How Shawn Harrs, CIO At Red Lobster, Developed A Template For IT Success
Heller Search, Wednesday, April 3rd, 2024
In this My CIO Career interview, Shawn Harrs of Red Lobster discusses how he has used the progression of his IT experiences and education to build a process that helps him recognize what a business needs from IT and how to deliver it.
Shawn Harrs is a planner. Consider the process he followed to reach his current position as Executive Vice President and CIO at the Red Lobster, the world's largest seafood restaurant company.
Harrs learned about each of the people who would interview him and tailored his responses to the different executives, board members, and IT leaders he met. Once he joined the company in January 2023, he enacted a template he had established during a career in which he has held a number of leadership roles - assess the IT organization, present his findings to business and IT leaders, and use those discussions to develop an IT strategy for the coming year.