Lexmark’s Andy Kopp on democratizing data

As a global printer and imaging products company, Lexmark generates a lot of data. To manage and gain insight from that data, Lexmark has created the Product Digital Thread, which has transformed business decision making in the company. It also transformed Director of Transformation Products Andy Kopp’s role, from delivering digital transformation projects to Lexmark to delivering service enablement of IoT products and services to a wider market.[ Learn the secrets of highly successful data analytics teams. | Beware the 12 myths of data analytics and the sure-fire ways organizations fail at data analytics. | Get the latest on data analytics by signing up for CIO newsletters. ]CIO.com’s Thor Olavsrud sat down with Kopp at the CIO 100 Symposium and Awards to learn more about this award-winning project and its impact on the business.To read this article in full, please click her
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The 8-Bit Orange in the Maelstrom

Our 8-Bit Orange is an homage to the era when our company’s founders first fell in love with technology, which at the time meant Atari, ColecoVision, Mario & Zelda, the Apple II, and the Oregon Trail. It is a reminder of the alpha, the first star in our technological constellation and the legacy from which we come.

Technology advisory and management as a vocation is a constantly evolving game that, like those early days, can be played but never mastered. Thinking back to those 8-bit origins, we maintain that sense of play in our work, despite constant challenges and the massive scale of solving problems for corporations.

Additionally, most depictions of the electromagnetic and gravitational pull of supermassive black holes are orange. Our 8-Bit Orange lives in the maelstrom of a constantly shifting marketplace. Curbing the confused movement and turmoil of that change is our mission. We aim to create enough gravity to pull in the best minds in historically disparate businesses, to benefit our clients, partners, contractors, employees, and stakeholders