Ahmet M. Mendi, 2013 Honoree
- Title
- General manager
- Employer
- Ulkar Holding A.S.
- Location
- Istanbul, Turkey
- New titles in your IT organization:
- Strategic initiatives manager.
- A recent example of your leadership style:
- Even though it wasn't my direct responsibility, I was able to personally persuade our chairman to allow me to lead the commercial transformation project with IMS Health to restructure our salesforce and the way they do business.
- Characteristic most important in an IT hire:
- Having a business mind is very important. If IT staffers don't understand business in today's world, they have no chance to succeed.
- How are you turning your IT department into a services organization?
- Restructuring the IT department so that most of the services are outsourced and the IT department focuses more on managing these services to deliver better performance to business units.