October 17, 2023
Episode 63: Digital Transformations and the Art of Possible with Jeff Roberts
Today’s conversation on The Future of Teamwork features Jeff Roberts, the founder of Innovation Vista and a longtime CIO turned CEO. During the interview, host and HUDDL3 CEO Dane Groeneveld discusses Jeff’s background in the pharmaceutical industry, and how that translates to his work today helping organizations adapt and adopt the right technology to prioritize growth and efficiency. The two also discuss how difficult it is to execute strategy at scale, the merits of winning customer loyalty with disruptive, innovative products, and overall discussing the art of what’s possible.
Guest Bio
Jeff Roberts is the founder of Innovation Vista, an IT consulting firm offering C-level IT leaders for strategy & leadership engagements, driving business results for small & midsize organizations. Across 25+ years of IT leadership, Jeff has gained recognition as a 5-time CIO, former finalist for Enterprise CIO of the Year, and as the founder and leader of Innovation Vista since 2019. He has turned around multiple struggling IT departments, led IT in dozens of successful M&A transactions, guided Digital Transformations in several industries, and transformed multiple IT departments into profit centers. 16 of his former subordinates have later advanced to C-level positions. Jeff has been interviewed on television, on multiple podcasts, and in many magazine articles on the topics of Innovation, IT Leadership, Tech Consulting, and Digital Transformation.
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Recap & Takeaways
Key Takeaways
- Meet Jeff Roberts, CEO of Innovation Vista
- Fractional and virtual work, expertise on-demand regardless of location
- The art of possible, opportunity for teams in riding the pace of change with advancing capabilities
- Working through the software, tools, and processes that resulted from COVID
- A cost to using the wrong tool, then replacing it
- Human nature around job security and new waves of technology like automation and AI
- Technology as a teammate, treating AI like a junior employee
- DEEP acronym, agile approaches and mindsets around technology adoption and team growth
- Working with business leadership, talking about what is possible
- The complexity of AI and navigating the media hype around this new technology
- Efficiencies with technology and AI from Apple CarPlay to routine automation
- It’s difficult to execute strategy, finding opportunities to scale strategy and partnerships
- Winning customer loyalty, innovating and disrupting
- Objective framing for services organizations, assessments, and recommendation reports
- A focus on top line rather than margin
- Technology will become more affordable because of AI
- Privacy and proprietary data
- Jeff’s hope for the future of teams, leveraging AI intelligence to enhance human intelligence
- Connect with Jeff
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