CIO Talk Radio

Guest: Eugene Signorini Title: VP, Yankee Group's Anywhere Enterprise Research Group Guest: Oliver Bussmann Title: Chief Information Officer, SAP AG Mobile devices of every sort are proliferating and becoming more and more like computers.  In parallel, Internet applications, cloud computing, and the need for 24/7 on demand access with authentication and security are increasing the headaches of managing it all. Does it make sense to outsource, or is it better to keep it all in the enterprise? How does an IT leader decide which option to choose, and what are the pitfalls and challenges of either choice?

Guest: Jeff Sutherland Title: Co-creator of SCRUM, Chairman of Scrum Training Institute, CEO of Scrum Inc. Guest: Kirsten O. Wolberg Title: CIO, Salesforce.com To realize the full potential of "going Agile," the enterprise must also leverage Agile values, principles, and practices throughout the entire company.  Organization-wide, "Going Agile" requires broad technical, organizational, and process changes. Done properly, adoption provides improved project visibility and offers great benefits: accelerated time-to-market, increased productivity and quality, reduced risk and project costs. However, organizations often underestimate the tremendous amount of effort and change required to adopt Agile processes. What does it take to get Agile successfully adopted throughout the enterprise?

Guest: Charlie McMahon Title: Vice President of IT and Chief Technology Officer, Tulane University Guest: Martin J. Gomberg Title: Senior Vice President & Chief Information Officer, A&E Television Networks With money tight, IT departments in all sorts of organizations are looking for efficiencies and making systematic efforts to reduce non-productive redundancies. In addition to saving money, a hoped for byproduct is that a successful rationalization exercise will also remove disincentives and barriers to shared services, find reasonable levels of sourcing, improve the interoperability of applications, and optimize the delivery of services. Sounds like a tall order… What does it take to get IT rationalization done the first time and then keep at it? Is this a fundamental change, or will things go back to business as usual, once the economy improves?

Guest: Gopal Khanna Title: Chief Information Officer, State of Minnesota The business success stories of the corporate world are famous for continuously and aggressively seeking out ways to reduce costs and maximize profitability. In order to become bigger and more successful, they consolidate and eliminate redundancies, streamline processes, implement newer lean technologies, institute best practices, and use footprint reducing alternatives like outsourcing. If these strategic moves can make private businesses more competitive and robust, couldn't the same strategies provide the same benefits for state and local government and organizations with large networks, such as health care systems?

Guest: Ron Kraemer Title: Vice President and Chief Information Officer, Notre Dame University Guest: Steve Romeo Title: Vice President of Information Technology, Breg, Inc. The "Butterfly Effect" tells us that a small change at one place in a complex system can have large effects elsewhere. If we accept this wisdom, then how crucial is IT budgeting, given that IT influences or affects just about every possible aspect of an organization? How can IT leaders champion and foster collaborative budgeting throughout their organizations?

Guest: Antonio Piraino Title: Vice President Research, Tier1 Research Guest: Pieter Schoehuijs Title: Chief Information Officer, AKZO Nobel N.V. Strict privacy laws and inconsistency in the way they are defined across multiple regions, are a deterrent to the adoption of Cloud Computing in Europe. How do these snags impact global organizations with a presence in Europe as well as the local players? What can be done so that organizations are able to optimally leverage their Cloud computing investments while we all work towards a common global standard?

Guest: Antonio Piraino Title: Vice President Research, Tier1 Research Guest: Pieter Schoehuijs Title: Chief Information Officer, AKZO Nobel N.V. Strict privacy laws and inconsistency in the way they are defined across multiple regions, are a deterrent to the adoption of Cloud Computing in Europe. How do these snags impact global organizations with a presence in Europe as well as the local players? What can be done so that organizations are able to optimally leverage their Cloud computing investments while we all work towards a common global standard?

Guest: Patrick Heim Title: Chief Information Security Officer (CISO), Kaiser Permanente Guest: Richard Dorough Title: Chief Information Security Officer (CISO), Textron Guest: William F. Pelgrin Title: President and CEO, Center for Internet Security (CIS); Founder and Chair, Multi-State Information Sharing and Analysis Center (MS-ISAC) As a world we’re vulnerable to malefactors with a plethora of ways to create havoc and uncertainty in our lives and businesses. On the other hand, as a world, we’ve also elected to be completely plugged in and interconnected. There’s an on-going love affair with instant connectivity to anyone, anywhere, at anytime, using any device. While we may still try to erect walls around ourselves, these walls will also have lots of windows where trouble can creep in. How do we reconcile our mania for connectivity with the desire to live in a safer world?

