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Sanjay Rishi   Johnson Controls 25 automotiveIT 2012 You re in charge of IT for the automo tive division How does that differ from the IT services provided to the other two divisions of JCI The needs are very different IT is aligned to business needs Batteries for example are heavily focused on the aftermarket while we are largely focused on automa kers Building customers are very different again And how do you cooperate We continue to find areas of intersection E mail is a simple on human resources ap plications and processes is another area Where we try to leverage best practice and lessons learned is in infrastructure data centers standards and relationships with vendors You ve been in the job a year and a half What has happened since you took over Our business has become very global and what we ve focused on is aligning IT to this new structure We used to be significantly regional in how we ran the business and IT thus was also very regional In October 2010 we announced a significant transfor mation within the company and within IT Can you give us some examples We were running IT in our various regions When common solutions were developed they were limited to the region We ve now moved to a global organization with a matrix structure across IT service lines For example anyone who does any appli cation development anywhere in the world reports to a vice president who reports to me That ensures we re not adopting regio nal solutions we re not following disparate standards What do you spend most of your time on First what I ve focused on directly in the near term is the integration of the three large companies we acquired C Rob Ham merstein Keiper and Recaro It was extre mely important that these companies were integrated More strategically I ve focused on globalization and the need to adopt common processes and applications I be