Tony Saldanha, 2014 Honoree
- Title
- General manager, global business services
- Employer
- Procter & Gamble
- Location
- Cincinnati
- A key relationship:
- My line manager is P&G Global Operations leader Werner Geissler. We agreed on the top two business opportunities, and I drove the breakthrough IT transformation there. Werner is incredibly strategic as well as brilliant in systemic execution. I focused on exceeding business outcomes while tapping into these skills often.
- How do you evaluate emerging technologies?
- It's very simple: Prove the ability to deliver business outcomes in a small way first. The challenge isn't to pick the most powerful, the shiniest or the best, but the one that works for your business in real life.
- To what extent do you embed IT workers in business units?
- This is a core strength of our business model: highly professional client leaders embedded in each business unit. They have one success measure: relevance of IT/shared services to their business units.