Bill Russell

This Week Health was started to develop the next generation of IT Leaders by capturing conversations with industry influencers and making them available to frontline staff. The podcast is published weekly and we produce short videos with key segments every week and publish them on Linkedin and YouTube.

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16 Hospitals in 2 states, $6.5B in revenue, 23,000 staff Challenges: Aging infrastructure demands were draining the budget IT spending consistently exceeded budget Desktop inconsistency was creating uneven experience and security challenges Changes in healthcare required adoption of new business models Growing digital disruption entering the market from non-traditional competitors An infrastructure of 800+ applications hindered data sharing, analytics, and consumer connection Address workforce skills in rapidly changing technology and business environment Solutions: Implemented private cloud - web provisioned, API enabled, rapidly scalable up or down for healthcare. Implemented strategic public cloud offerings - Salesforce communities, service cloud, sales cloud, Workday as well as Box for secure collaboration across the enterprise. Created IT University to help to transition skills to the evolving requirements of healthcare Spearheaded IT investments in transformative technologies with Hart, Clearsense, and Datu Health Built an R&D capability within the traditional IT organization in order to deliver innovation Service enabled our data from EHR to PACS for use in our digital platforms. Reduced data center footprint from 12 to 2. Reduced raised floor space by 80%. Results A highly reliable cost-effective IT platform that allowed for efficient work, business agility and innovation. An IT organization that was ready for the future. A team that partnered with the organization to solve the challenges that face healthcare. I don't pretend to have done it alone; I served with great people and had a fantastic team.

Acquired this one person cloud consulting organization and grew it to $24M in annual revenue Company was acquired

Developed IT consulting and strategy practice by focusing on the cloud computing trend in the data center. Transformed the business model of this 45 year old data center services company.

Interim Technology Leadership

Returned national services organization to profitability in preparation for sale of this division

Returned 12 branch service locations to profitability within 18 months

Started and grew a consulting service practice to $2M annually in first year. Established a foundation for future growth to over $10M annually in the following two years.

Established new service offerings Grew business in revenue and profitability

The good old days, when I setup networks and worked on computers for many St. Louis companies.