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Do you trust the data & reports from the big analysts?

Strategy & Architecture

Yes

Sometimes

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Are you happy in your current role?

People & Leadership Talent Management & Performance

Yes

Unsure

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Which RDBMS do you feel best suits the needs of today's climate of rapid change and iteration?

Engineering

SQLite

CouchDB

PostgreSQL

MongoDB

SQLServer

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What is the best alternative to S3?

Cloud

Microsoft

Google

SAP

other

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Which one of the following do Object Storage opportunities fall into?

Storage

< 100TB

< 500TB

< 1PB

< 5PB

< 10PB

Tens of PB

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What type of applications do you plan to run on Object Storage?

Storage

Custom

Homegrown

Analytics

Don't know

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Which of the following best describes your biggest challenge with object storage?

Storage

Performance

High cost

Rate of Data Growth

Other (none of the above)

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Which of these digital skills are most in demand in your organization? (select all that apply)

Talent Management & Performance

Cloud computing development / operations

Software and solutions technical proficiency

Mobile computing development/operations

Experience in statistical analytics languages/platforms

User experience/design

Knowledge of machine learning

Social media engagement/analysis

Content development/management

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To drive digital innovation, do you attend demos by tech startups / companies?

Disruptive & Emerging Technologies

Never Tried

Tried but discontinued

Trying but needs work

Adopted but impact is unclear

Adopted with measurable impact

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Who does the CIO role in your organization report to?

Team & Organizational Design

Global CIO

CEO

CFO

Board

COO

Other

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When it comes to loading Office 365 in your service catalog and backup plans, do you typically treat it as a single service or break it down into its individual components such as email, SharePoint, OneDrive, etc.?

Applications & Platforms Management Tools Strategy & Architecture

Ray TanVP of IT at Bayer in Healthcare and Biotecha year ago

As a individual components

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We have a BYOD policy and we need to amend our policy to include banned mobile apps due to security/privacy concerns, i.e. TikTok. Has anyone found a trustworthy and maintained list of apps your company should ban from mobile devices that access your information systems due to privacy and security concerns?

Mobile Devices End-User Devices Security+1 more

Ray TanVP of IT at Bayer in Healthcare and Biotech2 years ago

It’s hard to create a universal list, as there are so many variables between companies.

On the more aggressive end, a regulated financial services firm will pretty much prohibit almost everything. A public relations ...read more

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How do you define data literacy?

Data & Analytics Mentoring & Coaching Culture & Values

Ray TanVP of IT at Bayer in Healthcare and Biotech2 years ago

When an individual possesses the skills to understand, use and make decisions using the data

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How is remote work evolving?

Team & Organizational Design Talent Management & Performance Business Relationships

Ray TanVP of IT at Bayer in Healthcare and Biotech2 years ago

I don’t think governments are keeping up with the speed at which the world is now developing. They don’t yet understand that people can work from anywhere and that they have to rethink the way that taxation and social security ...read more

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What do you do if you inherit a poorly performing team?

Talent Management & Performance

Ray TanVP of IT at Bayer in Healthcare and Biotech2 years ago

The first thing I would do, I'll have one on one with each of the team members and will try to identify the issues with each individual. Then based on the issues will try to address them accordingly. Also will try to ...read more

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What resource challenges are most difficult to solve?

Talent Sourcing & Hiring Availability & Capacity Management Talent Management & Performance

Ray TanVP of IT at Bayer in Healthcare and Biotech2 years ago

Folks are stealing each other's resources left and right. It’s not happening so much internally, it’s more cross-company. We are part of a larger conglomerate, so we have that competitive view. And I don't think we ...read more

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What are the signs of "toxic positivity" in team management?

Talent Management & Performance Culture & Values

Ray TanVP of IT at Bayer in Healthcare and Biotech2 years ago

Letting staff know that things are getting better. Being positive!!!

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Was the need for security in the industrial internet of things (IIoT) underestimated?

Security Strategy & Roadmap Risk Management IoT

Ray TanVP of IT at Bayer in Healthcare and Biotech2 years ago

Early on in the IIoT space, none of the technologies underlying those devices had changed in 30 years. But the business opportunity turned out to be far more challenging than anybody foresaw at the outset. Back then I would ...read more

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Are there any innovative processes that can accelerate a new software product introduction in enterprise?

Enterprise Architecture Process Management

Ray TanVP of IT at Bayer in Healthcare and Biotech2 years ago

I'm not using or aware of anyone in the company using something I would call "innovative" in the process. However for every rollout we have named business partners that all go through training on the software ...read more

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How do you measure innovation?

Innovation

Ray TanVP of IT at Bayer in Healthcare and Biotech2 years ago

1)The number of new product or applications launched
2)revenue generated by the new product or application
3)number of ideas submitted by employees

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