With the pace of technology moving at an ever faster pace, it’s Susan Penfield’s job to stay ahead of its next sea changes.
She’s chief innovation officer for a company whose entire pitch revolves around technological advancement, McLean management and IT consulting company Booz Allen Hamilton (NYSE: BAH). She not only ensures its expertise in cybersecurity, artificial intelligence and digital transformation remains strong, but also determines where the firm — which employs more than 13,000 in Greater Washington with $7.5 billion in revenue in fiscal 2020 — will invest in the future, from cloud computing to emerging technologies.
In her role, she leads the company’s strategic innovation group (SIG). Established in 2014, the SIG is a team of technologists, data scientists and engineers tasked with developing the tech tools of the future, derived from new offerings and evolving market trends. The tumult of the pandemic, she says, has only spotlighted the critical need for…
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