CIO Talk Network

Guest 1: Ron Guerrier

Title: Chief Information Officer, Express Scripts

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: Shantanu Roy

Title: Chief Information Officer, Mahindra Logistics

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 the corporate expectations? How can they lead their people to think different and follow the unconventional path to digital manufacturing? Based on the journey thus far, what are the learnings?

Guest 1: Soili Mäkinen

Title: Chief Information Officer and Senior Vice President, Digitalisation, Cargotec corporation

Guest 2: Saugat Dutta

Title: Chief Information Officer, TVS Logistics

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 vision and action, how should they assume the role of a venture capitalist and use this mindset to deliver success?

Guest: Shaveta Wadhera

Title: CIO, GE Transportation

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 exceed customer expectations?

Guest: Lawanda Parnell

Title: Chief Information Officer, Pedernales Electric Cooperative (PEC)

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 1: Sam Segran

Title: CIO, Texas Tech University (TTU)

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 1: Tim Woods

Title: Vice President, Technology Alliances, FireMon

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 gaining continuous visibility into the cloud environment and using it to control related security?

Guest: John Ellinger

Job Title: Chief Information Officer, Bowling Green State University

People, situations, and communication don’t always work as planned and can get out of hand. That’s chaos and is the opposite of order. A leader must own it, manage the unmanageable, and even create chaos to move the organization ahead. With constant turbulence, how are you developing this critical leadership skill?

Guest 1: Lisa Kerns

Title: Chief Information Officer, Fareway Stores

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 ready for the daunting times ahead?

Organizations recognize the value of going digital with their supply chains but, in many cases, have introduced the idea as point solutions to automate specific processes or functions. This fragmented and opportunistic approach undermines full potential. How can organizations define and adopt digital in ONE holistic approach to operating supply chains across the globe?

Guest 1: Jamie Bragg

Title: Executive Vice President & Chief Supply Chain Officer, Tailored Brands, Inc.