CIO Talk Network Podcast

Due to increased market volatility and changing global landscape, stakeholders are demanding visibility into cost reduction and value creation opportunities with near real-time planning and reporting. How well are you keeping your enterprise performance management (EPM) strategies, practices, analytics, and technologies in alignment to stay relevant and competitive? Guest: Hilton Sturisky, Global...

Cloud is foundational for enabling digital, but cost overruns are rampant. Building data and analytics capability to support digital is resource-intensive. Shadow IT is inevitable with digital, leading to significant cost leakages. Finding, keeping, retaining, and repurposing digital talent is an ongoing and expensive struggle. Security risks are enormous but so are the costs of managing them. How...

Digital has forced security leaders to rethink their department's strategy, people, processes, tools, governance, budgets, and culture. With the dynamic and volatile nature of digital, it isn't easy to build a standardized, unified, and cohesive approach to making security forethought and implementing it in the very DNA of the organization. With unique organizational needs and constraints, how are...

Digital has the potential to uncover new and hidden markets. What about the existing market full of competition? How are companies leveraging digital to establish higher value-based positioning, increase mindshare, proactively prospect, and enhance delivery to displace competition? Guest 1: Samuli Savo, Chief Digital Officer, Stora Enso Guest Bio: h ttps://www.ciotalknetwork.com/contributor/samuli...

People have conversations as part of doing their job to exchange information or data. They also interact to pitch ideas and persuade others. But how can leaders foster a transformational level of conversations that would lead to real change and desired results? Guest: Rekha Ramesh, Chief Information Officer, Advantage Solutions Guest Bio: https://www.ciotalknetwork.com/contributor/rekha-ramesh/ Mo...

Public and hybrid cloud infrastructure has proven to be a viable option for business but is it the most secure? Security breaches are rampant, with many of them attributed to cloud adoption. How can the business, IT, and cybersecurity leaders work together with the cloud providers to effectively manage cloud security? Guest: Michael Welch, Chief Information Security Officer (CISO), OSI Group Guest...

Data security requires rethinking people, processes, and tools to protect data throughout its lifecycle across public cloud, on-premises, and hybrid cloud deployments no matter the size and scale. Marred with explosive data growth, privacy regulations, operational complexities, and acute talent shortage, enterprises are scrambling at best. What are some of the most progressive and creative securit...

Lack of transparency, siloed thinking, lack of vision, and openness to experimentation indicate issues that prevent harnessing digital opportunities in enterprises. How can we reset and rebuild a winning culture for digital success where leaders think big, take risks, and employees are informed, engaged, and empowered? Guest: Saugat Dutta, Country IT Head/ CIO , DP Worldwide Guest Bio: https://www...

CIOs need to shift from keeping business humming and predictable to mastering the art of possible and working with others to create new solutions. How do they reset their hardwiring, develop new skills, and lead their organizations into the new? Guest 1: Steven A Marks, CIO, Brooklyn Law School Guest Bio: https://www.ciotalknetwork.com/contributor/steven-marks/ Guest 2: Dr. Jonathan Vester, Vice P...

In the digital age, IT security needs to improve resilience, fast track innovation, and drive business expansion. But we require the entire organization's support to make that happen. What does it take to make IT security everyone's business? Guest: Sheryl Rose, Chief Information Security Officer, Summa Health System Guest Bio: https://www.ciotalknetwork.com/contributor/sheryl-rose/ More on this E...

Business is willing to invest in digital but wants to know where we are, how is it going, when will we get there, and what did related investments get us. With dynamically shifting digital landscape and experimentation underway, how should business and IT leaders collaborate to define digital KPIs and measure them to track progress and performance? Guest: Balaji Rengachari, Global Chief Informatio...

Good leaders today are expected to drive business agility through cooperation, collaboration, and adaptability of its team and ecosystem partners. Such leaders are also supposed to demonstrate flexibility and sensitivity? Can we harness AI beyond just automation or aid to decision making? Are there ways AI can help improve leadership quality within an organization? Guest: Jeanne Holm, Deputy CIO a...

