CIO interview: Stephen Booth, CIO, Coventry University

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So, we’d got a good base infrastructure, but what we obviously had to do was scale that up quickly.” The university was already enacting a cloud-first strategy, which allowed Booth’s team to “turn on the taps” to meet demand. “That reality has fundamentally altered the way in which we approach teaching and IT provision.” Booth says his team’s continuing efforts to deliver the technology the business needs have been accompanied by a cultural change programme. We’ve now pivoted that approach to an agile delivery model, which is at different levels of maturity.” The end result of this shift is that the IT team delivers change into the business every two weeks, rather than months later. • Mark Bramwell, CIO, Saïd Business School – After seven years in the job, there are still fresh challenges for the IT leader, including a second digital strategy to deliver. • Jason Oliver, IT director, University of Sussex – Imagine taking a year to formulate a digital transformation plan – then having to implement much of it in two weeks when the coronavirus hit.

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