Lem Lasher
Former Chief Innovation Officer at CSC
About
Lem Lasher, formerly the Chief Innovation Officer at CSC, interviews Nick Donofrio innovation guru and legendary iconic former IBM executive.
Nick Donofrio’s brand and reputation is centered around the Innovation Agenda. Nick is one of America’s most celebrated and beloved technology executives. He retired from IBM in 2008 after a 44-year career. During the last 18 years of his career he led IBM’s technology and innovation strategies.
His responsibilities included IBM Research, Governmental Programs, Technical Support & Quality, Corporate Community Relations, as well as Environmental Health & Product Safety. Also reporting to Mr. Donofrio were the senior executives responsible for IBM’s enterprise on demand transformation. In 2008 IBM Chairman Sam Palmisano elected Nick IBM Fellow, the company’s highest technical honor.
During this interview, Lem and Nick talk about what it takes to be a game changer and how to change the game at an enterprise/institutional level.
Important takeaways include profoundly simple lessons learned from the rigorous application of problem-solving combined with the art of listening in order to innovate and unlock hidden value. Lem and Nick explore the following themes:
- Big challenges and strategies around big game changing moves
- Innovation Agenda in a publicly traded company
- Relationship of R&D spend to successful innovation
- Nick’s post IBM career – passion for education and involvement in Academia
- What’s Nick reading and why?
- Nick’s take on the big lessons he has learned as one of America’s most influential leaders
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Nick Donofrio
Former Executive Vice President, Innovation and Technology | IBM
Lem Lasher. GAME CHANGER.
About GCA Host Lem Lasher
Lem Lasher is currently Founder & Managing Director: Boehme Eckhart LLC, a Consulting and Advisory firm focused on Digital Strategy, Innovation, Strategic Sourcing and Pre & Post Merger, Acquisition and Divestiture Integration. Prior to retirement from CSC, Lem was most recently Corporate Vice President - Strategic Projects and VP General Manager & Managing Director South & West Europe. Lem was formerly CSC's Chief Innovation Officer, Corporate Vice President for the Office of Innovation and President of GBS. In this capacity, he was responsible for setting CSC?s Innovation agenda and managing the Office of Innovation.
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