Glenn Rogers, Top Global Senior Fortune class executive
Glenn Rogers is an accomplished senior Fortune-class executive who has played a major role in guiding the growth of dozens of global industrial, retail, and technology companies.
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Glenn Rogers is an accomplished senior Fortune-class executive who has played a major role in guiding the growth of dozens of global industrial, retail, and technology companies. Rogers recently retired as Senior Partner with Accenture ($50B revenue, 710,000 employees and operations in 120 countries) running Oracle’s Products Industry practice globally. He led engagements for Fortune clients in the Retail, Consumer Goods, Industrial, Life Sciences, Automotive, and Travel sectors, over a 25-year period. Major clients included Honda Motors, Williams-Sonoma, and numerous State and Local governments. He is considered one of Accenture’s leading partners in the design and implementation of Oracle systems from CRM, Finance, to HCM, design of the overall architecture, and implementation. He is certified by The National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD). In addition, he is certified by NACD CERT in Cyber Risk Oversight for Directors.
00:41- Three inflection points that made you this wonderful individual
- I started through college and in a management information systems career, and had a passion for building systems and for improving the lives of people, but also processes and companies and making them more efficient.
- I was at Accenture for 25 years, and went through the process of becoming a senior managing director there and eventually running the Oracle practice for our products industry.
- I got exposed to different types of companies, corporations, technologies, both in the ERP space and the technology space.
- And each of board work I do, I tend to have a technical span or a technical support role.
02:12- Work as an Analyst with the American Management Systems.
- I learned really in the early days of building systems from the ground up from doing requirements analysis, to doing business analysis.
- And then from there, rose in the ranks within AMS, became a manager and ran small teams and projects, and then got involved in working in our government sector.
- I spent most of my career on the East Coast and eventually migrated myself out towards the west coast about 25 years ago.
09:38- What do you need to succeed like you have at Accenture?
- The biggest thing is that Accenture doesn’t just hire systems people.
- We’ll hire philosophy majors, psychology majors. When you’re going to interview processes, you have to have the ability to have critical thinking.
- Accenture teaches you a lot about building systems, about doing requirements analysis, doing development. Our classes are phenomenal.
- It’s critical thinking skills and the ability to take like a complex problem, and have the ability to break it down into its parts, and then figure out how to put it back together. Those are the big things.
15:25- You’re responsible for the turnaround of Accenture’s Oracle implementation for Salesforce. So what does that mean?
- One of my niches in the firm was coming in and doing turnarounds on projects that are going south.
- I was brought in to be the client CIO. So that was a very different role. We had challenges with our delivery team there.
- And then we need a different leadership on the client side to help drive the Accenture team to finish the work.
- I spent a lot of time there, both counseling the client, but also counseling our Accenture team members on how to improve.
33:17- What are some of the things that you want to achieve now at this stage in your career?
- Continuing my board work. I feel enriched for them doing that. But then more recently, I’ve gotten involved in this angel investing side of the business.
- I’ve been involved on due diligence teams and analyzing companies and figuring out what makes sense. So I think I could do that for private equity.
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Glenn Rogers is an accomplished senior Fortune-class executive who has played a major role in guiding the growth of dozens of global industrial, retail, and technology companies.
Rogers recently retired as Senior Partner with Accenture ($50B revenue, 710,000 employees and operations in 120 countries) running Oracle’s Products Industry practice globally.
He led engagements for Fortune clients in the Retail, Consumer Goods, Industrial, Life Sciences, Automotive, and Travel sectors, over a 25-year period.
