Executive Insights: An Interview with Rich Roseman, CIO News Corp

Last week, Alex Bakker and I traveled to mid-town Manhattan and sat down with Rich Roseman, Corporate CIO at News Corp.

In a brief “Executive Insights” video interview posted on YouTube, Roseman shares experience concerning the role and key benefits that Cloud has delivered thus far, as well as the importance of Cloud in the impending spin-out of News Corp's Publishing business mid-year 2013. In addition, Roseman shares insights concerning the impact that Social technologies are having both inside the company, as well as with customers – and provides some time-worn best practice guidance to 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 first of what will be 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.

To learn more about the conference, including information about how to register for the event as well as information concerning the remaining sponsorship slots available, go to www.cloudbusinesssummit.com, or email Chris MacGregor at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. .

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.

Follow Mr. McNee on Twitter at @billmcnee.

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