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In this #LeadershipDeepDive episode, Kurt De Ruwe, CIO of Signify, talks with Hendrik Deckers about how the huge transformation that is currently in place at Signify. Throughout this conversation Kurt reflects on how this global company introduces innovation while being environmentally and culturally conscious and how it has maintained its position as market leader: ☑️ streamlining before automating ☑️ fighting for diversity & inclusion ☑️ treating citizens development as an opportunity and not danger ☑️ putting huge emphasis on diversity & inclusion Dive into this interview to learn and be inspired by Kurt De Ruwe! Table of contents: 01:17 | Introduction and Kurt de Ruwe’s background 02:40 | About Signify 03:58 | Innovations in lighting 05:30 | Drivers for change in lighting 06:55 | Reinventing and approach to innovation 09:10 | Challenges of big recent acquisition during pandemic 12:07 | Reorganizing the way we work: role of the workplace & workforce 20:23 | Reorganizing & managing IT team 28:55 | Workflow: new phase of automation 38:44 | From traditional organization to tribes 40:32 | Cloud journey 43:00 | Future of ERP systems 44:55 | Data monetization 47:07 | Evolving role of the CIO 50:25 | Collaboration between IT & Business 52:40 | Kurt’s management & leadership style 55:20 | MBTI profile: the Entertainer 01:01:12 | Kurt’s core values, passions & mistakes 01:08:17 | Kurt’s most brilliant failure 01:11:43 | Advice for people starting out

In this #LeadershipDeepDive episode, Dimitris Bountolos, CIIO of Ferrovial, talks with Hendrik Deckers about Digital Horizon 24, the new official framework that supports and stimulates transformation at Ferrovial. Throughout this conversation Dimitris shares his views of: ☑️ workplace: remote work proves to be efficient, but is it sustainable? ☑️ workforce: evolution of IT organization ☑️ workflow: robots for everyone „We believe in automation”, he says and gives numerous examples of how modern technology contributes to the construction sector. Dimitris is a true renaissance man and he explains how his professional journey (entrepreneur, consultant, artist and digital leader) has shaped his leadership DNA. Dive into this interview to learn and be inspired by Dimitris Bountolos #CIONEXT #UiPath #DigitalLeaders #DigitalTransformation #Automation #FullyAutomatedEnterprise #CIONET #DigitalLeadership #CIO #CXO

In this #LeadershipDeepDive episode, David Jack, CTO & CPO of dunnhumby, talks with Hendrik Deckers about the challenges of transformation within the world’s leading company in customer data science, the ongoing productisation of services and the value of the humans behind it. During this conversation, David also talks about his “nudging” management and leadership styles and how an impostor syndrome can actually become a strength. Watch this interview to learn and be inspired by David Jack who has more than 30 years of experience in the IT industry and has, in his own words, "one of the coolest CTO jobs in the world". TABLE OF CONTENTS 01:13 | Introduction: David Jack's background 03:55 | About dunnhumby 08:43 | About dunnhumby - The real transformations 13:16 | About dunnhumby - The key differentiators 14:58 | About dunnhumby - 'Productising' services 20:24 | Open Culture 24:30 | Critical processes behind the data science goodness 28:29 | Open Source 31:40 | The obvious route to the cloud 36:02 | Exciting technology trends 41:03 | The CTO & CPO role at dunnhumby 44:20 | Management style 46:55 | Leadership Style 49:45 | MBTI Profile – The Logician 53:54 | Sources of happiness 55:40 | Core values 59:53 | Ups, downs and learnings in life 01:04:43 | Mantras and lessons learned 01:07:19 | Advice for people starting out

