Chief Technology Officer, Dun Bradstreet Holdngs
Search every verified Michael Manos interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. In September 2023, Michael Manos discussed the impact of automation on jobs. He stated that every new innovation that introduces automation or orchestration has been described as a "jobs killer," but he said these developments evolve into the next level of complexity. Manos commented that "the easy stuff keeps getting automated away but the hard complex more human things still remain," adding that complexity continues to press people and ideas for work. In September 2022, Manos thanked the Dun & Bradstreet technology team for moving the company's mainframe technology from an old data center to a new one. He described the effort as "unbelievably complicated" and noted that in his 30 years of running large technology teams, such projects "always get messed up." Manos said the team executed the move without any customer impact and that the coordination involved teams across the company and with partners. He expressed that the team "could not execute better."
“I think every new and great innovation where there's been some new level of automation or orchestration that has been the jobs killer has always just sort of evolved into the next level of complexity.”
“The easy stuff keeps getting automated away but the hard complex more human things still remain, so you can always count on that complexity at least for now continuing to press people and press ideas for work.”
“This past weekend we had a very significant piece of work happen that I don't think a lot of people really truly understand: we moved our mainframe technology from the old data center to the new data center.”
“In my 30 years of running large technology teams, projects and efforts as big as what we just did this last weekend always get messed up, we always have problems. It doesn't matter how big you are or how put together you are, these are super complicated efforts and we nailed it.”
“Almost all of our products and services are back-ended on this technology and they picked it up and they moved it without any customer impact. That's incredible.”
“The coordination with our customers and making sure they were ready and prepared and the vetting to make sure that after we had moved that they were still okay took everybody in the company.”
“I just wanted to share a quick message of thanks, heartfelt thanks really for all of the effort that went in across the company, across the partners that were involved, and all the involvement that we put in place. You could not execute better.”
Chief Technology Officer Mike Manos gives a sincere thank you to the team members who helped make Dun & Bradstreet's ...
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