CIO Talk Network

Guest 1: Michael Maoz Title: VP Distinguished Analyst, Gartner, Guest 2: Danny Saadon Title: Vice President, EL AL Israel Airlines, North & Central America At home, work, in the airport or in the air…an airline customer can be touched in many ways: Personalized offerings, frequent travel rewards, and last but by no means least, a pleasant in-flight experience. These are what the customer expects a...

Guest : Dr. Dirk E. Mahling, CMVP Title : Chief Information Officer, Seattle City Light The current trend in going green is producing clean gas, finding renewables and maintaining energy efficiency. If the government seed money allocated for smart grid is any indication, a green smart grid may be the best approach to reducing your carbon footprint. But how do we know that this isn’t just another g...

Guest : Francesca Gino, Ph. D. Title: Associate Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School In the face of ambiguity, uncertainty, and conflicting demands, the most important thing that leaders do is make judgment calls. The decisions and judgment calls made in the people, strategy, and crisis domains have the most impact on the well-being and sustainability of an organization. H...

Guest 1: Joseph D. Sniado Title: Senior Vice President, Chief Information Officer, Standard & Poor’s Guest 2: Frank Wander Title: Author, Former CIO and Founder of The IT Excellence Institute In an organization’s attempt to cut costs and meet business demands, there’s a perceived notion that IT leaders are creating a ruthless environment in which workers are treated as cogs in a larger machine. Bu...

Guest : Ravi Pradhan Title : Vice President of Technology, Siemens Smart Grid The smart grid infrastructure will inevitably produce an explosion of data, and utility may need to have a comprehensive information management ability to handle it. While many organizations are still struggling to modernize their legacy infrastructure, isn't going digital too big a leap? What’s the strategy to meet smar...

Guest 1: Harriet Tregoning Title: Director, Washington DC Office of Planning Guest 2: Gary Foster Title: CTO of Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority (MBTA), Boston, MA Guest 3: Dennis Gribble Title: VP and CIO, Idaho Power Building a smart city will take real effort by businesses to meet rising populations and industries with escalating needs. Utilities, IT and telecommunications need to collaborat...

Guest 1: Valerie Gamache-O'Leary Title: CIO, The Ottawa Hospital Guest 2: Dale Potter Title: SVP Strategy and Transformation, The Ottawa Hospital Caring for a sick patient in a hospital is a long, delicate process. Physicians need to be informed of a patient’s status such that they can make decisions about their care and provide steps to recovery. The Ottawa Hospital realized that this lifecycle n...

Guest 1: Sen. Shane Broadway Title: Interim Director, Arkansas Department of Higher Education Guest 2: Claire Bailey Title: Director of the Arkansas Department of Information Systems (DIS), Arkansas Chief Technology Officer (CTO) The Arkansas government recognized that students in their state were not finding easy ways to receive financial aid. The Department of Higher Education saw a public need...

Guest : Bob Kantor Title: Leadership Mentor, CIO Coach What makes a leader “authentic”? It’s a person who is understanding of the surrounding world, has true character, makes a difference, leads by example, sees the forest through the trees and inspires others to follow suit. This may be obvious to many business executives, but not everyone is seeing groundbreaking results. How do we know we’re do...

Guest 1: Michael Hugos Title: Author, Speaker and Principal at Center for Systems Innovation Guest 2: Mark P. McDonald Title: Group VP Executive Programs, Gartner, Inc. It is not uncommon to see enterprise transformations fail due to a lack of enthusiasm from your employees. But now imagine a strategy inspired by video games, one that uses technologies and techniques designed to motivate enterpris...

Guest : Venkatram Ramaswamy Title: Professor of Marketing and Computer and Information Systems, Ross School of Business, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor What are the hot topics in business today: Big Data, Cloud Computing, Social Media, CRM? These are all game changing technology innovations, and yet in increasing numbers of businesses, the adoption of this next wave of thinking is being pushe...

Guest 1: Dr. Kevin Kramer, Ph. D. Title: Head of Sales Analytics and Optimization at Aetna Guest 2: Dr. Kathe Fox, Ph. D. Title: Head of Informatics, Aetna Financial Metric identification, data collection, comparing and contrasting, focused action and sustained improvement...  these are the elements needed for the sales function to be more effective and help individuals and organizations to make t...

