Scaling a medical device company: A CIO’s digital transformation journey

Novanta’s CIO shares how they navigated digital transformation, overcame challenges and embraced the future of AI. Credit: MetamorWorks / Getty Images When I started at Novanta about five years ago, my first mission was to bring scalability to our Enterprise solutions, as well as developing a digital roadmap to modernize the technology footprint, reduce technical debt, and explore strategies to ensure that we’re growing at scale. Novanta is a leading global supplier of core technology solutions that give medical and advanced industrial original equipment manufacturers a competitive advantage. We are scaling through organic growth as well as through acquisitions. One of many important missions is to ensure that when you acquire and integrate a company, then you transition them to good foundational systems I started as a CIO but with cyber events happening at an increasingly alarming rate, I developed the cyber program. We are a long way from that now – we’re going to be getting our ISO 27001 certification soon. We started with a ‘crawl-walk-run’ approach, and even though we’re now walking fast, there’s always room to run. I give credit to all the team members within my group, from help desk to infrastructure to the application […]

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