Owens Corning CIO Annie Baymiller on supporting business hypergrowth

Yeah,

sure.

So there's a few things inside this pillar.

You can imagine a lot of things when we talk about driving business growth.

But in order to anchor it to a framework and a strategy, the three things we have positioned in business growth, first is around the business partnership.

So as... as Steve's kind of one of his pieces of legacy really was getting us closer and closer to the business.

So somebody from my leadership team sits on each of the business president's leadership team.

And so driving business growth, when we talk about the business partnerships, it's about literally being closer and closer every single day to the strategy, the current situation.

So if we're sitting on the roofing leadership team meeting, they're constantly listening for things that can be fixed today or things that can be optimized.

And they're also thinking about how does this impact my future long-range plan in IT? So that's always pacing together.

So my view is to drive business growth, you've got to be so intimately connected with what the strategy is and what the team is.

And so that's the first kind of piece.

The second is where we position the use of analytics and AI.

And so this has been a very big area of investment over the last couple of years and a really good bright spot for us as well.

And then to add to how this feels different than the aligning and it's really about the driving is If we get it right with how we do advanced analytics and AI, it will be either a revenue generation source or a productivity source or an insight that gets us closer to market.

So we should see real value from those, not just interesting things, but real insights that we can go be in action around.

I was going to ask you, you had mentioned that that whole framework for data foundations and the advanced capabilities, this is not something that just got whipped together a year or two ago.

This is actually something you've all been building on for a while.

Exactly.

Honestly, it's something I'm very, very proud of.

It's that the team has done such good work over the last 10 years to have a strong commitment to our data foundation.

So We knew where data was, we knew who had access, we knew how it was trusted.

And as generative AI took the scene early in 2023, because we had a strong protected foundation for data, we were able to more quickly do proof of concepts and to understand how it would play and where we might see value, where I think if we had not made that strong commitment to data and AI and analytics, we would be playing a bit of catch up to be able to make sure our data was ready for the true use of the power of generative AI.

Yes.

And then I think you had mentioned there's a third big piece around the merger and acquisitions, because the last May, Owens-Carning had a $3.9 billion acquisition, about a third the size of your company today, I guess, when you acquired the Doors business.