (in all its many facets) should enable business strategy and enhance business outcomes. I have a proven record of streamlining processes and stepping up compliance; keeping my house in order by: managing costs and assets, focusing on process quality and standards, using tools and analyzing metrics, driving efficiency, managing resources, and understanding technology trends; and recruiting, developing, and keeping top-notch staff.

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0:00.0

Welcome back to dissecting popular IT nerds. We've had a little bit of gap in the time.

0:15.4

It's not, I don't want people to go fear mongering and think it's due to COVID-19. Part of it is,

0:19.6

the other part of it is just my own life in general.

0:22.6

I just had to move my house.

0:23.7

So we took a little bit of time off.

0:25.5

And this is the first show back with Brian.

0:28.6

I don't want to miss, please don't let me butcher your last name.

0:31.7

Is it, is it Blant?

0:33.3

Yes, you hit it on the nose.

0:34.4

Brian.

0:34.7

All right. Phew, you can just wipe the sweat off my head on that one.

0:39.1

So Chief Information Officer at Piedmont College.

0:42.1

And we have done a little bit of educate.

0:44.3

We have done a little bit in the educational space back in the day, but not enough.

0:48.7

And when we were talking last, you said something that was really mind-blowing to me.

0:53.6

And, you know, call it white privilege,

0:55.7

call it whatever it is. A lot of my friends call me the whitest guy they know because I grew up

1:00.5

like the son of a doctor playing golf and tennis and all of that. But you really, you said something

1:05.9

that was quite mind-blowing. And that is for people that have never gone on to college, they don't

1:13.4

really know where the process starts. And for people that come from a generation of people

1:19.4

that have gone to college, or come from people that haven't, you know, that have just gone to

1:22.8

college, it's kind of just like this known thing. You go through high school, you apply to college,

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