CIO Talk Network

Guest : Ralph Loura

Title: Chief Information Officer, Clorox

We start each new year with new hopes and new resolutions. While personally we may consider weight loss or losing some habit, what about making resolutions as an IT leader, to take positive proactive steps to improve at doing our job? i.e., Making changes that will help one develop oneself as an IT leader? ...With business, technology trends, and IT changing around us, what traits, habits, and approaches should a CIO consider changing or strengthening to improve him or herself?

Guest : Peter Ransom

Title: CIO, OXFAM

This holiday, many of us are busy chasing profitability, luxury lifestyles, or the hottest toy... but right next to us, there is a parallel world where people are struggling for survival and dependent on local/global "giving" and contributions. Those organizations involved in trying to make the suffering parallel world better are also experiencing challenges. In this new era of global convergence where pockets of deprivation still need help and contributions, how are such organizations leveraging IT to meet the end goal?

Guest 1: Michael B. Koval

Title: Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer, Long and Foster

Guest 2: Mayur Raichura

Title: Vice President, IS at Long and Foster Real Estate

Today's lean mean business demands quantitative results. when results count, do we really have the luxury of carrying out traditional R&D with incremental innovation? Perhaps, that is why R&D and Innovation related initiatives are on so very few organizations' agendas. Is there a way to drive practical R&D and Innovation initiatives that offer "assured" leaps in terms of competitive advantage, business capability, and market share?

Guest 1: Bob Krestakos

Title: Chief Information Officer, Steelcase Inc.

Guest 2: Randall N. Spratt

Title: Executive Vice President, Chief Information Officer and Chief Technology Officer, McKesson Corporation

What are today's I&O leaders doing to handle the challenges they increasingly face? ...How to optimize costs; how to support business growth leveraging the cloud, mobility, and big data; how to be agile while reducing complexity; and how to modernize the legacy environments of their datacenters? what new and different ideas are helping them demonstrate they are delivering more business value and to clearly and quantifiably document it through metrics?

Guest : Karen Hendrickson

Title: Chief Practice Support Officer, Hogan Lovells LLP

When it comes to the exploding costs and risks of litigation that are a result of the deluge of electronic information available, a counsel general’s office follows 3 mandates: increase efficiency, reduce costs, and mitigate risks. How severe are the problems of inefficiency, high costs, and risk? How are these problems growing or changing? How does a corporate general counsel's office address them?

Guest : John M. Facciola

Title : Magistrate Judge

A court may not accept your Discovery data as evidence unless you can prove its integrity. How do you know if it has been tampered with and thus is no longer authentic? How do you deter malicious behavior and remove ambiguity over the authenticity of your records? How do you prove the ‘what’, ‘when’, and ‘who’ of any digital and/or non-digital event?

Guest : Caroline Boudreau Sweeney

Title : Director, Practice Group Technology Services, Dorsey & Whitney LLP

Cost containment implies both reducing costs and making them more predictable. As the volume of data rises, legal departments face increasing pressure to reduce their budgets, while law firms are under pressure to deliver greater value by offering more services at lower fees and providing greater visibility of the costs incurred throughout the entire discovery process. The need to balance costs against risks is so crucial, that corporations are willing to live with a certain degree of quantified and managed risk in order to reduce their cost of e-discovery. So, how can costs be significantly reduced and yet balanced against risk?

Guest 1: Philip Wisoff

Title: Chief Information Officer, Proskauer Rose

Guest 2: Ram Akella

Title: Professor of IS & Technology Management; Director, Center for Knowledge, Is, &Management of Technology, University of California Santa Cruz

Everyone is expecting to get a lot out of Big Data... but are we too trusting of the analytics we're getting out of it? As the variety and number of data sources being harvested increases, there are a lot of steps and many opportunities for errors to creep into the process of creating actionable insights. And when multiple people interpret one set of data very differently, whose interpretation do you run with? What can an organization do to ensure that the insights distilled from the data, can be trusted?

Guest : Allison Stanton

Title : Director of E-Discovery, Civil Division - U.S. Department of Justice

Ongoing debate over regulatory compliance requires government agencies to capture more data for possible investigation and scrutiny. Whether gathering important internal agency data or data from external sources as part of a regulatory mandate, how are government entities handling the costs and risks associated with Government eDiscovery?

Guest 1: Michael P. Wilson

Title: Vice President, Chief Information Security Officer, McKesson

Guest 2: Keith Fricke

Title: CISO, Catholic Health Partners

Guest 3: Chris Marsh

Title: Principal Analyst, Yankee Group

BYOD has wide appeal for employees who value the convenience and ease of using their own devices. Businesses recognize that by allowing BYOD, their employess are able to be as productive as possible. However, the variety and number of personal devices being brought into the enterprise network is a potential security threat and a huge headache for IT departments. What can any company do to securely and flexibly transition to BYOD? Being a road less travelled, what have been the lessons learnt and the strategies tried, that have helped in achieving this goal?