CIO Talk Network

Guest : Derek Brink Title: Vice President, Research Fellow, IT Security and IT GRC, The Aberdeen Group In the same way that new security measures can help organizations better enable Big Data, utilizing Big Data can help improve and transform enterprise security practices on the whole. If we think about security in the context of Big Data, the proper utilization of data can help organizations achi...

Guest : Dr. Roger R. Schell Title: Professor, USC/ISI, University of Southern California Big Data in its early stages has opened up a world of new opportunities for businesses to derive value. And yet the unexpected consequence of that opportunity is that all the new insight that is now available to you is also available to those looking to do harm. This new data that is not secured in the same wa...

Guest 1: James Euchner Title: Vice President Global Innovation, Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company Guest 2: Professor Eric von Hippel, Ph. D. Title: T. Wilson Professor of Innovation Management at the MIT Sloan School of Management; also Professor of Engineering Systems at MIT What if our organization's users had the ability to innovate products, services, customer touch points, customer satisfaction...

Guest 1: Charlie McMahon Title: Vice President of IT and Chief Technology Officer, Tulane University Guest 2: David Kuntz Title: VP Research & Adaptive Learning, Knewton Inc. Today’s students are struggling with high admission costs, a tough job market and poor graduation rates in an education system that’s failing them. Education reform is currently on the table, but while online courses and new...

Guest 1: Kellie A. McElhaney Title: Author and John C. Whitehead Faculty Fellow in Corporate Responsibility, Faculty Director, Center for Responsible Business Berkeley-Haas, University of California, Berkeley Guest 2: Tim Mohin Title: Director, Corporate Responsibility at Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) A business is NOT just in business to make money. Executives can fall back on the long standing te...

Guest 1: Dr. Richard L. Routh Title: Director of the Institute for CIO Excellence and the senior business informatics faculty member at the University of South Carolina Guest 2: Frank Wander Title: Author, Former CIO and Founder of People Productive, LLC (Formerly The IT Excellence Institute) For an organization juggling multiple priorities at any moment, leaders need to make quick, yet reasoned d...

Guest : Adam Silverman Title: Principal Analyst, Forrester(Omni-Channel) The retail industry has been aggressive in their e-commerce efforts and reaching customers on multiple touch points, both online and in the brick and mortar locations. But as consumers increasingly demand the ability to use all channels, be it in-store with a customer service rep, online, through mobile, on TV or in a catalog...

Guest 1: Jacqueline M. Vose Title: Principal, Customer Experience, Greenwich Associates Guest 2: Ron Balmer Title: Principal, Client Experience, Greenwich Associates With increasing customer demands and an entirely different market landscape brought about by numerous touch points and ways to interact, banks can no longer expect to earn customer loyalty simply by providing new perks and services. B...

Guest 1: C. Scott Blanchette Title: SVP & Chief Information Officer at Vanguard Health Systems Guest 2: Frank Modruson Title: CIO, Accenture Technology has enabled exponentially larger percentages of workers within organizations to telecommute from home and from abroad, and many companies have seen the benefit of this workplace transformation. But technology alone will not help make that transitio...

Guest 1: Professor Mohanbir S. Sawhney Title: McCormick Tribune Professor of Technology and Director, Center for Research on Technology, & Innovation, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern Guest 2: Rom E. Hendler Title: Chief Marketing Officer, Las Vegas Sands Corporation IT and Marketing are being brought together based on technology, but if these two departments want to produce value at the...

Guest 1: Mauro Bonugli Title: Global Senior Technology Executive & Advisor, Warburg Pincus Guest 2: Allan Hackney Title: SVP & Chief Information Officer, John Hancock Financial Services Consumers have latched on to the idea of mobile banking as quickly as the financial services industry has rolled out mobile options. But there are so many creative solutions in the marketplace, we’re now juggling h...

Guest 1: (Dr.) Frank Sirianni, Ph. D. Title: Vice President and Chief Information Officer, Fordham University Guest 2: Dr. Robert F. Hurley Title: Professor of Management, Fordham University & President, Hurley Associates The contrast between an enterprise with a high level of organizational trust and one with a lack thereof could mean a world of difference in productivity and overall success. How...

Guest 1: Harun Rashid Title: VP Global Health Services and Chief Information Officer, Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh - UPMC Guest 2: Dale Alverson, MD Title: Medical Director of the Center for Telehealth and Cybermedicine Research at the University of New Mexico The idea behind telemedicine has well-publicized benefits to improving healthcare delivery, but part of the reason behind its slow ado...

