Lion's Director of Technology & Digital Transformation, Ram Kalyanasundaram, shares how one of Australia's leading beverage companies is rethinking its approach to enterprise IT.

In this conversation with CIO Editorial Director Cathy O'Sullivan, Ram unpacks the "clean core" principle - what it means in practice, why it matters for long-term agility, and how Lion is applying it across a complex, multi-system technology landscape. He also dives into the discipline of doing the basics brilliantly: the unglamorous foundational work that makes everything else possible.

At the centre of it all? People. Ram explains how Lion puts customer and employee experience at the heart of every transformation decision — and why that human focus is what separates successful change programs from ones that stall.