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what the outcomes are. We’ve got a bunch of
platforms or capabilities that align and deliver
that value for you.’
How important is it for CIOs to
be effective communicators?
More so than ever. Many of the new
breed of CIOs that we see are amazingly
good communicators and educators at the
same time. They surround themselves with
lots of smart architects, enterprise architect
type people.
One of the most successful CIOs I’ve seen is
based in Singapore and he came from HR.
CIOs are less technical than they’ve ever
been because cloud services have grown and
matured over time. They do so much more in
a commoditised way compared to before. In
AWS, you can push a button and 20 seconds
later you’ve got a full stack of an application.
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How can CIOs collaborate with
CHROs to ensure that they can
recruit the right talent?
I’m currently recruiting people and so is our
CIO and we’ve looked at this and said that
the skills we’ve got traditionally in IT are ok for
maybe the last few years, but they’re not going
to be the ones that we recruit in the future.
So, what skills then will be
needed in the future?
You’ve got things like algorithm mechanics,
which sounds very much like they have a
toolkit with a bunch of spanners in it. It’s
more around people that can pull disparate
data sources together that historically, we
may have looked at as ‘garbage in, garbage
out’ type of things.
Between this data in finance or HR, when we
bring them together and actually have the
machines take a look at it, we can find data
between the silos or the gaps and get insights.
I think the other interesting one that we’re
seeing in certain areas around heavy
industry and healthcare is this concept of
mixing reality with Virtual Reality. n
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