Guest : Alex Z. Pettit Title: State Chief Information Officer and Secretary of Information Technology and Telecommunications There are constant opportunities and threats that have the potential to change the way a business operates, however little or great their impact. Businesses need the capability to handle complex, interconnected and unpredictable events. Organizations must quickly set up, det...

Guest 1: Mario Faria Title: Data Strategy Advisor, Boa Vista; Big Data Advisor at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation; Member of the MIT Data Science Initiative Guest 2: Eugene Kolker, PhD Title: Chief Data Officer at Seattle Children’s and Head of the Bioinformatics & High-throughput Analysis Laboratory at Seattle Children’s Research Institute As data and data management have rapidly become dri...

Guest : Chris Moyer Title : Chief Technology Officer, Fellow, HP Enterprise Services "Enterprise Cloud Services – Virtual Private Cloud is a flexible cloud computing infrastructure that enables the enterprise to transform and embrace new economics, improved business agility and secure systems at high levels of availability and responsiveness.” Numerous small vendors already offer private clouds pe...

Guest 1: Rick Hopfer Title: Chief Information Officer, Molina Healthcare Guest 2: Dr. C. Martin Harris, MD., M.B.A. Title: Chief Information Officer and Chairman of the Information Technology Division of Cleveland Clinic Big Data may be the next big thing in healthcare delivery, but it seems as though the ideas are getting ahead of the reality. While the usage of electronic health records has gone...

Guest 1: Tricia S. Blair Title: SVP, Chief Digital Officer and Head of Enterprise IT Services, Lincoln Financial Group Guest 2: Thomas A. Bayer Title: Chief Information Officer, US SEC Intuitively, most financial services see the obvious use cases of big data: gaining consumer insight, responding to greater regulator pressures, analyzing risk, and introducing operations efficiencies. Does big data...

Guest 1: Bertram "Bert" S. Reese Title: SVP and Chief Information Officer, Sentara Healthcare Guest 2: Affan Waheed Title: Executive Director, Application Development, Mercy Health The idea of “wellness care” is that of promoting not just a physically fit body but an all-around healthy lifestyle. Numerous industries from healthcare providers, insurance companies, government agencies and corporatio...

Guest 1: Ellis Burgoyne Title: Chief Information Officer and Executive Vice President, USPS Guest 2: Cavan Capps Title: Chief DataWeb Systems at the U.S. Census Bureau Big data has the potential to be used to speed up our response to health crises, provide our soldiers with superior information capabilities and enhance interagency intelligence. How are the different departments and agencies coordi...

Guest 1: Michael Armstrong Title: Chief Information Officer, City of Corpus Christi, Texas Guest 2: Gail M. Roper Title: Chief Information Officer and Community Relations Officer, City of Raleigh, NC; member, CIO Executive Council Mobility has the potential for more than paying for itself by increasing the amount and quality of work employees can do in the field. It can reduce government task proc...

Guest : Mamatha Chamarthi Title : VP and Chief Information Officer, CMS Energy Utilities already have to focus on maintaining their resilience in the face of natural disasters and other threats to the grid. But now smart grid is posing cyber security threats that could further affect a utility’s ability to recover. What sorts of new risk analysis and emergency framework policies need to be in plac...

Guest 1: Robert Steven Kaplan Title: Martin Marshall Professor of Management Practice in Business Administration, Senior Associate Dean for External Relations, Harvard Business School Guest 2: Keith Zecchini Title: Global Chief Information Officer, Parsons Brinckerhoff Any particular program or project that is coming to a close inevitably brings about a level of change that can be tumultuous. With...

Guest : Mark Wyatt Title : Vice President for Grid Modernization and Distribution, Duke Energy If we want to achieve ongoing smart grid optimization, we can’t do so without actionable intelligence. It’s needed to correct deficiencies throughout the power delivery system, not just to the customer side of the meter, but to transmission, substation and distribution systems. All the real-time data poi...

Guest 1: Susan Cramm Title: President Valuedance and Former CIO, Taco Bell Corporation Guest 2: James H. Sills, III Title: Cabinet Secretary and Chief Information Officer,State of Delaware When starting any new program, there’s a sense of uncertainty that comes with any disruption. Introducing something new to an existing, well-oiled workflow could throw a wrench into your people, process, policy...