In this #LeadershipDeepDive episode, Rudi Peeters, CIO of KBC Group, talks with Hendrik Deckers about the role of Open Culture in the continuous transformation of a bank, the organisation’s cloud strategy, processes and architecture and how innovation is rooted in and contributes to the transformation journey. During this conversation, Rudi also talks about how his curiosity, positivity and integrity have paved his path to become a CIO and the evolution of the role. Watch this interview to learn and be inspired by Rudi Peeters – the curious biologist with 33 years of experience in tech, strategy and business. TABLE OF CONTENTS 01:05 | Introduction: Rudi Peeters' background 03:37 | About KBC 04:29 | Continuous Transformation 06:03 | Corona as a Transformation Accelerator 07:36 | Business & IT 10:36 | Open Culture 12:31 | Open Culture & Open Leadership 15:32 | Open Processes & Innovation 19:52 | Open Processes & Innovation - Example of deployed project 20:50 | Open Architecture & Open Technology 21:36 | Open Architecture & Open Technology – Most important technologies for transformation 22:33 | Cloud Strategy 24:07 | Open Source & Collaboration 24:38 | KBC as an Ecosystem 26:21 | Exciting technologies for transformation 27:32 | The Digital & IT organisation at KBC 29:08 | The CIO Role at KBC 30:16 | Management style 32:55 | Leadership style 34:39 | MBTI Profile – The Debater 37:39 | Key drivers 39:05 | Mantras, mentors and learnings 41:11 | Core values 42:17 | Ups, downs and learnings in life 43:43 | Advice for people starting out

In this #LeadershipDeepDive episode, Margaret Dawson, VP & CDO of Red Hat, talks with Hendrik Deckers about Open Transformation, how different types of organisations can succeed in their own transformation, the most exciting technologies today and her passion and drive to increase diversity in tech. Throughout this conversation, Margaret also shares all the ways her background and life journey have been shaping her leadership DNA. Dive into this interview to learn and be inspired by Margaret Dawson! TABLE OF CONTENTS 01:26 | Introduction and Margaret Dawson's background 04:06 | About Red Hat 05:00 | Open Transformation 06:44 | Open Culture & Open Leadership 09:09 | Open Culture – Examples of successful cultural change 10:58 | Open Culture – The role of diversity 12:09 | Female Digital Leadership 15:55 | Open Processes 18:07 | Open Technology & Open Architecture 20:50 | Open Technology & Open Architecture – The 3 layers 22:34 | Open Technology & Open Architecture – Open Hybrid Cloud 25:08 | Open Technology & Open Architecture – Exciting technologies for transformation 28:12 | Successful transformation in large organisations 29:57 | The CDO role in Red Hat 33:03 | Margaret’s management style 35:08 | Attracting talent at Red Hat 37:04 | Margaret’s leadership style 39:41 | MBTI Profile – The Advocate 43:29 | Margaret’s sources of happiness 46:09 | Margaret’s core values 49:16 | Margaret’s mentors and learnings 52:47 | Margaret’s ups, downs and learnings in life 57:10 | Advice for people starting out

In this Leadership Deep Dive episode, Hendrik Deckers talks to Vargha Moayed, Chief Strategy Officer of UiPath, about growing up in Morocco, living in France, USA and most importantly, what his background taught him about resilience as well as balancing humility and boldness in order to go global. Listen to this episode of #LeadershipDeepDive and deep dive into Vargha Moayed's leadership philosophy, his views on how to build a successful team and how he got into the RPA technology. Vargha has become the CSO of UiPath and from this conversation, you can find out why. TABLE OF CONTENTS: 00:00 - Introduction About UiPath 1:50 - What does UiPath stand for? 2:20 - What solutions does UiPath offer? 3:20 - When was UiPath born? 4:47 - What makes Daniel Dines, UiPath's CEO & Founder, special? 7:32 - UiPath's growth story 13:40 - What are the biggest challenges faced by Digital Leaders around the world that UiPath can help solve? About Vargha Moayed 15:53 - The story of Vargha Moayed 27:05 - Views on innovation in big companies - elephants and cheetahs 29:16 - Lessons learned from working in investments in startups 31:44 - How did the move to east Europe came to be? Vargha Moayed in UiPath 34:25 - Getting into the RPA technology 39:47 - What are the key events that need to take place for an European startup to become a success? 42:12 - How important is the view of the analysts on technology companies? 44:24 - What exactly is the role of the Chief Strategy Officer in UiPath? 47:19 - Building successful teams in a fast growing company 49:05 - Vargha's leadership style Vargha Moayed in life 50:43 - What are the values he's passing on to his children? 51:50 - Why does Vargha love change? 53:29 - How many languages does Vargha speak? 54:24 - MBTI Profile 57:21 - Advice for those starting out and have the ambition to be successful 59:42 - The meaning of resilience 1:00:44 - Most important learning in life so far

