The Heller Report: How Journey Teams Transformed IT at Ochsner Health

Instead of concentrating on technologies, cross-functional IT teams at Ochsner Health concentrate on their customers’ experiences. The result, explains CIO Amy Trainor, is the company positions its technologies to create a more responsive technology organization. “We are getting projects done more quickly and in a more organized fashion,” she tells Martha Heller in this interview for CIO.com.

The Home Depot named Angie Brown, a 27-year veteran and senior vice president of IT at the retailer, to be its new CIO; Aerospace giant Northrop Grumman appointed Travis Garriss, formerly CIO for BAE Systems, as its new chief information and digital officer; workplace benefits provider Unum Group tapped Sheila Anderson, former CIO at Aflac, to be executive vice president and chief information and digital officer; and the American Lung Association announced Keith Tyrka, former vice president of planning, performance and technology at the College of DuPage, as its new chief information and technology officer.

Parts of the Dead Sea Scrolls have received a new analysis aided by machine learning that may change scholars’ understanding of when scribes put ink to ancient parchment. Researchers from the University of Groningen in the Netherlands detailed their use of an AI model to view ancient samples to estimate more precisely when they were created, The Guardian reported. For example, a Book of Daniel excerpt was older than traditional paleography analysis suggested. “It was previously dated to the late second century BCE, a generation after the author of the Book of Daniel. Now, with our study we move back in time contemporary to that author,” said researcher Mladen Popović.

Heller was recently retained by TI Automotive to recruit a Chief Information Officer. TI Automotive is a Tier 1 supplier of market-leading safety and performance-critical products and highly engineered components to the global automotive industry. For this role, we identified Sheryl Haislet, who most recently was Chief Information Officer for Vertiv. Haislet earned a B.A. from the University of Michigan and an M.S. from Grand Valley State University. Best of luck, Sheryl!