What challenges does your organization face in addressing Data Quality issues? Last Friday at our IT Leadership Group meeting Divakar Khanna, Director at Optum Data Solutions and Ansh Sarkari, Principal Engineer at Optum Data Solutions lead an informative discussion on the topic, Open Source Technology Solution for Addressing Data Quality. A huge thank you to Optum for…
At last week’s IT Leadership Meeting, we learned who makes up the Board of Directors and what we need to do in order to speak to them as well as join them. I want to thank Karen Fedyszyn for sharing her knowledge with us on the topic Preparing and Presenting to the Board of Directors. …
Project life cycle implementation can be an extensive and difficult process. Last Friday at our Project Management Office Group Meeting, John Danzl, Senior IT Project Manager at LTCG facilitated a boisterous discussion on Project Lifecycle Models; Implementation Strategy, Tactics, and Considerations. A huge thank you to LTCG for hosting us! If you are thinking about a PLC implementation, what…
There is nothing more inspiring than a room full of women supporting other women. A huge thank you to Jackie Hartman, Business Relationship Manager at Cargill and Robin Brown, CIO North America Protein at Cargill for leading a compelling discussion on the topic, 2019: Reaching Your Full Potential. We kicked off our meeting last Thursday with Jackie reciting…
We’d like to thank Land O’ Lakes for hosting our most recent IT Leadership meeting. Aayush Agrawal; Sr. Data Scientist, Cort Lunke; Big Data Architect and Chakra Sankraiah; IT Director of Innovation at Land O’ Lakes, Inc. facilitated an informational discussion on the topic of Machine Learning. Like many other organizations these days, Land O’ Lakes is turning to data analytics…
At last weeks Leadership Meeting we learned that we are always being watched! I want to thank Brian Greenberg for engaging us on the topic IoT Security and how to protect ourselves from the increasingly advanced network of hackers. I would also like to thank Coopers Hawk and Relativity for hosting our meeting. Now let’s…
At the most recent Quarterly Event, we had a hands-on experience learning about our personal LinkedIn Profile and the many applications on our phone that we don’t have on our desktop. I want to take a minute to thank Bruce Bixler for leading the meeting, and Expedia for hosting. Bruce started off the meeting by…
We would like to extend a warm thank you to Stephanie Tulgren, Vice President, IT Vendor Partnerships at U.S. Bank for facilitating our most recent Strategic Partnerships Group meeting last Friday. What a great conversation we had for a cold morning on the topic: Supporting I.T. Innovation. As always, thank you to Medica for hosting our…
A huge thank you to Andrew Schmidt, Program Manager, Network PMO at Xcel Energy and Cindy Hoffman, Sr. Manager, Enterprise Data Governance at Xcel Energy for sharing their experience and takeaways on the topic: Seeing Beyond Scope: How to Ensure Success for Non-IT Stakeholders, Learning from Xcel’s SAP Implementation. Also, thank you to Xcel Energy for hosting. As…
The first Think IT Leadership Group meeting of the new year was one to remember. We had a packed house, standing room only, while we discussed Bridging the Disconnect Between ‘the Business’ and IT. I want to take a minute to thank Julie Devine for hosting the meeting, and Littelfuse as well as Ulta for…