CIO Straight Talk - Issue 10 - 33
I
f you look at Bekaert's IT department
in traditional terms, you would think I
have an easy job. Over the years, my
predecessors built an IT infrastructure
with a good, solid backbone, an
SAP enterprise system, a wide area
network, and stable infrastructure.
They centralized decision-making,
hired a team of 180 professionals
around the world to run the system,
and forged solid partnerships with
some great vendors.
Yet when I was hired as CIO just over
a year ago, in late 2016, I found out
that I actually had my work cut out
for me. Despite all the solid work
behind me, my team faced three major
challenges. We needed to reduce the
friction within the department. We
needed better project and program
management. Most of all, we needed a
vision for the purpose of IT at Bekaert.
THe WISDOM OF
WORkSHOpS
To tackle those challenges, I began
leading workshops with other business
heads. My goal was to clarify the
role of IT at Bekaert, to see what my
colleagues needed from IT, and work
out what we could do that would add
the most value for the company.
In these workshops, we realized first
that IT has become so intertwined with
everything else the company does
that in certain ways, it no longer made
sense to think of it as a standalone
function. We're a 30,000-employee,
4.4 billion-euro global company that is
focused on steel wire transformation
and coatings. As in so many industries,
IT has grown from a tiny support
function into a key business partner
involved in everything from product
development to order fulfillment.
there is no such thing
as an it project
A newly appointed CIO finds that some of the greatest challenges
of her new position don't involve technology.
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