Cio Talk Network Podcast

Due to the increasing adoption of a data-driven approach to work and decision-making, analytics leadership is essential for an organization’s growth. As an analytics leader, how do you get clear commitments from management and users about data and information approaches? How do you prevent missing simple yet critical patterns due to cognitive overload? How do you foster a collaborative and zealous environment that offers individuals psychological safety to speak up without hesitation and share unique information? Guest: Christopher Hutchins, VP, Chief Data & Analytics Officer, Northwell Health Guest Bio: https://www.ciotalknetwork.com/contributor/christopher-hutchins/ More on this Episode: https://www.ciotalknetwork.com/how-to-be-an-effective-analytics-leader/ More on Leadership: https://www.ciotalknetwork.com/topics/leadership/ More on CXO: https://www.ciotalknetwork.com/topics/cxo/ Visit CIO Talk Network Website: https://www.ciotalknetwork.com/ Subscribe to our Newsletter: https://www.ciotalknetwork.com

Leadership is influence, and relationships play an essential role. To ace your performance appraisal as a security leader, you need to develop healthy relationships with the internal security team, organizational peers, management, vendors, and customers. How can CISOs build their relationship capital with all constituents to enable business growth while keeping the fort secure? Guest: Rob Hornbuckle Title: Chief Information Security Officer, Allegiant For more details and related content: https://www.ciotalknetwork.com/building-your-relationship-capital-as-a-ciso

The year 2020 taught us a lot. We became candid and openly vulnerable among our peers. While bearing enormous stress, we came together, came up with more new ideas, and tried new things than ever before. How can we sustain this creativity and persistence and emerge from the crisis to build a long-term advantage for the business? Guest: Danielle Maurici Arnone Title: Chief Information Officer, Reckitt Benckiser (RB) For more details and related content: https://www.ciotalknetwork.com/sustaining-an-employee-driven-culture-of-innovation

Going alone may make things a little faster for business transformation, but taking others along would take you farther. While this conventional wisdom sounds logical, organizational change initiatives often have lackluster results, or they fail due to siloed strategy, unilateral decision making, and disconnected execution. What is so complicated about Inclusion? How should leaders drive transformation using Inclusion for best results? Guest: Viren Shah Title: Chief Digital Officer, GE Appliances, a Haier company For more details and related content: https://www.ciotalknetwork.com/using-inclusion-to-drive-transformation

Covid-19 forced B2B companies to suspend the face to face marketing and sales models. What are the digital alternatives to the traditional models, and are organizations ready to leverage them successfully? What should change in marketing and sales strategies, processes, channels, people, and tools to pave the path to purchase with digital experiences? Guest 1: Ann Dozier Title: Senior Vice President & Chief Information Officer, Southern Glazer's Wine and Spirits Guest 2: John Wittig Title: Chief Commercial Officer, Southern Glazer’s Wine & Spirits For more details and related content: https://www.ciotalknetwork.com/paving-the-path-to-purchase-with-digital-experiences

Seniors deal with loneliness and financial predators besides aging and illness issues. With mounting healthcare and living costs, they also need to stay financially secure. How are the organizations serving this target customer base leveraging technology to reimagine their business models, products, and service delivery approach to enable safe, comfortable, and healthy living for seniors? Guest: Andrea Ciccolini, Global Chief Information Officer, Amplifon Guest Bio: https://www.ciotalknetwork.com/contributor/andrea-ciccolini/ More on this Episode: https://www.ciotalknetwork.com/reimagining-senior-care/ More on CXO: https://www.ciotalknetwork.com/topics/cxo/ More on Healthcare: https://www.ciotalknetwork.com/topics/healthcare/ Visit CIO Talk Network Website: https://www.ciotalknetwork.com/ Subscribe to our Newsletter: https://www.ciotalknetwork.com/subscribe/ Nominate Guests or Sponsor: https://www.ciotalknetwork.com/contact/

Companies are digitally transforming their business to transform customer experiences and enable sustained competitive advantage. They are also adopting agile principles to stay fast on their feet and outpace their competitors. How integrated and synchronized is the agile transformation effort at these organizations with the digital transformation initiatives? While demonstrating digital leadership, are the top executives, including the C-Suite, functioning as agile leadership teams? How can organizations repurpose and leverage the Agile Manifesto, which otherwise was only developed for software development, to drive an agile digital transformation? Guest 1: Nicholas Colisto Title: Vice President and Chief Information Officer, Avery Dennison Guest 2: Kevin Jones Title: Chief Information Officer, Indiana Department of Child Services For more details and related content: https://www.ciotalknetwork.com/leveraging-the-agile-manifesto-for-digital-transformation

In a fast-changing market and global uncertainty, only the most innovative, bold, and flexible wealth managers stand a chance in delivering real value to their customers. How are financial institutions leveraging digital to provide proper organizational support for quality research with agile decision-making, enabling reliable portfolio and risk management that is much needed for keeping customer confidence? Guest 1: Ram Nagappan Title: Chief Information Officer, BNY Mellon | Pershing Guest 2: Rob Zelinka Title: Chief Information Officer, Jack Henry & Associates For more details and related content: https://www.ciotalknetwork.com/digital-enabled-wealth-management

Cybersecurity is no different from a sports car’s brakes, which is only to keep us safe, not to slow us down as we test our businesses’ limits during such unprecedented times of digital growth and disruptive change. How should a CISO help executive management understand cybersecurity, why it is essential for growth, and how to leverage it to maximize digital potential? Guest: Juan Carlos Title: Chief Information Security Officer, Metlife For more details and related content: https://www.ciotalknetwork.com/why-cybersecurity-is-important-for-business-growth

