Baseline - June 2007

MONICA LUECHTEFELD OFFICE DEPOT

contribution

Executive vice president for business development, supply chain and I. T. was head of e-commerce before ascending to CIO role.

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LYNNE ELLYN

DTE ENERGY

An innovator in adapting open source and open-source-style management inside I. T. organizations.

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BOB WILLETT

BES T BUY

Also a senior executive in operations at Best Buy, Willett is a big RFID believer; trying to get Best Buy established in China.

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DON BURDICK

COSTCO WHOLESALE

Uses I. T. to give Wal-Mart’s Sam’s Club a run for its money.

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GREG SMITH

WWF

Author of Straight to the Top, How to Become a World Class CIO; climbed a 16,000-foot peak in the Andes to test network connectivity. WWF is formerly known as the World Wildlife Fund.

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KURT WOETZEL

BANK OF NEW YORK

Heads the bank’s Office of Innovation, directing resources in support of accelerating new product development and the successful commercialization of those products and services.

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DENISE WONG

WALGREEN

CIO at large, fast-growing pharmacy chain; her predecessor, Trent Taylor, became president of Walgreens Health Services in May.

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JOHN PETREY

TD BANKNORTH

Adopted SOA to help with bank’s integration efforts.

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JUSTIN SHAFFER

MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL

Designs the one of the best professional sports Web sites; MLB.com deploys business intelligence to enable real-time offers.

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JOE CLEVELAND

LOCKHEED-MARTIN

Longtime CIO of nation’s largest defense contractor and a major systems integrator.

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BILL MCCOREY

CIRCUIT CITY

Creating great outsourcing relationship with company’s vendors.

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TIM HARVEY

HILTON

Uses customer data to boost sales.

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RANDY SPRATT

MCKESSON

Healthcare I. T. innovator continues to streamlining operations through the use of virtualization and data center consolidation.

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DAVE ENNEN

WINNEBAGO

Winnebago is the poster child for how to run a company efficiently on homegrown software.

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DAVID JOHNS

OWENS CORNING

Leading I. T. through company’s Chapter 11 by focusing on key projects.

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JODY DAVIDS

CARDINAL HEALTH

Before coming to Cardinal, the second-biggest distributor of medical supplies behind McKesson, Davids was a director of technology services at Nike and spent 15 years at Apple.

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JONATHAN C. ROBERTS

CVS/CAREMARK

A 16-year veteran of CVS, he’s also held management positions overseeing store operations; used I. T. to boost performance of the company’s pharmacy operations.