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Wednesday, May 07, 2008 at 09:00 AM
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SaaS Management: Morphing Pain!
Guest:
John Rowell
Title: CTO, Opsource
Guest:
Joe Burton
Title: CTO, CISCO-Unified Communications
Guest:
Ben Pring
Title: Research Vice President,
Gartner IT Services and Sourcing Group
SaaS promises big relief while causing new headaches such as: Identity
Management challenges, difficulties in moving quickly and seamlessly from one
SaaS offering to another, and greater difficulty in isolating issues within
the brave new world of mashups.
PLAY AUDIO
Wednesday, April 30, 2008
A Burnt Out IT Workforce: Diminishing
Returns
Guest:
N. Dean Meyer
Title: Organizational Transformation Author
and Coach, NDMA
Guest:
Christina Maslach
Title: Professor of Psychology, Vice
Provost, University of California, Berkeley
With stakes continually rising, maximizing the use of IT talent and resources
can become so demanding, it becomes counter productive. Burnt out and struggling
with grueling hours toiling over ever growing task lists, IT soldiers suffer
from battle fatigue with negative results ranging from acute productivity loss
to resignation resulting in loss to an organization of valuable system/business
knowledge.
PLAY AUDIO
Wednesday, April 23, 2008
Large Application Delivery: Solving a good
problem
Guest:
Karl Triebes
Title: Senior Vice President & Chief
Technology
Officer, F5 Networks, Inc.
Guest:
Mark Fabbi
Title: VP Distinguished Analyst for
Gartner’s Networking and Communications Equipment practice
Business growth brings its own challenges. With organizations delivering large
web applications and content across the globe to multi-platform desktops and
mobile devices, there are 2 delivery problems: 1) Scale (number of users and
devices) and 2) The flexibility needed to support any device. These problems
could create a bottleneck, but just adding more hardware is not the best
solution. What can organizations do to enable their infrastructure to support
practically limitless bandwidth and performance requirements for demanding
needs both now and in the future
PLAY AUDIO
Wednesday, April 16, 2008
My CIO is an Alien!
Guest:
Susan
Cramm
Title: President Valuedance and Former CIO,
Taco Bell Corporation.
Guest:
Tim Sanders
Title: Author, Speaker, former Yahoo!
Leadership Coach and Chief Solutions Officer
If
being a CIO is a very demanding role that requires taking control of the IT
function to reduce cost and get things done whatever it takes, are you in danger
of being seen by your own crew as well as other business users, as an oppressor,
control freak, and an alien who is making their life miserable?
PLAY AUDIO
Wednesday, April 09, 2008
MDM: Is it an IT or a business Challenge?
Guest:
Robert Friedrich
Title: VP, Enterprise Data Architecture,
Equifax
Guest:
Aaron Zornes
Title: Chief Research Officer, The MDM
Institute
Guest:
Jim Honerkamp
Title: CIO, The Hillman Group
Organizations are facing a problem: They don't have a unified view of the data
spread across departments. Expensive technology tools claiming to magically
solve this problem have not helped. Is this a problem with creating or sharing
data? Is it an IT or a business problem?
PLAY AUDIO
Wednesday, April 02, 2008
Social Networks: The Enterprise Adoption
Challenge
Guest:
Mark McDonald
Title: Group vice president and head of
research for Gartner Executive Programs (EXP)
Guest:
Lloyd Taylor
Title: Vice President of Technical
Operations at LinkedIn
Beyond the cool technology factor, can social network
tools (networking sites, Internet communities, blogging software, et al) be
adopted by enterprises to facilitate learning, internal and external
communication, and improve productivity within the IT department and
organization as a whole?
