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Managing IT to support rapid growth: An interview with the CIO of NetApp

• As the CIO for a rapidly growing storage vendor, Marina Levinson had to scale the IT organization quickly so that it could handle not only its current tasks but also whatever might be on the horizon.
• Keeping systems up and running is just the beginning; the way the IT function uses resources to satisfy the demands of the business determines the real value of information technology. In this interview, Levinson explains how she has organized her team to work closely with the business in order to ensure that IT’s investments match the organization’s strategic priorities.
• Even in the tech-friendly realm of Silicon Valley, IT leaders struggle to inspire their own people—and the business colleagues who depend on them—to move beyond an order-taking mentality by striving to understand the needs of the business and proposing innovative solutions to its problems.