CITY OF MEMPHIS
“ I think the team appreciates the flexibility with the ability to work remotely and being able to come in and meet with colleagues and customers when they have to ”
KIMBERLY BAILEY CIO ,
CITY OF MEMPHIS
machine learning , chatbots and IoT .” With competent leaders in her team to oversee the infrastructure and implementation piece she will take personal charge of innovation once the foundations on which it rests are where they need to be .
For now , though assessment , then rationalization , of the IT environment takes priority . “ I am proud of the foundation work we are doing , which will ensure that whatever innovation we put in place will be sustainable . So , we are carefully looking at what applications are aging and need replacing , or where we can save money by shrinking some of the complexity , or by phasing out some of the solutions that have accrued over time . We have more than 200 contracts in place with a host of different vendors , and we do need to cut that vendor base down to size .”
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