Daphne E. Jones, 2012 Honoree
- Title
- Senior vice president and CIO
- Employer
- Hospira Inc.
- Location
- Lake Forest, Ill.
- New titles added to your IT organization?
- Value engineer. This role was designed to work with our business leaders and process owners to baseline the current state of business processes that could benefit from a technology solution. Once the baseline is complete, the value engineer helps them understand and quantify, where possible, the value that can be derived through improving those processes.
- What characteristic is most important to you in an IT hire?
- Those leaders that can demonstrate their ability to engage in critical thinking (what, so what, now what?), use head/heart/guts leadership and generate results using commitments as the baseline.