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In this #LeadershipDeepDive episode, Kurt De Ruwe, CIO of Signify, talks with Hendrik Deckers about how the huge transformation that is currently in place at Signify. Throughout this conversation Kurt reflects on how this global company introduces innovation while being environmentally and culturally conscious and how it has maintained its position as market leader: ☑️ streamlining before automati...

What is the most important element of #OpenInnovation for Matrixx Software? Is it Open Culture, Open Processes or Open Technology? Watch this interview and find out 👉🏼 In this #LeadershipDeepDive episode, Glo Gordon, CEO of Matrixx Software talks with Hendrik Deckers about the future of Telco and her 30+ years journey as a Leader in top technological companies. Throughout this conversation, Glo...

In this #LeadershipDeepDive episode, Dimitris Bountolos, CIIO of Ferrovial, talks with Hendrik Deckers about Digital Horizon 24, the new official framework that supports and stimulates transformation at Ferrovial. Throughout this conversation Dimitris shares his views of: ☑️ workplace: remote work proves to be efficient, but is it sustainable? ☑️ workforce: evolution of IT organization ☑️ workflow...

Why is it less crowded at the extra mile? What is Oxygen Program and how does it make MTN unique? Watch this interview and find out 👉🏼 https://youtu.be/Y1SJJKjFc0o In this #LeadershipDeepDive episode, Charles Molapisi, Group CIO & CTO of MTN, talks with Hendrik Deckers about both MTN’s and his personal journey towards Open Innovation. „I'm a firm believer in the wisdom of the crowds”, Charles st...

What does GSD mean and what are the processes that BT implements in order to organize Innovation? Watch this interview and find out 👉🏼 https://youtu.be/_oDE9NsWLxQ In this #LeadershipDeepDive episode, Angela Jenner, Transformation Director of BT, talks with Hendrik Deckers about Open Innovation and her 20+ years journey of delivering technology. „I think that at the heart of innovation is having...

In this #LeadershipDeepDive episode, Phil Jordan, Group CIO of Sainsbury's, talks with Hendrik Deckers about digital transformation in a multi brand and multi channel retail business, challenges of such change, getting the most out of enormous amounts of customer data and legacy management. Phil also shares his view on gaining flexibility while using multi-cloud. Throughout this conversation, Phil...

In this #LeadershipDeepDive episode, Ángel Valero, Corporate CIO of Telefónica, talks with Hendrik Deckers about digital transformation in a global telco company. Ángel shares his view on challenges of working in a multicultural company and the importance of combining global vision with local approach - a necessary combination for Telefónica, a company operating in more than 15 culturally differen...

Massimo Rosso - CIO of RAI - The goal is to never stop reinventing by CIONET

In this #LeadershipDeepDive episode, Adam Marciniak, CIO of PKO BP, the largest and oldest Polish bank, talks with Hendrik Deckers about how he has successfully led his IT team of over 2000 people through the digital transformation. Throughout this conversation Adam talks about how PKO BP became leader in digital in such short time: his journey to the cloud, using the newest technologies in the fi...

In this #LeadershipDeepDive episode, Patryk Dolewa, CIO of Gemini Polska talks with Hendrik Deckers about: 🔸 working in a greenfield scenario 🔸 bringing digital transformation into a family business with strong work ethics 🔸 developing e-commerce platform to a unique position on the market 🔸 power of the digital 🔸 keeping the balance between business and customer needs Patryk joined Gemini Po...

In this #LeadershipDeepDive episode, David Jack, CTO & CPO of dunnhumby, talks with Hendrik Deckers about the challenges of transformation within the world’s leading company in customer data science, the ongoing productisation of services and the value of the humans behind it. During this conversation, David also talks about his “nudging” management and leadership styles and how an impostor syndro...

In this #LeadershipDeepDive episode, Rudi Peeters, CIO of KBC Group, talks with Hendrik Deckers about the role of Open Culture in the continuous transformation of a bank, the organisation’s cloud strategy, processes and architecture and how innovation is rooted in and contributes to the transformation journey. During this conversation, Rudi also talks about how his curiosity, positivity and integr...

In this #LeadershipDeepDive episode, Margaret Dawson, VP & CDO of Red Hat, talks with Hendrik Deckers about Open Transformation, how different types of organisations can succeed in their own transformation, the most exciting technologies today and her passion and drive to increase diversity in tech. Throughout this conversation, Margaret also shares all the ways her background and life journey hav...

