Peter Campbell, 2012 Honoree
- Title
- Senior vice president, IT
- Employer
- Sprint-Nextel Corp.
- Location
- Overland Park, Kan.
- How do you make sure your most talented workers stay put?
- We provide them with the opportunity to do challenging work, with interesting technology. We also provide opportunities for training, job rotations and career advancement that our employees appreciate.
- An innovative staff idea:
- A cycle-time reduction effort across the organization. The entire team has embraced a challenge to find creative ways to reduce end-to-end development cycle time by 50% over a two-year period. As a team, we've discovered new tools that will make testing more efficient, enhanced requirements processes, developed more robust reporting to identify problem areas proactively, and leveraged Lean methodologies to simplify internal processes.