CIO Talk Network Podcast

While machines don't have emotions, can they do a better job evoking the same in humans? From user experience, marketing, and search optimization, to storytelling, how is the media industry planning to use AI to create more powerful and engaging entertainment experience for you than ever before? Guest: Marcus Dauck, Chief Information Officer, Ringier AG Guest Bio: https://www.ciotalknetwork.com/co...

The fast, volatile, and scaling digital demands require enterprise infrastructure and operations (I&O) to change beyond supporting traditional data center and cloud environments. How are organizations rethinking and investing in people, process, platforms, and tools to provision newer and faster digital technologies and methodologies including Edge Computing, IoT, RPA, and AI? Guest 1: John Kolb,...

With most organizations well on their way to embedding digital in the DNA of their organizations, what's on the CIO Agenda for 2019? How do they plan to support volatile and growing business capability demands reliably without breaking the bank? Guest 1: Lawanda Parnell, Chief Information Officer, Pedernales Electric Cooperative (PEC) Guest Bio: https://www.ciotalknetwork.com/contributor/lawanda-p...

You want to use AI and sophisticated analytics to enable business outcome. Is your workforce data literate? Do you have a refined, automated, and process-oriented methodology for your data management and analytics needs? How can you enable your organization to exploit digital opportunities through Data Literacy and DataOps? Guest: Vijay Venkatesan, Chief Analytics Officer, Horizon Blue Cross Blue...

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has proven to be a disruptive technical tool with promising applications across industries. But, as a CIO, how do craft your AI strategy, identify most promising user cases, build required analytics capabilities, and embed it in the very fabric of your business to maximize business outcome? Guest 1: Hem Chari, CIO, Automation & Controls from GE Guest Bio: https://www.c...

Going digital is about harnessing data to create opportunities for growth. It's data in the cloud, your datacenters, on the endpoints, and in other not as visible pockets within your enterprise. It's your intellectual property and institutional knowledge. It's the conversations that make your teams productive. Data loss and leakage pose a significant hindrance as organizations look to take off usi...

Guest 1: Christopher Porter Title: Chief Information Security Officer, Fannie Mae Going digital is about harnessing data to create opportunities for growth. It's data in the cloud, your datacenters, on the endpoints, and in other not as visible pockets within your enterprise. It's your intellectual property and institutional knowledge. It's the conversations that make your teams productive. Data l...

Are people just resources that your organization must exploit? In this day and age, when people are not making widgets, should they be 'managed' to improve the value they can help create? Would just leading them by painting a vision be enough? What strategies, approaches, and tactics would work the best for maximizing the people potential? Guest: Samuel Sudhakar, Chief Information Officer and Vice...

Digital is here, real, and shifting. CIOs may have successfully delivered on the digital transformation mandate, in this world of instability and constantly chasing what's next, how are they building strategies, culture, and platforms to stay ready and relevant for the continuous next? Guest: Jeff Cann, Chief Strategist & CIO, Encore Electric Guest Bio: https://www.ciotalknetwork.com/contributor/j...

Does your organization just react to problems as they occur or try to predict and mitigate those problems before they happen? You may know what happened but do you know why? How can you boost organizational performance in the context of your customers, employees, products, and brand through experience management? Guest: Kathy Linares, Vice President, Chief Information Officer, Orora Packaging Solu...

To embed Digital in the DNA of your business, you need a technology platform. How do you select new technology solutions and leverage what you have? How do you finalize your architectural practices, partner integrations, and data exchange standards? What should be your approach to governance and risk management? And, how do you make it all happen with severe budget constraints? Guest: Earl Newsome...

RPA promises benefits including increased compliance, improved system compatibility, better management capabilities, and enhanced customer experience. But organizations are facing related adoption challenges including the perception of substantial upfront costs, employee resistance, setting a realistic expectation of what's possible, and identification of candidate processes to automate among othe...

The volume and variety of attacks have left security teams playing catch up. Dwell times span days. Intrusions are left undetected for months. How can organization accelerate incident detection and response to minimize potential damage and improve the defense? Guest 1: Naresh Podila Title: CISO, Pall Corporation For more details and related content: https://www.ciotalknetwork.com/accelerating-inci...

