CIO Talk Network

Guest 1: Sahal Laher Title: Executive Vice President and Chief Information Officer, Brooks Brothers Bi Modal IT has gone mainstream. So how are CIOs evaluating the impact of Bi modal IT adoption in their organizations? What has been the success rate? What were some of the challenges that CIOs faced while implementing it and what are some of the lessons learned. Has Bi Modal IT delivered on its pro...

Guest 1: Kevin Burns Title: Chief Information Officer, City of Miami Guest 2: Walter Weir Title: CIO, The University of Nebraska How does the year 2016 look for the CIO? With new disruptive technologies such as mobility, big data, and cloud are mainstream, what new technologies will the CIO bank upon? What are the CIO's key wants and spending plans? What do they plan on doing differently to take a...

Guest 1: Jay Ferro Title: CIO, American Cancer Society A healthy organization's culture can be best understood as a set of shared values and how everyone gets work done as individual and team to delivers value to customers. A healthy culture results in sustained growth, profitability and employee wellbeing. Who is responsible for building and maintaining it and what does it take? Discover more abo...

Guest 1: Dean Pipes Title: Chief Architect and Chief Technology Officer, Zurich Insurance Your organization may have dedicated Enterprise Architecture (EA) groups as the custodian of the what and how IT systems and applications should enable business processes. Is it driven by ideal state scenarios or empirical evidence of what works? How are you refining and leveraging your Enterprise Architectur...

Guest 1: Rob-Jan de Jong Title: Founder of Vongolo Consulting and Author of Anticipate - the Art of Leading by Looking Ahead You can either submit to the turbulence caused by complex and fast pace business environment and get lost OR position yourself ahead of the trends. What does it take to become a visionary leader and help your organization navigate through sea of change and land on the green...

Guest 1: Jonathan Behnke Title: Chief Information Officer, City of San Diego While IoT may be seen as a key building block for future digital business, how can a CIO express its value proposition and relevance in business terms to executive management, help identify use cases for competitive advantage, and ensure organizational readiness for effective adoption?

Guest 1: Michael A. Garcia Title: Vice President and Chief Information Officer, Jackson Health System Guest 2: Shawn Evans, PhD Title: Vice President of Performance Excellence, UCHealth Business and IT world is changing rapidly and so are your organization's workforce capability needs. Are your current training and employee development programs helping workers stay relevant and measurably improve...

Guest 1: Charlie McMahon Title: Vice President of IT and Chief Technology Officer, Tulane University Guest 2: Sue Schade Title: Chief Information Officer, University of Michigan Hospitals and Health Centers (UMHHC) Under your leadership, are people energized, work as an engaged community, easily diffuse conflict and maintain an objective perspective? How can you leverage humor to that end while ma...

Guest 1: John Baldoni Title: Chair of leadership development N2growth, a global leadership advisory firm & Author of 13 books… newest is MOXIE, The Secret to Bold and Gutsy Leadership Guest 2: Teri Pennington Title: Deputy CIO, City of Austin, TX The IT CXO today needs to manage more than technology. S/he needs to gain managerial support as well as manage up, get buy-in from other departments, gro...

Guest 1: Gary Eppinger Title: Global VP, Chief Information Security Officer and Privacy Officer for Carnival Corporation Guest 2: Jonathan Klein Title: Chief Information Security Officer, Broadridge Financial Solutions It is not a matter of “if” but “when” we will get hacked and detection may not be the best prevention strategy. This is the premise used by multiple security intelligence and analyt...

Guest 1: Shawn Banerji Title : CIO Practice, Russell Reynolds Associates, Inc. Guest 2: Tom Kolditz Title : Founding Executive Director of the Doerr Institute for New Leaders at Rice University & Author "In Extremis Leadership: Leading as if Your Life Depended on It Troubled times never come calling. In order to tackle uncertain and hyper-competitive business environments, leaders must demand chan...

Guest 1: Bill Kehoe Title: CIO, King County, Washington Guest 2: Helen Norris Title: Chief Information Officer, Chapman University As a leader, do you surround yourself with the best people, despite their differences? While team play has its merit, should it trump bringing the best individuals to the game? In order to meet business demands, would you rather deploy the best or the friendly?

