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A chemical industry CIO recounts what she has learned
about leading a digital transformation.

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joined Olin in 2016, shortly after the company
completed a major acquisition, a move that
significantly increased the number of employees,
and dramatically expanded our operations in the
United States and into more than 20 countries.
Olin's digital journey entails the largest
strategic investment in digital technologies in
the company's history. It involves executing a
global transformation program that includes
implementing a new standardized ERP
platform, new solutions for manufacturing and
engineering, and additional capabilities to make
our IT infrastructure around the world more
reliable. We've also tried to use the integration
as an opportunity to simplify our architecture by
selecting a few key technologies and platforms
we want to support going forward.

AN AMAZING
OPPORTUNITY
For a technology leader, a digital transformation
is an amazing opportunity. Often, if you are
just running an IT organization, you're mostly
making small incremental changes. It can often
feel like you're running a utility. Olin's major
acquisition created a huge opportunity to
really think about some massive changes to
modernize and standardize business processes
across our chemical businesses to maximize cost
effectiveness, efficiency, and control across our
now global operations.
People tend to misunderstand the nature of
a digital transformation. They hear the word
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