CIO Talk Network

Guest 1: Brian Stewart

Title: Deputy CIO and Director of Business Transformation, University of Alberta

Guest 2: Michael Dellinger

Title: Chief Information Officer at City of Tulsa

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 LeClaire

Title: Chief Information Officer, Humana

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: Peggy Barber

Title: The Americas CEO and General Counsel, The International Association for Contract and Commercial Management (IACCM)

Guest 2: Saugat Dutta

Title: Country IT Head/CIO, TVS Supply Chain Solutions Pvt. Ltd (erstwhile known as TVS Logistics)

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: Ariel Zeitlin

Title: CTO & Co-Founder, Guardicore

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: Deepa Soni

Title: US Chief Information Officer (CIO) and US P&C Technology Chief Information Officer(CIO), BMO Financial Group

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 practiced to consistently win the games?

How IT Leaders can make service management future-ready

Guest 1: David Giannetto

Title: Chief Operating Officer, Astea International

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 technology solution that is designed specifically for their service organization’s nuanced needs and enables flexibility to perform critical tasks in different ways. IT leaders want to help the business become future-ready using a best-of-breed approach, but it can undermine their standard practice of preventing unmanageable complexity and unwarranted higher integration costs. The result: IT leaning toward picking an otherwise sub-optimal service management solution with the service software as an ancillary component of their existing Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system. How can service and IT leaders collaborate to adopt future-ready service management technology while meeting the ‘simplify IT’ agenda?

Guest 1: Earl Newsome

Title: Vice President and CIO, Praxair

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 1: Brian Stewart

Title: Deputy CIO and Director of Business Transformation, University of Alberta

Guest 2: Gregg Chottiner

Title: Vice President for Technology Advancement and Chief Information Officer, New Jersey Institute of Technology

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: Klara Jelinkova

Title: Vice President for International Operations and IT and Chief Information Officer at Rice University

Guest 2: Thomas Skill (Ph.D. 1984, University at Buffalo

Title: Associate Provost & Chief Information Officer at the University of Dayton

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: Paul M. Bellack

Title: Vice President, Global IT (CIO), Corporate IT Group, Magna International Inc.

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?