In this Leadership Deep Dive episode, Hendrik Deckers talks to Vargha Moayed, Chief Strategy Officer of UiPath, about growing up in Morocco, living in France, USA and most importantly, what his background taught him about resilience as well as balancing humility and boldness in order to go global. Listen to this episode of #LeadershipDeepDive and deep dive into Vargha Moayed's leadership philosoph...

After a career as IT Director, Krzysztof Dąbrowski became a COO at mBank - Poland's first digital bank that was a fintech before fintech was a thing. In this episode of Leadership Deep Dive, Krzysztof Dąbrowski talks with Hendrik Deckers about his passion for "stealing like an artist" from different management systems to approach complex operational challenges and to always be learning, even if he...

In this Leadership Deep Dive episode, Francois Locoh-Donou, CEO of F5 (www.f5.com), takes us inside his leadership philosophy and demonstrates in a hard to refute way why diversity, open company structures, constant learning and ongoing transformation are not just values to look into, but crucial strategies to adopt if a company wants to stay competitive in its (ever evolving) market. Francois has...

Anke Sax wrote her PhD thesis based on interviews with 40 CIOs. She has dedicated years of her career to figuring out how accomplished digital leaders manage their departments and company strategy. Anke was also chosen CIO of The Year 2019 in Germany and has 30 years of executive experience in the financial sector - both on the business side and the IT side. In today's episode of Leadership Deep D...

Anke Sax has interviewed 40 CIOs and wrote a PhD thesis based on that. She has dedicated years of her career to figuring out how accomplished digital leaders manage their departments and company strategy. Anke was also chosen CIO of The Year 2019 in Germany and she has 30 years of executive experience in the financial sector - both on the business side and the IT side. In today's episode of Leader...

In the second part of the conversation with the leaders behind BBVA's award-winning mobile banking experience, Hendrik Deckers talks to Rafael Lopez Gracia, Head of IT at BBVA Transformation Factory. Rafael shares the technological and organisational background of the transformation that made BBVA's IT organisation fast, efficient and innovative. ⭐ This interview is in Spanish ⭐ TABLE OF CONTENT...

BBVA's mobile app was named best banking app by Forrester for 3 years in a row. In this episode of Leadership Deep Dive, Hendrik Deckers talks to the two leaders who transformed the organisation culture so they could transform the customer experience in a radically human-centric and Agile way: Sofía Rodriguez-Sahagún, Head of Retail Digital Banking at BBVA and Rafael Lopez Gracia, Head of IT at BB...

Barcelona Supercomputing Center is home of the most powerful supercomputers in Europe and is used to run Nobel Prize-winning research. Dr. Sergi Girona, the BSC's CIO and Operations Director, is responsible for enabling Europe's groundbreaking scientific discovery. He states outright that his role is not to lead digital transformation or tell scientists how to innovate or improve their business, b...

When the IT talent shortage in Poland was estimated at roughly 100 thousand people, Sebastian Jaworski, then IT director and CIO at ARIMR (The Agency for Restructuring and Modernisation of Agriculture) decided to fire outsourcing partners and build an internal software development factory and hired 40 people within a year. He also led an Agile transformation in this quite calcified 25-year old gov...

Saverio Ferraro, finalist of European Digital Leader Of The Year 2020, is the CIO of BNL BNP Paribas Group. Since joining BNL in 2017, he has led an impressively planned Agile transformation and has been consistently spreading the Agile culture from IT to other business units, unifying cross-functional teams towards faster development, better user experience and - perhaps most fundamentally - boos...

Saverio Ferraro, finalist of European Digital Leader Of The Year 2020, is the CIO of BNL BNP Paribas Group. Since joining BNL in 2017, he has led an impressively planned Agile transformation and has been consistently spreading the Agile culture from IT to other business units, unifying cross-functional teams towards faster development, better user experience and - perhaps most fundamentally - boos...

For the last 5 years Eelko van Leeuwen has been the CIO of ABN Amro Clearing Bank, which clears and finances over 16 million trades per day and covers 90 of the world's leading exchanges. It guarantees that agreements between all sides of transactions in financial markets are honoured. Eeelko has led two impressive, massive transformation programs - integrating and unifying backoffice systems for...