Business Chief US+CAN Magazine August 2020 | Page 277

“ The cool thing , especially from an agile cultural standpoint , is that we ’ re not leading RPA ’ s implementation , the other areas of the business are guiding it ”

— Michael Loggins , Global Vice President , IT , SMC Corporation of America needs , maximising value to customers by providing a single source of solutions that operate as moving parts of SMC ’ s product ecosystem , cutting the need for multiple vendors exerting influence on process success .
Enacting change began with assessing and understanding value at a cultural level , guided by the need from a company standpoint for IT to add value both internally and externally . “ One of the hardest questions from a cultural standpoint has been : how do you determine value without inherent ,
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EXECUTIVE PROFILE :

Michael Loggins Title : Global Vice President of Information Technology Industry : Industrial Automation Location : Indiana

Michael Loggins is the Global Vice President of IT at SMC Corporation of America . Having joined in 2006 as a Manager of IT before rising to the Director of IT position in 2012 . In 2017 , this position was coupled with an additional role as European Director of IT , with both concluding in 2019 so he could assume his new and current position . businesschief . com