System Execution Podcast

Tom Grooms is Vice President, Information Technology and Chief Information Officer for CF Industries, a role he has held since March 2016. Tom joined CF Industries from Valspar, where he served as CIO for four years. Prior to Valspar he held numerous executive IT leadership roles with Medtronic for over seventeen years. Tom has a Bachelor of Science in Finance from Valparaiso University and an MBA from University of Illinois-Chicago. What you’ll learn about in this episode: What a CIO does in IT The engagement between the business and IT: why it matters Tom’s Business-IT Engagement System The pyramid for maximizing IT impact and what needs to be done well at each level How IT can help grow the business Why you need to assign “business partners” to lead this engagement The continuous delivery model that makes IT effective Why IT people have to learn to become great listeners and great question askers Why you need to think 18 months out Collecting the right data Ways to contact Tom: Website: www.cfindustries