A finance COO’s secrets of success: Collaboration, workplace diversity and the cloud

Being a very good chief working officer includes being progressive and searching on the horizon to foretell what could also be on the forefront of know-how and adapting a company accordingly.

Having a various background spanning a number of industries additionally helps carry forth the mandatory thought range to finest fill the position, in line with Megan Hayes (pictured), managing director, chief working officer and chief product officer at Blackstone Inc., a non-public fairness and actual property funding firm.

“Being a very good COO is about asking actually good questions, being considerate and in search of alternatives the place organizations can hold driving excellence, hold getting higher,” she stated.

Hayes spoke with theCUBE trade analyst Lisa Martin for the “Special Program Series: Women of the Cloud,” throughout an unique broadcast on theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s livestreaming studio. They mentioned range within the office and the migration to the cloud for the finance sector. (* Disclosure beneath.)

Collaboration drives innovation

Blackstone just lately went via a migration, shifting all 4 of their knowledge facilities to the cloud and shifting 240 purposes to the cloud. This introduced with it in depth inner cultural modifications, as many groups needed to come collectively to determine find out how to work via the migration.

“[Cloud migration] permits this creativity and this uplift that they haven’t seen from prior methods of working, and I feel that simply creates an enormous quantity of how of excited about how we’re going to work going ahead,” Hayes acknowledged.

With these modifications, organizations should additionally contemplate diversification of the workforce, as the brand new creativity afforded to workers will profit from the differing concepts coming from all walks of life, Hayes added.

“In know-how, particularly, it’s nonetheless a problem to essentially guarantee that we will get into minority and decrease revenue communities to make sure that there’s nice entry to coaching and to of us that actually wish to take part in this type of a discipline,” Hayes stated.

Right here’s the whole video interview, a part of SiliconANGLE’s and theCUBE’s protection of the “Special Program Series: Women of the Cloud”:

(* Disclosure: TheCUBE is a paid media associate for the “Special Program Series: Women of the Cloud.” Neither Amazon Net Companies Inc., the sponsor for theCUBE’s occasion protection, nor different sponsors have editorial management over content material on theCUBE or SiliconANGLE.)

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