Cynthia Stoddard, senior vice president and chief information officer at NetApp discusses how to keep the communication lines open with your IT staff.
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"Within my organization, I do a couple of different things with my IT group. I run brown bags and I run coffee talks. At the brown bags, I like to go around the room and actually find out from people what is on their mind about a particular topic. I get a wealth of information that way. And I bring it back to my staff and we talk about it and we act on it.
At the coffee talks, I open it up, ask me, any question you want, the floor is open. And it's an absolutely amazing experience. I get a tremendous amount of different questions, we get into very detailed conversations about changes we have made, questions about the company strategy and where we are heading. It is just wonderful. So open feedback and communication.
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Cynthia Stoddard is the Senior Vice President & Chief Information Officer (CIO) at NetApp. In her role as CIO, she is responsible for providing a long-term technology vision that supports and is aligned with the company’s strategies and goals, business plans, operating requirements, and overall efficiencies. She provides leadership to the Global IT organization to enable delivery of worldwide business solutions and infrastructure that support the company’s growth. Additionally, she acts as the primary advocate of NetApp to external markets to promote further awareness of the NetApp on NetApp initiative.
