My Principles for Successful Business Enablement

Summary

Esat Sezer, Coca-Cola Enterprises CIO discusses successful management of IT with MeetTheBoss.

The Coca-Cola Enterprises CIO is responsible for 70,000 employees handling replenishment for all of this global brand's non-alcoholic beverages. Oh yes, and over 50% of the workforce is mobile. But have you ever not found a Coke when you want one?

You will find out:
Esat’s lessons from transitioning all staff to SaaS in just nine months
How CIOs can make it easy to make the right choices
What new skillsets will be required by your IT department, tomorrow


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Esat Sezer

Before his current role, Esat Sezer served as corporation vice president and chief information officer for Whirlpool Corporation, a position he held since 2002 prior to joining Whirlpool as vice president of global information services in 2001.Sezer held several positions of increasing responsibility with Colgate-Palmolive Co., including global information technology director, Europe/Africa/Middle East Division director, global applications associate director and information technology director in Warsaw and in Istanbul.From 1988 to 1991, he was a senior consultant at Andersen Consulting in London. Born and raised in Istanbul, Sezer received his bachelor of science degree in electrical engineering from Istanbul Technical University and his master of science in quantitative analysis from Istanbul University. Sezer will replace Bill Hartman, vice president of information technology.Coca-Cola Enterprises Inc. is the world's largest marketer, distributor and producer of bottle and can liquid nonalcoholic refreshment. Coca-Cola Enterprises sells approximately 80 percent of The Coca-Cola Company's bottle and can volume in North America and is the sole licensed bottler for products of The Coca-Cola Company in Belgium, continental France, Great Britain, Luxembourg, Monaco, and the Netherlands

Esat Sezer