You know how do you help the business identify what that target is? What are you looking for? What are the things that that the business could be doing differently that would allow them to not only use more technology but use the technology they have more effectively? Right? So, you know, let's take Jay up to 30,000 feet and he's able to wave a magic wand down on a Quikrete. It's like, what aren't you guys using printers? Don't you have PC's at your desk? Isn't your office networked? Don't you have a major ERP system in a data center somewhere? How could you possibly not be digital? Right? And I think that kind of opens the discussion up for us on why technology independent of the business is less than everything by a long shot. Right? I mean for the layman and the folks that don't know that much about the idea of business transformation, about the idea of turning your business into a platform or something akin to that it seems odd to talk about digital transformation. And at the highest level there's the theme of is digital transformation really business transformation or is it digital transformation? And I think knowing you I would say that digital transformation is the byproduct of business transformation. So you know in talking about digital transformation we even had this conversation before the program started about the idea that, there are a huge number of themes that you could go into in any major trend or topic area in the IT space. being a household of men, if there's a sport, we've played it. And then my quote unquote little guy who is not little at all is 15 and is a sophomore. I have a Junior at the University of Georgia, I have a rising freshman in college and who's currently about to graduate in May. So I'm a single dad and we've been on our own for about 12 years and so they keep me hopping. I am a widower, I lost my wife to cancer in 2007 and I think a lot of people who know me know that. So before we get into the rest of the technical discussion, tell us a little bit about what Jay likes to do on the weekend or when he's not doing CIO stuff.
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I'm looking forward to diving into that discussion a little bit more about the best way to actually identify what that future could look like and helping the business part of the organization understand how to create the right target for IT to follow. And if it's one thing I've learned, in every industry and every organization there's opportunity. AIG, the American Cancer Society, Earthlink and a number of other companies. You've been part of a number of digital transformations I have to in prior lives. I think there's opportunity in any industry. It's interesting and I told folks I was joining the organization and the first thought was man, cement and concrete and all these other products that Quikrete does, and it goes straight to your point that I think any industry is ripe for a platform. I mean I think we hinted at that before we started the program, but I don't think that any company is exempt from the opportunity to create a platform for itself, for how it works more effectively with others, both internal and external, from customers to partners to even potentially competitors. We're the largest manufacturer of concrete and cement products in North America and you know, it's not an industry that screams digital transformation right out of the gate, but I think you know as well as I do every industry is ripe for transformation on some level.
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Jay, welcome to the show.Ĭan you give the audience your 30 second update on what you're working on these days?Ībsolutely. He has a long history with several CIO level roles in the technology space and I'd like to thank him for joining us today.
On today's podcast I'd like to welcome Jay Ferro CIO at Quikrete. Hello and welcome to another edition of the IDCA to Infinity Paradigm and beyond podcast where we will bring in the most recognized faces and thought leaders of the technology industry and have candid discussions on topics pertaining to digital transformation, cloud, data centers, infrastructure, and IT leadership.
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