Joe AbiDaoud, CIO of HudBay Minerals

Summary: In this interview, Joe AbiDaoud, Chief Information Officer of HudBay Minerals, 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: A description of HudBay Minerals’ metals mining business and the impactful role technology plays in enabling the company’s push for growth His priorities for the near term around perfecting their newly rolled out ERP, leveraging geological survey and discovery technology, as well as improving wireless communication for their many disparate operations How, as a CIO in a new industry, Joe utilized a company-wide survey to understand the true perception of IT across the organization The inclusive governance model that HudBay uses to ensure that all the right players are included in decision making HudBay’s organizational structure that has a central CIO function, central architecture, and shared services for IT infrastructure Eye on the trends: Technology that supports all mining operations, especially the geophysical exploration technology, growing ease and power of improved communications, and the further out potential for robotics to reduce costs amid rising fuel and labor costs