Executive Insights: An Interview with Greg Buoncontri, EVP and CIO at Pitney Bowes

In mid-September, Alex Bakker and I traveled to Stamford, CT and caught up with Greg Buoncontri, EVP and CIO at Pitney Bowes.

In a brief “Executive Insights” video interview posted on YouTube, Buoncontri shares his insights concerning the changing IT landscape and how the Cloud is helping to drive business innovation at his firm. In addition, he discusses how Pitney Bowes is not only consuming Cloud services for internal cost saving and process improvement, but leveraging them in the creation of customer-facing business services. Buoncontri also shares his experience in using tablets, and how they have helped unleash the Boundary-free Enterprise™ at Pitney Bowes -- up and down the organization (including the field service organization). The interview closes with best practice guidance for other senior IT leaders embarking on the journey to the Cloud.

We offer this Executive Insights video as a prelude to the exciting program we are assembling for this year's Cloud Business Summit, to be held on November 14, 2012, at the Westin Times Square in New York City. This is the third in a series of video interviews that we are producing, and posting to YouTube, as we introduce our readers to some of the speakers and panelists who will be sharing their insights and experience at the conference.

Buoncontri will be participating in the mid-morning CIO/CTO panel at the Cloud Business Summit (entitled "The Cloud and Business Innovation -- Guiding IT and the Enterprise). This one-day executive forum brings together CIOs, CTOs and senior business leaders from mid-and-large size enterprises -- across a wide range of industries -- to explore how they can and are realizing value from the Business Cloud.

To learn more about the conference, including information about how to register for the event, go to www.cloudbusinesssummit.com, or email Chris MacGregor.

Mr. McNee is the President and CEO of Saugatuck Technology, a subscription research and advisory firm focused on emerging industry trends and disruptive technologies driving change in enterprise IT. Over the past few years, Mr. McNee has helped spearhead the firm's research into evolving business models as a result of the shift to software-as-a-service (SaaS) and Cloud Computing. More recently, he has been actively involved in launching the firm’s CIO-targeted Cloud migration / leadership practice.

Prior to founding the firm in 1999, Mr. McNee spent eleven years with Gartner, Inc., most recently as Group Vice President and Research Fellow, responsible for guiding the firm's overall research strategy. A recognized expert in enterprise software and related business / IT services, Mr. McNee spent five years leading Gartner's Business / IT Management practice as its Director of Research, focusing on CIO governance, IT sourcing models and e-commerce management strategies. Prior to this role, he was a lead analyst focusing on enterprise business applications, and asset management strategies. Prior to Gartner, Mr. McNee held strategic planning, financial management and marketing positions at CBS, HBO, Comshare and the Institute for Social Research.

A frequent speaker at industry conferences, Mr. McNee has published hundreds of articles and consulted with thousands of business and IT executives, and vendor clients around the globe.

Mr. McNee is a University of Michigan alumnus, and has completed graduate work in economics at New York University. Since 2001, he has been a Board or Advisory Board member for the Westport Public Library.

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