{"572371":{"#nid":"572371","#data":{"type":"news","title":"How Boeing\u2019s Transformation Is Taking Flight","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EBy Byron Connolly\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAs a young lad, Ted Colbert played with chemistry sets and taught himself how to program on a Commodore 64, an entry-level computer that was hugely popular in the 1980s.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EA few decades later, with a love for engineering and IT and a stack of experience under his belt at AT\u0026amp;T Bell Labs, Ford and Citi, the American landed the plum yet highly challenging role of CIO at $96 billion aerospace and defence giant, Boeing.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EToday, Colbert is responsible for IT strategy, operations and processes at the world\u2019s largest aerospace company, and one of the top manufacturers of commercial aircraft and defence, space and security systems. There are more than 6,000 IT staff in his team.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EColbert is leading technology transformation initiatives at Boeing which will play a big part in preparing the 100-year-old global organisation for its second century of operation.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ELast week, Colbert was visiting IT teams in Australia, which is the organisation\u2019s largest footprint outside the United States.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThere are some amazing products that we deliver in the locations here in Australia,\u201d Colbert tells \u003Cem\u003ECIO. \u003C\/em\u003EAustralia provides a small yet very agile environment to test out and implement solutions that are used by the global organisation, he says.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThis group [in Australia] is able to accelerate the application of many of the things we are trying to do across the enterprise. We do research work here, we do fabrication and manufacturing and sell services \u2013 we do all sorts of things.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EColbert describes being at the helm of a big piece of an organisation that has been around for 100 years as an \u0022awesome responsibility.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETo read more about Colbert\u0027s work at Boeing, visit CIO magazine at \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/bit.ly\/2c0g3un\u0022\u003Ehttp:\/\/bit.ly\/2c0g3un\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EBoeing\u0027s CIO and ISyE alum (BSIE 1996) Ted Colbert is leading a technology transformation that will prepare the $96 billion aviation giant for its second century of operation.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Boeing\u0027s CIO, Ted Colbert is leading a technology transformation that will prepare the $96 billion aviation giant for its second century of operation."}],"uid":"28766","created_gmt":"2016-09-02 10:40:17","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:22:30","author":"Shelley Wunder-Smith","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2016-09-02T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2016-09-02T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"572321":{"id":"572321","type":"image","title":"Ted Colbert, ISyE alum and Boeing Chief Information Officer","body":null,"created":"1472826733","gmt_created":"2016-09-02 14:32:13","changed":"1475895369","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:56:09","alt":"Ted Colbert, ISyE alum and Boeing Chief Information Officer","file":{"fid":"207119","name":"ted-colbert.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/ted-colbert.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/ted-colbert.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":74016,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/ted-colbert.jpg?itok=V5NeJCcf"}}},"media_ids":["572321"],"groups":[{"id":"1242","name":"School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE)"}],"categories":[{"id":"136","name":"Aerospace"},{"id":"130","name":"Alumni"},{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"}],"keywords":[{"id":"4358","name":"boeing"},{"id":"426","name":"isye"},{"id":"170600","name":"Ted Colbert"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39541","name":"Systems"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}