CIO Talk Network

A hybrid work environment is here to stay. How did you motivate and engage people and lead a team you can’t see face-to-face all the time? How did you ensure effective communication, collaboration, trust-building, and ensuring accountability? What current leadership approaches and skills you used helped or hurt as you lead your troops in the hybrid work environment? How should we develop future le...

Your business needs to be resilient that bounces back from disruptions and adversity. You also want to make sure that you are relevant now since the future is uncertain. Should you focus on automation, go remote, digitalize your offerings, promote self-service, and discard any people, processes, and technology that don’t fit your current agenda? How to build an elastic, people-centric business tha...

Is your organization ensuring data security and privacy sufficiently and practicing race and gender diversity and inclusion effectively? Are your business practices ethical and transparent? Is worker health and safety getting the same focus and investment as product safety and quality? If such social and environmental issues are supported by a business properly, customers are willing to help, and...

As an IT leader, you strive to create an environment where people can learn, grow, inspire, and innovate. But to deliver on this promise, how are you building and sustaining a bottom-up culture, where each member of your team has a voice, empowered to make decisions, and motivated to create innovative and practical solutions to solve challenges and exploit business growth opportunities? And, how a...

Business leaders are looking to lessen the impact of current global disruption while fortifying against future ones. They want to acquire new capabilities quickly through mergers and acquisitions, reimagine customer relationship building, and improve their cybersecurity posture to minimize risk while controlling costs. How well are IT and Security leaders supporting this business reinvention effor...

It is one thing to envision an AI concept, develop a prototype, and take it to production. It is another to scale such efforts to build and manage a robust enterprise-grade AI pipeline. How can organizations adopt product engineering, lifecycle management, and governance disciplines to scale AI efforts ensuring performance and reliability? Guest 1: Mark Miller Title: Chief Information Officer, Par...

From timely patient diagnostics, proper treatment to reliable recovery, vision can play a critical role in enhancing patient care, which requires reliable, compatible, cost-effective, energy-efficient, and high-performing vision technology solutions. Whether it is diagnostic imaging, medical carts, or pill dispensers, embedded vision can change the game. However, due to inadequate knowledge in cam...

If appropriately harnessed, even the small ideas can lead to a big impact on the way we acquire, serve, and retain our customers. But how to keep those ideas coming, testing them, and operationalizing the ones that show promise timely? But, how to do so despite the constraints posed by significant disruptions like the pandemic? Guest 1: Miao Song Title: Global Chief Information Officer - Petcare,...

From fighting health care inequality to expanding access to medicines, from stopping infectious diseases to keeping healthcare clean, and from preparing for future epidemics to gaining public trust, the World Health Organization and the public health departments worldwide have a critical task at hand. The recent pandemic showed us that there is a complex journey ahead into an unpredictable future....

How well is your organization able to support its workers as they ride an emotional roller coaster due to losses in the family, disrupted life conditions, and burnout at work? How are you balancing your efforts and investments toward employee wellbeing with the task or reenergizing and realigning your organization’s priorities to stay sustainable and profitable as a business? Guest 1: Kathleen Lar...

While IT is always seen as enabling business transformation and related initiatives, but not always does it elevate its status as a partner. Is there a playbook one can use to effectively enable the transformation journey to earn that stripe. Guest: Leonard Brinson Title: Vice President and Chief Information Officer, South Jersey Industries For more details and related content: https://www.ciotalk...

The often shifting sales tax rules and regulations in over 14,000 state and local tax jurisdictions in the USA make sales tax compliance management a daunting task. Supporting ongoing manual changes to 3rd party on-premise business applications increases the burden on IT teams already juggling multiple priorities. Sovos claims its technology solution eliminates this burden on IT and grants the tax...

Running a relevant business with a competitive edge today requires a scalable, reliable, and secure operation ready to support the future of work. One where remote and on-the-go employees, powered by seamless digital collaboration and secure access to data and applications, have the clarity and confidence to meet your customer demands. One that simplifies and consolidates productivity platforms an...

Due to the increasing adoption of a data-driven approach to work and decision-making, analytics leadership is essential for an organization’s growth. As an analytics leader, how do you get clear commitments from management and users about data and information approaches? How do you prevent missing simple yet critical patterns due to cognitive overload? How do you foster a collaborative and zealous...

Leadership is influence, and relationships play an essential role. To ace your performance appraisal as a security leader, you need to develop healthy relationships with the internal security team, organizational peers, management, vendors, and customers. How can CISOs build their relationship capital with all constituents to enable business growth while keeping the fort secure? Guest: Rob Hornbuc...

The year 2020 taught us a lot. We became candid and openly vulnerable among our peers. While bearing enormous stress, we came together, came up with more new ideas, and tried new things than ever before. How can we sustain this creativity and persistence and emerge from the crisis to build a long-term advantage for the business? Guest: Danielle Maurici Arnone Title: Chief Information Officer, Reck...

Going alone may make things a little faster for business transformation, but taking others along would take you farther. While this conventional wisdom sounds logical, organizational change initiatives often have lackluster results, or they fail due to siloed strategy, unilateral decision making, and disconnected execution. What is so complicated about Inclusion? How should leaders drive transform...

Covid-19 forced B2B companies to suspend the face to face marketing and sales models. What are the digital alternatives to the traditional models, and are organizations ready to leverage them successfully? What should change in marketing and sales strategies, processes, channels, people, and tools to pave the path to purchase with digital experiences? Guest 1: Ann Dozier Title: Senior Vice Preside...

Seniors deal with loneliness and financial predators besides aging and illness issues. With mounting healthcare and living costs, they also need to stay financially secure. How are the organizations serving this target customer base leveraging technology to reimagine their business models, products, and service delivery approach to enable safe, comfortable, and healthy living for seniors? Guest: A...

Companies are digitally transforming their business to transform customer experiences and enable sustained competitive advantage. They are also adopting agile principles to stay fast on their feet and outpace their competitors. How integrated and synchronized is the agile transformation effort at these organizations with the digital transformation initiatives? While demonstrating digital leadershi...

In a fast-changing market and global uncertainty, only the most innovative, bold, and flexible wealth managers stand a chance in delivering real value to their customers. How are financial institutions leveraging digital to provide proper organizational support for quality research with agile decision-making, enabling reliable portfolio and risk management that is much needed for keeping customer...

Cybersecurity is no different from a sports car’s brakes, which is only to keep us safe, not to slow us down as we test our businesses’ limits during such unprecedented times of digital growth and disruptive change. How should a CISO help executive management understand cybersecurity, why it is essential for growth, and how to leverage it to maximize digital potential? Guest: Juan Carlos Title: Ch...

Due to the pandemic, both the healthcare organizations and patients were pushed into trying virtual care. While the initial results are encouraging, significant challenges remain. Doctors struggle with technological, licensing, jurisdictional issues, and many patients with bandwidth. Hospital systems are trying to integrate virtual care into their clinical workflow and bolstering their technology...

Even with easy access to AI and advanced analytics technologies, the total cost of getting data wrong can be huge, with organizations trying to exploit digital opportunities ahead. How can leaders enable data-driven enterprise DNA with relevance, completeness, and transparency of the data models as the foundation? Guest 1: Dante Tellez Guevara Title: Chief Data & Analytics Officer, Chubb Guest 2:...

As part of their digital transformation efforts, organizations are dashing to exploit analytics and AI, modernizing core technologies, and optimizing operations? But how are they enabling a digital culture where everyone is open to embracing risk, committed to changing siloed mindsets, and stays relentlessly focused on the customer? Guest: Teemu Salmi Title: Senior Vice President and Chief Informa...