Subject: Innovation strategies: IT transformation is on track at Amtrak
From: "Eric Schwerin" <[email-masked]>
To: "Hunter Biden" <[email-masked]>, "Michael Muldoon" <[email-masked]>, "Rob Walker" <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2011 11:23:41 -0500

Innovation strategies: IT transformation is on track at Amtrak
By Linda Tucci, Senior News Writer
16 Mar 2010 | SearchCIO.com
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Talk about a high-stakes journey. Three years ago, Amtrak's IT operations, which previously reported to the CFO, were moved to the purview of the CEO, with the goal of making IT a strategic partner to the business. CIO Ed Trainor was recruited to make it happen. Trainor, who oversees 300 employees and an IT budget of about $275 million, came on board as a seasoned IT leader. Before joining Amtrak (the better-known name for the National Railroad Passenger Corp.), he served a dozen years as CIO of Paramount Pictures, managing a $100 million IT budget and 250 people. Before that, he was CIO at Southern California Gas Co. In this second of a periodic series featuring CIOs' perspectives on 2010 innovation strategies, Trainor talks about "big T" and "little t" IT transformation strategies at Amtrak, the challenges of getting longtime employees to embrace the latest management initiative, and how he does his best creative thinking.

Eric D. Schwerin
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