June Drewry, Former Global CIO of Chubb Insurance




Metis Strategy show

Summary: In this interview, June Drewry, Former Global Chief Information Officer of Chubb Insurance and Aon Corporation, discusses principle one, People, principle three, Project and Portfolio Management, and principle four, IT-Business Partnerships, of World Class IT with Metis Strategy. Some of the topics discussed include: First steps when becoming a global CIO The need for careful decisions on standardization and centralization with a dilligent exceptions process The value of focusing more on streamlining architecture, reuse, data sharing, and portfolio management The usefulness of an Office of the CIO Pushing leaders to operate at a level higher than one's position Eye on the trends: Ubiquitous access to data, consumerization of IT and the empowerment and pressure from executives outside of IT that is creates, the balance of leveraging cloud computing and maintain a secure environment, and the emerging ability to turn big data into information