A Morning With The CIOs

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We had the NAIT CIO “One Citi” Roundtable with the TLPs yesterday. It was for this meeting that we had the brainstorming sessions. E-business CIO and Blue Ash site President Don Eichenseer joined Tim, Adam, Amit, Jason and I at the Bruins conference room at Blue Ash. The other CIOs who took part in the meeting were Al Evans - CIO, Citi Cards, Mark Bloom - CIO, CFNA and Mike Azarian - CIO, CBNA.

First all the CIOs briefly introduced themselves and then started talking about how their line of business approaches the One Citi strategy. It was very interesting to learn the status of the various initiatives within these lines of businesses. Then we had a pre-submitted Q&A round in which each of the CIOs spoke about their thoughts and approaches for the questions from the brainstorming sessions. Finally we had an open question round.

The whole idea of this meeting was to get the TLPs involved in such large organization strategies. The amount of encouragement this program receives is amazing. “We had a meeting with the CIOs of Citigroup to talk about an organization strategy”.. I think this speaks a lot about the amount importance this program receives from the Senior Management people at Citi.