In this interview, Greg Meyers, CIO of Motorola Solutions, discusses World Class IT Principle One, People, and Principle Four, IT-Business Partnerships. Some of the topics discussed include:

Motorola Solutions, and his role as CIO of the organization
Items on his roadmap for the year ahead
How he engages external customers and utilize those insights to create his IT strategy
The ways in which he interacts with other CIOs at customer organizations
The processes and skills that have been necessary to shift to a “customer-first” culture within IT
The methods he used to shift IT from a support organization to becoming a strategic enabler
How he has worked to insource some previously outsourced business processes
His career path through the pharmaceutical industry to his eventual hiring at Motorola Solutions
Eye on the Trends: The Internet of Things, Big Data, Artificial Intelligence, and the Cloud

Among other topics, Greg discusses the following issues with Metis Strategy:

Motorola Solutions, and his role as CIO of the organization
Items on his roadmap for the year ahead
How he engages external customers and utilize those insights to create his IT strategy
The ways in which he interacts with other CIOs at customer organizations
The processes and skills that have been necessary to shift to a “customer-first” culture within IT
The methods he used to shift IT from a support organization to becoming a strategic enabler
How he has worked to insource some previously outsourced business processes
His career path through the pharmaceutical industry to his eventual hiring at Motorola Solutions
Eye on the Trends: The Internet of Things, Big Data, Artificial Intelligence, and the Cloud

Greg Meyers’ Biography


Greg Meyers is the Chief Information Officer of Motorola Solutions, a $6 Billion telecommunications equipment provider that succeeded Motorola Inc. following the spin-off of Motorola’s mobile phone division. As CIO, Greg is responsible for the entire IT organization company-wide.


Prior to Motorola Solutions, Greg worked in multiple technology roles within the pharmaceutical industry, including stints as the Vice President of IT at Biogen, Vice President and CIO of Novartis Consumer Health, and Director of Sales and Customer Technology at Johnson and Johnson.


Greg received his Bachelor of Science degree in Marketing from Rutgers University – Camden and his MBA from Temple University.