523: Stanley Black & Decker CIO Rhonda Gass discusses

• Why Rhonda formed an enterprise IT organization to consolidate all of IT across the company 
  
• Why Rhonda has aligned IT to the company’s three strategic pillars: financial performance, innovation, and responsibility
  
• The company’s North Star innovation model, which has the data platform positioned at the core and 4 interconnected platforms
  
• Ways in which IT’s standardization and modernization helped prepare the company for the pandemic
  
• The company’s 4 top priorities once the pandemic hit
  
• Rhonda’s path to a public board
  
• Her advice to others wishing to do the same
  

Among a variety of other topics.