Jim Knight, EVP and Global CIO of Chubb & Son

Summary: In this interview, Jim Knight, EVP & Global Chief Information Officer of Chubb & Son, a global property and casualty insurance company, discusses principle three, Project and Portfolio Management, principle four, IT-Business Partnerships, and principle five, External Partnerships, of World Class IT with Metis Strategy. Some of the topics discussed include: Technology in the competitive arms race Collaboration in a Global CIO governance structure The enterprise PMO's ability to facilitate consistent delivery IT's stabilizing value in uncertain economic times The importance of establishing business intimacy Eye on the trends: Three major disruptive technologies- portable devices with enhanced functionality and performance to enable the workforce, big data and the potential for analytics to drive critical business decisions, and cloud computing and its ability to facilitate faster market entry