PLAY AUDIO
Wednesday, March 26, 2008
Green IT: The true ROI
Guest:
Molly A. O’Neill
Title: Assistant Administrator and Chief
Information Officer
Office of Environmental Information U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
(EPA)
Guest:
Wendy Bell
Title: CIO of GE Capital Solutions Fleet
Services
Guest:
Pat
Lawicki
Title: Senior Vice President and Chief
Information Officer, Pacific Gas and Electric Company
Guest:
Ashok
Singhal
Title: Chief Technical Officer, Founder,
3PAR
Green IT initiatives are primarily to help improve the global environment
rather than our balance sheets. While organizations may join the bandwagon
for visibility, do they really care about it given that there is not a
significant
tangible ROI on related investments?
PLAY AUDIO
Wednesday, March 19, 2008
The CIO as a Communications Maestro!
Guest:
Stephen C. Savage
Title: Senior Vice President, Chief
Information Officer, CA, Inc.
Guest:
Atefeh Riazi
Title: World Wide CIO, Ogilvy Mather
Effective communication with internal/external constituents and customers is
key to achieving success in business and IT. How well are we doing on that
front? What does it take for an IT leader to become a maestro and conduct a
communications orchestra where the right messages are getting conveyed,
timely, to the right people and nothing gets lost in translation?
PLAY AUDIO
Wednesday, March 12, 2008
IT Spending Into the Skid
Guest:
Dr. Howard A. Rubin
Title: Senior Gartner Advisor, Professor
Emeritus of Computer Science at Hunter College of the City University of New
York, former Nolan Norton Research Fellow
Guest:
Dr. John J. Sviokla
Title: Vice Chairman, Global Managing
Director of Innovation and Research, Diamond Management & Technology Consultants
Title: Former professor, Harvard Business
School
When faced with a car skid, experts teach that you
should “steer into the skid”, despite an instinctual urge to do the opposite.
Similarly, when it comes to IT investment and its impact upon business
performance, management reacts the same way. Just at the point of crisis, when
companies should be investing more in technology, to drive business performance,
management’s reflex is to cut spending. While this is no surprise, since
management’s focus is mainly on IT’s cost, not its value, how can IT leadership
challenge such a management reflex?
PLAY AUDIO
Wednesday, March 5, 2008
IT Initiative Failures: Saving a sinking
ship
Guest:
Jane Landon
Title: CIO, NYC Department Of Finance, NY,
NY
Guest:
Charles Hunsinger
Title: Vice President, Chief Information
Officer, Corporate Express US
There are numerous examples of failed IT initiatives and related analysis of why
the failure happened. What can be done to proactively raise the flag? At what
point, do we cut our losses vs. trying to save a sinking ship?
PLAY AUDIO
Wednesday, February 27, 2008
Does Your IT Helpdesk Help?
Guest:
Barry Carter
Title: Corporate Information Officer (CIO),
for Alliance Data Systems
Guest:
Vinny Licht
Title: Chief
Information Officer, TAUCK WORLD DISCOVERY
The IT helpdesk operation in most organization has mostly been ad hoc and
reactionary. It has also been given the glamorous title, "service desk"
with "ITIL" expected to provide a virtual weapon and the department to become
a proactive army that anticipates and annihilates enterprise wide IT problems.
Is that truly the case?
PLAY AUDIO
Wednesday, February 20, 2008
Isn't IT still a team sport?
Guest:
Barry Vandevier
Title: CTO, Travelocity.com L.P.
Guest:
Dale W. Meyerrose
Title: Major General (Retired),
The Honorable Dale W. Meyerrose Associate Director
of National Intelligence and Chief Information Officer
Technology allows today's IT work force the convenience of working from
anywhere, untethered from each other or a physical location. But what happens
to the team, when the players are in virtual rather than physical proximity?
What's lost, and how do we get it back?
PLAY AUDIO
February 13, 2008
IT Innovation: Too much, too quick?
Guest:
Brian Shield
Title: CIO, The Weather Channel Companies
Guest:
James P. Andrew
Title:
Senior
Partner and Director of BCG, The Boston Consulting Group
While each new IT innovation is expected to bring value, it also tends to
bring complexity. How quickly can you digest the changes required by one
innovation, before being able to swallow more from the next one? Are we at
peril of choking on too much of a good thing, or should we welcome any and all
innovation as it comes?
