How Asheesh Saksena Is Accelerating Tech-Enabled Growth at General Mills
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Fallon Wolken
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About Saksena
Saksena joined from Gap, where he served as chief growth officer, managing the company’s operations, tech, growth and portfolio and diversification strategies. Before that, he was the chief growth officer for Best Buy.
“This role is crucial for coordinating our efforts to unlock enterprise operational capacity and deploy that in pursuit of accelerated growth,” says Saksena.
The new role for the company was designed to address two key areas: elevating processes to increase enterprise capacity and pursuing a strategic growth journey that includes market share expansion, new category creation and the pursuit of adjacent profit centers.
As part of this, Saksena led efforts to invest in new capabilities that could transform end-to-end operations and drive increased efficiency and agility to create a more dynamic and responsive organization.
“For example, leveraging AI-based capabilities for content generation, for prescriptive business analytics and across the supply chain for added nimbleness are all elements of our ongoing transformation to operate with agility,” he says.
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