Wrapping up our annual 24 hour hackathon that we call Innovation Day. We had 8 teams competing across 4 countries on the categories of overall winner, biggest benefit to the customer, most innovative, and audience favorite. It blows me away every year what the teams are able to produce in such a short period of time – and then have the guts to do live demos to the entire company; really cool stuff from creative data visualization, to artificial intelligence, and business process automation. Incredible honor to be working with such talent!

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Background: Recently I completed the CIO Pocket MBA program at Boston University. This was a fantastic experience that I highly recommend to any leader in the I.T space. The insightful and inspiring professors are reputable thought leaders who have spent years researching various aspects of technology, management, business, and financials. Additionally learning from industry peers was equally valuable. During my time there I feverishly took a lot of notes in order to capture and ultimately share the knowledge. Keep in mind – these are raw notes that only scratch the surface from multi-hour/multi-day long sessions. My intent is not to replicate the knowledge as it was presented, but more to quickly disseminate key points that stood out to me. To fully benefit I highly recommend you sign up for the next round of this program (http://bit.ly/1juJEIP).

[su_pullquote]The greatest danger as a leader is believing the past is a prologue to the future. Believing you’ve done it before, and rest on your laurels that you can do it again.[/su_pullquote]

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