PLAY AUDIO
February 6, 2008
Every IT Decision Counts!
Guest:
Dan Ariely
Title: Luis Alvarez Renta Professor of
Management Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Guest:
Elizabeth Hackenson
Title:
Chief Information Officer; Director, LGS,
Alcatel-Lucent
Guest:
David
Orellana
Title: CIO, Mexicana Airlines
The success or failure of IT is usually attributed to the BIG decisions made
by the top brass. However, the relatively small decisions made by the IT
crew and mid-management as part of day to day operations also have a
snowball effect in the overall effectiveness of IT. What can we do to foster
an environment of effective IT related decision making along the chain of
command for best results?
PLAY AUDIO
January 30, 2008
Becoming a TOP LINE driven CIO
Guest:
George F. Chappelle
Title: SVP & CIO
at Sara Lee Corporation
Guest:
Catherine
Boivie
Title: Senior VP, Information Technology, Pacific Blue Cross
Using 'Cost Savings' as the sole determinant for justifying IT's value, actually
undermines its true value. Today's IT leaders need to be "Show 'em the money!"
kinds of guys. What does it mean to be an IT leader, driven to bring TOP LINE
growth to your organization?
PLAY AUDIO
January 16, 2008
Cloud Computing: beyond research
projects...
Guest:
Dr. Daniel
D. Frye
Title:
Vice President, Open Systems Development, IBM Systems
& Technology Group
Guest:
David Mitchell
Title: SVP IT
Research, OVUM
Cloud computing is a new technology that promises virtually unlimited
processing bandwidth, with access to data from anywhere on any device. Is it
ready for commercial adoption? What are the key user needs driving this
initiative? What are the advantages and what are the gotchas?
PLAY AUDIO
January 9, 2008
Multi-Vendor Sourcing:
Handling uncomfortable bedfellows
Guest:
Dan
Mahlebashian
Title: Chief
Contracting Officer, IS&S, General Motors Corporation
Guest:
Les Mara
Title: Business
Process Outsourcing, EMEA, Hewlett-Packard Ltd
In global outsourcing, it is not uncommon to have multiple vendors to reduce
risks. But, can we rely on competitors to work together as one happy family,
and deliver on their respective expectations?
PLAY AUDIO
December 19, 2007
Successful Disaster
Recovery: What does it take?
Guest:
Pat Hanavan
Title: Vice
President, Product Management, Symantec Corporation
Guest:
William DiMartini
Title: Senior Vice
President, SunGard Availability Services
Research indicates that when tested, almost half of all disaster recovery plans
fail, resulting in harm to a brand, customer loss, losses to competitors, and
loss of valuable company data. What steps should companies take to ensure
successful disaster recovery? What are the accepted best practices?
PLAY AUDIO
December 12, 2007
Data Center Virtualization: Digging
Deeper
Guest:
Mark Bregman
Title: Executive Vice President, Chief Technology Officer,
Symantec
Guest:
Simon Crosby
Title:
CTO, Virtualization and
Management Division, XenSource
Data centers are the vaults where we store mission critical information and
intellectual property that users may need to access on quick notice but which
also need to be protected. What does it take to successfully 'virtualize' a data
center? Is it a smooth ride? If not, what issues need to be addressed?
PLAY AUDIO
November 28, 2007
Enterprise Virtualization - from the
industry's perspective
Guest:
Phil Edholm
Title: CTO and VP
Network Architecture, Nortel Networks
Guest:
Jeffrey M. Nick
Title: Senior Vice
President and Chief Technology Officer, EMC Corporation
Guest:
Hubert Yoshida
Title: Vice
President and Chief Technology Officer, Hitachi Data Systems Corporation
Guest:
John Webster
Title: Principal
IT Advisor, Illuminata, Inc.
