Technovation with Peter High (CIO, CTO, CDO, CXO Interviews)

Technovation with Peter High (CIO, CTO, CDO, CXO Interviews)


SYKES Chief Strategy & Marketing Officer Ian Barkin

February 10, 2021

531: SYKES chief strategy & marketing officer Ian Barkin discusses


  • How SYKES leverages technology inside the company
  • How SYKES uses data to deeply understand the buyer and design the best solutions for them
  • Some of the ways in which companies are mismanaging customer experience management
  • Why Ian believes RPA will be a foundation to organizational transformation for years to come
  • The major differences between RPA and AI/ML
  • The dangers of using intelligent automation capabilities, such as AI, too soon
  • Ian’s career path from strategy consulting, to business process outsourcing, to founding Symphony Ventures, to the C-suite of SYKES