After a career as IT Director, Krzysztof Dąbrowski became a COO at mBank - Poland's first digital bank that was a fintech before fintech was a thing. In this episode of Leadership Deep Dive, Krzysztof Dąbrowski talks with Hendrik Deckers about his passion for "stealing like an artist" from different management systems to approach complex operational challenges and to always be learning, even if he's exhausted the learning materials from a given domain. He shares the behind-the-scenes view of building efficient operational processes and banking systems on the foundations of obsolete technologies. He dives into a transformation program that compiled COBOL applications into .Net in real time, without stopping any systems, and another that translated a proprietary language into one they could actually find programmers for. TABLE OF CONTENTS 01:00 - Introduction: Krzysztof Dąbrowski, COO of mBank 01:50 - about mBank - the first digital bank in Poland 03:20 - The role of COO at mBank and the operations transformation he led 10:50 - Defaulting on technological debt: compiling into a new language without slowing down the systems 20:00 - mBank's cloud ambition 22:30 - Translating the corporate banking core system 25:50 - How IT is organised at mBank: balancing agility and compliance processes mBank scaled agile model navigating "agile islands" 33:04 - The changing role of a CTO/CIO 36:05 - Krzysztof's management style 39:55 - Recruiting top talent in Poland 43:20 - mBank's innovation strategy, startup incubator and ecosystem 44:00 - What your team says about you when you're not around 45:58 - People and books that inspire Krzysztof The importance of surrounding yourself with kind people You need to know good specialists when you see them, even if you don't understand their craft 52:30 - The difficulty of keeping it simple 54:45 - The values he wants to pass on to his children 56:20 - His advice for future CIOs How learning new skills used to be different Why you should do things you're not yet good at

In this Leadership Deep Dive episode, Francois Locoh-Donou, CEO of F5 (www.f5.com), takes us inside his leadership philosophy and demonstrates in a hard to refute way why diversity, open company structures, constant learning and ongoing transformation are not just values to look into, but crucial strategies to adopt if a company wants to stay competitive in its (ever evolving) market. Francois has become CEO of F5 in 2017 and from this conversation, you can find out why in this time F5 has made a conscious and strategic decision to only acquire two companies (nginx and Shape security) Francois also talks about growing up in Togo and living in the US, why he decided to invest in agricultural industry in his and what his background taught him about identity, pride, privilege and perseverance. About F5 03:15 About F5 - Enabling 24/7 delivery and security of applications 04:40 Challenges of application delivery - multi-cloud - microservices and distributed architecture - automation of continuous improvement 07:04 Telemetry-based security (Shape security) 11:47 Application capital economy 13:58 Code To Customer - integrated view across silos 15:47 How F5 has been evolving with IT architecture trends Building Successful Teams 17:22 Company culture at F5 - humility - loyalty - embracing rapid transformation 18:36 How to make successful acquisitions 21:47 The roles that CEO has to play - vision - leadership - strategy - building relationships with clients 24:47 Developing and driving vision for the company with diverse perspectives 28:12 Building and supporting successful teams - traits of a good leader 29:00 Using humility to grow and listen 31:00 How hierarchies kill innovation 31:40 The value of diversity and nurturing passion and commitment 36:57 Francois' fundamental values - sense of identity and awareness of privilege 39:40 "Development in Africa will come from agricultural revolution" - Francois' investment in developing Togo's economy 42:48 Mentors in Francois' life - The driving force of drive and transformation 48:25 Francois' most memorable failure and what he learned - persevering despite self-doubt and learning from mistakes 51:05 "Once you go through a period of severe adversity and self-doubt, your confidence and desire to take risks is greater." 51:29 Advice for future CIOs and digital leaders - managing your time investment into risks and learning - nobody gets anywhere on their own

