Remona Murugan,
Head of Technology Platforms, Rio Tinto
Andrew Holcombe,
Sr Executive Partner, Domains, Gartner
As a global mining company Rio Tinto has a complex business model with over 55,000 employees across 35 countries. Rio’s challenges of supporting the transition to a low-carbon future coupled with global economic headwinds require infrastructure and platform services to meet the conflicting challenges of supporting reliable, cost-effective business operations while enabling rapid innovation. To respond, the Technology Platforms division has adopted a platform engineering operating model. By realigning staff into chapters and creating multi-disciplinary platform teams, they have enabled iterative delivery of infrastructure and platform capability aligned to business value. This has resulted in a greater ability to align technology spend relative to business outcomes, increased velocity for Technology Platform customers, and better planning and management of the skills required to deliver modern technology services.
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