CIO Bhaskar Ramachandran speaks with Martha Heller, CEO of Heller Search, on how IT is reducing technical debt and sparking growth at the $18 billion paint, coatings, and specialty materials supplier. Credit: PPG As CIOs know, a highly acquisitive company will reach an inflection point when years of technology proliferation begin to stymie future growth. For this reason, paying down technical debt while innovating and supporting growth is one of the greatest challenges for the modern CIO. Bhaskar Ramachandran, CIO of PPG, which provides specialty paints to a large network of body shops and retail outlets, details how the company uses a platform, consolidation, and cloud-only approach to modernization. Why is there a need for transformation at PPG? We’re a 142-year-old company that has paid dividends for 125 years; Wall Street calls us a dividend aristocrat. We have a lot of pride in our legacy, but it’s resulted in some technical debt. Over the last 20 years, we’ve completed over 60 acquisitions and divestitures, which have been very good for our growth, but that’s also left us with more technical complexity. For example, with several dozen ERPs and general ledgers, and no enterprise-wide, standard process definitions of things as […]
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