CIO Unscripted: Jeff Stott on Buy-In and the Replatform That Paid Off
Niel Nickolaisen sits down with Jeff Stott, CIO of Welltower and former CIO of Extra Space Storage, to talk about the technology bet that turned into one of the company's biggest advantages. Jeff spent several years leading a full replatform of Extra Space's systems, a project that ran well past its original timeline before proving its worth in a big way: when the company later acquired a competitor roughly half its size, the new platform let them absorb over a thousand locations in weeks rather than months. The conversation also gets into how Jeff handles organizational change, including a me…