TWINCITIESCIO ADVISORY BOARD
Tammylynne Jonas Self Esteem Brands | Global CIO What technology trends do you think will take hold this year?
Jim Jones Great River Energy | VP & CIO
What’s on your ‘to-do list’ over the next 6 – 12 months?
More robust collaboration tools- how can tech help us better support a distributed workforce? Predictive analytics will show up even more in our daily lives. Starting with emails and text messages, our devices will get even better at predicting what we want to do (and say!)
I would like to update our strategic plans to continue modernizing the electrical grid to ensure reliable and affordable delivery of clean energy to our members. We are also planning our next generation technology platform for private cloud services. That should be in production within the next few months.
Ed Clark University of St. Thomas | CIO & CDO
What is on your ‘to-do list’ over the next 6–12 months? We are establishing an innovation center that combines design thinking and process improvement methodologies, along with data analytics and project and change management. When used together in a holistic way, these approaches have the potential to transform the ways that we interact with our communities.
Mark Gingrich Surescripts | CIO
Tim Peterson Xcel Energy | SVP & CIO
What are your top priorities for 2021? Enterprise Data Management – Leveraging a new analytics platform and data governance Network Resiliency – Investment in capabilities to enable systems to recover quickly from difficulties Internal Operations – Operational excellence through internal investments and process Improvement
What challenges do you hope to solve this year? We will continue to build on the foundation we established in 2020. We are addressing an enormous amount of technology demand through a new Technology Investment Governance process that is deliberate in identifying the business value of investments we make while maintaining secure, reliable systems. We are infusing norms and practices to build an agile culture and agile operations, as well.
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