CIO Talk Network

Guest : Grace Monahan Title : Vice President, Chief Information Officer, Henry Schein Top reported reasons, why businesses fail to transform, are gaps in management sponsorship and support—internal cross-functional and external value chain collaboration—service delivery workflows and issues related to employee engagement and accountability. Such organizations need to do a master reset, rethink, an...

Guest 1: Susan Fowler Title: Author, Why Motivating People Doesn't Work . . . and What Does Guest 2: Samuel Sudhakar Title: Chief Information Officer and Vice President for Information Technology Services, California State University, San Bernardino With nonstop business and technology disruptions, current leaders at the top are either becoming irrelevant or less than qualified to lead the charge....

Guest 1: Marc Probst Title: Chief Information Officer, Intermountain Healthcare Guest 2: David Chou Title: Chief Information & Digital Officer, Children's Mercy Hospital Guest 3: Daniel Barchi Title: Chief Information Officer, NewYork-Presbyterian Healthcare industry is expected to enjoy high-value business benefits from robot-assisted surgeries, virtual nursing assistants, and preliminary diagnos...

Guest : Jon Russell Title : Chief Information Officer, John Muir Health We have the technology today to collect and analyze patient data as well as actions outside of clinical settings. A virtually infinite computing capability is also available to tailor diagnoses, treatments, and clinical decisions based on an individual’s health records within seconds. What are the roadblocks preventing us from...

Guest 1: Julia Davis, Title: Chief Information Officer of Aflac You can have a well thought out strategy, make impeccable blueprints, and plan resources in advance—the key to success in the digital transformation journey is going to be about how well your people, leaders, partners, and stakeholders react and respond to the unpleasant and unpredictable situations. What are you doing to build organi...

Guest: Doug McCollough Job Title: Chief Information Officer, City of Dublin Guest: Seth Wainer Job Title: Chief Information Officer, City of Newark With Artificial Intelligence (AI) going mainstream, it is forcing every organization to rethink strategy, hiring priorities, and IT operations among others. How are Government Stakeholders and IT Leaders getting their organizations ready for the impact...

Guest : Sangy Vatsa Title : Chief Information Officer and Executive Vice President, Comerica Bank While Digital Transformation offers an excellent opportunity for the business, it poses some serious challenges for HR and Technology Leaders from talent acquisition to development and retention. How will you get Digital-Ready talent—rationalize or transform the existing pool—keep pace with expectatio...

Guest 1: Leah Miller Title: Chief Information Officer, Medical City Healthcare The Internet of Health Things (IoHT) is touted as a disrupter, enabling healthy lifestyle for the well and treatment for the sick. While the Healthcare Industry is still dealing with many issues including data integration and interoperability, how is IoHT going to help with the intended outcomes including improving acce...

Guest : Brian Solis Title : Author, X: The Experience When Business Meets Design Guest : Steven John Title : CIO, AmeriPride Services Digital is here, and we have to deal with it. It will also be there tomorrow so have to prepare for it. The perceived complexity and scale of what it’d take to embrace Digital seems daunting and is unnerving. Does everything you have today need to go away, replaced...

Contributor : Borre Ulrichsen, Chief Information Officer, Gonzaga University While traditional technology has helped improve instructional techniques, optimize instructors time, and make classes available anytime and anywhere—can education be digitally transformed to achieve the desired state where students learn faster, fully, practically, and achieve mastery? For Resources and Transcript for thi...

Guest: Pamela Arora Title: SVP and CIO, Children’s Health Organizations are uncovering the invisible, improving ability to understand the elusive, and enhancing the speed and sophistication of decision making using Data Analytics. The capabilities required to capitalize on the opportunities, however, take longer to develop thus undermining investments in Data Analytics. How can organizations balan...

Guest : Helen Norris Title : Chief Information Officer, Chapman University As per McKinsey Organizational Health Index, top reported behaviors of successful leaders include solving problems effectively, operating with strong results orientation, seeking different perspectives, and be supportive of others. These should be table stakes for any leader, but apparently, they are not. What prevents it a...

