Ken Venner, CIO of Broadcom

Summary: In this interview, Ken Venner, Executive Vice President, Corporate Services and Chief Information Officer of Broadcom, a designer and developer of semiconductors for wired and wireless communications, discusses principle four, IT-Business Partnerships, of World Class IT with Metis Strategy. Some of the topics discussed include: Making IT “like air”- there and ready to use in plenty, without the need to think about it The challenge and blessing of working with such a large percentage of technically savvy stakeholders Ken’s “walk-crawl-run” approach to collaboratively prototyping solutions to demonstrate value Being “stractical”: maintain the balance between strategic and tactical Broadcom’s acquisitive nature and how IT enables successful transactions Eye on the trends: Consumerization of IT relevance for CIOs, video for content delivery and collaboration, IT professionals getting out of the infrastructure business, and how IT security is under-emphasized