This is a great interview with Peter Nichol speaking about the strategic role of the CIO.
Peter Nichol, one of the CIO Leadership Award Finalists at the 2015 MIT Sloan CIO Symposium, knows firsthand how strategic the CIO role has become in the digital age. As head of IT at Access Health CT, Connecticut’s health insurance exchange, he implemented the organization’s digital strategy, leveraging software as a service and launching a mobile app to ease the insurance registration process.
In part one of this three-part interview, Nichol talks to site editor Francesca Sales about the digital CIO’s challenge of finding a balance between driving efficiency and innovating.
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Peter Nichol: Fortunately, we’re kind of on the edge of technology and really leading a digital initiative across the exchanges. For Connecticut specifically, a lot of what we’ve done with our teams over the last year is try to position our businesses to be digital-based and really leverage software as a service, the flexible and elastic infrastructures that enable a faster speed to market and faster delivery. We’ve been fortunate that we’re on the cutting edge and we are some of those disruptors.
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References
SearchCIO. (2015a). The digital CIO’s dilemma: Balancing efficiency gains and innovation. Retrieved June 25, 2015, from http://searchcio.techtarget.com/video/The-digital-CIOs-dilemma-Balancing-efficiency-gains-and-innovation