CIO Talk Network

Guest 1: Frank Buytendijk

Title: Author, Research VP, Gartner

Guest 2: Kord Davis

Title: Author, Co-Founder, Design+Strategy Forum

Big Data may be a dying buzzword, but the act of collecting and analyzing data to create new value and insights is here to stay. As data analysis practices get more sophisticated and companies are collecting even more data about their customers, business leaders and decision makers calling the shots on how a company uses that data must start to weigh the moral and ethical implications associated with all that is collected and acted upon. Now is the time to define words, risks and standards for which practices are serving the consumer and which are plain creepy. So how can leaders re-evaluate their company transparency and values as it pertains to Big Data? What universal principles can we set in stone to make data collection a morally sound endeavor?

Guest : Tricia S. Blair

Title: SVP, Chief Digital Officer and Head of Enterprise IT Services, Lincoln Financial Group

The hiring of Chief Digital Officers has doubled every year since 2005. The CDO role is here to stay, and it is their job to put the customer first by being focused on strategy and execution, by never being afraid of failure and being able to recruit and retain talent that will get their enterprise and C-suite thinking digitally. If the new CDO wants to show business how they can get to the next level of growth and innovation through digital channels, how can he or she immediately come into the role and make an impact? What should be their primary responsibilities and goals in the first year on the job?

Guest : Carolyn Parnell

Title: CIO and Commissioner of IT Services, State of Minnesota

An organization is like a puzzle, with each person a piece that fits snugly to make up the whole. It doesn’t work the other way around, and you can’t fit a round peg into a square hole. In order to achieve the greatest value and success from a team, an organization should help individuals identify what they’re really meant to do and how best they can excel in that area. The best leaders know how to apply those unique attributes to the universal goals that will help a company thrive. So what’s the road map to help an individual lead their own path and find within an organization’s puzzle just where they belong?

Guest : Frank Wander

Title: Author, Former CIO and Founder of People Productive, LLC (Formerly The IT Excellence Institute)

A successful leader needs to offer direction and vision that goes beyond what is said and what is needed among the team. A leader must know a team's wants and needs before they do. He or she must know when to prod, when to coax and when to do nothing at all. A leader needs that Sixth Sense to help their team succeed. So just how do you tap into and hone that sense?

Guest 1: Gavin Nichols

Title: VP of Strategy/EA/R&D Innovation IT, Quintiles

Guest 2: Richard Thomas

Title: CIO and Global Head Technology Solutions, Quintiles

A mountain bike decked out with gears is built to travel up rocky, uneven climbs as well as slick, paved downhills. But an IT department focused on gathering requirements only has one speed, and for many groups that's way too slow. Two-Speed IT is built on the mindset that IT can move swiftly when needed to innovate and quickly implement projects that otherwise might go "rogue," but also maintain the low gear necessary to mitigate risk associated with business-critical IT operations. How can CIOs build a new ride to handle the many peaks, slopes and valleys of the IT environment?

Guest 1: Matthew Jennings

Title : Managing Director, Bosch Software Innovations Americas

Guest 2: Troy Foster

Title : CTO, Bosch Software Innovations Americas

In the industry of the future, software-based system and service platforms – such as the one supplied by Bosch Software Innovations – will play a large role. They will enable the real and virtual worlds to be connected and therefore enable communication between objects. Manufacturers have the potential to create predictable, seamless processes to reduce the costs associated with manufacturing operations. They have the possibility of adding new revenue streams and service opportunities. They can even soon craft entirely smart enterprises. It's all promised by The Internet of Things, and Bosch hopes to be at the center. But how does Bosch hope to support the manufacturing space to leverage IT to the fullest and see the complete value behind connected manufacturing? We speak with Bosch Software Innovations' Chief Technology Officer and Managing Director to find out.

Guest 1: Gonzalo Martinez

Title: Director of Strategic Research in the Office of the CTO, Autodesk

Guest 2: Greg Morris

Title: Strategy and Business Development Lead for Additive Technologies, GE Aviation, Former CEO Morris Technologies

Back in 1999, Napster put the music industry into the Wild West. With absolutely no regard or rules for intellectual property, music companies have had to find a way over the last decade to deal with the new technology possibilities. Today, 3-D Printing presents similar disruptive threats, but could it also be an opportunity for enterprise IT? How can 3-D Printing be leveraged to directly or indirectly support other products or lines of business? How will it make an impact on finances, operations and people, and could IT have an opportunity to lead the charge?

Guest 1: Dr. Chris Nøkkentved

Title : Chief Technology and Security Officer, GECTO, HP Enterprise Application Services

Guest 2: Jeffrey Word, Ph.D.

Title : VP of Product Strategy for Databases and Technology, SAP

“SAP HANA can help you dramatically accelerate analytics, business processes, predictive analysis, and sentiment data processing – all on a single in-memory computing platform.” In-memory computing is attaining a lot of hype as a new solution for organizations looking to become more agile, and SAP has been banking on their product HANA to become the new foundation of this movement. But the practical CIO will have reason to question the speed and the economics of SAP’s suite of tools in comparison to other platforms, as well as the entire in-memory database on which it is built. We ask SAP’s CTO if HANA can really hold up to such scrutiny.

Guest 1: Jeff Brzycki

Title: CIO, Autodesk

Guest 2: Vineet Nayar

Title: Former CEO, HCL Technologies, Author, and Founder of the Sampark Foundation

Employees should have the courage and the privilege to live and work not in the way others expect of them but in a way that's true to themselves. This is an idealistic vision across most organizations, but it's not out of the question. Everyone should be able to achieve a healthy balance of success, satisfaction and happiness in their life and work, but do most organizations just give that notion lip service? What can leaders do to build an organization where employees come first? How do you ingrain respect of a person's priorities in the way an organization functions and creates value?

Guest : Simon Jacobson

Title : Research VP, Gartner

The Internet of Things (IoT) is gaining plenty of hype as a game-changing way of thinking for every industry. Those in the manufacturing space view it as a revolution, offering significant improvements to manufacturing processes as a way of making productions more efficient, agile and flexible. But is this all for real? Manufacturing business leaders will want to know which business applications within IoT are having the most impact and find the proof points that these applications can deliver on the value they promise. So to what extent are manufacturing organizations adopting these solutions and approaches, how have they been able to handle added complexity, where are they finding ROI, and is this new paradigm currently feasible and cost effective for most industry players?