Don’t Break the Bank: Run IT, Change IT

A podcast for curious minds in the financial services industry. Working in IT in the banking sector, it is easy to focus on keeping the lights on. In this podcast, host and Financial Services Industry Managing Director at VMware, Matthew O’Neill along with fellow VMware colleagues will explore the challenges and different facets of life in banking keeping CIOs awake at night. The goal is to transform the way banks and other financial service providers work and to provide the hose to put out the fires!

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Focusing on Talent and Not Just Technology with Colin Bannister

3 Takeaways:

  • An organization is more defined by the people that work there than the technology they create.
  • Make sure employees know what their value is to an organization and encourage them to define their goals.
  • Seek out mentors and offer mentorship. The education on both sides makes it possible to challenge old ways of thinking and discover new solutions.

Key Quotes: 

  • "Having a clear career path and journey for everybody is important.” - Colin
  • “Technology doesn't necessarily differentiate your company or your capability - your people do.” - Colin
  • “I've gone off using this term soft skills because they're not soft at all. I call them human skills. What are the human skills that we have to develop to become even more effective in our roles?” - Colin

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Links

Colin Bannister LinkedIn

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Colin Bannister Blog

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About the Hosts

Matthew O'Neill is a husband, dad, geek and Industry Managing Director, Advanced Technology Group in the Office of the CTO at VMware.

You can find Matthew on LinkedIn and Twitter.

Brian Hayes is an audiophile, dad, builder of sheds, maker of mirth, world traveller and EMEA Financial Services Industry Lead at VMware.

You can find Brian on LinkedIn.

Adding Sprinkles to the Cloud and Hypervisor Conversation

3 Takeaways:

  • Technology changes are hard, but they're never quite as hard as the people, process and organizational changes that need to happen - the culture changes.
  • The notion of agile portability is critical and getting progressively easier.
  • When going through a digital transformation, it’s really important to talk about it openly as a community - what’s working, what’s not, and to learn from it.

Key Quotes: 

  • "I think VMware is on a journey. If we're successful, people will think very differently of us. They will not think of us as just a virtualization company. They'll think of us as a multi-cloud modern application...and that’s a great opportunity.” - Kit
  • “From a VMware standpoint, we’re leveraging Kubernetes as a standard framework...and then building integrated functionality on top of that. So the end result for customers is that it's just a seamless experience. And yes, Kubernetes is there under the covers, and you can absolutely interact with it if you want to, but you also don't have to.”  - Kit
  • “That notion of culture change is extraordinarily difficult and will be by far the hardest part about any sort of transformation.” - Kit

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Kit Colbert LinkedIn

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About the Hosts

Matthew O'Neill is a husband, dad, geek and Industry Managing Director, Advanced Technology Group in the Office of the CTO at VMware.

You can find Matthew on LinkedIn and Twitter.

Brian Hayes is an audiophile, dad, builder of sheds, maker of mirth, world traveller and EMEA Financial Services Industry Lead at VMware.

You can find Brian on LinkedIn.

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