Sarah Betadam, CIO of photonics, vision, and precision motion technology supplier Novanta, describes the need and process of going from zero company-wide reporting capability to a fully functional data-driven enterprise. Credit: Dr. Sarah Betadam / Novanta With headquarters in Boston and over 2,700 employees worldwide, Novanta is an $800 million global supplier of laser photonics, precision motion control, and vision technologies. CIO Sarah Betadam, who joined in 2019 as VP of business applications, and then became global CIO in January 2021, is tasked with the strategic direction, leadership, and implementation of the company’s digital transformation, juggling several initiatives simultaneously, many of which surround efforts to become a fully functional data-driven enterprise. “My team and I are very proud of our transformation that started in 2019,” she says. “When I joined, there was a lot of silo data everywhere throughout the organization, and everyone was doing their own reporting. So in monthly or quarterly combined meetings, there weren’t apples to apples being compared. It was also a lot of churning for the different groups to come up with those data on the weekly, monthly and quarterly basis.” So from the business side, there was a lot of inefficiency getting data […]
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Invest The Invisible Impact
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Invest The Invisible Impact
