Ben Fried, CIO of Google

Summary: In this interview, Ben Fried, Chief Information Officer of Google discusses principle two, Infrastructure, 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: Role of IT at Google Ben's priorities for IT Google's "20% Time" and Open Source openness The “corporatization of consumer technologies” (or the consumerization of IT) Cloud computing's benefits and impact on IT The future IT worker Eye on the trends: The criticality of browser security and how it should not be an afterthought for CIOs, the rise of Android and tablets in the enterprise and the need for CIOs to proactively manage, rather than react to the change, and the emergence and potential of the Chrome Operating System to solve many of the challenges brought on by personal computing