Saad Ayub, 2013 Honoree
- Title
- Senior vice president, CIO
- Employer
- Scholastic Inc.
- Location
- New York,
- Coolest current project:
- We are working to enhance our relationship with teachers and parents by leveraging third-party services and building digital delivery ecosystems for e-books. Our focus is to leverage school and family book-buying trends and become the glue for teacher-student-parent relationships in a digital world.
- Quick ROI project:
- We brought in-house the support for one division's business operations, onto the Oracle eBusiness Suite. This 15-month project paid for itself in four months based on savings from not paying a third-party provider.
- Boldest IT prediction:
- There will be two types of IT organizations: a utility IT organization, which is supporting the infrastructure and large enterprise applications, and a strategic business partner, which does the basic utility work but is more focused on innovation.