Vendors! Global enterprises! It seems like everyone is embracing
virtualization! Meanwhile, the analysts who keep track of such potentially
IT-world shaking technologies are intently watching related and emerging
trends. What are they seeing? Stunning successes or treacherous ground? What
should IT decision makers know before they bet the bank on this new paradigm?
PLAY AUDIO
November 14, 2007
The Pied Piper CIO
Guest:
David Johnson
Title: Global
Information Officer, Jones Lang LaSalle
For IT to be truly successful at delivering value, the non-IT members of an
organization must know and trust IT enough to adopt the positive changes IT
can foster.
Just how effective are the various internal communications methods such as
brag emails, speeches, 'town hall' meetings, etc., currently being used to
promote IT? Can we do better?
PLAY AUDIO
November 7, 2007
Homogeneous IT Outsourcing Delivery:
Are we there yet?
Guest:
Kevin M. Campbell
Title:
Group Chief
Executive - Outsourcing, Accenture
Guest:
Simon Telfer-Smith
Title:
VP
Information Technology, Elekta Group
Guest:
Mindy Blodgett
Title:
Analyst,
Enterprise Research - Business Process Outsourcing Strategies, Yankee Group
Guest:
James A. (Jim) Fortner
Title:
Director,
Global Business Services, Infrastructure Services & Governance, P&G
When we go to a global burger chain (you know who!) anywhere in the world,
we expect the same experience and product quality and get what we expect.
Organizations who have embraced IT outsourcing at a global level have similar
expectations. However, for the most part, the expectations are not being met and
the cultural differences are used as scapegoat. Can we do better? How?
PLAY AUDIO
October 24 , 2007
Effective IT Contract Negotiations
Guest:
Tim Cowen
Title:
Chairman,
IACCM
Title:
General
Counsel, Commercial Director, BT Global Services
Guest:
Mario Lavoie
Title:
Vice-President, Contracts & Negotiations at IBM - Global
Guest:
Robert G. DiGiaro
Title:
Director, IT Sourcing - America, CREDIT SUISSE
How we negotiate the IT services or software licensing related contracts has a
significant impact on how IT meets "getting more done with less" expectations
set by executive management. How do we plan and carry out such negotiations for
success? Is outsourcing such contract negotiations a good option?
PLAY AUDIO
October 17 , 2007
Adopting Enterprise Virtualization: A
Practitioner’s Perspective
Guest:
John Deane
Title:
SVP, AIM
Management Group
Title:
Chief
Technology Officer INVESCO Plc
Guest:
John Prall
Title:
VP of
Operations, Six Apart
Guest:
Jeff Lush
Title:
Executive
Chief Technology Officer, OI&T Operations and Security, US Department of
Veterans Affairs
While Enterprise Virtualization technology has tremendous potential what does it take for
an IT leader to get it introduced and adopted in his/her organization in a
planned fashion? What are the challenges and possible remedies?
PLAY AUDIO
October 10 , 2007
Life of a CIO in 2012
Guest:
Bob Keefe
Title: Incoming President,
SIM
Title: Senior Vice
President and CIO, Mueller Water Products, Inc.
Guest:
Leo Collins
Title: VP of
Advocacy and Communities of Interest, SIM
Title: CIO, Lion’s
Gate Entertainment
Business and IT are changing at a warp speed. IT leadership is on its toes
playing catch-up with a mandate to make IT lean and do more with less. On top of
that, we have the baby boomer exodus which will be leaving IT departments with
an acute manpower crunch. If you are an over worked CIO who has had enough
already, you can imagine work life 5 years from now. If you are a CIO aspirant,
assess if this is still the job for you, and buckle up!
This
show was broadcast live, from SIMposiumO7, Memphis, TN. To learn more about SIM,
please visit www.SIMNET.org.
PLAY AUDIO
October 3, 2007
From curry to wontons: Following cost
leadership
Guest:
F. Warren McFarlan
Title: T.J. Dermot
Dunphy Baker Foundation Professor of Business Administration, Harvard
Title: Albert H.