Guest: George Tumas Title: Chief Information Officer of Internet Services Development, Wells Fargo Guest: Tony Young Title: Chief Information Officer, Informatica What information drives your business? How big is the gap between what you have in quality of information vs. what is desired? What do we mean when we say that we want to compete on information? What is the holy grail for becoming a truly information driven business and how to get there?

Guest: Rudy Wolfs Title: Chief Customer Service & Chief Information Officer, ING Direct Guest: William Jan Title: Sr. Research Analyst, Financial Management & GRC, Aberdeen Group The financial meltdown is bringing a new discipline to the investment services industry. Cost inefficiencies and malpractice are under attack everywhere. How is IT being used by IT and business leaders to identify ways to cut costs and improve service delivery and security for average investors while preparing the industry to comply with a new regulatory environment?

Guest: Dan Shoemaker Title: Director of the Institute for Cyber Security Studies, a National Security Agency (NSA) Center of Academic Excellence, at the University of Detroit Mercy. Guest: David Stanowick Title: VP and Chief Information Security Officer, Alliance Data Guest: Rafael C. Diaz Title: Chief Information Security Officer, State of Illinois What started as computer security, morphed into information security, and is now being called “information assurance.” This includes the managing of all risks related to the use, processing, storage, and transmission of data, the systems and processes involved, and information in digital, analog, and physical forms. So, the game has changed in scope, scale, and complexity. But can a CIO truly delegate all this to his/her CISO and stop worrying?

Guest: David Harkness Title: VP and Chief Information Officer, XCEL Energy, Inc. Guest: Pablo A. Vegas Title: VP and Chief Information Officer, American Electric Power (AEP) While most of us advocate energy efficiency and sustainability, it comes with a price tag. For one thing, links in the energy value chain such as production, delivery, and retail, are all facing their own challenges related to an aging workforce, infrastructure, and technology. Additionally, the competitive pressures that are driving down costs, may force suppliers to cut corners. How can IT across the energy value chain, work to prevent an implosion?

Guest: Jonathan Schaeffer Title: Vice Provost and Associate Vice President for Information Technology, University of Alberta Guest: Stephen J. Laster Title: Chief Information Officer, Harvard Business School Guest:  Deirdre Woods Title: Chief Information Officer, The Wharton School at The University of Pennsylvania Over the next decade, education will decide the fate of future generations around the globe. Whether it is for K12 or college, ensuring effective Governance of the Education process and its sustainability as a business, is critical. What can IT do to improve things? What challenges prevent IT leaders from making the fundamental changes required? What is IT’s roadmap to improved educational outcomes?

Guest: Kenneth D. Theis Title: CIO and Director for the Michigan Department of Technology, Management and Budget (DTMB) Guest: Thom Rubel Title: Vice President of Research, Government Insights, IDC State government uses and manages technology.  Local governments do the same.   Government entities in every state share similarities when it comes to providing services to the citizens, so why aren’t more of these services shared across all levels of government?  With states, cities, counties, townships, universities, and schools all looking to provide similar services, the time has come for the true “sharing” of those services.   It’s true not just for technology, but for other services too, such as purchasing, facility management, and other administrative functions.  If this paradigm works with the state and local government, what about private business groups with shared interests, doing something similar? Could this work?

Guest: Mark Dajani Title: SVP and Chief Information Officer, Kraft Foods, Inc Guest: Ranjay Gulati Title: Jaime and Josefina Chua Tiampo Professor at the Harvard Business School If change is the only constant, and even a business cliché, why do so many organizations refuse to embrace it and risk losing opportunities for growth and profitability? It’s because change is hard.  So is innovation. But done right, business leaders can reap huge rewards.  How can IT leadership use its unique position on the leading edge of technology to scan the horizon and spot emerging trends, impending threats and opportunities?  And how can IT leaders foster a spirit of innovation – and even bring about fundamental culture change for their organizations?