How to reinvent food business with long tradition? What does it take to eliminate manual work and to have as much workflow as possible?

In this #LeadershipDeepDive episode, Sanjay Patel, CIO of Tate & Lyle, talks with Hendrik Deckers about how to reorganize the way we work. Big evangelist of technology and automation, Sanjay believes that pandemic was a great change catalyst that enabled huge transformation of the workplace and workforce. “Start small, pick a technology” and start the journey in robotics, says Sanjay. Throughout this conversation Sanjay also reflects on the new approach to Innovation:

☑️ Sharpening focus on customers
☑️ Accelerating portfolio transformation & innovation pipeline (data & insights)
☑️ Simplifying business (automation, workflow)
☑️ Agility & integrating business

Having worked as a chemical engineer, business consultant, transformation leader and CIO gave Sanjay all the necessary capabilities to understand and work with the business. Watch this amazingly insightful interview and learn from Sanjay Patel how years of self-development helped him to become a conscious business leader.

01:05 | Introduction and Sanjay Patel’s background

03:44 | About Tate & Lyle

05:50 | Drivers for change

08:02 | Reinventing the approach to innovation

10:10 | Reorganizing the way we work: the workplace

17:48 | Changing workforce

20:00 | IT organization

23:40 | Workflow

26:00 | Building a robot factory

27:23 | Citizens development

29:42 | New Technologies Tower

31:30 | Changing role of CIO

34:44 | Sanjay’s management & leadership style

38:14 | MBTI profile: the Executive

43:27 | Sanjay’s core values

44:52 | Sanjay’s mentors

49:12 | Bad and good memories

52:03 | Personal mantra

54:33 | Ways to relax

58:04 | Sanjay’s biggest fear

01:02:05 | Advice for people starting out