CIO Talk Network

Guest 1 : Helen Norris

Title : CIO at Chapman University

How are you making sure that your organization is maturing while you delver short term wins as part of your digital transformation initiative? How are you establishing benchmarks to evaluate the key elements, including your strategy effectiveness to ensure that your whole organization aligns around a vision truly? What about culture appropriateness, so it fosters the right mindset and behaviors and the organizational structure for best execution of projects? And last but not least, the capability levels, including systems, tools, and skills to properly support delivery? And, once defined, how are you using these benchmarks to stay focused on continually improving the organization’s maturity to exploit future opportunities?

Guest : Jake Margolis

Title : Chief Information Security Officer, Metropolitan Water District of Southern California

Cybercrime spans international boundaries and poses a formidable challenge which we can only address through collaborative efforts between governments and commercial enterprises globally. While this area is attracting a lot of press, attention, and even investment, what progress are we making? What measures are we deploying to deal with this menace effectively?

Guest 1 : Kevin Jones

Title : CIO, Indiana Department of Child Services

Guest 2 : Lewis Stockford

Title : CIO,Centreplate

Is just believing in your people and their ability to learn, grow, and prosper enough to unleash their passion? And how do you empower such a passionate bunch, so they become intentional and thoughtful in their actions and start painting outside the lines to drive meaningful impact?

Guest : Chris Huff

Title : Chief Strategy Officer, Kofax

Organizations across industries are adopting automation to handle use cases including repetitive transactions to complex knowledge-based business processes. Focus is shifting from creating only operational efficiencies to revenue generation. Kofax, a new entrant in the crowded intelligent automation solutions category, claims that it’s solution is designed from the ground up to help organizations enable intelligent automation holistically and exploit its potential fully. What evidence does Kofax have to prove this claim? What set’s Kofax apart from the others in the landscape? Can Kofax deliver on its intelligent automation promise?

Guest 1 : Bharat Soni

Title : CISO and Group Head Information Security Group, GT Bank

Guest 2 : Pablo G.Molina

Title : AVP and CISO, Drexel University

Decades ago, CISOs started as the guardian of the firewall, defending a well-defined perimeter. But today, with anytime and anywhere data access imperative, such boundaries are blurred. Securing crown jewels in a cloud environment, with poor under the hood visibility, has been daunting. And, to tackle the daily fires while preparing for what’s ahead, it has been challenging to build a next-gen security talent pool. How are CISOs addressing these top three challenges?

Guest : Juha Eteläniemi

Title : CIO, Fazer

We are now in the execution mode with digital. The top five issues reported include lack of overarching digital strategy, ineffective organizational structure, employee resistance, unavailability of the quality talent pool, and insufficient budget support. While most business and technology leaders have faced similar issues in the past, why do these issues seem daunting in the digital context? What are some of the proven principles and methods leaders have used to handle these issues successfully?

Guest 1 : Michael Peterson

Title : CIO,CHG Healthcare

Guest 2 : Frank Buytendijk

Title : Distinguished VP, Analyst and Gartner Fellow

Gaining competitive advantage, learning how humans think and make purchase decisions, and what’s going to happen next in business are some of the practical reasons organizations are looking to exploit digital capabilities. But, not everything legal, which serves our business interests, is ethical. Privacy is at risk and trust levels are deteriorating. How are organizations rethinking and maintaining high ethical standards in the digital era?

Guest 1 : Malcolm Jack

Title : Chief Information Officer, Granite Construction

A significant shift like a merger in business or economic meltdown leaves employees wondering about their safety, what the future holds for them, how their roles will change, and how they should carry out their duties. How should a leader keep employees productive and effective during such transitional times, providing the structure, knowledge, and security, while adapting to the roadblocks and challenges?

Guest 1 : Lutz Beck

Title : Chief Information Officer, Daimler Trucks North America (DTNA)

Manufacturing uses digital twins for physical product prototyping and innovation. How can leaders use digital to tackle analog problems, including organizational effectiveness, change management, workforce optimization, cultural relevance, and cost control?

Guest 1: Sanjay Patel

Title : Group CIO

Digital is no longer just a cool idea or about only marketing and customer experience. From product development, production, service operation, supply chain, and employees’ experience–you must re-imagine all. How should an organization go about defining a digital operating model and put it into action, so it enables consistent, meaningful, and high-quality execution across the enterprise at the speed of business change?