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Helen Cousins, Executive Vice President and Chief Information Officer of Lincoln Trust Company

Published: March 17, 2014, 8 a.m.

In this interview, Helen Cousins, Executive Vice President and Chief Information Officer of Lincoln Trust Company, discusses World Class IT principle four, IT & Business Partnerships, with Metis Strategy. Some of the topics discussed include:

  • Helen’s unorthodox path to CIO and how it contributed to her understanding of IT as part of a business
  • The value of the broader perspective due to a business background in Helen’s success as a CIO
  • The challenges and strategies in mending the relationship between IT and business to garner support and trust
  • The importance of appropriately marketing accomplishments in IT both internally as well as across the organization
  • Helen’s rise to becoming a Board level CIO and the impact of an IT executive’s perspective to the rest of the board
  • Eye on the Trends: The growing importance of cloud and mobile technology and the need to understand how to analyze and leverage risks to gain support for related projects

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