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Sven Friedli , CIO of Bell Food Group talks through the group ’ s digital transformation journey and how it is fine-tuning its strategy
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Sven Friedli , CIO of Bell Food Group talks through the group ’ s digital transformation journey and how it is fine-tuning its strategy

Apassionate manager with almost 20 years of experience in telecommunications , enterprise architecture , and organisational development , Sven Friedli , CIO of Bell Food Group studied Computer Science and Business Economics at the University of Applied Science in Bern . Following his studies , Friedli worked for a startup in software development and later in his career in several roles at Swisscom .

“ In my career at Swisscom , I learned a lot about managing and delivering IT projects and telco services as well as steering the IT strategy and enterprise architecture of the company .
Today , I lead the IT of Bell Food Group , and I am responsible for ensuring stable IT operation for our production plants , networks , data centres and digital processes . This is quite a challenge with all our locations spread over Europe . My job is to push the digitalisation of the company and to show the business the value of new technologies and opportunities that we can bring to the business , how we can automate our processes and find new business opportunities ,” says Friedli .
The digital transformation journey so far … When we last spoke to Friedli , Bell Food Group was at the start of its digital transformation , since then the company
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