Guest 1: Gregory R. Simpson Title: Chief Technology Officer, Synchrony Financial As a business or IT Leader, do you know when to embrace change and adjust strategies around innovations in the market vs. staying on course? How do you differentiate those nuggets of real opportunities from the noise generated by new ventures or hyped trends in order for you to announce and embrace change with confide...

Guest 1: Connie Barrera Title: Chief Information Security Officer, Jackson Health System While organizations may be looking to leverage cloud, mobility, and Big Data for innovation and productivity improvements, who gets access to what data and which applications without compromising security is keeping IT leaders up at night since stakes are high! What are the current challenges related to identi...

Guest 1: Dr. Nicholas Marko Title: Chief Data Officer, Geisinger Health System Guest 1: Dr. Phil Shelley Title: Former CTO, Sears Holding With Big Data riding through the hype cycle for a bit, there are passionate advocates, skeptics, and naysayers. Big Data was introduced with a promise to fundamentally change the way we live and do business. Has it lived up to the promise and actually delivered...

Guest 1: Gordon J. Gaudet Title: Executive Vice President & Chief Information Officer, Selective Insurance Your ability to retain customers and increase lifetime value derived from them is dependent on how you manage the journey. They may pause and restart multiple times as well as change directions. Instead of leading them, we need to be beside them attending to their needs and desires keeping th...

Guest 1: Gary Hayslip Title: Deputy Director, Chief Information Security Officer City of San Diego, CA Guest 1: Mark McDonald Title: Chief Information Officer, City of Vancouver While the times demand making our cities smart leveraging innovation in water, waste, and infrastructure management using Iot (Internet of Things), what security risks are getting introduced? How vulnerable are these smart...

Guest 1: Helen Norris Title: Chief Information Officer, Chapman University With legacy going out, cloud and third party managed services being embraced, we are essentially handing over our IT lifeline to external entities while still taking responsibility for the outcome. How do we rethink, renovate and/or replace our IT core leveraging partners such that it is more reliable, resilient and effecti...

Guest 1: Karen Porter-Wolf Title: SVP, Chief Information Officer, Assurant Solutions For as long as mergers and acquisitions have been occurring among businesses, one of the areas that continually eludes those making the investments is the IT department. Those responsible for making the decisions tend to lack the technical expertise necessary to ask the appropriate due diligence questions of curre...

Guest : Stephen Elkins Title: Chief Information Officer, City of Austin, Texas Striving for leaner business operations, quicker actions and lower costs is an ongoing goal. The drive to always stay ahead of disruptions and degradation and get the most of our assets will never stop being desirable. Getting insight into your operations real time might seem like the answer to all your problems, but ho...

Guest 1: Jim Smith Title: CIO, Office of Information Technology, State of Maine Guest 2: Jonathan Reichental, Ph. D. Title: CIO, City of Palo Alto, CA An important aspect of being a successful leader is to be able to connect well with others at a human level and get them to voluntarily follow your vision. This is social intelligence. Managers are measured on getting the job done vs. interpersonal...

Guest : Jon Walton Title: Chief Information Officer, County of San Mateo, CA You may be required to have one-on-one difficult conversation with an underperforming employee or even set expectations with an unreasonable boss who is creating impediments,  jeopardizing organization's interest. These conversations are required in boardrooms as well as on personal front in familyrooms with an intention...

Guest : Brian Haugabrook Title: CIO, Valdosta State University John Maxwell said "A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way". That's great in terms of getting the work done, but what about the emotional experience for those who follow? What does it take for a leader to not only take the troops to victory but also ensure smiles along the way?

Guest : Bruce G. Schinelli Title: VP of IT and Chief Information Officer, TTX Company While the ability to differentiate friends from enemies is a fundamental human trait, stereotyping, prejudices, and hidden biases lead to lost individual and organizational effectiveness and productivity. Unfortunately, we are all infected with this "mental residue"! What is leadership doing to minimize and elimi...

Guest : Sahal Laher Title: Executive Vice President and Chief Information Officer, Brooks Brothers Brand loyalty has always been key in business. The question of how to keep customers coming back has been around for as long as business has. In retail, loyalty is king, and the fight to have your loyalty card or program be top of mind and wallet has long been a struggle. Only a select few retailers...