Subject: Oshkosh CIO Anu Khare on IT’s pursuit of value

The success factors that fuel an award-winning digital tech team

Anu Khare leads an award-winning digital technology team that powers business growth and innovation at Oshkosh. After we spoke for a recent episode of the Tech Whisperers podcast, Anu shared some more about the success factors that keep his team laser focused and consistently creating business value.


Read on to learn how Anu combines a relentless focus on strategic fit and customer value with passionate business involvement to fuel tech-enabled transformation.

Next Week! 3 Digital Leaders Share New Frameworks, Doctorate Research


According to Statista, $1.5T was spent on digital transformation initiatives across the globe in 2021, a number that continues to trend higher. Research from BCG tells us that 70% of digital initiatives fail. That equates to about a trillion dollars in failure. Why are digital transformation initiatives failing at such a high rate, and how do we set our companies up for success?


Next Whisperers Wednesday, I’ll be joined by three digital leaders with the collective brainpower to tackle these and other tough questions: Dr. John Hill, Chief Digital Information Officer at MSC Industrial Supply; Dr. Susan Nakashima, retired IT executive and now Adjunct Professor at Pepperdine University; and Dr. Michael Seals, Chief Digital Officer and SVP Strategy at Hussman Corporation. All three have recently completed doctorate degrees and will share their research and insights on these topics.

CIO Roundtable Series

5 CxOs on Leading Change


For years leaders have been hammering home the point that the only constant is change. But you need only look back to the “good old days” of 2019 to realize that change is no longer constant; it’s accelerating, accumulating and becoming more complex all at the same time.


In a recent virtual roundtable, Irvin Bishop, Jr., of Black & Veatch, Dan Bruno of Duke Health Technology Solutions, Sankha Ghosh of AssuredPartners, Ashish Parmar of Tapestry, Chuck Watson of Essentia Health, and Susan Duff, senior facilitator of O&A’s Leading Change program, shared their leadership philosophies, experiences and playbooks for leading change initiatives. 


Read on for their advice on leading change successfully amid ongoing and increasing complexity.


This is part three of our CIO Roundtable Series. In part one, 7 CIOs discussed building a consultative IT culture. In part two, 5 CIOs shared advice on building a service-oriented IT culture. Our next roundtable will explore the topic of storytelling and marketing IT’s value.