CIO Talk Network

Guest 1: Shawn Banerji

Title : CIO Practice, Russell Reynolds Associates, Inc.

Guest 2: Tom Kolditz

Title : Founding Executive Director of the Doerr Institute for New Leaders at Rice University & Author "In Extremis Leadership: Leading as if Your Life Depended on It

Troubled times never come calling. In order to tackle uncertain and hyper-competitive business environments, leaders must demand change. They must perform objective evaluation of available options, experimentation and creative destruction to transform their organizations and make them relevant for the times ahead.

So are you an adaptive leader who can chart a course when you cannot predict the outcomes of your choices as well as make the team perceptive and agile such that it reads the signal timely and acts on them with autonomy?

Guest 1: Bill Kehoe

Title: CIO, King County, Washington

Guest 2: Helen Norris

Title: Chief Information Officer, Chapman University

As a leader, do you surround yourself with the best people, despite their differences? While team play has its merit, should it trump bringing the best individuals to the game? In order to meet business demands, would you rather deploy the best or the friendly?

Guest 1: Gregory R. Simpson

Title: Chief Technology Officer, Synchrony Financial

As a business or IT Leader, do you know when to embrace change and adjust strategies around innovations in the market vs. staying on course? How do you differentiate those nuggets of real opportunities from the noise generated by new ventures or hyped trends in order for you to announce and embrace change with confidence?

Guest 1: Connie Barrera

Title: Chief Information Security Officer, Jackson Health System

While organizations may be looking to leverage cloud, mobility, and Big Data for innovation and productivity improvements, who gets access to what data and which applications without compromising security is keeping IT leaders up at night since stakes are high! What are the current challenges related to identity and access management and what are we doing to address them?

Guest 1: Dr. Nicholas Marko

Title: Chief Data Officer, Geisinger Health System

Guest 1: Dr. Phil Shelley

Title: Former CTO, Sears Holding

With Big Data riding through the hype cycle for a bit, there are passionate advocates, skeptics, and naysayers. Big Data was introduced with a promise to fundamentally change the way we live and do business. Has it lived up to the promise and actually delivered significant tangible ROI?

Guest 1: Gordon J. Gaudet

Title: Executive Vice President & Chief Information Officer, Selective Insurance

Your ability to retain customers and increase lifetime value derived from them is dependent on how you manage the journey. They may pause and restart multiple times as well as change directions. Instead of leading them, we need to be beside them attending to their needs and desires keeping them comfortable. This would need to happen overtime across multiple channels including web, mobile, and store front and in person. How to effectively design and manage such a journey more as a chaperone who is looking to give vs. a salesperson looking to get?

Guest 1: Gary Hayslip

Title: Deputy Director, Chief Information Security Officer City of San Diego, CA

Guest 1: Mark McDonald

Title: Chief Information Officer, City of Vancouver

While the times demand making our cities smart leveraging innovation in water, waste, and infrastructure management using Iot (Internet of Things), what security risks are getting introduced? How vulnerable are these smart cities to cyber attacks and what are we doing to secure them?

Guest 1: Helen Norris

Title: Chief Information Officer, Chapman University

With legacy going out, cloud and third party managed services being embraced, we are essentially handing over our IT lifeline to external entities while still taking responsibility for the outcome. How do we rethink, renovate and/or replace our IT core leveraging partners such that it is more reliable, resilient and effective?

Guest 1: Karen Porter-Wolf

Title: SVP, Chief Information Officer, Assurant Solutions

For as long as mergers and acquisitions have been occurring among businesses, one of the areas that continually eludes those making the investments is the IT department. Those responsible for making the decisions tend to lack the technical expertise necessary to ask the appropriate due diligence questions of current IT capabilities, costs and risks. What's an effective roadmap to integrate IT during M&A and to enable an easy transition? How do you choose what to retain and what to let go? How do you avoid challenges with politics and culture that could derail a transition? And what is IT's appetite for security risk when the department is at its most vulnerable?

Guest : Stephen Elkins

Title: Chief Information Officer, City of Austin, Texas

Striving for leaner business operations, quicker actions and lower costs is an ongoing goal. The drive to always stay ahead of disruptions and degradation and get the most of our assets will never stop being desirable. Getting insight into your operations real time might seem like the answer to all your problems, but how can you truly optimize business operations real time? What is that ideal state, and how can you reasonably reach it? In looking at new solutions and real time data analytics, we explore the drivers behind making this change in your operations and if this update can really give you the quantum leap you need to stay competitive.