Guest 1: Raymond J. Oral Title: SVP & Chief Information Officer, CNA Financial Guest 2: Bill Oates Title: Chief Information Officer, City of Boston, Massachusetts Guest 3: Roger Seshadri Title: SVP & CIO of Melco Crown Entertainment, Hong Kong Increasingly, businesses are finding it necessary to challenge the status quo and explore new directions -- not only for competitive advantage -- but to sta...

Guest 1: John David Thompson Title: EVP & CIO at Western Union Guest 2: Peter Cook Title: Chief Information Officer Europe, Global Shared Services, Wolters Kluwer N.V. Even the most successful global organizations struggle at effectively coordinating and controlling their operations. To do this, they need common processes across geographical regions to promote efficiency while also customizing pro...

Guest 1: Dr. Rodger Dean Duncan Title: Speaker, Executive Coach and Author Guest 2: Daniel Traynor Title: SVP and CIO, Tennesee Valley Authority (TVA) Guest 3: Sanjeev "Sonny" Bhagowalia Title: CIO, the State of Hawaii Despite the best intentions of an IT leader and his/her organization, efforts at change usually fail. A big announcement with lots of fanfare and a catchy slogan doesn’t guarantee s...

Guest : Ralph Loura Title: Chief Information Officer, Clorox We start each new year with new hopes and new resolutions. While personally we may consider weight loss or losing some habit, what about making resolutions as an IT leader, to take positive proactive steps to improve at doing our job? i.e., Making changes that will help one develop oneself as an IT leader? ...With business, technology tr...

Guest : Peter Ransom Title: CIO, OXFAM This holiday, many of us are busy chasing profitability, luxury lifestyles, or the hottest toy... but right next to us, there is a parallel world where people are struggling for survival and dependent on local/global "giving" and contributions. Those organizations involved in trying to make the suffering parallel world better are also experiencing challenges....

Guest 1: Michael B. Koval Title: Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer, Long and Foster Guest 2: Mayur Raichura Title: Vice President, IS at Long and Foster Real Estate Today's lean mean business demands quantitative results. when results count, do we really have the luxury of carrying out traditional R&D with incremental innovation? Perhaps, that is why R&D and Innovation related in...

Guest 1: Bob Krestakos Title: Chief Information Officer, Steelcase Inc. Guest 2: Randall N. Spratt Title: Executive Vice President, Chief Information Officer and Chief Technology Officer, McKesson Corporation What are today's I&O leaders doing to handle the challenges they increasingly face? ...How to optimize costs; how to support business growth leveraging the cloud, mobility, and big data; how...

Guest : Caroline Boudreau Sweeney Title : Director, Practice Group Technology Services, Dorsey & Whitney LLP Cost containment implies both reducing costs and making them more predictable. As the volume of data rises, legal departments face increasing pressure to reduce their budgets, while law firms are under pressure to deliver greater value by offering more services at lower fees and providing g...

Guest : John M. Facciola Title : Magistrate Judge A court may not accept your Discovery data as evidence unless you can prove its integrity. How do you know if it has been tampered with and thus is no longer authentic? How do you deter malicious behavior and remove ambiguity over the authenticity of your records? How do you prove the ‘what’, ‘when’, and ‘who’ of any digital and/or non-digital even...

Guest : Allison Stanton Title : Director of E-Discovery, Civil Division - U.S. Department of Justice Ongoing debate over regulatory compliance requires government agencies to capture more data for possible investigation and scrutiny. Whether gathering important internal agency data or data from external sources as part of a regulatory mandate, how are government entities handling the costs and ris...

Guest : Shannon Capone Kirk Title : eDiscovery Counsel, Ropes & Gray When it comes to complex cases, the costs imposed by the eDiscovery process often outweigh any benefit to the litigants. Consequently, computer-assisted predictive document coding is gaining popularity, as it promises to reduce the time and money spent on e-discovery by employing software to review large volumes of electronic doc...

Guest : Jonathan D. Rudolph Title : eDiscovery Manager and Staff Attorney, C.R. Bard Under mounting cost pressures, corporations and law firms are increasingly “in-sourcing” certain aspects of e-discovery using do-it-yourself (DIY) and service provider choices now available in the marketplace. How does an enterprise determine if it can better manage costs, increase control over discovery, and hand...

Guest : Vivian Tero Title : Program Director, IDC How confident are enterprises about their eDiscovery capabilities? What are the best technology solutions supporting eDiscovery? What best practices should be followed? Among enterprises and law practices, what are the top trends for the handling of technology driven eDiscovery?