Listen "Sanjay Patel – CIO of Tate & Lyle – From manual work to full automation in a food ingredient company"
Episode Synopsis
How to reinvent food business with long tradition? What does it take to eliminate manual work and to have as much workflow as possible?
In this #LeadershipDeepDive episode, Sanjay Patel, CIO of Tate & Lyle, talks with Hendrik Deckers about how to reorganize the way we work. Big evangelist of technology and automation, Sanjay believes that pandemic was a great change catalyst that enabled huge transformation of the workplace and workforce. “Start small, pick a technology” and start the journey in robotics, says Sanjay. Throughout this conversation Sanjay also reflects on the new approach to Innovation:
☑️ Sharpening focus on customers
☑️ Accelerating portfolio transformation & innovation pipeline (data & insights)
☑️ Simplifying business (automation, workflow)
☑️ Agility & integrating business
Having worked as a chemical engineer, business consultant, transformation leader and CIO gave Sanjay all the necessary capabilities to understand and work with the business. Watch this amazingly insightful interview and learn from Sanjay Patel how years of self-development helped him to become a conscious business leader.
01:05 | Introduction and Sanjay Patel’s background
03:44 | About Tate & Lyle
05:50 | Drivers for change
08:02 | Reinventing the approach to innovation
10:10 | Reorganizing the way we work: the workplace
17:48 | Changing workforce
20:00 | IT organization
23:40 | Workflow
26:00 | Building a robot factory
27:23 | Citizens development
29:42 | New Technologies Tower
31:30 | Changing role of CIO
34:44 | Sanjay’s management & leadership style
38:14 | MBTI profile: the Executive
43:27 | Sanjay’s core values
44:52 | Sanjay’s mentors
49:12 | Bad and good memories
52:03 | Personal mantra
54:33 | Ways to relax
58:04 | Sanjay’s biggest fear
01:02:05 | Advice for people starting out
In this #LeadershipDeepDive episode, Sanjay Patel, CIO of Tate & Lyle, talks with Hendrik Deckers about how to reorganize the way we work. Big evangelist of technology and automation, Sanjay believes that pandemic was a great change catalyst that enabled huge transformation of the workplace and workforce. “Start small, pick a technology” and start the journey in robotics, says Sanjay. Throughout this conversation Sanjay also reflects on the new approach to Innovation:
☑️ Sharpening focus on customers
☑️ Accelerating portfolio transformation & innovation pipeline (data & insights)
☑️ Simplifying business (automation, workflow)
☑️ Agility & integrating business
Having worked as a chemical engineer, business consultant, transformation leader and CIO gave Sanjay all the necessary capabilities to understand and work with the business. Watch this amazingly insightful interview and learn from Sanjay Patel how years of self-development helped him to become a conscious business leader.
01:05 | Introduction and Sanjay Patel’s background
03:44 | About Tate & Lyle
05:50 | Drivers for change
08:02 | Reinventing the approach to innovation
10:10 | Reorganizing the way we work: the workplace
17:48 | Changing workforce
20:00 | IT organization
23:40 | Workflow
26:00 | Building a robot factory
27:23 | Citizens development
29:42 | New Technologies Tower
31:30 | Changing role of CIO
34:44 | Sanjay’s management & leadership style
38:14 | MBTI profile: the Executive
43:27 | Sanjay’s core values
44:52 | Sanjay’s mentors
49:12 | Bad and good memories
52:03 | Personal mantra
54:33 | Ways to relax
58:04 | Sanjay’s biggest fear
01:02:05 | Advice for people starting out
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