Before Martijn Stegink became Global IT Director at Greenpeace 12 years ago, the people on that position changed almost yearly. The first thing he did was ask the global team what they needed and consistently delivered on their top 3 requests. Everyday, Martijn and his team balance technology needs of activists and offices in 28 countries. In this episode of Leadership Deep Dive, Martijn talks to Hendrik Deckers about working across every time zone for global change, with sometimes extreme cultural differences. He talks about keeping an open mind for possibilities, rolling with the punches, learning from mistakes and balancing weaknesses. WATCH AS VIDEO: ▶ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdkhETWjOHE TABLE OF CONTENTS 01:09 - Introduction: Martijn Stegink - Global IT Director of Greenpeace 02:25 - How Martijn has built the IT systems and regained trust of the organisation 06:30 - Transformation program: Global online collaboration system 10:13 - Billion Acts of Courage 12:50 - How IT is organised at Greenpeace 15:00 - Working with different global cultures 16:24 - Martijn's role as global CIO 23:58 - Martijn's management and leadership style 28:12 - Martijn's MBTI profile: ENFP 38:20 - His Mentors (or: why he doesn't believe in mentors) 40:30 - His most brilliant failure 47:12 - Advice for future digital leaders EUROPEAN DIGITAL LEADER OF THE YEAR 2020 Martijn Stegink is a finalist in the European Digital Leader Of The Year contest organised annually by CIONET. Find out the B2B and B2C winners and learn more about the other 16 finalists in the Public and Financial sectors - the winners will be announced at CIONEXT on 26th June 2020. https://ecoty.eu/

Anke Sax wrote her PhD thesis based on interviews with 40 CIOs. She has dedicated years of her career to figuring out how accomplished digital leaders manage their departments and company strategy. Anke was also chosen CIO of The Year 2019 in Germany and has 30 years of executive experience in the financial sector - both on the business side and the IT side. In today's episode of Leadership Deep Dive, she talks with Hendrik Deckers about the difference between a CIO and IT leader, about making the best decisions by listening to the team, engaging ambitious IT talent and the future of IT organisations. Watch Part 1: ▶ https://youtu.be/lyNPa1oKdZk

Anke Sax has interviewed 40 CIOs and wrote a PhD thesis based on that. She has dedicated years of her career to figuring out how accomplished digital leaders manage their departments and company strategy. Anke was also chosen CIO of The Year 2019 in Germany and she has 30 years of executive experience in the financial sector - both on the business side and the IT side. In today's episode of Leadership Deep Dive, she talks with Hendrik Deckers about the difference between a CIO and IT leader, about making the best decisions by listening to the team, engaging ambitious IT talent and the future of IT organisations. 01:05 - Introduction: Anke Sax 01:40 - Anke's most accomplished transformation programs 04:40 - Second transformation program: Building a market strategy for the bank 11:20 - Anke's management style and leading an IT team without an engineering background "A leader should moderate the process and asking the right questions to get the best answers. I don't think that a leader should always have all the answers." 15:12 - Best practices for organizing an IT department 17:25 - How has the role of a CIO changed over the last 10 years? 19:00 - The future of IT departments 19:50 - The key to engaging top IT talent 21:20 - Anke's leadership style 23:30 - How to train listening skills 24:15 - Making companies more agile EUROPEAN DIGITAL LEADER OF THE YEAR 2020 Anke Sax is a finalist of European Digital Leader Of The Year 2020. Find out the B2B and B2C winners and learn more about the other 16 finalists in the Public and Financial sectors - the winners among the latter will be announced at CIONEXT on 26th June 2020. https://ecoty.eu/

In the second part of the conversation with the leaders behind BBVA's award-winning mobile banking experience, Hendrik Deckers talks to Rafael Lopez Gracia, Head of IT at BBVA Transformation Factory. Rafael shares the technological and organisational background of the transformation that made BBVA's IT organisation fast, efficient and innovative. ⭐ This interview is in Spanish ⭐ TABLE OF CONTENTS 00:00 - Introduction: Rafael Lopez Gracia, Head of IT at BBVA Transformation Factory. 04:44 - Attracting and keeping IT talent 06:50 - Working with the IT ecosystem 09:00 - Rafael's role in the IT organisation 11:34 - Rafael's personal values and strengths 13:16 - Advice to future digital leaders 14:22 - How has the role of a CIO changed in the last 10 years? - distributed leadership 15:45 - Rafael's leadership style 17:50 - Rafael's MBTI profile - ESTP 19:55 - Rafael's personal mantra and mentors

