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CIO Sessions: Randy Spratt, McKesson Corp.

Randy Spratt heads up IT for McKesson, the $88 billion healthcare giant headquartered in San Francisco. In our video interview transcript here Spratt described one aspect of McKessons business as the Amazon.com of healthcare. "We’ll do a billion and half dollars of pharmaceuticals every month through our online capabilities," he...

Tags: Spratt, General, IT Management, CIO Sessions

Blog posts 2006-11-22

The CIO Agenda 2006

On April 26, the Churchill Club held a panel discussion, "The CIO Agenda: Building the New IT" podcast here. The panelists include four CIOs--Lars Rabbe of Yahoo listen to my separate podcast interview with Raabe, Geir Ramleth of Bechtel Group, John Johnson of Intel and Randall Spratt...

Tags: CIO, McKesson Corp., Information Technology, Bechtel Group, Outsourcing, Randall Spratt, Strategy, Intellectual Property, Change Management, Management, Research & Development, Business Operations, Tools & Techniques, Dan Farber

Blog posts 2006-04-30

Ciphersoft Improves Application Usability and Development Productivity

McKesson Information Solutions is part of McKesson Corporation, a Fortune 20 healthcare services and information technology company. The company wanted to modernize and migrate the user interface for the primary application environment used by McKesson's Horizon Clinicals development team and improve usability and productivity of the application environment. They wanted...

Tags: Oracle Corp., McKesson Corp., Ciphersoft, McKesson Information Solutions, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources

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SAP Real Estate Management Provides Effective Portfolio Analysis for Healthcare Industry Giant

Founded in 1833 and based in San Francisco, the McKesson Corporation is the leading provider of supply, information, and care management products and services. McKesson Corporation wanted to consolidate its corporate real estate operations, unify processes among its business units, and reduce costs. The company turned to the SAP Real...

Tags: Corporate Real Estate, McKesson Corp., SAP AG, Health Care, Analysis, SAP Real Estate Management, Real Estate, Financial Services, Business Operations

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HIMSS moving on interoperability roadmap

One of the big problems in hospital computing has long been simple interoperability. Given the high sales cost and high value of a hospital sale, vendors resist this. Proprietary protections make the HIMSS show floor look like a trip back to the 1980s. There are big booths...

Tags: Open Standard, Goal, Workflow, Hospital Computing, Process Improvement, Quality, Business Operations, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-02-27

iPhone: Coming to a corporation near you?

iPhone: Coming to a corporation near you?Apparently the major corporations do not agree with Apple...[url=CIOs pooh-pooh the iPhone]http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/07/24/cios_badmouth_iphone/[/url][i]Four out for four CIOs agree: the iPhone is no match for the Blackberry. Last night, at an event hosted by Silicon Valley's tech-happy Churchill Club, four high-profile CIOs - representing Google, Hasbro,...

Tags: Microsoft ActiveSync, Apple iPhone, Apple Inc., corporate world

Discussion threads 2007-07-26

iPhone activations disappoint

iPhone activations disappointI knew it...My wife wanted one of these and I told her there was no way I would go along with it. I knew it would be a total failure and it is. My rep and I knew it would fail because it did not have the "hooks"...

Tags: Sales strategy, Apple iPhone, Apple Inc.

Discussion threads 2007-07-24

McKesson CIO: Randy Spratt - Transcript

Dan Farber: Randy thanks for joining me.Randy Spratt: Dan it’s a pleasure to be here.Dan Farber: Now Mckesson is an old company, since 1833 it’s been in business, 88 billion dollars in revenue, twenty two and a half thousand people. And in a health care industry which is really troubled...

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Blog posts 2006-11-15

McKesson CIO: Randy Spratt - Transcript

Dan Farber: Randy thanks for joining me. Randy Spratt: Dan it’s a pleasure to be here. Dan Farber: Now Mckesson is an old company, since 1833 it’s been in business, 88 billion dollars in revenue, twenty two and a half thousand people. And in...

Tags: Social Networking, Innovation, Supply Chain, CIO, Network, Open Source, Information Technology, Business, Health Care, Tool, McKesson, Strategy, Leadership, Management, Administrator

Blog posts 2006-11-15

Mercury automates change control management

I hear a lot about change control these days. During the Churchill Club CIO panel discussion last week, Randall Spratt, CIO of McKesson Corp., talked about the quality of the change management function as an indicator of whether an IT project will succeed or fail. Enterprises are constantly making application,...

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Blog posts 2006-05-01

A Flawless Upgrade to SAP Solutions Was the Prescription the Country's Largest Drug Distributor Needed to Handle Its Phenomenal Growth

McKesson Pharmaceutical, a division of McKesson Corp., a leading healthcare services company, upgraded legacy systems to provide more flexibility and a stable IT environment, primarily for sales and distribution, materials management, and business intelligence applications. The company wanted to support rapid growth with adequate business software and develop robust, flexible...

Tags: SAP AG, Pricing, Business Intelligence, Tools & Techniques, Enterprise Software, Databases, Marketing, Software, Data Management, Management

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