Gordon Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus, Harvard
Guest:
Bud Mathaisel
Title: SVP and CIO,
Achievo Corporation
Rising costs in India are pushing US and European organizations to shift their
focus to China for their outsourcing (IT and BPO) needs. Is outsourcing really
all about just getting lowest cost option? Could this mindset be a recipe for
failure?
PLAY AUDIO
September 26, 2007
Remaining Airborne Through IT
Guest:
Gerry Coady
Title: VP and CIO,
Frontier Airlines Holding, Inc.
Guest:
Santiago Ontañón
Title: Executive
Vice President and Chief Information Officer, Mexicana Airlines
The airline industry has been through a rough ride. Cost cutting measures go
only so far. How is IT contributing towards making airline companies more
sustainable, agile, and profitable?
PLAY AUDIO
September 19, 2007
CQI vs. Innovation in IT:
Catch 22
Guest:
William H. Morgan
Title: Executive
Vice President and Chief Information Officer, the Philadelphia Stock Exchange
(PHLX)
Guest:
Sandra Palumbo
Title: Program
Manager, Global Enterprise Services, The Yankee Group
Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI) in IT mandates that we implement
standardized processes to ensure predictable execution and results and reduce
error probabilities. Innovation on the other hand requires us to break the mold
and think out of the box and even make mistakes.
How can these two co-exist in an IT organization and deliver optimum value?
PLAY AUDIO
August 29, 2007
Making IT Shared Services Work
Guest:
Ewald Comhaire
Title: Director,
Global Infrastructure Services, HP Services, Hewlett-Packard Company
Guest:
Jerry Johnson
Title: Chief
Information Officer and Director of Information Technology Services at Pacific
Northwest National Laboratory in Richland, WA
Some claim that while the IT shared services model looks good on paper, it’s a
nightmare to implement and doesn’t produce the promised ROI. Is this true? What
is the actual success rate of implementations, and have they yielded real value?
What is the optimum mix of people, processes, and technology needed to make the
IT Shared Services model work?
PLAY AUDIO
August 22, 2007
IT Innovation: The Inspiration/Perspiration
Balance
Guest:
Frank Modruson
Title: CIO,
Accenture
Guest:
Michael Schrage
Title: Advisor, CIO
Magazine Columnist, and Researcher at MIT
Innovation is the mainstay of sustainable competitive advantage and success in
today's fast-changing world of business. However... can creativity in IT alter
the conventional balance of 1% Inspiration and 99% Perspiration, to improve the ROI of the innovation?
PLAY AUDIO
August 15, 2007
The Emotionally Intelligent CIO
Guest:
Daniel Goleman, Ph.D.
Title: Lecturer,
author of the 1995 book: Emotional Intelligence, co-chairman of The Consortium
for Research on Emotional Intelligence in Organizations, based in the Graduate
School of Applied and Professional Psychology at Rutgers University
Guest:
John Von Stein
Title: Executive
Vice President and Chief Information Officer (CIO) of The Options Clearing
Corporation (OCC)
The stresses of rapidly changing business needs, globalization, and a need to
create competitive advantage through IT are bringing out the best and worst
traits in today’s CIO, while balancing work and home life requires an almost a
superhuman effort.
Is the concept of “Emotional Intelligence” an over hyped fad that imposes just
another benchmark for CIO’s to struggle with, or does it make sense? Should a
CIO question his/her ability to lead, if he/she fails to perceive and manage the
emotions of him/herself and others?
PLAY AUDIO
August 8, 2007
Enterprise Virtualization: Making it a
reality
Guest:
Phil Edholm
Title: CTO and VP
Network Architecture, Nortel Networks
Guest:
Jeffrey M. Nick
Title: Senior Vice
President and Chief Technology Officer, EMC Corporation
Guest:
Hubert Yoshida
Title: Vice
President and Chief Technology Officer, Hitachi Data Systems Corporation
Organizations are aggressively moving forward to make their IT dynamic by
introducing virtualization to their server, storage, application, and desktop
environments. How are we planning for this? What are our specific goals and
priorities? Given that we are touching almost all areas of Enterprise IT at the
same time, are we setting ourselves up for failure?
