In the eleventh of 11 episodes, Hari Candadai, Global VP at Rimini Street, interviews former global CIO Tom Grooms to discuss third-party support as a key to unlock resources for digital transformation.

Grooms describes his experiences as a manufacturing CIO at Medtronic, Valspar, and CF Industries, including how IT organizations at manufacturing industry companies can help their enterprises deliver on higher order corporate missions.

Grooms also notes a strategic alignment between what he characterizes as a manufacturing CIO’s inclination to ‘run an IT environment until it fails’ and his experience with the capabilities of third-party support in maintaining the environments of manufacturing industry companies.