David Thompson joined Symantec as CIO in 2006 and assumed additional responsibilities in 2008 when he was given charge of the global services organization. He discusses how governance and business process optimization are core elements to the strategy he and his team are spearheading. This is part 3 in a 3-part podcast series that touches on a number of different subjects—from his assignments at PeopleSoft and Oracle, to M&A, to business value analysis, to Green IT, to outsourcing decisions.

David Thompson joined Symantec as CIO in 2006 and assumed additional responsibilities in 2008 when he was given charge of the global services organization. He discusses how governance and business process optimization are core elements to the strategy he and his team are spearheading. This is part 2 in a 3-part podcast series that touches on a number of different subjects—from his assignments at PeopleSoft and Oracle, to M&A, to business value analysis, to Green IT, to outsourcing decisions.

David Thompson joined Symantec as CIO in 2006 and assumed additional responsibilities in 2008 when he was given charge of the global services organization. He discusses how governance and business process optimization are core elements to the strategy he and his team are spearheading. This is part 1 in a 3-part podcast series that touches on a number of different subjects—from his assignments at PeopleSoft and Oracle, to M&A, to business value analysis, to Green IT, to outsourcing decisions.

Tom Place, the director of global technology and information security at The Coca-Cola Company, was given a charter five years ago to develop a comprehensive information security program. Protecting The Coca-Cola Company’s brand is critical, and Place and his team are playing a pivotal role. At the same time, various Symantec technologies and services are being leveraged as part of their information security program.

Nordea Bank’s Head of Group IT Tapio Saarelainen discusses how the IT organization has moved from a functional to an operational model. No longer working within a silo, he and his team collaborate with business owners within an end-to-end value chain. And with such a dramatic change in organizational focus, all participants in the value chain, including technology providers, must think differently.

World Fuel Services Global CIO Massoud Sedigh discusses how connecting IT to the business helped fuel business transformation. Laying a solid IT infrastructure has been key in he and his team’s efforts, and Symantec technology is playing a central role.

Some of the challenges Anthony Collis, the ICT manager at Australian Sports Commission, faces are unique because of the nature of ASC, while others are common across most IT organizations. With Australia garnering a top 10 ranking at each of the past five Summer Olympiads, the ASC has played an important to success, the IT organization shares significant credit. IT infrastructure standardization—from endpoint security, to messaging security, to data protection, to archiving, to systems management.

Golden Temple’s CIO Jeffery Smith was given the mandate to transform IT from a cost-service center to a business enabler upon his arrival in 2007. As part of this process, he spearheaded two major initiatives: implementation of an ERP system, and standardization of IT toolsets and the IT infrastructure.

Listen to Patrick Spencer, Senior Director of Customer Relationship & Publishing Programs at Symantec , interview Skip King, Managing Director and Founder of The Alchemy Solutions Group, about the recently published Business Value Analysis Market Research Report on Backup and Recovery. The interview discusses how backup and recovery is essential for protecting data and keeping businesses running efficiently and effectively.

In this Executive Spotlight Podcast Interview, Aiden Curran, Head of IT at McVey & Murricane, discusses how the firm is focused on protecting its Microsoft Windows environment against viruses, while simultaneously reducing risk and ensuring business continuity. The Symantec solutions in place enable the company to not only avoid consequential threats, but also meet its clients’ demanding contractual compliance requirements, reduce risk, and stop almost 100 percent of malicious spam email.