Due to the pandemic, both the healthcare organizations and patients were pushed into trying virtual care. While the initial results are encouraging, significant challenges remain. Doctors struggle with technological, licensing, jurisdictional issues, and many patients with bandwidth. Hospital systems are trying to integrate virtual care into their clinical workflow and bolstering their technology infrastructure while juggling HIPAA compliance and security concerns. How can policymakers, healthcare organizations, and medical practitioners collaborate to enable effective virtual care? Guest: Jason Joseph Title: Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer, Spectrum Health For more details and related content: https://www.ciotalknetwork.com/enabling-effective-virtual-care

Even with easy access to AI and advanced analytics technologies, the total cost of getting data wrong can be huge, with organizations trying to exploit digital opportunities ahead. How can leaders enable data-driven enterprise DNA with relevance, completeness, and transparency of the data models as the foundation? Guest 1: Dante Tellez Guevara Title: Chief Data & Analytics Officer, Chubb Guest 2: David Wright Title: Chief Data Officer, Commerzbank For more details and related content: https://www.ciotalknetwork.com/enabling-data-driven-enterprise-dna

As part of their digital transformation efforts, organizations are dashing to exploit analytics and AI, modernizing core technologies, and optimizing operations? But how are they enabling a digital culture where everyone is open to embracing risk, committed to changing siloed mindsets, and stays relentlessly focused on the customer? Guest: Teemu Salmi Title: Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer, Stora Enso For more details and related content: https://www.ciotalknetwork.com/steps-to-enabling-a-digital-culture/

During mergers and acquisitions (M&A), while the focus is to build a bigger and better business, security frequently takes a backseat. Starting from unreported vulnerabilities and security control gaps during the due-diligence phase to conflicts about security programs and policies among the merging security teams are commonplace. How can organizations manage security effectively throughout the M&A? Guest: James Edgar Title: Senior Vice President and Chief Information Security Officer For more details and related content: https://www.ciotalknetwork.com/managing-security-through-mergers-and-acquisitions/

Starting from building industry relevant skills, tackling unconscious bias, to building confidence and executive presence, women in technology report multiple challenges that hold them back from enjoying a rewarding career with a healthy work-life balance. How can they take charge, and with organizational support, work toward leveling the playing field, allowing them to blossom as a professional and a leader? Guest: Sue Robinson Title: CIO, Head of IT Europe and Asia Pacific, Aspen Insurance For more details and related content: https://www.ciotalknetwork.com/taking-charge-as-women-in-technology/

Organizations collect a multitude of customer feedback—CSAT surveys, social reviews, insurance claims, voice-to-text conversions of customer orders, customer emails, to name a few. Understanding and acting on all this textual data at scale can be complicated and costly. How should an organization build its Voice of the Customer playbook that offers practical strategies to use customer data to build loyalty, introduce products consumers want, and market to the right audience? Guest: Duane Lyons Title: Practice Lead, Wavicle Data Solutions For more details and related content: https://ciotalknetwork.com/how-to-build-a-voice-of-the-customer-playbook/

Due to the disruption and uncertainty caused by the pandemic, we don’t know what’s ahead of us, and we may never go back to what we were doing. So, what’s the future of business? What will be the next normal, how will the leaders lead in 2021 and beyond? Guest: Tracy M.Kerrins Title: Chief Information Officer, Wells Fargo Guest: John Kochavatr Title: Vice President, Chief Information Officer, Portland General Electric For more details and related content: https://ciotalknetwork.com/leading-in-the-next-normal/

For the upcoming year 2021, how are the CISOs enabling a business-driven cyber strategy, gearing up to take on the broader role, and planning budgets that directly tie to business growth and improved risk management? How are they planning to develop their talent pool and manage security services partnerships to deliver on their 2021 CISO agenda successfully? Guest 1: Arun DeSouza Title: Chief Information Security & Privacy Officer, Nexteer Automobiles Guest 2: Jake Margolis Title: Chief Information Security Officer, Metropolitan Water District of Southern California For more details and related content: https://www.ciotalknetwork.com/delivering-on-the-2021-ciso-agenda/

What makes an AI system fair, safe, open, and useful for an average user? How are policymakers, organizations, and academia teaming up to ensure transparency into the data we use, the learning models we adopt, and how we configure those models to process the data to deliver trustworthy AI? Guest: Dr. Mark Nasila Title: Chief Analytics Officer, FNB For more details and related content: https://www.ciotalknetwork.com/steps-to-trustworthy-ai/

Your digital assets and networks are growing, and so are the related threats. Executive leadership now views cybersecurity as a strategic business issue. The reputational, regulatory, and financial risks are mounting. How are you transforming your security operating model to make cybersecurity an enabler, not a barrier to exploiting digital capabilities? Guest: Richard Kaufmann, Vice President and Chief Information Security Officer, Amedisys Guest Bio: https://www.ciotalknetwork.com/contributor/richard-kaufmann/ More on this Episode: https://www.ciotalknetwork.com/transforming-security-operating-model/ More on Security: https://www.ciotalknetwork.com/topics/security/ More on Leadership: https://www.ciotalknetwork.com/Topics/leadership/ Visit CIO Talk Network Website: https://www.ciotalknetwork.com/ Subscribe to our Newsletter: https://www.ciotalknetwork.com/subscribe/ Nominate Guests or Sponsor: https://www.ciotalknetwork.com/contact/

What if we didn’t need to fight daily fires, and could stay focused on building capabilities and delivering value? While it may be a dream come true, why do we keep tolerating today’s problems and turn blind to the ones we could face tomorrow? What should we change in our culture, work habits, organizational structure, and leadership style to enable our enterprise where we fix problems before they happen? Guest: Nuno Miller Title: Chief Information Officer, Sonae Fashion For more details and related content: https://www.ciotalknetwork.com/fixing-problems-before-they-happen/