Over here is the first of what we hope will be a series of podcasts with CIOs who've instigated work to improve IT-business alignment in their organisations. The interview is with New Zealand-resident Peter Burggraaff, until recently the CIO of NZ retail chain Farmers Trading Company. It follows on from the work we did last year on our forthcoming book, which is due out in a couple of weeks.

Peter talks to us in this 31'34" podcast episode about his initiative at Farmers and the outcomes he achieved.

In the podcast Peter explains that Farmers was in a situation where IT cost was way too high, and although the IT organisation was doing some things well (particularly managing operational services) it wasn't seen as a real contributor of business value as Farmers looked to put some big business changes in place. He goes on to explain how he started to turn this situation around and built a solid and trusted relationship with Farmers business management.

We're very excited to present this podcast, and we very much hope to be doing more of these over the coming weeks and months. Thanks Peter!

If you'd like to get involved in this programme of podcasts don't hesitate to let us know.