CIO Talk Network

With increasing demand on IT to support business growth and sustainability, lack of leadership support, skill gaps, work overload, and budget are among the top reported challenges. And, the demand curve is only going up. How should we reimagine IT to make it always available, scalable, and relevant?

Today's CEO wants to drive growth through digital innovations that have practical applications and are relevant to market conditions and customer preferences—driving significant positive ROI. So what are CIOs doing to support the CEO agenda to help achieve the desired outcome?

There is no one-size-fits-all approach when it comes to organizational culture. Some companies have found success in digital transformation by adapting their traditional and long-established cultures. In contrast, others struggle with the transition because they cannot change what's familiar enough around them – even if this means losing out on opportunities for growth or business model innovation! So how should organizational leaders determine their cultural holy grail that offers a strong sense of teamwork, where everyone feels welcome and comfortable working together with emerging technologies and process changes, and then enable it for maximizing value?

How well is your business unlocking data-driven capabilities, enterprise-wide analytics, and using it to scale across multiple dimensions? While you may have already started implementing targeted advanced analytics and artificial intelligence use cases, what IT and data architectures, people and processes alignment, and data governance must be established to make data your most significant asset?

What is on the CIO agenda for 2022 that will help enable and shape business aspirations for the best outcome? Coming out of pandemic, as we enter the new year, how are the CIOs planning to align their strategies and resources to launch digital projects faster, integrate systems quickly, and allow seamless and secure access to applications and data?

Leaders recognize the need for employees to learn new skills to stay relevant and profitable in the future. But the inability to maintain an inventory of current skills, identify required and critical future skills, and proactively fill the gap hinders such efforts. So how are business and IT leaders collaborating to ensure proper investment in this strategic and long-term capability-building effort?

Many small and mid-sized companies rely on a dynamic mix of full, part-time, and contracted employees to run their business across corporate and personal-owned devices. With employees' expectations of an ongoing hybrid work environment and the organization's need to maintain security and compliance protocols, it is critical to implement a solution that balances security and user productivity without adding complexity and cost. How can small and mid-sized organizations simplify their IT to yield a more scalable and secure work environment for all employees, whether in the office, airport, or kitchen table? Guest: Eric Hagopian Title: Chief Information and Data Officer, Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) For more details and related content: https://www.ciotalknetwork.com/simplifying-it-for-a-scalable-and-secure-hybrid-work-environment/

Organizations want their security investments to achieve intended results and drive significant positive ROI like any business function. For such clarity, how much security organizations need and how much they should pay must be calculated based on operations and technology costs, risks mitigated, and benefits realized. Also, explicit metrics must drive security effort evaluation, performance, and the required adjustments. So how can we move to such outcome-driven security?

Business typically views security programs as inducing caution, restrictions, and restraints. As a security leader, how do you change perception, create alignment, engage constituents, and demonstrably catalyze innovation to transform such programs into practical digital business enablers? Guest 1: Mustapha Kebbeh Title: Chief Information Security Officer, Brink's Guest 2: Dee Young Title: Chief Information Security Officer, UNC Health Care For more details and related content: https://www.ciotalknetwork.com/transforming-security-programs-to-become-digital-business-enablers/  

Spreading the same controls across all business areas hasn’t proven to be effective for security management. Neither has planting people, whether your own or a managed service provider, and passively waiting for the alarm to go off. How can you as a CISO be surgical in your approach to security operations to proactively safeguard the crown jewels? Guest 1: Jerich Beason Title: Chief Information Security Officer, Epiq Guest 2: Leon Ravenna Title: Chief Information Security Officer, KAR Global Guest 3: Jake Margolis Title: Chief Information Security Officer, Metropolitan Water District of Southern California For more details and related content: https://www.ciotalknetwork.com/from-peanut-butter-to-surgery-for-better-security/