Positioning IT as a Competitive Advantage with Tom Ferrucci at Natco Home Group

This week, host David Wright welcomes Tom Ferrucci, Chief Information Officer at Natco Home Group, to explore:

• Tom’s current role as CIO and the growing importance of IT during volatile times, with cybersecurity concerns and the need for innovation.

• The benefits of becoming a good listener and asking good questions.

• How human connection is a sign of good leadership.

• The impact of identifying key people to learn from and having good mentors.

• How taking over a project mid-flight highlighted the necessity for evaluating an entire project from day one.

• How to get stronger and faster outcomes by implementing a feedback loop.

• Tom’s vision of positioning IT as a competitive advantage so that sales, operations and finance departments can make better decisions.

• Natco Home Group’s strong data warehouse and the challenge when people expect data faster.

• How the company has implemented “Tech Tuesdays” to help with security awareness.

Resources:

• Natco Home Group – Facebook

• Natco Home Group – Website

• David Wright – LinkedIn

• Disruptive Innovations – Website

• Disruptive Innovators: Champions of Digital Business – Website

• The Phoenix Project by Gene Kim, Kevin Behr, George Spafford

• The Unicorn Project by Gene Kim

• Fostering Innovation: How to Build an Amazing IT Team by Andrew Laudato

• Tom Ferrucci – Twitter

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