CIO Talk Radio

Guest: C. Scott Blanchette Title: SVP & Chief Information Officer at Vanguard Health Systems Everyone wants to get the most out of the data they own, produce, and inherit. To that end, how many of us address data management holistically using an overarching governance spanning creation, to integration, to analytics? What are the challenges, costs, and risks?

Guest: Mayur Raichura Title: Vice President, IS at Long and Foster Real Estate Guest: Michael B. Koval Title: Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer, Long and Foster 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: Bob Krestakos Title: VP, CIO & Americas Operations, Steelcase Inc. Guest: 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: Anthony Bradley Title: Group Vice President at Gartner, Author An ant swarm has a single goal... to find the nearest source of food. Each individual within the swarm responds directly and indirectly to every other individual and coordinates their activity in real time, enabling the group to do whatever is necessary to reach their goal. In such a context, errors and randomness are not "bugs" but opportunities for discovery and exploration. How can this example inspire today's organization to change its mind and create a decentralized, flexible "Enterprise Swarm" (of the whole organization or of individual units) that is robust and self-repairing? ...Where Big Data turns behaviors into powerful insights that streamline collaboration and allow each individual to work autonomously towards the common goal? …One where automation can be increased?

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: 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: Philip Wisoff Title: Chief Information Officer, Proskauer Rose Guest: Ram Akella Title: rofessor 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: Chris Marsh Title: Principal Analyst, Yankee Group Guest: Keith Fricke Title: CISO, Catholic Health Partners Guest: Michael P. Wilson Title: Vice President, Chief Information Security Officer, McKesson 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?

Guest: Michael J. McGuire Title: Chief Information Security Officer, Littler Mendelson P.C. Guest: Michael Shannon Title: Chief Information Officer, Dechert LLP Organizations are increasing reliance on IT and technological innovation has introduced disruptive paradigms such as Cloud, Mobility, Social Media, and Big Data. How is the Legal industry leveraging IT and these paradigms to transform its activities, better serve clients, and sustain the growth, scale, and profitability of legal firms?

Guest: Shannon Capone Kirk Title: eDiscovery Counsel, Ropes & Gray When it comes to complex cases, the costs imposed by the eDiscovery process often outweigh any benefit to the litigants. Consequently, computer-assisted predictive document coding is gaining popularity, as it promises to reduce the time and money spent on e-discovery by employing software to review large volumes of electronic documents and determine their relevance, thus drastically reducing the number of documents that still need to be reviewed by human eyes. However, such software depends on algorithms, so the coding process still requires attorney involvement at the outset to train the software to recognize relevant documents. Another issue is that the documents so identified, must be acceptable to both sides. Is predictive coding worth it, or will it just create additional complexity and false positives?

Guest: Jonathan D. Rudolph Title: eDiscovery Manager and Staff Attorney, C.R. Bard Under mounting cost pressures, corporations and law firms are increasingly “in-sourcing” certain aspects of e-discovery using do-it-yourself (DIY) and service provider choices now available in the marketplace. How does an enterprise determine if it can better manage costs, increase control over discovery, and handle in-sourced technology and talent with these options? Which aspects of e-discovery are best left to outside counsel? What is the right mix of in-sourcing and use of outside counsel?

Guest: Michael Versace Title: Reseach Director, IDC Financial Insights Guest: Tom Peach Title: CIO, Zurich N.A. Commercial Over the past decade, financial institutions have been busy securing the perimeters of their networks from attacks. How successful have those efforts been? Have the perimeters finally been completely secured? what about threats from within?

Guest: David Sherry Title: CISO, Brown University Guest: Joshua Beeman Title: CISO, University of Pennsylvania Education is an important investment for students and society depends on educational institutions for developing our society’s future leaders and workforce. How safe and secure are the learning environments we are offering students? As schools emphasize and investment in online education, how are the security challenges getting compounded?

Guest: Dan Burges Title: Director of Intelligence, Freightwatch International; author of Cargo Theft, Loss Prevention, and Supply Chain Security Guest: Richard Sharpe Title: Expert on Supply Chain Risk Mitigation, founding member of the American Logistics Aid Network (ALAN) Today, global business demands firms leverage global supply chains and service global customers. Pandemics, natural disasters, or terrorist attacks could undermine the continuity of this global supply system. Furthermore, with everyone interconnected, even small localized events could cause significant interruptions in the flow of goods, or even escalate into something more widespread. Are organizations and governments prepared with well-defined strategies to handle these threats? What are organizations doing individually or as a group, to proactively handle these potential security vulnerabilities effectively?