Positioning IT as a Competitive Advantage with Tom Ferrucci at Natco Home Group
This week, host David Wright welcomes Tom Ferrucci, Chief Information Officer at Natco Home Group, to explore:Tom’s current role as CIO and the growing importance of IT during volatile times, with cybersecurity concerns and the need for innovation....
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Show Notes
This week, host David Wright welcomes Tom Ferrucci, Chief Information Officer at Natco Home Group, to explore:
- Tom’s current role as CIO and the growing importance of IT during volatile times, with cybersecurity concerns and the need for innovation.
- The benefits of becoming a good listener and asking good questions.
- How human connection is a sign of good leadership.
- The impact of identifying key people to learn from and having good mentors.
- How taking over a project mid-flight highlighted the necessity for evaluating an entire project from day one.
- How to get stronger and faster outcomes by implementing a feedback loop.
- Tom’s vision of positioning IT as a competitive advantage so that sales, operations and finance departments can make better decisions.
- Natco Home Group’s strong data warehouse and the challenge when people expect data faster.
- How the company has implemented “Tech Tuesdays” to help with security awareness.
Resources:
- Natco Home Group - Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/NatcoHomeGroup/
- Natco Home Group - Website - https://www.natcohome.com/home/
- David Wright - LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidmfwright/
- Disruptive Innovations - Website - https://www.disruptiveinnovations.net/
- Disruptive Innovators: Champions of Digital Business - Website - https://www.disruptiveinnovatorspodcast.com/
- The Phoenix Project by Gene Kim, Kevin Behr, George Spafford - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17255186-the-phoenix-project
- The Unicorn Project by Gene Kim - https://itrevolution.com/the-unicorn-project/
- Fostering Innovation: How to Build an Amazing IT Team by Andrew Laudato - https://www.amazon.com/Fostering-Innovation-Build-Amazing-Team/dp/1119853109
- Tom Ferrucci - Twitter - https://twitter.com/tferrucci?lang=en
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