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Southfield, Mich.-based Covisint, a b-to-b venture
between several automotive companies, is working to
introduce an ASP software delivery model to an
industry that is used to a more traditional model. For
CTO and Senior Vice President of Technology Kevin
Vasconi, overcoming that hurdle means spanning the
tech and business worlds.
Vasconi also spends a good deal of time evaluating
emerging technologies and capacity planning. The
capacity planning, in particular, is a "never-ending
struggle" to commit just the right amount of
resources to keep customers happy without
overspending, he says. He has been a champion of
industry standards, especially the use of XML in
messaging and application services.
At the end of the day, "the only thing, the common theme that keeps me up
[at night] would be, 'Am I missing something?' " Vasconi says.
Vasconi says emerging technology poses a unique situation for CTOs "finding
that balance between wanting and literally needing to stay current on
technology."
Luckily, there is a silver lining: getting first crack at shiny new tech tools.
"That's the fun part of the job," Vasconi says. "For those of us who love
technology and thus migrated into this profession; that's absolutely one of
the perks. You get to see so much new technology, a lot of which isn't
necessarily applicable to the job you're trying to solve, but it's pretty cool."
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