The mission of aligning Cerealto’s IT with business objectives is the ongoing responsibility of CIO Juan Manuel García Dujo. After more than a decade leading the digital transformation and cybersecurity initiatives of the services company, he’s managed to forge a synergy where tech and information security are established as fundamental pillars for business success. His mission, after all, has always been to turn tech into an enabler that drives business objectives, and never treat it as an end in itself.
“Technology must be agile, easy, and secure so people can extract the greatest value from it,” he says. This approach has led him to oversee strategic projects with key tech providers, and foster continuous innovation in the organization — and all of this with the purpose of ensuring Cerealto remains at the forefront in a constantly evolving digital environment.
The framework of a digital strategy
Under García Dujo’s leadership is the technological layer that must be organized to deliver measurable successes, which includes other aspects such as infrastructure, applications, and IT services. “We’re an industrial company, which can be a handicap since we manufacture food products, so the focus is on customer service and production, and how technology can help,” he says. In this sense, one of the main lines of the transformation plan he’s structured is to fit tech in as a catalyst for the business. “We want to provide solutions that add value to the organization.”
