How Being Cloud Smart Fosters Growth At Saab
CIO, Wednesday, May 8th, 2024
Fuelled by global turbulence and increasing defense budgets, Swedish defense group Saab is meeting high demand by integrating efforts to become more software-driven, and central to managing it all is CIO Annette Eriksson.
Stockholm-based Saab recently announced that it's significantly raising its growth targets for 2027 from 10 to 15%, an increase linked to the war in Ukraine and the fact that many countries are now rearming, which is clearly evident from Saab's increased order intake. This also means the company now expects to ramp up hiring in the short term, and the IT department is no exception, says CIO Annette Eriksson.
'In the last two years, we've grown by several hundred people and currently the increase is now around 1,600 globally,' she says.
Such widescale recruitment is taking place in virtually all areas, from project managers to security experts and IT architects.