Banks are looking to enhance and extend enterprise efficiency through technology-enabled transformation. The focus is on how to improve customer propositions for higher revenue and change the internal culture through improved collaboration and innovation. How are emerging technologies helping? Guest: Andrew Baker, CIO & CTO, CIB, Absa Group Limited Guest Bio: https://www.ciotalknetwork.com/contrib...

Businesses are keen to boost business performance and customer experience. But the light bulb wasn't invented by continually improving the candle. How do you balance investment in improvements of legacy systems, processes, and tools and innovation for the best outcome? How do you use emerging technologies to that end? Guest 1: Jeff Hutchinson, Chief Information Officer, Bombardier Guest Bio: https...

Enterprises are making significant investments in rebuilding their data and analytics environments. But, that's based on the challenges today and what's on the horizon. What are the steps to future-proofing it to prevent the cost of rework and the risk of irrelevance in the future? Guest: Swamy Kocherlakota, Chief Information Officer, S&P Global Guest Bio: https://www.ciotalknetwork.com/contributo...

Customer Experience (CX) is key to an organization's success. It is all the rave today and organizations are reporting that they are heavily focusing on and investing in it. How are the results? Are these investments paying off in form of hard ROI or offering feel good soft ROI? Does CX have the potential to be a profit center? Guest 1: Steve Zoltick, CIO, Hasbro Guest Bio: https://www.ciotalknetw...

Revenue growth is critical, but with so many options available to today's informed and demanding customer, will just selling get you there? How do you reshape strategy, rethink solutions, and use technology to shift the focus of your whole organization from selling to solving customer's problems? Guest: Ron Guerrier, Chief Information Officer, Express Scripts Guest Bio: https://www.ciotalknetwork....

Change is hard and scary at times. And, embracing Industry 4.0 requires a lot of it. Manufacturers dread the idea of disrupting their supply chain or production output. How, then, can they make the complex changes across the board required to the industrial infrastructure and processes? What about corporate expectations? How can they lead their people to think different and follow the unconvention...

Today CIOs responsible for driving future business growth and innovation must develop a new mindset and new capabilities. What if this mindset that a CIO develops is of a venture capitalist? But, is simply developing a mindset enough? In this time and age, should the CIO also build a portfolio of initiatives that would deliver significant business outcomes? When most CIOs are becoming progressive...

In today's day of constant change, customer expectations are behaving like crazy creatures. They are growing and shrinking. They are changing shape and direction. Juggling priorities and resource constraints, organizations are finding it increasingly harder to deliver on morphing customer expectations. What strategies as well as changes in mindset, processes, and tools will help stay ahead and exc...

Leadership development must be future-focused to tackle the faster and complex future ahead. How do you identify individuals with the potential to lead the charge in the future? What skills and competencies do they need to address future challenges? What must change in training approaches to groom future-relevant leaders? Guest: Lawanda Parnell, Chief Information Officer, Pedernales Electric Coope...

Do the members of your team cringe when you ask them to step up and lead? Is it due to lack of title? What are you doing to build non-positional leaders who focus on making a positive impact from any place in organizational hierarchy? Guest: Sam Segran, CIO, Texas Tech University (TTU) Guest Bio: https://www.ciotalknetwork.com/contributor/sam-segran/ More on this Episode: https://www.ciotalknetwor...

Cloud providers only go so far in sharing the responsibility of keeping your information assets secure. The onus of protecting data and managing threats in the cloud still lies with you. But, if you can't see what's going on across your entire cloud infrastructure at all times, how do you detect and respond to threats, cut vulnerabilities, and ensure ongoing compliance? What are the steps to gaini...

Are your employees engaged in meaningful work? Are the managers devoted to employees' success by providing regular coaching and feedback? Do the teams feel empowered to make decisions and working with mutual trust? Are your organization's workplace policies and culture conducive to enhancing employee engagement? What are you doing to transforming employee experience, a critical step to getting rea...