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1. Digital Transformation: Secrets
of the Successful C-suite
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2. Peter High
President, Metis Strategy,
Author, and Speaker
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Featuring:
Gus Shahin
CIO and Senior VP of IT,
Flex
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3. “You have an opportunity to meet with a lot of
IT executives, and to ensure that as you are
collaborating with these companies, learning
from them what they're doing well, you are
leveraging your team more generally
speaking.”
- Peter High, President, Metis Strategy,
Author, and Speaker
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4. “One thing I've noticed is that the true
startups or the innovators, I think, they move
a lot faster than the traditional big guys. So
we have to move at the pace they do because
if we try and slow them down, they’re going to
go look for someone else. So it's made us
make some changes internally.”
- Gus Shahin, CIO and Senior VP of IT, Flex
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5. “With the digital transformation that you and
others are overseeing, how do you define
success? “
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- Peter High, President, Metis Strategy,
Author, and Speaker

6. “A key KPI for us is asset velocity through the
entire system. How can we buy product by
components, build the products, ship them
out the door as quickly as possible in a very
effective way so that we don't sit on so much
inventory because inventory is cash for us at
the end of the day.”
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- Gus Shahin, CIO and Senior VP of IT, Flex

7. “What lessons would you draw for others who
might wish to follow in your footsteps to be
the change agents relative to a digital
transformation?”
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- Peter High, President, Metis Strategy,
Author, and Speaker

8. “Everything is becoming digital. It's all about
data; it’s all about how you analyze that data
in a very quick and efficient way so you can
make decisions that affect your entire
company. And if you don't get IT involved
right from the beginning, I don’t think you’re
going to have a chance to do that.”
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- Gus Shahin, CIO and Senior VP of IT, Flex

9. “The CIOs job back in the day was… make
sure the networks are up, make sure
everybody’s got their laptops, their cell
phones, and don't really get involved in the
business. But I think that's changing very,
very quickly.”
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- Gus Shahin, CIO and Senior VP of IT, Flex

10. “One of the elephants in the room when one
contemplates digital change is security, and
the fact that the complexity of one’s security
stance… is only increasing.”
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- Peter High, President, Metis Strategy,
Author, and Speaker

11. “Security is obviously one of my top priorities
as it is probably for every CIO because it's
also the board's top priority. So you know,
ever since the Home Depots, and the Targets
got breached a few years ago, I think it's
become a priority for every company out
there, at least every CIO I’ve talked to.”
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- Gus Shahin, CIO and Senior VP of IT, Flex

12. “It seems like a tremendous advantage that
you and your department have at being so
customer-centric is the fact that you have
access to the most innovative companies in
the world innovating with your company.”
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- Peter High, President, Metis Strategy,
Author, and Speaker

13. “The way we manage that is we have a pretty
big IT department that's engrained with our
four segments. On their staffs, there are
actually IT folks, and they actually report
online for the segments. So they're always
there at the frontlines.”
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- Gus Shahin, CIO and Senior VP of IT, Flex

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