487: Ryder senior vice president and chief information officer Rajeev Ravindran discusses 

An overview of Ryder and Rajeev’s purview as CIO

The IT function’s four strategic goals

The company’s approach to eliminating technical debt

The COVID-19 pandemic, including:

Why Ryder was prepared for it 

How the company has created a sense of community throughout it

Rajeev’s take on a variety of rising trends, such as AI modeling, robotics, and autonomous vehicles

Among a variety of other topics.

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This episode is sponsored by Zoho.

486: Emmet B. Keeffe III, Operating Partner at Insight Partners and founder of Insight IGNITE, discusses:

The three parts of Insight’s investment thesis

An overview of the company’s digital acceleration program, Insight IGNITE

The challenges of communication between IT and the rest of the business

How Insight Partners can save IT leaders many trips to Silicon Valley by finding tech globally

How the COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated many of the areas the company has invested in

The four types of boards that exist based on the size and maturity of those companies and the assistance each needs from its directors

The increased importance on creativity for humans with more AI and automation

Emmet’s take on IoT, the cloud, automation, 5G, and RPA

Among a variety of other topics.

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This episode is sponsored by Zoho.

485: Ally Chief Information Data and Digital Officer Sathish Muthukrishnan discusses

Sathish’s three-pillared IT strategy, which is focused on driving customer value, creating a compelling financial trajectory for all its shareholders and investors, and executing that through great culture

The company’s transition to a mobile workforce due to the pandemic 

Sathish’s experience being onboarded largely in quarantine

The approach Sathish used to create his data strategy

What he has learned from his prior experiences as CIO

Among a variety of other topics.

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This episode is sponsored by Zoho.

484: Lenovo CISO Jason Ruger discusses:

How Jason has navigated working with three variations of the same company

How Lenovo operates as a global firm

The pandemic’s impact on the company

How the fact that Lenovo has a major manufacturing operation in Wuhan, China led to early warnings as to the issues that arose related to COVID-19

How the pandemic has led to a 3x increase in cyber attacks and the methods Jason and his team have undertaken to counteract them

Jason’s CIO and CISO responsibilities and how he segments his thoughts processes related to each

Among a variety of other topics.

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This episode is sponsored by Zoho.

483: NetApp CIO Bill Miller discusses

Bill’s purview as the CIO of NetApp

How the company works with external partners to build capabilities

How the company acts as an internal first user

The Cloud One Platform and The DevOps framework the company has built 

How the company works with external partners to build capabilities 

Bill’s view on how COVID-19 will impact the world in the long term 

The importance of CIOs getting advantages out of data 

The biggest threats to CIOs today

Among a variety of other topics.

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This episode is sponsored by Zoho.

482: Index Ventures Partner Shardul Shah discusses

Shardul’s thoughts on how COVID-19 has accelerated a tech-enabled shift to an employee-focused culture rather than customer-focused culture

How a younger workforce deals with unprecedented economic shock

How investment decisions and collaboration have been impacted by virtual communication 

How his investment philosophy is tied to empathy and community

The story of the least successful investment he’s ever made

Among a variety of other topics.

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This episode is sponsored by Zoho.

481: Marstercard President of Operations & Technology Ed McLaughlin discusses

How Ed balances innovation with risk mitigation 

How security can be used as a strategic weapon

Ed’s thoughts on the current pandemic, including how it will result in a permanent shift in certain behaviors 

Why bold pronouncements about the future of work can’t be made just yet.

Ed’s view on blockchain

Mastercard’s lab group, whose job is to investigate new technologies

Among a variety of other topics.

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This episode is sponsored by Zoho.

480: Former Cisco CEO John Chambers discusses:

John’s experience with previous financial crises 

The playbook he is running with his 18 startups through the current pandemic. 

Why John went into venture capital after his time at Cisco

Why John is partnering with 18 startups, rather than just one 

How the current crisis has impacted John’s investment theses. 

The playbook John ran when making acquisitions at Cisco

The successes and failures he has experienced with digital transformations

The impact COVID is going to have long-term including how 

COVID has and will continue to accelerate the shift to digital

Why the top ten companies in each industry will be shuffled, and

Why we won’t have an environment where everyone works from home

Among a variety of other topics.

This episode was recorded live at the 2020 Metis Strategy Digital Symposium.

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This episode is sponsored by Zoho.

479: Ocean Spray Cranberries Chief Digital and Technology Officer, Jamie Head, discusses:

Jamie’s purview as Chief Digital and Technology Officer

Ocean Spray’s five-year plan to transform from a cranberry business to a health and wellness business

The company’s innovation plan, the digital hub his team is building

The company’s relationship with the farmers who grow the cranberries

How the company approaches external partnerships

Jamie’s interest in the health and wellness space

Among a variety of other topics.

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This episode is sponsored by Zoho.

478: Reid Hoffman is an iconic Silicon Valley entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and author. Perhaps best known as the co-founder and former CEO of LinkedIn, he is currently a partner at the venture capital firm Greylock Partners, where he focuses on early-stage investing. He hosts the podcast, Masters of Scale. In this interview, we discuss:

The current pandemic and the economic crisis 

How one must lean on one’s ecosystem for insights and support while offering the same back into the ecosystem

How the pandemic has caused previous market failures to move to market readiness

The importance of entrepreneurs co-designing their go-to-market strategy

The precise definition of blitzscaling and its application to large companies

Among a variety of other topics.

This episode was recorded live at the 2020 Metis Strategy Digital Symposium.

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This episode is sponsored by Zoho.