Helen Cousins, Executive Vice President and Chief Information Officer of Lincoln Trust Company
Technovation with Peter High (CIO, CTO, CDO, CXO Interviews)
English - March 17, 2014 08:00 - 5 MB - ★★★★★ - 68 ratingsTechnology Business Management business health entrepreneurship interview politics Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
In this interview, Helen Cousins, Executive Vice President and Chief Information Officer of Lincoln Trust Company, discusses World Class IT principle four, IT & Business Partnerships, with Metis Strategy. Some of the topics discussed include:
Helen’s unorthodox path to CIO and how it contributed to her understanding of IT as part of a business
The value of the broader perspective due to a business background in Helen’s success as a CIO
The challenges and strategies in mending the relationship between IT and business to garner support and trust
The importance of appropriately marketing accomplishments in IT both internally as well as across the organization
Helen’s rise to becoming a Board level CIO and the impact of an IT executive’s perspective to the rest of the board
Eye on the Trends: The growing importance of cloud and mobile technology and the need to understand how to analyze and leverage risks to gain support for related projects
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