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In this interview, David McCue, Chief Information Officer of Computer Science Corporation (CSC), a $16 billion provider of information technology and professional services to governments and commercial enterprises. discusses World Class IT principle two, Infrastructure, principle three, Project Portfolio Management, and principle four, IT-Business Partnerships, with Metis Strategy. Some of the topics discussed include:

• David’s role and responsibilities as Global CIO and Corporate Vice President
• CSC’s three-legged approach to global governance
• Standardizing around process, not technology, and deploying global solutions
• Methods for effective best practice sharing
• Approaching the role of CIO from a business perspective
• Eye on the trends: Mobility, and how it enables individuals to be able to do anything, anytime and anywhere; analytics that enable seeing data in large amounts, and how it enables near real-time answers to business queries; and the importance of security in terms of protecting intellectual property so as to maintain a competitive advantage

In this interview, Gary Beach, publisher emeritus of CIO magazine, discusses World Class IT principle one, People, with Metis Strategy. Some of the topics discussed include:

• Discussion of Gary Beach’s bestselling book, The U.S. Technology Skills Gap, and the need for America to produce more IT talent
• The technology skill gap in America, and potential education solutions to resolve the problem
• The growing importance of emerging MOOCs, and their necessary emphasis on STEM subjects
• The state of the CIO today in comparison to the last five years, and the stagnation of business perception of IT
• Eye on the Trends:Positive potential of big data mining in relation to customer happiness and product development; downside of this data cache from the security point of view

In this interview, Antoine Blondeau, CEO of Sentient Technologies, discusses World Class IT Principle One, People, and Principle Two, Infrastructure. Some of the topics discussed include:

• The state of the artificial intelligence industry and his work over the past fifteen years
• How Sentient Technologies has applied there work to the retail and online shopping industry
• How the technology maps out the process of interaction to create a better user experience
• The large amount of capital currently held by Sentient Technologies and his plans for those funds
• The war for talent in Silicon Valley
• The balance between innovation and safety within the artificial intelligence industry
• How he thinks about artificial intelligence in his daily life
• The strategic planning process, and what he sees coming in the next five to ten years
• Why he chose to pursue his career in the United States as opposed to Europe

This is the first episode of our “What is?” series, where we tackle topics of rising importance in technology and business, more generally speaking. We will tackle, “What is artificial intelligence?,” “What is Blockchain?,” “What is robotics?,” “What is 3d printing?,” and the like. Today, my question is: “What is microservices?” To answer that question, I speak with a Matt Miller, a Partner at Sequoia Capital and Jay Kreps, the CEO of Confluent.

In this interview, Dan Fallon, Vice President and Chief Technology Officer of Navistar, a $14 billion truck and engine manufacturer, discusses World Class IT principle four, IT-Business Partnerships, with Metis Strategy. Some of the topics discussed include:

• Dan’s role in facilitating how technology is leveraged within IT and across the business
• IT’s broad view of the business enabling IT to see opportunities for integration
• The demarcation between business strategy and IT strategy
• How the culture of collaboration acts as a foundation for a culture of innovation
• Eye on the trends: IT teaming with the business to achieve specific results through Centers of Excellence, the consumerization of IT and how it has helped accelerate the advancement of IT, location-based services and how it ties to Big Data, and the use of bio-informatics

In this interview, Mike Lucas, Global Chief Information Officer of Hogan Lovells, discusses World Class IT principle one, People, and principle four, IT-Business Partnerships, with Metis Strategy. Some of the topics discussed include:

• The steps he took to prepare for the Global CIO job at Hogan Lovells
• The most important processes or technologies implemented within the first “100 days” on the job
• Movement towards the role of “global” CIO, and the implications this position will have for firms in the future
• Defining the parameters of success from an IT standpoint in a global organization
• Eye on the Trends: The growing importance of IT services in the legal field – enabling remote working capabilities for lawyers and protecting client data

In this interview, Kim Stevenson, CIO of Intel, discusses World Class IT Principle one, People, and Principle Two, Infrastructure. Some of the topics discussed include:

• Her priorities for the next year, including Big Data and Analytics
• Methods she is using to communicate and create cultural change across the organization
• The IT Annual Plan, how it was been honed, and its wide distribution
• IT’s role in bringing innovation to the business units
• Security and how she balances risk taking with risk mitigation
• Her membership on the board of Cloudera and how she began the process of board membership
• What she has brought back to her job from her board memberships
• Transparency in operations and how she approaches social media in that way
• The state of women in technology and how she advocates for continuing progress

In this interview, Taso Du Val, discusses World Class IT Principle Four, IT & Business Partnerships. Some of the topics discussed include:

• Toptal’s mission
• Finding, screening, and monitoring talent
• Toptal’s two engagement models: Talent Model and Toptal Projects
• Taso’s entrepreneurial journey
• Advantages Toptal has gained by developing their own CRM, ERP, VPM systems
• Future talent verticals

In this interview, Jay Vijayan, the Vice President of IT and Business Applications of Tesla Motors, discusses World Class IT principle two, Infrastructure, and principle four, IT-Business Partnerships with Metis Strategy. Some of the topics discussed include:

• Jay’s role at Tesla Motors and how Tesla operates in a fast-paced, innovative environment
• IT’s collaborative relationship with development teams
• How all of Tesla’s business-critical applications for core functions are home-grown
• How Tesla provides comprehensive customer experience through the use of analytics, mobile applications, and more
• Eye on the Trends: Cloud computing, and how it provides more flexibility and allows the organization to easily manage, maintain, and provision software to employees, particularly as the organization grows

In this interview, Vic Bhagat, EVP and CIO of EMC Corporation, discusses World Class IT principle four, IT Business Partnerships, and principle five, External Partnerships, with Metis Strategy. Some of the topics discussed include:

• The logic and detailed set up of his role at EMC
• Insights and techniques he learned from managing vendors at GE
• How he conducts strategic planning to make it a more collaborative process for various silos under his leadership
• His advice on preparing for CIO-Plus roles
• Eye on the Trends: How large organizations are increasingly looking at CIOs to become more than “information officers” and help them grow and enable the business