PLAY AUDIO
August 1, 2007
Effective IT Audits and Auditors
Guest:
Anne McCrory
Title: Editorial
Director/ Editor in Chief, CIO Decisions Magazine and Conference
Guest:
Everett C. Johnson Jr., CPA
Title: Past
international president of ISACA and the IT Governance Institute (ITGI)
Guest:
Antoine Shagoury
Title: Executive
Vice President, Chief Information Officer - The American Stock Exchange, LLC
How an IT audit is carried out and how we best leverage internal/external IT
auditor(s) determines the fate of organizations facing compliance mandates
today. An increasing number of compliance initiative failures and the reported
inadequate empowerment of IT auditors suggests that there are issues that need
to be addressed. Are there issues? And, if so, how do we address them?
PLAY AUDIO
July 25, 2007
The IT Side of the Fun Business
Guest:
Tom Peck
Title:
Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer, MGM Mirage
In today's world, making clients happy when they are out on vacation having fun
with loved ones, is serious business. How do the IT departments of companies
engaged in leisure activity businesses, ensure that there are no mistakes and
that guests head home with only pleasant memories?
PLAY AUDIO
July 18, 2007
Complex Business Transformations: Can IT
help?
Guest:
Robert Fort
Title: CIO for
Virgin Entertainment Group’s North America Megastores
Guest:
Dennis E. Wisnosky
Title: Chief
Technical Officer of the Department of Defense (DoD) Business Mission
Area
Business transformations are inevitable in order to stay competitive. They bring
along complexity and IT has to deal with that complexity after the game plan is
in place. As a result, there is a high implementation cost for transformations
in IT and non-IT disciplines. What if IT was invited while planning such transformations?
PLAY AUDIO
June 27, 2007
CIO Decision Making: Intuitive or
Analytical?
Guest:
Susan Cramm
Title: President, Valuedance and Former
CIO, Taco Bell Corporation
Guest:
George F. Chappelle
Title: SVP & CIO
at Sara Lee Corporation
CIO decision making today is based on extensive "due diligence" performed
leveraging multiple information sources as well as tools that aid the process.
Still, the results are less than stellar. Is it possible to rule out the gut
feel?
PLAY AUDIO
May 30, 2007
Next Generation Data Storage: Beyond
coolness!
Guest:
Paul Massiglia
Title: Chief Technology Strategist, Agami
Systems
Data storage requirements are growing exponentially, consequently, the need for
scalability, simplicity of management and performance is forcing organizations
to look for new solutions. This may be good news for vendors, but will today's
solutions actually meet tomorrow's needs?
PLAY AUDIO
May 16, 2007
Software Change Management: Planning for
Success!
Guest:
Carlos Galarce
Title: SVP, CIO Infor
Guest:
Carl Theobald
Title: SVP of Products, Serena Software,
Inc.
Guest:
Gregory Jones
Title: VP of Information Technology, Sprint
Nextel
When increasingly complex IT systems and applications must be modified by
globally dispersed technical teams due to a deluge of requests from a variety of
stakeholders, we call it "change" in today's world.
Managing this change is not easy, and unmanaged changes have cost organizations
a fortune. Surprisingly, there are still a lot of companies who don't have a
formal control mechanism defined. Are we missing something here?
PLAY AUDIO
May 9, 2007
Cheaper, better, and safer Healthcare: IT
Innovation can help!
Guest:
Rich Gius
Title: SVP Enterprise Solutions, Enterprise
IT, Cardinal Health
Guest:
Stanley Crane
Title: CTO, Allscripts
Healthcare is expensive. Limiting rapidly rising prices and lowering costs are
on everyone's agenda. IT innovation promises to help by offering solutions to
handle supply chain inefficiencies, providing better monitoring and scheduling
solutions, and preventing prescription errors that can result in deaths. What is
the current state of the art?
