CIO Talk Network

Guest 1: Michelle Reina

Title : Co-Founder and CEO, Reina Trust Building Institute, Author

Guest 2: Warren Kudman

Title : Former CIO, Sealed Air Corporation

Parents teach their kids how to get along with others, and they enable them to build meaningful relationships for the rest of their lives. But the education shouldn't stop upon entering the workplace. There's a big difference between getting along and forming strong relationships with your peers, and although leaders preach about positive work environments, do organizations care to develop the relationship building skills employees need to do important work? How can companies get at the "softer side" of organizational development and ensure their workers' time there is meaningful?

Guest 1: Ashutosh Nandeshwar

Title : Director, Advancement Information Systems & Analytics, California Institute of Technology

Guest 2: David Crain

Title : Assistant Provost and CIO, Southern Illinois University (SIU)

Guest 3: Ellen Wagner

Title : Co-Founder, Chief Research and Strategy Officer PAR (Predictive Analytics Reporting) Framework

Higher education is in the business of bringing students to their school and ensuring they get a degree. But graduation rates are suffering across the country, with one in three students never finishing college and over half of students finishing college in six years rather than the traditional four. Predictive Analytics could be applied to identify who is likely to fail and help them on their journey before they begin drifting. But just how are the insights generated being applied to help students succeed? And does Predictive Analytics stand to be the next big wave on campus or is taking on this weight just a part of the Freshman 15?

Guest : Adam Rice

Title : CISO, ATK

As threats from APTs and other attackers continue to rapidly morph, the CISO faces an uphill battle of getting his or her team up to speed on the dangers that face an organization. The traditional model of waiting for a breach and then reacting has changed to be preemptive and preventative, and with that comes a score of new skills and strategies the CISO must develop among his or her team. What challenges are CISOs facing in this regard, and how can they address them? Where can they look for help, talent and added resources?

Guest 1: Bill Chapman

Title : VP of IT, Arrow Electronics

Whether it’s hardware, software or a toaster, planning for when a product should go through End of Life can be a risky and grueling journey if not handled properly. From when to announce a product’s EOL to addressing existing customer needs and wrangling the decisions and needs of supply chain, marketing or even PR, a product’s EOL demands a lot of moving parts. The way a CIO handles this transition could be expensive and risk a company’s goodwill. What are some of the biggest challenges organizations are facing with EOL transitions, and how can they make it a cost effective process?

Guest 1: Eric Siegel

Title : Founder, Predictive Analytics World, Author, Predictive Analytics: The Power to Predict Who Will Click, Buy, Lie, or Die

Guest 2: Jack Levis

Title : Senior Director of Process Management, UPS

Predictive Analytics has been used for some time in exploiting patterns among data, and Big Data has now removed the limits on what can be analyzed. But there’s a difference between prediction and persuasion. If Predictive Analytics can’t lead to something actionable on a business level, what good are they? So how can we define what makes Predictive Analytics effective, persuasive to business leaders and capable of helping business achieve a positive ROI?

Guest : John Baldoni

Title : Executive Coach, Leadership Educator/Author

In an always-on world, the demands heaped on today’s leaders make it seem like their time is unlimited. But a leader’s time is finite, and too often leaders get frustrated by constantly needing to put out fires, get backlogged on email, rally the troops or devote their attention to external stakeholders. Most executives stuck in one rut or the other fail to balance their time and priorities, and long term strategic goals and projects fall by the wayside. How does the satisfied executive spend their time, and how can leaders disrupt the organizational roots that lead to a lack of respect for time and structure?

Guest 1: Randy Gaboriault

Title: CIO,Christiana Care Health System

Guest 2: Tom Corrigan

Title: SVP Finance and CFO, Christiana Care Health System

There will come a day when the CIO and the CFO can work together as true partners and allies. It will be when CFOs will see IT as more than just a cost center and the CIO will be able to prove IT’s value in a way the CFO can understand. Someday they will both speak the same language. For now there is work to be done and in some places a rivalry to overcome. Are CIOs and CFOs doing all they can to enable the success of the other? How can they align their risk priorities, simplify processes and reduce costs so that everyone is happy?

Guest 1: John Higginson

Title: CTO, Wheels Inc.

Guest 2: Josh Bersin

Title: Principal and Founder, Bersin by Deloitte

Guest 3: Steve Safier

Title: Chief Transformation and Human Resources Officer, Panasonic North America

With a younger generation rising in the workplace, technology replacing more and more roles and new technology and data centric strategies demanding new skills that are short in supply, 2014 could be the year of the employee. Recruitment and retention will require new strategies and investments in this new normal. So how will HR be redefined? How will organizations begin taking career development seriously? How will we rewrite the traditional rules of acquisition and retention to win the war for talent?

Guest 1: Jim Davis

Title : Vice Provost IT & Chief Academic Technology Officer, UCLA

Guest 2: Jim Wetzel

Title : Technical Director, Platform Center of Excellence, General Mills

The potential of the Internet of Things in the Manufacturing industry suggests that as machines and processes begin to govern themselves, every step of a product’s journey will be interconnected. No longer is manufacturing confined to the traditional production process of raw materials to the finished good. Every step from the research and development, production, route to market, consumption and disposal of a product can and will produce data and insight in real time. Can this allow manufacturing to become an industry of innovation and profit? How are organizations envisioning making the most of this possibility, and in what all ways do they have planned?

Guest : Alan Berson

Title: Learning Director at Wharton Executive Education and founder of Leadership Conversation LLC

There's nothing like the speed, strategic alignment and employee engagement and vision that strong start-ups have. Each has a certain magic that simply vanishes in a large, multi-department environment. Many leaders know the feeling of struggling to bring that magic back, but how can they without the same intimate, one-on-one conversations and close knit environment a startup allows? Just how can leadership eliminate the sterile, remote and distributed communication of the enterprise and find that lost spark?