Episodios

  • From Bottleneck to Accelerator: How NiSource’s CIO Repositioned IT as a Growth Engine

    From Bottleneck to Accelerator: How NiSource’s CIO Repositioned IT as a Growth Engine
    Nov 27 2025
    1032: What does it take to transform IT from a bottleneck into a business accelerator? In this episode, Waco Bankston, Chief Information Officer at NiSource, shares how he’s repositioning the IT organization to support growth, enable speed, and shift decades of technical and cultural inertia. Leading a 6.5-year enterprise transformation effort, Waco discusses the discipline required to modernize legacy systems while instilling a new execution culture.
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    27 m
  • How Unum’s CTO Reimagined the Enterprise with a Digital-First Architecture

    How Unum’s CTO Reimagined the Enterprise with a Digital-First Architecture
    Nov 24 2025
    1031: What does it take to reimagine a 10,000-employee enterprise for a digital-first future? In this episode, Unum CTO Gautam Roy breaks down how he transformed the company’s operating model, culture, and technology foundation by reshaping experiences from the customer backward. Gautam shares how Unum evolved from applications to journeys to value streams; how AI, data, and automation have become levers for acceleration; and how innovation culture and continuous learning drive enterprise adaptability.
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    25 m
  • Mission-Driven Startups Win: Mike Hayes on Building Companies That Last

    Mission-Driven Startups Win: Mike Hayes on Building Companies That Last
    Nov 21 2025
    7: What if your company’s greatest advantage isn’t the product—but the purpose behind it? Mike Hayes, Managing Director at Insight Partners and former COO of VMware, believes mission clarity is more than culture—it’s a strategic asset. Drawing on 20 years as a Navy SEAL and senior tech executive, Mike shares why knowing “who you want to be” is a superpower for founders and boards.
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    43 m
  • Why Snowflake’s CIO Rebranded IT for the AI Era

    Why Snowflake’s CIO Rebranded IT for the AI Era
    Nov 20 2025
    1030: What does it take to evolve IT into a forward-looking innovation engine? Mike Blandina, CIO of Snowflake, shares how he's reimagined IT as "Enterprise Technology" as a way to describe what 'IT' really does: lead a solutions-first mindset at Snowflake designed for the AI era. In this conversation, Mike reflects on his first eight months leading tech at one of the world’s most AI-forward data cloud companies.
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    31 m
  • Chandra Dhandapani on Balancing Talent Strategy with Data, Flexibility, and ROI

    Chandra Dhandapani on Balancing Talent Strategy with Data, Flexibility, and ROI
    Nov 17 2025
    1029: What if your hiring strategy were fueled by the largest contingent workforce dataset in the world? Magnit CEO Chandra Dhandapani joins Technovation to explore how data is reshaping how companies think about talent—from role design to sourcing strategy to real-time labor cost insights. Chandra also shares lessons from her journey from CIO to CEO and offers perspective on why automation—not AI—is the skill trend to watch.
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    26 m
  • Designing AI from the Customer Back: Hari Gopalkrishnan on Bank of America’s Approach

    Designing AI from the Customer Back: Hari Gopalkrishnan on Bank of America’s Approach
    Nov 13 2025
    1028: How can AI be designed from the customer back and not the model forward? Hari Gopalkrishnan, Chief Technology and Information Officer at Bank of America, joins Peter High to share how one of the world's largest financial institutions grounds its AI strategy in user behavior. From developing Erica to enabling employees with tools like Ask Merrill, Hari explains why every AI solution must begin with real customer or employee friction.
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    35 m
  • How Dell Consolidated 800 AI Projects into 4 Scalable Enterprise Platforms

    How Dell Consolidated 800 AI Projects into 4 Scalable Enterprise Platforms
    Nov 10 2025
    1027: What does it take to scale AI from 800 siloed experiments into enterprise-wide impact? Doug Schmitt, President of Dell Technologies Services and CIO of Dell, joins Peter High to unpack the company’s enterprise AI playbook—a journey from fragmented innovation to four scalable platforms used across software development, customer service, supply chain, and sales.
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    25 m
  • Give First, Build Later: Brad Feld’s Strategy for Ecosystem-Driven Innovation

    Give First, Build Later: Brad Feld’s Strategy for Ecosystem-Driven Innovation
    Nov 7 2025
    6: What does it take to play the long game in innovation? Venture capitalist Brad Feld has spent four decades answering that question as a founder, mentor, and early-stage investor in companies like Fitbit, MakerBot, and Techstars. In this episode, Feld unpacks the enduring impact of mentorship, the logic behind his "Give First" philosophy, and how startups and enterprises alike can benefit from ecosystem thinking.
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    1 h y 10 m