PLAY AUDIO
May 2, 2007
Integrating Supply Chain Post M&A: Taming
the beast
Guest:
Neville
Rademeyer
Title: SVP and CIO, Solo Cup
Guest:
Dr. John J.
Gattorna
Title: International Supply Chain Thought
Leader and Writer
While Post M&A IT integration is tedious, an even more challenging task is
Supply Chain integration. What makes it so formidable is the need for a very
high level of human intervention and the usually large disparity in the related
systems, technologies, and processes. So, how can we ensure the success of such
an undertaking?
PLAY AUDIO
April 4, 2007
CIO at Large: Freedom, Paranoia, et al
Guest:
Jerry Gregoire
Title: Former SVP and CIO, Dell Computer
Guest:
Kathleen Rowe
Title: Former SVP and CIO, Winterthur US Holdings
Guest:
Ron Guistalli
Title: Former VP and CIO, LSS (Subsidiary of W.W. Grainger)
Senior IT professionals go through an emotional roller coaster ride when their
IT leadership role in a company comes to an un/planned end. It can be
challenging to find another equally high profiled IT leadership role, given the
way the previous job ended. Also, after working 70-80 hour work weeks, the
sudden lull can be unnerving. When faced with such a dramatic change in their
career path, what should accomplished IT leaders do?
PLAY AUDIO
March 21, 2007
Stifled User Productivity and Innovation:
Is Corporate IT responsible?
Guest:
Robert
Israel
Title: CIO, John C. Lincoln Hospitals,
Phoenix, Arizona
Guest:
Zeus Kerravala
Title: Senior Vice President of Enterprise
Research, Yankee Group
Today's business user wants to get things done faster and better, with or
without Corporate IT's help by leveraging the consumer devices and programs.
Does it make sense to accommodate this parallel IT department run by business
users vs. stifling their initiative and productivity by saying 'NO' to it?
PLAY AUDIO
March 14, 2007
Global IT talent
crunch: What's the plan?
Guest:
Rick Davidson
Title: CIO of Manpower
Guest:
Diane Morello
Title: Research VP and Gartner Fellow
Globalization, outsourcing, and other forms of decentralizing IT functions are
supposed to yield great results and address the "more with less" directive.
However, with the baby boomer exodus from the IT job market looming, huge
attrition rates in offshoring destinations and the lack of required IT
management talent in offshore countries is jeopardizing the projects/initiatives
for IT. What is the intervention plan?
PLAY AUDIO
February 07, 2007
The Lean Data Center: Just
another bandwagon?
Guest:
Terri Jordan
Title: VP of Operations, eBay
Guest:
Rob Soderbery
Title: SVP, Data Center Management Group,
Symantec
Surveys show large numbers of CIO's are applying/deciding to apply lean
principles to improve their data center operations. But applying the “lean
techniques” developed by car manufacturers 30 years ago, to today’s data
centers, will require experimentation and a fundamental change of mindset by
employees. So far, experts are acknowledging the trend exists, but there isn't much
documentation on exactly how to do it and what is involved.
PLAY AUDIO
January 31, 2007
CIO New Year Agenda: A
weather forecast or more?
Guest:
Deirdre Woods
Title: CIO, The Wharton School at The
University of Pennsylvania
Guest:
Andrés Carvallo
Title: Chief Information Officer, Austin
Energy
Now that the first quarter has started, the last minute buzz around next year
planning is over. Seminars, articles, and conferences are centered around the
CIO Agenda for the new year. What was the due diligence performed as these
planning agenda items were identified? Should IT leadership use them as a ready
checklist for their respective organization?
PLAY AUDIO
January 17, 2007
ITSM and SOA: Siamese Twins
Guest:
Ken Hamilton
Title: Founder/Past Chair itSMF USA;
Director, HP Education
Guest:
Russ Daniels
Title: VP and CTO for HP Software
As organizations start implementing ITSM and/or SOA, the interdependence between
the two should become obvious. Are organizations recognizing this connection?
