True or False: Don’t worry so much about your PowerPoint- nobody likes PowerPoint anyway. [false] Last Friday at our IT Leadership Group Meeting, Andy Bingenheimer, Senior Vice President, Financial Crimes Development at U.S Bank, led an intriguing discussion on the topic, Who the hell do you think you are talking to? A Discussion on Business Communication. A huge thank you to U.S Bank for…
What do you want to know from the top IT Executives in the Twin Cities? Last Friday, at our Think IT Quarterly Event our Think IT members had the opportunity to text in their questions for our executive panel to answer. Thank you to our panelists; Teddy Bekele, SVP & Chief Technology Officer at Land O’Lakes, Inc., Julie Durham,…
ThinkIT Special Event – Effects of an Agile Transformation (Part 2) Last Friday during our PMO Special Event, professionals from TCF Bank, Lifetime Fitness, US Bank, Cargill, General Mills, and others joined to brainstorm the effects of an Agile Transformation, ways to successfully move towards Agile and struggles encountered along the way. Below are a…
Welcome to our Think IT Strategic Partnerships Group, two-part series for the fall! The topic of choice after much consideration is; Agile 101. Thank you to everyone that was able to attend our first session last Friday, and thank you to Wayne Arnold and Luann Arnold for leading the discussion. As always, a huge thank you…
Are you currently practicing mindfulness? Last Wednesday, at our Women in Leadership Group Meeting, Sarah Engstrom, CISO and Vice President of IT Security, Productivity and Privacy at CHS Inc., and Beth Singer, Data Protection Manager at CHS Inc., led an intriguing conversation on the topic, Mindful Leadership. Sarah and Beth kicked off the meeting asking the group, what does mindfulness mean…
How do you bring all your data together? Last Friday, at our IT Leadership Group Meeting, Sayeed Reza, Product Engineering, and Data Solutions at Optum led an interactive discussion on the topic, Data as a Service Platform (DaaS). A huge thank you to Optum for hosting us! Sayeed kicked off the meeting defining what Data as a Service Platform does, which…
Last Friday at our IT Leadership Group Meeting, Chuck Martel, Staff VP, Enterprise Data and Analytics at Anthem, Inc., led an interactive discussion on the topic, Digital Shifts and Their Effects. A huge thank you to Securian for hosting our group! Chuck kicked off the meeting with a slide of a typewriter and asked, what…
At our most recent Quarterly Event, we learned the foundation of a personal brand. I want to thank Mark DiGiacoma for giving us the tools we need and hitting on the strengths we all have, to building your own personal brand. I would also like to thank Centro for hosting our meeting. Now let’s get…
At our most recent Leadership Meeting (ITL), we learned about how the “old school days” of robbing a bank and predictive analysis have created several lessons that are applicable in a world of threat and cybersecurity. I want to thank Jim McJunkin for engaging us on the topic of Threat Security – How to build…
Last Friday at our IT Leadership Group Meeting, Chuck Martel, Staff VP, Enterprise Data and Analytics at Anthem, Inc., led an interactive discussion on the topic, Digital Shifts and Their Effects. A huge thank you to Securian for hosting our group! Chuck kicked off the meeting with a slide of a typewriter and asked, what…