KPMG

The need to innovate has become every company's opportunity to do a rewrite. Leaders see rapid technology innovation changing the business landscape in almost every sector - it's challenging existing business models, enabling new operating models, facilitating new competitors, and driving change in customer behavior and expectations across generations.

Jose Arrieta is in love with the data layer. In his role as the Department of Health and Human Services associate deputy assistant secretary for acquisition, Arrieta oversees the acquisition function across the highly decentralized agency. Like many government systems, HHS' are often siloed and expensive to integrate, so the business processes are rife with manual tasks.