For IT leaders, saying Yes to ever increasing business demands makes their workload unmanageable and saying No earns them a bad name. Is there a way out? What strategies for work acceptance, prioritization, allocation, and execution can help them get out of this predicament and keep delivering value to the business? Guest 1: Brian Stewart, Deputy CIO and Director of Business Transformation , Unive...

When tackling future readiness, organizations mostly focus on reimagining their customer offerings and experience. But what about strengthening the enterprise core business systems? How are Business and IT leaders using digital to revitalize the very foundation that will keep the business humming now and in the future? Guest 1: Brian LeClaire Title: Chief Information Officer, Humana For more detai...

Making Digital Transformation effective and holistic requires that we optimize core business systems and processes including contract management. Beyond digitizing paper contracts, what are organizations doing to adopt digital-enabled contract lifecycle management? What needs to change in people, process, and tools? What are the related challenges and remedies? Guest 1: Peggy Barber, The Americas...

Implementing effective segmentation for security with relatively flat enterprise networks is a hard and tedious task involving multiple teams and application downtime. The result: business critical applications are at higher risk and the compliance costs is very high. How can CISOs and Security Architects rethink segmentation to make security more robust and simpler to manage? Guest 1: Ariel Zeitl...

Driving a robust data analytics engine in an enterprise is not much different than a team sport. Business, data, and IT constituents need to develop mutual trust, bring forth ideas and challenge norms, take ownership as appropriate, and work cohesively in one direction. How to secure sponsorship? Who all should be recruited in the team? Who should be the coach? And, how should the playbook be prac...

Increasingly, businesses are relying upon their service operation to position the entire organization for sustainable growth and profitability well into the future. But, no two companies are identical in their approaches to service delivery, even though they could use the exact same technician to fix the exact same piece of equipment. As a result, service leaders are demanding best-of-breed techno...

Centennials, the first truly digital-native generation, has started entering the workforce. This generation is characterized as sharp, argumentative, with short attention span, is easily demotivated, and puts personal priorities and commitments over what the employer needs. How are CIOs planning to lead this new generation for the benefit of all involved? Guest: Earl Newsome, Vice President and CI...

Imagine a workplace where both human and digital resources fluidly and autonomously reconfigure themselves in response to dynamically changing business needs. How can an enterprise develop such digital dexterity to stay relevant and competitive? Guest 1: Brian Stewart, Deputy CIO and Director of Business Transformation , University of Alberta Guest Bio: https://www.ciotalknetwork.com/contributor/b...

With yesterday's technical debt related maintenance and transformational initiatives in hand, should CIOs even bother to think about the future? How can futuristic thinking help IT leaders effectively lead their organizations to stay relevant and profitable today? Guest 1: Klara Jelinkova, Vice President for International Operations and IT and Chief Information Officer, Rice University Guest Bio:...

A few great ideas that bring unprecedented value must be celebrated. But what changes in organizational mindset, model, and culture should you enable for such value creation in a sustained manner and at scale? Guest: Paul M. Bellack, Vice President, Global IT (CIO), Corporate IT Group, Magna International Inc. Guest Bio: https://www.ciotalknetwork.com/contributor/paulm-bellack/ More on this Episod...

To become the company your customer wants you to be, your customer experience needs to exceed expectations. Effective adoption of AI-powered people, processes, and tools can help. How should IT and customer service leaders join hands to maximize the AI opportunity while meeting related challenges? Guest: Mark Gay, Chief Information Officer, QBE Insurance Australia Pacific Guest Bio: https://www.ci...

Leaders have been dealing with episodic volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity (VUCA) for decades. What's should be the leadership recipe in this era when VUCA is constant and exponentially increasing in intensity? Guest 1: Gregg Chottiner Title: Vice President for Technology Advancement and Chief Information Officer, New Jersey Institute of Technology Guest 2: John Ellinger Title: Chi...

AI can impact Supply Chain Management (SCM) outcomes. But many such attempts by companies lead to disappointing results. What's missing? Why hasn't AI delivered in SCM? What's needed to harness the most value of AI for SCM? Guest: Rainer Steffl, CIO, Mondi Group Guest Bio: https://www.ciotalknetwork.com/contributor/rainer-steffl/ More on this Episode: https://www.ciotalknetwork.com/ai-and-supply-c...