191. Accelerating Innovation & Living on the Cutting Edge with Marianne Johnson | INNOVATION

Marianne Johnson is the Executive Vice President and Chief Product Officer at Cox Automotive, where she oversees a team of roughly 5000 people across 700 Scrum teams. She’s responsible for an $8 billion dollar portfolio that includes a number of products that are household names, including Autotrader and Kelley Blue Book.

On this episode, Scott Varho and Bernie Doone talk with Mariannne about building a culture where rapid innovation and living on the cutting-edge of technology are the norm.

Episode Highlights:

• What Marianne’s role at Cox as Chief Product Officer entails (01:13)
• What makes up Cox’s $8 billion dollar product portfolio (9:20)
• Running an Agile culture across 700 Scrum teams (13:20)
• Insights from running the five patterns of Agile (18:47)
• How composability informs what products to launch (24:00)
• Leveraging data to drive value (28:03)
• How Cox Automotive uses AI for growth (32:31)
• Speed round, which covers Marianne’s boat, what to look for in new hires, and the most impactful business or tech book she’s ever read (33:31)

Resources:

• Learn more at coxautoinc.com
• Follow Marianne Johnson on LinkedIn

Learn more and get the full show notes at: 3PillarGlobal.com