{"id":647830,"date":"2013-03-20T12:56:25","date_gmt":"2013-03-20T16:56:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gigaom.com\/?p=622394"},"modified":"2013-03-20T12:56:25","modified_gmt":"2013-03-20T16:56:25","slug":"emcs-paul-maritz-it-takes-leadership-to-move-companies-toward-a-data-driven-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/647830","title":{"rendered":"EMC\u2019s Paul Maritz: it takes leadership to move companies toward a data-driven future"},"content":{"rendered":"

It would be easy to think that moving companies toward a future in data would be a technological challenge, but Paul Maritz, EMC\u2019s chief strategist and a key member of its Pivotal\u00a0Initiative\u00a0spin-off<\/a>, took a different approach: it\u2019s about human leadership.<\/p>\n

Speaking with Om Malik on Wednesday in New York for GigaOM\u2019s Structure:Data<\/a>\u00a0conference, Maritz talked about the two potential courses a company might take in heading toward a data-driven future:<\/p>\n

\u201cI think there\u2019s two ways. One way is, unfortunately, Darwinian evolutions,\u201d he said. \u201cBut others will change and change always comes through leadership, where someone in the organization has to really step up and drive change.\u201d<\/p>\n

Maritz said when he was at VMWare, he was fascinated that in looking at different companies in the same businesses, he could see that some would be fifty percent virtualized, and others only ten percent virtualized, simply because of the mindset at the organization that had inspired the change.<\/p>\n

\u201cChange really requires leadership. It requires people to understand the organization and get behind it,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Check out the rest of our Structure:Data 2013 coverage here<\/a>, and a video embed of the session follows below:<\/p>\n