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Thomas Druby

Vice President of IT

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Applications & Platforms5
IT Strategy & Roadmap4
Engineering4
Process Management4
Business Applications3

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Do you have remote employees on your team?

Talent Management & Performance

Yes

No

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What do you trust more and are implementing today - Multi-factor authentication or single-sign on ?

Identity & Access Management (IAM)

Multi-factor authentication

Single-sign on

Both

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SIEM Vendors - Have you used or evaluated?

Exabeam

Alienvault

Sophos

LinkAmerica

Splunk

Other

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How long have you been in your current position?

People & Leadership Talent Management & Performance

<1 year

1 - 2 years

2 - 3 years

3 - 5 years

5+ years

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How useful is your LinkedIn feed to you as a professional?

Productivity Tools

Very useful

Useful

Not very useful

Other (write a comment)

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How large is your department?

< 5 individuals

6-10 individuals

11-20 individuals

> 20 individuals

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Is AI going to affect the number of jobs in your company in the next 12 months?

Culture & Values AI & Machine Learning

Yes, more jobs created

Yes, jobs lost to AI

Other (please comment)

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Who leads the most AI projects with business impact at your company? The CEO or the CIO?

People & Leadership AI & Machine Learning

CEO

CIO

Other (please specify below).

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What do you think is the next biggest thing?

Disruptive & Emerging Technologies AI & Machine Learning Augmented & Virtual Reality (AR/VR)+5 more

AI, ML, DL

Blockchain

Robotics / Cobotics

Chatbots

AR/VR

Connected Home

5G

Quantum Computing

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Should the CIO always present IT projects to the CFO with an ROI?

People & Leadership Financial Management

Yes

Not always, but when possible

No

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What package have you selected to manage ITSM in your organization and what was the driving factor in that decision?

Applications & Platforms

Thomas DrubyVice President of IT8 months ago

We selected ServiceNow. The key criteria was the ability to provide workflows/ intakes for any process across the company regardless of area (IT, HR, finance, etc.). The ability to quickly get up and running, robust, interoperable ...read more

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What does your customer feedback process look like? How quickly is your software team able to act on customer requests?

Engineering Customer Engagement Process Management

Thomas DrubyVice President of IT8 months ago

We have what we call a President's Council which is comprised of our top 20 customers. We meet at least quarterly to obtain feedback from them on the business as a whole and we also get into how our systems are performing. ...read more

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Does Agile Methodology work for AI projects? With many companies adopting Agile for software development, does trying to "make" Agile work for AI initiatives a mistake?

Disruptive & Emerging Technologies Data & Analytics Generative AI+8 more

Thomas DrubyVice President of IT8 months ago

It definitely works. With AI, you can't go right on the first time. So you need to follow agile to improve and conquer

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What are some tried and true methods that you use to communicate your IT strategy to build support and engagement? The sort of things that are part of your personal playbook because they consistently work. Have you taken any unconventional approaches to communicating your strategy that have worked well?

IT Strategy & Roadmap

Thomas DrubyVice President of IT8 months ago

When building an IT strategy, it's extremely important to involve your team and your business stakeholders. Listening to their views, acknowledging their concerns and paving a way forward. If the IT Strategy is built ...read more

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We are modernizing our on-prem data platform by migrating to a cloud-based DWH solution with best-in-class cloud tools. As part of this migration, we also need to do a one-time migration of 200+TB of historical data from on-prem to the cloud. So, I am wondering what's the most effective way to do this in a cost-effective and less duration. We are exploring the Microsoft data box option and other ETL tools...... Please share your thoughts on which tools or mechanisms you recommend.

Thomas DrubyVice President of IT8 months ago

This depends entirely on how much time and bandwidth you have. You should look in to the AWS "Snow" series (Snowball, Snowmobile, etc.) as those are probably the easy-button answer. If you have a huge amount of ...read more

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Does anyone have a recommendation for an ITSM provider? Please share any pros and cons with those you've used.

Applications & Platforms

Thomas DrubyVice President of IT10 months ago

Can you please be more specific about what you are looking for?

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There is a lot out there about the benefits of SmartSheet. In our shop we are seeing license management as a concern. What challenges are others having?

Applications & Platforms Feedback Project Management

Thomas DrubyVice President of IT7 months ago

You are right about the benefits of SmartSheet. We too had the issue with license management. The other issue we ran into was supporting departments who had taken SmartSheet to a complex level with embedded functions and ...read more

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