CIO Talk Network

Guest 1: Anu Varma

Title: CIO - Communications Solutions Segment, TE

A well thought out digital strategy with poor or hasty execution doesn’t deliver expected results. Nor does an amateur grade digital blueprint realized by implementation experts. With digital still evolving, how can organizations ace the whole process starting from the clean design of digital initiatives to immaculate execution for maximum impact?

Guest 1: Tarek Tomes

Title: Commissioner and Chief Information Officer, State of Minnesota

Guest 1: Paul Wagner

Title: CIO, National Research Council Canada

Digital revolution, socio-economic and political shifts, and citizens demanding a value-centric experience requires government to become intuitive and integrated to better sense and respond to changes. How are government and IT reimagining their system, processes, people, and tools to get ready?

Guest 1: Praveen Moturu

Title: Vice President and Chief Enterprise Architect, Mars Inc.

Traditionally, the enterprise architecture (EA) function was considered an overhead by many organizations. But it can prove to be a catalyst if reimagined and used to drive strategy and execution for digital transformation. How are progressive leaders adopting EA for digital success?

Guest 1: Jonathan Vester

Title: Chief Information Officer, Nash Community College

Armed with knowledge about the whole organization and deep expertise in using technology for innovation and growth, how are IT leaders elevating themselves into catalysts and unleashing energy that maximizes business outcomes? How are they connecting people within the organization and help them see the link between personal motivations and the company vision? How are they cheering the business unit officers and executive management to stay enthusiastic and continue to champion the change? How are they fostering an authentic work environment where everyone brings their best self to work?

Guest 1: Jeff Cann

Title: Chief Strategist & CIO, Encore Electric

While you invest in developing leaders, are you evolving the way work gets done in the company? You need to engage the entire system for organizational effectiveness. What’s the road to syncing organizational change and leadership development for maximum impact?

Disruptive change is becoming the norm. Instead of tweaking leadership strategy and culture to handle only the current challenges, how do you future-proof them, so the organization stands the tests of time and stay relevant, resilient, and reliable?

Guest 1: Helen Norris

Title: Chief Information Officer, Chapman University

Guest 2: Samuel Sudhakar

Title: Chief Information Officer and Vice President for Information Technology Services, California State University, San Bernardino

Guest 3: James MacLennan

Title: Chief Information Officer, IDEX Corporation

Guest 1: Prosenjit Sengupta

Title: Chief Digital Officer, Thermax Group

Dark data is information we are collecting but not using. It can cause leakage of proprietary knowledge and reputational damage. It increases future compliance challenges and legacy costs. It hinders making good use of data and is unnecessarily increase resource usage without any productive outcome. What are organizations doing to handle these dark data perils?

Guest 1: Prosenjit Sengupta

Title: Chief Digital Officer, Thermax Group

Dark data is information we are collecting but not using. It can cause leakage of proprietary knowledge and reputational damage. It increases future compliance challenges and legacy costs. It hinders making good use of data and is unnecessarily increase resource usage without any productive outcome. What are organizations doing to handle these dark data perils?

Guest 1: Hilton Sturisky

Title: Global Chief Information Officer at Crawford & Company

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 1: Viren Shah

Title: Chief Digital Officer, GE Appliances, a Haier company

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 are leaders optimizing costs and running a tight, digital ship?