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Jillana Carniglia

Director of IT at Samsara

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How often do you access GPI?

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Every day!

Every couple of days

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Every couple of weeks

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How understanding are you of technical difficulties with virtual conferences or webinars?

People & Leadership End-User Services & Collaboration Process Management+9 more

Not a problem at all, issues happen

Frustrating, but it doesn't change my relationship with the organizer

I get mad, it negatively affects my relationship

It's completely unacceptable

Other / depends on the circumstance (comment)

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Do your executive stakeholders view you as their trusted advisor?

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Yes, they regularly consult my advice before making big decisions.

No, I am often informed after decisions have been made.

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Do you purposefully schedule your down-time?

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Yes, I intentionally schedule breaks and non-work related activities on my calendar

No, I only schedule work-related activities. Down-time happens haphazardly.

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Do you purposefully schedule time for strategic thinking?

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Yes, I intentionally block time on my calendar for strategic thinking

No, strategic thinking happens haphazardly in pockets of time between meetings

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IT certifications are overrated.

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What's your favorite Kanban tool?

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Is your organization's cybersecurity team currently understaffed?

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Yes

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Should employers impose dress codes for remote workers?

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Yes, absolutely

Perhaps

Probably not

Definitely not

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Are CIOs/IT increasingly driving new revenue opportunities?

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Yes, more and more of my focus is now on driving new revenue opportunities

No my attention on driving new revenue opportunities has not increased

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In a hybrid model, how do your in-office days differ from remote working days?

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Jillana CarnigliaDirector of IT at Samsara in Software2 years ago

In office days have less hours worked as I need to drive back and forth and go out to lunch. At home I can take a call at 6:30am, and frequently eat lunch at my home office desk. And can work until 5 or 6pm. No way I ...read more

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Do you encourage your staff to have coffees with people outside their team or people outside of the organization?

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Jillana CarnigliaDirector of IT at Samsara in Software2 years ago

Absolutely. In the past before the drastic expense budget cuts, it was expected to take people to lunch when we traveled to our other offices

We weren’t sales, we were operational IT. But if we could grab some local ...read more

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How do you carve out budget for learning and development (L&D)?

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Jillana CarnigliaDirector of IT at Samsara in Software2 years ago

One strategy is to call it “our problem,” not your own problem. Make it a collective issue rather than saying, "I need to up level my engineers or they're going to leave." Giving it a larger context is helpful ...read more

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How are you providing learning and development (L&D) opportunities?

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Jillana CarnigliaDirector of IT at Samsara in Software2 years ago

There are learning and development (L&D) opportunities for enablement, such as sales and CSM enablement, where we're constantly teaching them about our products. Or when it comes to customer enablement, we’re teaching ...read more

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What do you miss most about in-office working?

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Jillana CarnigliaDirector of IT at Samsara in Software2 years ago

I really miss having a whiteboard session.

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What hybrid model are you using?

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Jillana CarnigliaDirector of IT at Samsara in Software2 years ago

We're using a hybrid working model in New Zealand at the moment. It's interesting but tricky. I've been looking at some good information from Microsoft around how to deal with being half remote and half hybrid. ...read more

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Has remote working impacted capacity planning?

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Jillana CarnigliaDirector of IT at Samsara in Software2 years ago

I've been thinking a lot about capacity, but there doesn't seem to be any redefinition of it now that we’re remote. People have adopted a psychic distance around capacity, for example, when they're looking at ...read more

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Can a dedicated office space improve employee engagement even if some are remote?

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Jillana CarnigliaDirector of IT at Samsara in Software2 years ago

I wonder whether it was having an in-office experience that impacted the engagement on my teams in the past. That's the piece that I still cannot puzzle through. When I was working at a previous organization, I had teams ...read more

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What are some strategies for preparing your workforce to return to in-person or hybrid working?

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Jillana CarnigliaDirector of IT at Samsara in Software2 years ago

I've been thinking about doing more informal cocktail hours, or meeting for coffee before we all start to make a concerted effort to go back into the office. Because it does feel somewhat awkward after being fully remote ...read more

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Have you changed your default meeting times to 25 minutes and 50 minutes, instead of half an hour and an hour?

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Jillana CarnigliaDirector of IT at Samsara in Software2 years ago

We do that using Google, which allows you to program those times as a default. It’s a good idea in theory but I find that it doesn't work in practice. There are some people who will just talk until they've finished ...read more

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