How can this inherent relationship be leveraged to plan and execute a common
implementation and achieve higher level of efficiency, better quality of
service, and reduced cost?
PLAY AUDIO
January 10, 2007
IT Media Today: Use, abuse, and impact
Guest:
Gary Beach
Title:
Group Publisher, CXO Media, Inc.
Guest:
Abbie Lundberg
Title:
Editor in Chief, CIO Magazine
Guest:
Maryfran Johnson
Title:
Founding Editor in Chief, CIO Decisions Magazine &
Conference
We are surrounded by a large number of Information Technology media outlets
which ideally should aim to keep us informed and help us make better decisions.
Given the reality of competition and heavy dependence on Advertising and
sponsorship dollars, is true journalism intact when it comes to IT media? Do IT
decision makers heed the advice offered by and through these media outlets?
PLAY AUDIO
December 20, 2006
Impending IT Workforce Vacuum: What's the
plan?
Guest:
Ed Lazowska
Title: Bill and Melinda Gates Chair,
Computer Science and Engineering, University of Washington
Title: Former Co-chair, President Bush's
Information Technology Advisory Committee
Guest:
Dr. Merrick Furst
Title: Distinguished Professor and
Associate Dean of the College of Computing at Georgia Tech
By 2010, there will be a major IT workforce exodus with baby boomers reaching
retirement age. How are we planning to handle this shift expected in IT
workforce levels? How is industry and academia collaborating to ensure that the
new breed of IT talent is ready for the market in terms of quality and quantity?
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December 13, 2006
CIO Trainee: A
Tough Road Ahead
Guest:
Bill J. Vass
Title: President and COO, Sun Microsystems
Federal,
Inc.
Guest:
Robert Worrall
Title: CIO, Sun Microsystems, Inc.
There is a tremendous talent pool out there with potential to become the next
successful CIO. Most don’t know their potential or are not exposed to the right
grooming. Then there are others who are ready but don’t seem to get the right
opportunity. What can be done to pave the path for these CIO trainees?
PLAY AUDIO
December 06, 2006
Challenges and
Rewards of Hosted Supply Chain
Guest:
Beth Enslow
Title: Senior Vice President, Enterprise
Research, Aberdeen Group
Guest:
Ron Riggin
Title: Senior Vice President of Technology,
Red Prairie
Given the dynamic business environment, hosted supply chain offerings seem like
a dream come true. How realistic are these claims? Are there any strings
attached? How should organizations go about deciding whether hosted supply chain
is the way to go?
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November 15, 2006
Dashboards, metrics, et al: The use and
abuse
Guest:
Mike Boyle
Title: CIO,
Allstate Financial
Guest:
Dr. Greg Hanson
Title:
Assistant Sergeant at Arms and Chief Information Officer (CIO), United States
Senate
Lately, a lot of investment has been made in providing sophisticated dashboards
and metric to IT and Executive leadership. Are these tools useful or even
usable? Are they actually being used? Can or are they being abused to disguise
failure?
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November 08, 2006
Justifying IT Asset
Management Tomorrow!
Guest:
Jack Heine
Title: Research VP, Gartner
Research
Guest:
Dean Verhaeghe
Title: VP Development,
Optimization Products, Tivoli Software, IBM
With the advent of pc virtualization and Web 2.0, the perceived need and value
of IT Asset Management may be diminished. If so, how do we justify the
investment in Asset Management?
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November 01, 2006
CIO Turnover: A Four Year Itch
Guest:
Mark P. McDonald
Title: Group VP Executive Programs, Gartner,
Inc.
Guest:
Gerard McNamara
Title: Managing Partner, CIO Practice,
Americas - Heidrick & Struggles
On an average, about every 4 years, many CIOs move on. Some say there are no
challenges left to resolve and others say that there are way too many!
In either case it seems like a 4 year itch, the results of which may not be in
the best interest of the organization or the CIO.
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