Bruce Leidal, CIO of Carestream Health

Summary: In this interview, Bruce Leidal, Chief Information Officer of Carestream Health, a worldwide provider of dental and medical imaging systems and healthcare IT solutions, discusses principle two, Infrastructure, and principle four, IT-Business Partnerships, of World Class IT with Metis Strategy. Some of the topics discussed include: Reducing IT spend as a portion of revenue to an aggressive target Rationalizing expenditures as value creating or sustaining Using "relationship managers" as liaisons between IT and business partners Constant internal analysis of business relationships and IT operations to ensure excellence Enabling all "smart devices" through its IT infrastructure and policies Eye on the trends: supporting any “smart device” in the workplace and the consumerization of IT, the power of cloud computing solutions integration, the focus on leveraging analytics through the cloud, and leveraging social media to bolster sales and marketing efforts