Sometime ago I interviewed David deMilo former Chief Technology Officer of Kaplan Education. On this 60 minutes “Success Interview” we discussed many topics ranging from IT Innovation, Leadership, Execution and everything in between. Most of the questions came from the members of ItinnerCircle.

David has been an innovator in IT and digital media for 20 years, leading strategic IT and commercial internet projects for companies like Knight Ridder Digital, Kaplan, Primedia and Altria. He has extensive experience with systems integration and enterprise architecture issues, n-tier application development, and evangelizing best practices to optimize the software development lifecycle and technology organizations. David is a 1980 graduate of Harvard University.

David is an expert when it comes to driving business value through technology. On this interview he shares wide variety of topics ranging Developing Applications To Delivering Success and everything in between.

  • While business is constantly evolving through acquisitions how do you deliver IT projects in alignment with business needs

  • In The area of Business Value creation through IT many struggle with the word “Innovation”. David has championed this by introducing new technologies, and even creating departments to focus on “Advanced Technology”. Advanced technology could be very specific to an IT department (given where it is in the technology curve) David shares key ideas on how to mushroom innovation?

  • How to deal with leadership uncertainty when managing critical projects

  • Sometimes its impossible to break through all the barriers of resistance and stand out. How to deal with “places that punish”

  • Why QA is very strategic to project delivery and why IT departments should have dedicated QA resources for any new application development or enhancements

  • How to contain data integration challenges with in a scaling enterprise

And Many more.

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In my books he is a true visionary and a strategist when it comes to Technology, in fact he is the best when it comes to implementing solutions that bring value to the enterprise. I am sure you will enjoy this interview. If you do, please leave a comment for us here.

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