BBVA's mobile app was named best banking app by Forrester for 3 years in a row. In this episode of Leadership Deep Dive, Hendrik Deckers talks to the two leaders who transformed the organisation culture so they could transform the customer experience in a radically human-centric and Agile way: Sofía Rodriguez-Sahagún, Head of Retail Digital Banking at BBVA and Rafael Lopez Gracia, Head of IT at BBVA Transformation Factory. TABLE OF CONTENTS 01:11 - Introduction: Sofía Rodriguez-Sahagún, Head of Retail Digital Banking at BBVA 02:10 - The ECOTY-nominated program: Digital factory and transformation of IT organisation - propagating Agile culture - designing and testing with customers - continuous improvement - good practices for transformation 14:20 - Sofia's leadership style 15:50 - BBVA's values 16:40 - Interdisciplinary teams 17:50 - BBVA's nearest future

Barcelona Supercomputing Center is home of the most powerful supercomputers in Europe and is used to run Nobel Prize-winning research. Dr. Sergi Girona, the BSC's CIO and Operations Director, is responsible for enabling Europe's groundbreaking scientific discovery. He states outright that his role is not to lead digital transformation or tell scientists how to innovate or improve their business, because the people he works with are some of the most accomplished scholars and engineers in the world - they know better than anyone what they need. In this episode of Leadership Deep Dive, Sergi talks with Hendrik Deckers about competing with USA and China in the computing power arms race, about attracting and retaining the best engineers in the world, working with suppliers and rapid development of top of the line infrastructure. TABLE OF CONTENTS 00:51 - Introduction: Dr. Sergi Girona, history of Barcelona Supercomputing Center, architecture and the research projects it ran 07:38 - The future of BSC and challenges of running a supercomputing facility 09:20 - Suppliers and procurement process 10:20 - European and worldwide ranking of supercomputers and serving the EU interest 14:28 - Sergi's role at BSC 15:15 - How IT operates at BSC 20:36 - Sergi's management style 21:22 - Finding and retaining top IT talent 23:51 - Sergi's leadership style 25:00 - Sergi's MBTI profile - ISFJ 28:14 - His personal values and mentors 30:03 - Sergi's most brilliant failure 32:19 - Advice to future digital leaders EUROPEAN DIGITAL LEADER OF THE YEAR 2020 Dr. Sergi Girona is a Public sector finalist in the European Digital Leader Of The Year contest organised annually by CIONET. Find out the B2B and B2C winners and learn more about the other 16 finalists in the Public and Financial sectors - the winners among the latter will be announced at CIONEXT on 26th June 2020. https://ecoty.eu/

When the IT talent shortage in Poland was estimated at roughly 100 thousand people, Sebastian Jaworski, then IT director and CIO at ARIMR (The Agency for Restructuring and Modernisation of Agriculture) decided to fire outsourcing partners and build an internal software development factory and hired 40 people within a year. He also led an Agile transformation in this quite calcified 25-year old government organisation. The online platform that his team built has served 2 million farmers in its first year. In this episode of Leadership Deep Dive, Sebastian talks with Hendrik Deckers about: ▴ always seeking a challenge, ▴ agile transformation in a government agency ▴ impressing the business stakeholders who used to resent exorbitant bills for software development ▴ balancing trust and control in leading a high-performance team TABLE OF CONTENTS 00:45 - Introduction: Sebastian Jaworski, CIO of ARIMR (The Agency for Restructuring and Modernisation of Agriculture) 01:17 - Transformation: Reducing software development cost by €50M through building internal software factory of 40+ developers 05:22 - Hiring and developing the IT team 07:50 - IT market in Poland, technologies and potential of blockchain 13:30 - How is IT organised at ARIMR? 14:48 - ROI of the transformation 16:30 - The role of CIO and how it's changed in the last 5 years 18:04 - Sebastian's management style - balancing trust and structure, cultivating team leaders 20:19 - Sebastian's leadership style 22:24 - Sebastian's MBTI profile - ENFJ European Digital Leader Of The Year Finalist Sebastian Jaworski is a Public sector finalist in the European Digital Leader Of The Year Awards. Find out the B2B and B2C winners and learn more about the other 16 finalists in the Public and Financial sectors - the winners among the latter will be announced at CIONEXT on 26th June 2020. https://ecoty.eu/