The Big Shift in IT Leadership: How Great CIOs Leverage the Power of Technology for Strategic Business Growth in the Customer-Centric Economy

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Rich Adduci is senior vice president and chief information officer (CIO) at Boston Scientific. In his role as CIO, Rich has led the transformation of Boston Scientific's IS organization, creating a global IS organization focused on delivering competitive advantage for Boston Scientific through the innovative use of information and technology. This transformational journey was featured in the book The Transformation CIO: Leadership and Innovation Strategies for IT Executives in a Rapidly Changing World by Hunter Muller. Adduci is actively engaged in shaping direction in the information technology community at large through his role on several advisory groups, including the SAP Life Sciences Advisory Committee, and serves as a member of the board of directors for the GHX Healthcare Exchange. In 2012 and 2013, he was named as one of CIO Magazine's top 100 CIOs and also ranked #5 in the top 100 CIOs by ExecuRank. He is a champion of inclusion and diversity in the workplace and was named as the 2013 Diversity Executive Sponsor of the year by Boston Scientific. Adduci actively supports his community; among his community outreach is his membership on the Boston American Heart Association board of directors since 2007. He was selected as the Boston American Heart Association board chair in 2012.

Prior to joining Boston Scientific, Adduci was a partner at Accenture, where he had an 18-year career. He holds more than 15 European patents and two US patents for the ...