Recoding Business in the AI Era
Recoding Business in the AI Era is where leaders come to sharpen their judgment about the digital world. Hosted by Vijay Gurbaxani—distinguished UC Irvine professor, founding director of the Center for Digital Transformation, digital strategist, speaker, and advisor to executives—each episode dissects real-world choices at the intersection of technology, leadership, and transformation, and how to navigate them with clarity and confidence.
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Recoding Business in the AI Era
Digital Transformation: A Private Equity Perspective
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Season 2, Episode 7 - Canadian Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB), a fund managing more than $450 billion, adopts a long-term perspective in its investment strategy. CPPIB explicitly accounts for the potential of digital disruption in evaluating its acquisition targets and emphasizes digital transformation in its portfolio companies. The company has undertaken several initiatives to transform from a deal-execution company to a software company by putting technology and data at the core of everything they do. In a conversation with Vijay Gurbaxani, Michael Zawalsky, Principal, CPPIB and Jim Walsh, CTO of GlobalLogic, discuss how they are partnering to achieve CPPIB’s vision.