Last Friday, at our IT Leadership Group Meeting, Shirley Walz, DevOps Manager, Rob Lewis, Product Owner Manager, and John Kelly, Software Engineer Manager at Patterson shared their perspective, insight, and learnings on the DevOps Culture Journey that their Fuse Team has undergone. Fuse is Patterson’s Cloud-based Dental Practice Management solution. A huge thank you to…
Last Friday, during our Agile Roundtable, professionals from TCF Bank, 3M, US Bank, Cargill, General Mills, and others got together for the first stop on our roadshow to discuss ways to move successfully towards Agile and struggles encountered along the way. A huge thank you to TCF Bank for hosting us! Below you will find the key points…
What are your intentions for the day? Last Thursday, at our Women in Leadership Group Meeting, Anne Pryor, MA, and Risë Severson Kasmirski, MA, led an exciting discussion on the topic, Authentic Leadership. They walked us through how we can create soul-filled work through your lifeforce. A huge thank you to Cargill for hosting our group! What is lifeforce? Lifeforce is the force that…
At our most recent CIO Event, we learned how important it is to develop, internally, your next leader. I want to thank Jeff Tschiltsch, CIO at ComPsych Corporation, for leading a very informative meeting on Developing CIO Leadership & Creating A Succession Plan. I would also like to thank ComPsych for generously hosting our meeting.…
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…