CIO Talk Network Podcast

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 trends, and IT changing around us, what traits, habits, and appro...

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. In this new era of global convergence wh...

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 initiatives are on so very few organizations' agendas. Is there a way to drive practical R&D and Innovation initiatives that offer "assured" leaps in terms of competitive advantage, bus...

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 to be agile while reducing complexity; and how to modernize the legacy environments of their datacenters? what new and different ideas are helping them demonstrate they are delivering more business value and to...

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 event? Guest: John M. Facciola Title: Magistrate Judge...

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 greater visibility of the costs incurred throughout the entire discovery process. The need to balance costs ag...

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 risks associated with Government eDiscovery? Guest: Allison Stanton Title: Director of E-Discovery, Civi...

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 documents and determine their relevance, thus drastically reducing the n...

Organizations are increasing reliance on IT and technological innovation has introduced disruptive paradigms such as Cloud, Mobility, Social Media, and Big Data. How is the Legal industry leveraging IT and these paradigms to transform its activities, better serve clients, and sustain the growth, scale, and profitability of legal firms? Guest 1: Michael J. McGuire, Chief Information Security Office...

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 handle in-sourced technology and talent with these options? Which aspects of e-discovery...

Over the past decade, financial institutions have been busy securing the perimeters of their networks from attacks. How successful have those efforts been? Have the perimeters finally been completely secured? what about threats from within? Guest 1: Michael Versace, Research Director, IDC Financial Insights Guest Bio: https://www.ciotalknetwork.com/contributor/michael-versace/ Guest 2: Tom Peach,...

When it comes to the exploding costs and risks of litigation that are a result of the deluge of electronic information available, a counsel general's office follows 3 mandates: increase efficiency, reduce costs, and mitigate risks. How severe are the problems of inefficiency, high costs, and risk? How are these problems growing or changing? How does a corporate general counsel's office address the...

Education is an important investment for students and society depends on educational institutions for developing our society's future leaders and workforce. How safe and secure are the learning environments we are offering students? As schools emphasize and investment in online education, how are the security challenges getting compounded? Guest 1: David Sherry, CISO, Brown University Guest Bio: h...

Today, global business demands firms leverage global supply chains and service global customers. Pandemics, natural disasters, or terrorist attacks could undermine the continuity of this global supply system. Furthermore, with everyone interconnected, even small localized events could cause significant interruptions in the flow of goods, or even escalate into something more widespread. Are organiz...

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? Guest 1: Vivian Tero Title: Program Director, IDC For more details and related content: https://www.ciotalknetwork.com/e...

Today's overcrowded industries are like sharks competing in a "bloody" ocean of rivals competing for ever shrinking profits, making growth impossible. To succeed, the companies of the future will have to create value innovation that seeks out an uncontested market space with new demand where rivals are obsolete. But this is easier said than done! How does IT help identify what has worked and what...

New working environment, unknown people, unpredictable economic climate, pressing demands from business stakeholders to deliver value, innovation, competitive advantage and cost savings through IT… it all seems pretty daunting for a new IT leader! What is s/he supposed to do to secure his role and lay a solid foundation for his future tenure? Guest 1: Ronald E. Lejcar, Chief Information Officer, I...

It's been said, "If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together." In some IT organizations, you'll find a few overzealous proponents of faster and faster, pushing for business agility, but that doesn't providing consistent value creation over the long term, and can lose those individuals that got the organization where it is. What is the price business pays, knowingly or unkn...

Data centers are quickly becoming the new nerve centers of organizations. As dependency on them increases, so does the need to reduce costs and increase performance and productivity. Automation promises all these benefits. if automating the data center is beneficial, how close can we get to complete automation? Is complete automation even desirable? What are the challenges? Guest 1: Brenda Decker,...

Traditional wisdom counsels the avoidance of conflict, but organizations don't grow by being passive or complacent. To meet their full potential, business and its IT must be able to channel conflict, both internal and external, into beneficial progress. But how does a leader help his/her team distinguish between the destructive and beneficial uses of conflict? How can leaders foster individual thi...

Recent technology innovations have introduced the potential for IT to be nimble and efficient, but have these innovations alone achieved these goals? Which traditional practices should be abandoned? Also, what should be done about the siloed monolithic mental structures that exist in the minds of business leaders, IT managers, and IT workers? Why should so many IT leaders earn kudos for IT transfo...

Some organizations are adopting a "fail small" and/or "fail quick" approach to technology that pushes internal IT and leverages shadow IT to see what works. If everyone were to approach business this way, then what happens to the strategic innovation that a CIO is expected to enable/lead/drive? Instead of evolving into the Chief "Innovation" Officer," won't this force CIO's to regress back to thei...

In the new global economy, how can manufacturers create value, cut costs, and reduce their exposure to volatile commodity price swings that squeeze profits? Perhaps by collaborating with suppliers and customers to extend the lifecycle of products, components, and materials while rethinking their business model to retain ownership of recoverable materials and then recycling them back into use. This...

Leaders all talk about the importance of motivating those around them, and of keeping others as pumped and committed about what they do, as is he or she. Yet, one obvious question is rarely addressed… who motivates the motivator? How does a leader motivate him/herself? How can a leader stay motivated, day after day? Guest 1: Susan Cramm, President Valuedance and Former CIO, Taco Bell Corporation G...

Ideally, healthcare providers should avoid unnecessary admissions and readmissions and work instead to improve their patient population's health and hospital experience. This may require getting timely, high quality metrics on factors such as emergency room efficiency, cost management, patient flow, staff productivity, clinical outcomes, efficacy of treatment, and "Meaningful Use". This, in turn,...