Welcome to the Cloud Wars Minute — your daily news and commentary show, hosted by Cloud Wars Founder Bob Evans. Each episode provides insights and perspectives around the “reimagination machine” that is the Cloud.
In this Cloud Wars Minute, Bob shares pieces from his recent interview with Samantha Earp, who is the CIO and VP of IT at Smith College. The conversation took place at the Workday Rising customer event earlier this month. A full-length Cloud Wars Live podcast episode featuring the full interview with Samantha will be coming soon.
Highlights
00:18 — While the pandemic has impacted every industry, the higher education market was hit quite severely.
01:05 — Samantha joined Smith College six years ago, considering it the chance to modernize IT.
01:32 — She and her team have been fostering a mindset and culture around creating great experiences for the students, and having a greater impact, rather than just being worried if the servers will fail during registration, for example.
02:17 — Shifting human behavior is always a challenge. This represents the new transformative role of the CIO. They have to see things not just from the outside looking in but be part of the collaboration and community.
02:55 — Samantha shared that she loves “interesting problems” so they can go after the things that truly make a big difference.
03:13 — She has enjoyed the engagement that Smith College has had with Workday, which has enabled them to be a forward-looking organization.
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