Today we are talking to Yasir Anwar, the CTO of Williams Sonoma. And we discuss their exciting developments with AR and VR, creating an outcome based culture , and making sure your investments align with your passion to achieve success
All of this, right here, right now on the Modern CTO Podcast!
Show Notes
- Sunny day in San Fran
- WSI AR/VR implementation
- Customer facing room planner
- Who’s idea was it to engage with AR/VR
- Yasir oversees the company that was acquired for AR/VR
- How did you get started in technology and work your way up to WSI
- What qualities stand out for great leaders X axis – passion Y axis – expertise
- Customer is moving in to mobile
- What gets you excited to jump out of bed in the morning
- Companies are either tech companies or doing business through tech
- What are the brands associated with WSI
- Unique challenge for technologists having multiple brands
- Pie Chart of a day – 1 slice is strategizing on initiatives – 1 slice engaging with people in different layers, ask questions get feed back – 1 slice EC meetings – strategy – operations – people
- What piece of advice would you give to yourself if you could talk to yourself 10 years ago
- Follow your passion and make sure that your investments align with your passion
- Passion is technology leadership and the customer
- A business exists to bring value to a market
- It’s so important to have the right talent
- Outcome based cultures – shifting from output to outcome
- Core competencies of the executive level
- Has been very heads down in the transformation of WSI
- Do something great and then go and share it