Making technology fit for business

Greencore chief information officer Colm Gartlan wants to professionalise IT, and has turned to the Irish Computer Society

Colm Gartlan, chief information officer, Greencore

What I find in the business world is that the challenge is to stitch things together to drive efficiency. That can be a difficult thing to do, as you have people coming at it from a business point of view who don’t understand the technology, and vice-versa people who come up through technology who don’t understand the business.”

It’s an uncontroversial statement, perhaps: business hasn’t always valued IT, and in return IT is ...