Marlo Donate, 2013 Honoree
- Title
- Director, enterprise applications and digital services
- Employer
- Toyota Financial Services
- Location
- Torrance, Calif.
- How have you incorporated social media into your own work?
- The digital services team uses a Web-based crowd-sourcing application to gather, rank and select innovation ideas from executives, associates and field workers.
- Skills you'll hire for this year:
- Mobile application programming and development.
- How do you evaluate emerging technologies?
- By trying them out in our innovation lab, which is a segregated, secure network with cool tools and cloud connectivity. Business ideas and technology are exercised rapidly with an intent to 'fail or succeed fast.'
- How are you building an IT department for the future?
- One way is by providing core training on Apache Hadoop, both administration and development. Recognizing that big data is in a hype cycle, we are focusing on building core capability rather than selecting vendor products at this time. Read the full profile