Guest : Ying Chan Title : CITO - Chief of IT Operations, Texas Health and Human Services Commission Among the many emerging technologies that are available, not all will help with differentiation, allow breaking into new markets, remaining competitive, and enabling innovation. How can organizations stay current with these emerging technologies, prioritize related investments, and reduce the associ...

Guest : Jim Smith Title : CIO, Office of Information Technology, State of Maine Whether you’ve already earned the CIO title or are on your way to it, are you ready to challenge business strategy to make it better? Do you know how to deliver bigger benefits from big projects? And, are you willing to pay the price personally to be at the top professionally?

Guest: Dave Ulrich Title: Professor of Business, Ross School of Business, University of Michigan & Author Guest: Amir Dabirian Title: Chief Information Officer, California State University, Fullerton Not everyone is a protégé or born leader. However, putting the right people, with the right capabilities in the right roles can help an organization achieve its most ambitious goals. How can leaders a...

Guest: Vince Kellen Title : CIO, University of California, San Diego (UCSD) When faced with uncertainty, most organizations make moves to mitigate risk and prepare for managing the potential consequences of dealing with the unknown. What can leaders do to harness the confusion to create opportunities for market differentiation and unleash innovative solutions that appeal to customers, partners and...

Guest 1: Samuel Sudhakar Title: Chief Information Officer and Vice President for Information Technology Services, California State University, San Bernardino Guest 1: Curtis Carver Title: Vice President and Chief Information Officer, University of Alabama at Birmingham Best strategies gather dust or don’t meet their full potential due to people-related challenges. Getting rid of problem employees...

Guest 1: Nigel Kersten Title: Chief Technical Strategist, Puppet As part of Digital Transformation, enterprises are rethinking their infrastructure, applications and other software based systems and service platforms to enable innovation, business agility, performance improvement, resilience, and secure operations. Automation, while considered as a key driver for DevOps, if leveraged in a holistic...

Guest : Pedro Domingos Title : Professor of Computer Science, University of Washingto Artificial Intelligence and related analytics capabilities offer the promise of better, more accurate decision making. As humans, we are still not ready to sit in a driverless, speeding car. Have we come to trust the machines to a point where we are willing to let Artificial Intelligence drive big decisions in bu...

Guest 1: Jonathan See Title: Chief Information Officer, Pepperdine University Traditional, centralized IT operating model is not adaptable or agile enough to support staying competitive in this continuously evolving digital marketplace. How can we reorganize IT, so it integrates directly into the business while remaining centralized where appropriate to maintain benefits from the scale? What shoul...

Guest : Mark Lantzy Title : CIO, Indiana University Health In this age of volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity; organizations can benefit from the reorientation of their business offerings and processes as a collection of services. While services based models are not new, XaaS requires fundamental transformation at the core. What would it take for an organization to get ready for Xaa...

Guest : John F. Milazzo Jr Title : Chief Information Officer, Kodak Alaris Last few generations of IT CXOs have been following the mantra “only what can be measured, matters.” However, for their organizations to remain relevant, the focus needs to turn from what’s visible as IT’s activity to what value IT delivers to the business. How are IT CXOs making this shift?

Guest : Melvin Kirk Title : Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer, Ryder System Heavy focus on Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning driven applications and processes may allow us to predict, learn, adapt and operate autonomously. However, faster does not always make things better, reducing human intervention does not always make an interaction effective, and becoming responsi...

Guest : Andy Newsom Title : Senior Vice President, Chief Information Officer, CSL Group LTD Leaders need to converge interests of people and organization, hold individuals accountable but also allow them the room to live their full potential. With so many books written, speeches delivered, and training conducted–we still have fewer effective leaders. How should we develop individuals who can apply...

Guest : John Ellinger Title : Chief Information Officer, Bowling Green State University John Ellinger, Bowling Green State University chief information officer, has more than 20 years of experience in strategic planning, visioning, project management and change management, collaboration and organizational management skills. In addition to these areas, his expertise includes business intelligence a...