Stu Kippelman, chief information officer of Parsons, was featured in the most recent Executive Spotlight interview with ExecutiveBiz on Monday. He talked about the company’s growth strategy, culture and workforce as well as digital transformation goals. The executive also discussed smart cities, interactive artificial intelligence, data mining and other areas to drive business intelligence.
Here’s an excerpt from the interview with Kippelman about Parsons’ information technology-focused efforts:
“One of our focus areas has been implementing and IT strategy that sums it all up: ‘Always be where the customer is.’ That ethos implies that we will relentlessly prioritize work and projects to ensure complete alignment with what our business needs to deliver for our customers.
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We’re on a complex IT journey and we have made a lot of significant progress modernizing the company’s function. We transformed the operation by moving 85 percent of all workloads and compute into the cloud thereby reducing our data center footprint by 70 percent.”
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