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Joe MorganVP, CTO, and GM of on-demand solutions Standard Register | |
Vision
The next big thing for my business will be ... creating a single, consolidated view of data that lets us accelerate decision-making across lines of business.
Best piece of advice for future CIOs: Understand the business from the outside in. Often, technologists approach investments and operational optimization from a technology perspective and lose the "business" people in the process. Applying technology within business terms is a winning formula. Also, engaged staff working on clearly defined expectations deliver great, measurable results. Finally, make it fun!
On The Job
IT annual budget: $60 million
Size of IT team: 140 plus outsourced associates
Three top initiatives for this year:
- Upgrade key technologies and systems to rationalize our technology portfolio and simplify business processes. Guiding principles: Buy rather than build where differentiation isn't critical and create services for reusable business components.
- Drive our technology strategic plan into business architectural road maps. This gives us the common vision and framework aimed at simplifying processes and technology and adding key enabling capabilities. It also provides the basis for strengthening our governance policies.
- Deliver targeted apps and invest in capabilities with broad customer appeal; make it easy to do business with us and integrate with our customers' business processes and systems.
Personal
Colleges/degrees: College of the Holy Cross, BA in Chemistry; Worcester Polytechnic Institute, BS in Chemical Engineering; Clark University, MBA
Last vacation: Asheville, N.C.
Favorite sport or leisure activity: Soccer and the Boston Red Sox
Best book read recently: The Five People You Meet In Heaven by Mitch Albom
If I weren't a CIO I would be ... a teacher and a soccer coach
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