Julie Ragland

Julie Ragland

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Julie is a transformational executive and board member who is passionate about innovating…

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    Navistar Inc

    Lisle, Illinois

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    Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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    Greater Milwaukee Area

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    Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States

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    London Area, United Kingdom and Detroit, United States

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    London Area, United Kingdom and Wisconsin, United States

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    Oshkosh, Wisconsin Area

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    Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

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Publications

  • The Road to Resilience is Paved With Partneships

    Accenture - The Industrialist

    In less than three years, Julie Ragland has transformed Navistar’s approach to technology innovation. Where once the US truck and engine manufacturer viewed IT as a compulsory back-office operation, it is now looking to a future where Navistar does not simply make and sell trucks but offers a smart-city ready suite of trucking solutions.

    “It’s been an interesting journey over the last few years, seeing technology take a new role and play a different part in the way the company thinks…

    In less than three years, Julie Ragland has transformed Navistar’s approach to technology innovation. Where once the US truck and engine manufacturer viewed IT as a compulsory back-office operation, it is now looking to a future where Navistar does not simply make and sell trucks but offers a smart-city ready suite of trucking solutions.

    “It’s been an interesting journey over the last few years, seeing technology take a new role and play a different part in the way the company thinks about itself and its future,” says Julie Ragland, Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer of Navistar. We talk to Ragland about the future of the commercial vehicle industry, how Navistar is helping its own customers navigate that journey, and the ‘self-healing’ trucks that are just around the corner.

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  • Future of Digital Innovation

    IDC - Future Enterprise (podcast)

    IDC defines “digital innovation” as an organization’s ability to rapidly develop its own software to reshape their industry with digital and digitally-enhanced products, services, and experiences. Take the trucking industry, where conventional logistics are meeting the demands of tomorrow through increased digitization and software analytics.

    On this episode of Future Enterprise, Julie Ragland, Senior VP and CIO at Navistar Incorporated, and Al Gillen, group VP Software Development and…

    IDC defines “digital innovation” as an organization’s ability to rapidly develop its own software to reshape their industry with digital and digitally-enhanced products, services, and experiences. Take the trucking industry, where conventional logistics are meeting the demands of tomorrow through increased digitization and software analytics.

    On this episode of Future Enterprise, Julie Ragland, Senior VP and CIO at Navistar Incorporated, and Al Gillen, group VP Software Development and Open Source at IDC, join host Joe Pucciarelli, IDC Group Vice-President, to talk about how emerging trends in digital innovation are affecting the growth of industries like truck and tractor manufacturing and distribution.

    For more information visit Future of Digital Innovation, by IDC.

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  • $11 Billion Navistar’s CIO Helps Drive World Class Telematics For Its Customers

    Forbes.com

    In this interview with Peter High on forbes.com. I talk about the role of IT to help transform a business operations. How to turn conversations about the cost of IT into value delivered. What's next for the connected/intelligent vehicle platform? And the continuing need for CIOs to be strategic advisers to their company. Podcast: https://www.metisstrategy.com/interview/julie-ragland/

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  • IDC PeerScape: Practices to Achieve Competitive Advantage with an Advanced Data Analytics Platform

    IDC

    In this IDC PeerScape I discuss how Navistar is creating competitive advantage through On Command Connection, our open architecture telematics data platform.

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  • Four Steps to Process Automation Success

    CIO.com

    In this interview with Martha Heller I discuss the techniques Navistar has deployed to use value streams to shift the conversation toward the value contribution of IT investments.

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Honors & Awards

  • 2020,2021 Crain's Chicago CIO of the Year - Nominee

    Crain's Chicago

    The annual Chicago CIO of the Year® ORBIE® Award honors chief information officers who have demonstrated excellence in technology leadership.

  • 2019 Crain's Chicago Notable Women in Manufacturing

    Crain's Chicago

    To qualify for the list, an honoree must be currently employed at a manufacturing company based in the Chicago area and in a senior-level role. The women recognized are among the top leaders at more than two dozen Chicago-area manufacturing organizations. These pages offer a glimpse of how they are shaping their own organizations, as well as the path forward for other women in the industry.

  • 2017 Stevie Gold - IT Department of the Year

    American Business Awards

    The Stevie® Awards are the world's premier business awards. They were created in 2002 to honor and generate public recognition of the achievements and positive contributions of organizations and working professionals worldwide. In short order the Stevie has become one of the world's most coveted prizes.

  • 2015 CIO 100 Award

    CIO Magazine

    An acknowledged mark of enterprise excellence in business technology for more than 30 years, the Annual CIO 100 Awards celebrate 100 organizations and their IT teams for using technology in innovative ways to deliver business value. Since the CIO 100 award is given to companies rather than individuals, it is an honor everyone on the IT staff can take pride in receiving. The winning companies have used IT in various creative and strategic ways — to create competitive advantage, optimize business…

    An acknowledged mark of enterprise excellence in business technology for more than 30 years, the Annual CIO 100 Awards celebrate 100 organizations and their IT teams for using technology in innovative ways to deliver business value. Since the CIO 100 award is given to companies rather than individuals, it is an honor everyone on the IT staff can take pride in receiving. The winning companies have used IT in various creative and strategic ways — to create competitive advantage, optimize business processes, enable growth or improve relationships with customers.

Organizations

  • Milwaukee Women, Inc.

    Steering Committee Member

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    Milwaukee Women inc is an organization of executives determined to change the quality and composition of corporate boards to enhance the performance of public and private companies, with a focus on women and women of color.

  • Wisconsin Historic Society

    Board of Curators

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    The Wisconsin State Historical society's purpose is to maintain, promote and spread knowledge relating to the history of North America, with an emphasis on the state of Wisconsin and the trans-Allegheny West.

  • Chief

    Member

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    Chief is a private network built to drive more women into positions of power and keep them there. Chief is the only organization specifically designed for senior women leaders to strengthen their leadership journey, cross-pollinate ideas across industries, and effect change from the top-down.

  • Evanta, a Gartner company

    Chicago CIO Governing Body Member

    - Present

    Evanta is a Gartner Company that creates exclusive communities of C-level executives from the world’s leading organizations. These networks are built by and for C-level executives to share ideas, validate strategies and solve critical leadership challenges through peer-to-peer insight and collaboration.

  • i.c.stars Milwaukee

    Advisory Board Member

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    Since 1999, i.c.stars has been identifying, training, and jump-starting technology careers for low-income young adults who, although lacking access to education and employment, demonstrate extraordinary potential for success in the business world and for impact in their communities.

  • United Way of Greater Milwaukee and Waukesha Counties

    Technology United - Advisory Board

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  • Women's Fund of Greater Milwaukee

    Committee Member - Board Governance

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    Board Chair 2019-2020 Board Director 2016-2021 We are the Women’s Fund of Greater Milwaukee, a community foundation working to grow our endowment to ensure there are always resources available to strategically support initiatives to advance equity for women and girls. We are the only foundation in Milwaukee that does this. https://womensfundmke.org/

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