1. Digital Transformation: Secrets
of the Successful C-suite
Part 2
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2. Peter High
President, Metis Strategy,
Author, and Speaker
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Featuring:
Ted Colbert
CIO, The Boeing
Company
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3. “The role that I’m in is exciting every single
day, the business we’re in, if I may, it’s
growing, it’s challenging, it’s super diverse,
very complex, and change happens at a pace
that is very fast.”
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- Ted Colbert, CIO, The Boeing Company

4. “My credit sectors have started a very
significant change effort to help… from the
people and leadership and the organization…
help move that forward and create
development programs, bring in new talent,
and help the way that we get things done.
We call it functional excellence.”
- Ted Colbert, CIO, The Boeing Company
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5. “As big as this organization is, this diverse,
with the goal of becoming more aligned with
the strategic plans of the different parts of the
organization… how do you do that
organizationally?”
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- Peter High, President, Metis Strategy,
Author, and Speaker

6. “The approach to driving the alignment and
getting our agenda situated in a right way,
requires work in all dimensions.
It’s a process that drives almost
unconditional, what I call,
transparency. For example- modernizing
our data centers.”
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- Ted Colbert, CIO, The Boeing Company

7. “How do you think about the driving
commonality versus those things that are
unique? And I know the answer to that must
be incredibly complex, as diverse as this
organization is.”
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- Peter High, President, Metis Strategy,
Author, and Speaker

8. “So if I think about enterprise enabling
infrastructure. We are maturing to see ourselves—
I’ll call it, as a commercial service provider—we’ve
got to drive costs down
while delivering high quality service.
From an enabling solution perspective, where we
see the common thread is through data. Data and
information and the solutions that wrap around
those things in the company… really bringing all of
that together.”
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- Ted Colbert, CIO, The Boeing Company

9. “Have you spoken about how the planes that
are taking off… that they’re essentially like
flying data centers, and the wealth and
information that is available is almost
endless at this point.”
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- Peter High, President, Metis Strategy,
Author, and Speaker

10. “Part of my role, which is a lot of fun, is trying to
figure out what goodness from one side of the
business can be leveraged by the other side.
The ability to harness the value of large
amounts of data.
And one of the things we’re doing is trying to
figure out approaches, other than technology,
that we’ve leveraged on one side of the business
that can be used on the other side- from defense
to commercial.”
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- Ted Colbert, CIO, The Boeing Company

11. “Although we’ve just been discussing with
regards to digital transformation, what skills
are rising in importance to facilitate some of
the IT opportunities, digital opportunities,
data analytics opportunities?”
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- Peter High, President, Metis Strategy,
Author, and Speaker

12. “I think it’s across the entire board.
The aspect of partnering is so much more
important. Whether you’re partnering with a
large traditional IT company and leveraging
their skill and breadth, or you’re at the Silicon
Valley evaluating an emerging set of
capabilities that may provide you some
differentiation.”
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- Ted Colbert, CIO, The Boeing Company

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