CIO Interview: Stuart Hughes, Chief Digital Information Officer, Rolls-Royce
ComputerWeekly, Wednesday, June 21, 2023
The aerospace giant uses internet of things and sensor technology to create a personalised digital twin for the airlines that fly its engines, but the benefits of further data science and analytics could be even bigger
Stuart Hughes, chief digital information officer (CDIO) at Rolls-Royce, is driven by a desire to use data to give the aerospace and defence giant a competitive advantage.
'If you think about what digital transformation is about at Rolls-Royce - especially since I've been there, but the process did start before I arrived - then a lot of what we do in civil digital is based on the internet of things,' he says.
Formerly at JCB and LateRooms.com, Hughes became CDIO at Rolls-Royce in February 2019. He says the opportunity to find creative solutions to business challenges at one of the world's most famous engineering firms was the kind of career opportunity he'd been craving.