When Chris Spring took over as senior vice president of business operations/CIO at Meadowbrook Insurance Group five years ago, he drew upon his 30-plus years of experience to help the company align its business and IT strategies. For an organization that has grown rapidly through acquisitions, he saw such coordination as key to its success.
“One of the first things I did was to make sure I knew what the business strategies were so I could start aligning applications and other technologies to those strategies,” he says.
Based in Southfield, Mich., Meadowbrook is a full-service risk management organization that operates six different insurance companies and has four agencies, a wholesale brokerage, and several insurance subsidiaries. Net written premiums for 2008 were $375 million. Spring, who joined the company in 1999, oversees an IT department of about 85 people.
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