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In this interview, Stewart McCutcheon, CIO of Ecolab, Inc., discusses World Class IT principle one, People, principle three, Project and Portfolio Management, and principle four, IT-Business Partnerships, with Metis Strategy. Some of the topics discussed include:

• The imperative of the IT organization’s strategy to look to become a source of competitive advantage for global organizations in the future
• The various ways in which Stewart has built cross-functional capabilities to pull knowledge from the disparate functions of R&D, IT, and business, in a way that enables a greater understanding of the organization’s needs.
• The important yet difficult conundrum of “build” versus “buy” in a global information technology organization, and the strategic importance of customization of systems and processes in creating competitive advantage
• The challenges and opportunities Stewart identified when serving as the lead integrator of two merging companies with distinctive cultures and processes
• Stewart’s unique promotion to CIO from the company acquired in a merger, and potential reasons behind the decision
• Eye on the Trends: The success of high intensity, goal-oriented task forces formed to improve flawed processes, the growing trend of the CIO having core competency as a business person more so than a technologist

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