Cio Talk Network Podcast

A well thought out digital strategy with poor or hasty execution doesn’t deliver expected results. Nor does an amateur grade digital blueprint realized by implementation experts. With digital still evolving, how can organizations ace the whole process starting from the clean design of digital initiatives to immaculate execution for maximum impact? Guest 1 : Anu Varma Title : CIO - Communications Solutions Segment, TE For more details and related content : https://www.ciotalknetwork.com/clean-digital-design-executed-right/

Digital revolution, socio-economic and political shifts, and citizens demanding a value-centric experience requires government to become intuitive and integrated to better sense and respond to changes. How are government and IT reimagining their system, processes, people, and tools to get ready? Guest 1 : Tarek Tomes Title : Commissioner and Chief Information Officer, State of Minnesota Guest 2 : Paul Wagner Title : CIO, National Research Council Canada For more details and related content : https://www.ciotalknetwork.com/steps-to-intuitive-and-integrated-government/

Traditionally, the enterprise architecture (EA) function was considered an overhead by many organizations. But it can prove to be a catalyst if reimagined and used to drive strategy and execution for digital transformation. How are progressive leaders adopting EA for digital success? Guest 1: Praveen Moturu Title: Vice President and Chief Enterprise Architect, Mars Inc. For more details and related content: https://www.ciotalknetwork.com/ea-as-the-digital-catalyst

Armed with knowledge about the whole organization and deep expertise in using technology for innovation and growth, how are IT leaders elevating themselves into catalysts and unleashing energy that maximizes business outcomes? How are they connecting people within the organization and help them see the link between personal motivations and the company vision? How are they cheering the business unit officers and executive management to stay enthusiastic and continue to champion the change? How are they fostering an authentic work environment where everyone brings their best self to work? Guest 1 : Dr. Jonathan Vester Title : Vice President of Technology and Chief Information Officer, Nash Community College For more details and related content : https://www.ciotalknetwork.com/it-leaders-as-catalysts/

While you invest in developing leaders, are you evolving the way work gets done in the company? You need to engage the entire system for organizational effectiveness. What’s the road to syncing organizational change and leadership development for maximum impact? Guest 1 : Jeff Cann Title : Chief Strategist & CIO, Encore Electric For more details and related content : https://www.ciotalknetwork.com/syncing-organizational-change-and-leadership-development/

Disruptive change is becoming the norm. Instead of tweaking leadership strategy and culture to handle only the current challenges, how do you future-proof them, so the organization stands the tests of time and stay relevant, resilient, and reliable? Guest 1 : Helen Norris Title : Chief Information Officer, Chapman University Guest 2 : Samuel Sudhakar Title : Chief Information Officer and Vice President for Information Technology Services, California State University, San Bernardino Guest 3: James MacLennan Title : Chief Information Officer, IDEX Corporation For more details and related content : https://www.ciotalknetwork.com/future-proofing-leadership-strategy-and-culture/

Dark data is information we are collecting but not using. It can cause leakage of proprietary knowledge and reputational damage. It increases future compliance challenges and legacy costs. It hinders making good use of data and is unnecessarily increase resource usage without any productive outcome. What are organizations doing to handle these dark data perils? Guest 1: Prosenjit Sengupta Title: Chief Digital Officer, Thermax Group For more details and related content: https://ciotalknetwork.com/handling-dark-data-perils/

Due to increased market volatility and changing global landscape, stakeholders are demanding visibility into cost reduction and value creation opportunities with near real-time planning and reporting. How well are you keeping your enterprise performance management (EPM) strategies, practices, analytics, and technologies in alignment to stay relevant and competitive? Guest 1: Hilton Sturisky Title: Global Chief Information Officer at Crawford & Company For more details and related content: https://ciotalknetwork.com/staying-relevant-and-competitive-through-epm/

Cloud is foundational for enabling digital, but cost overruns are rampant. Building data and analytics capability to support digital is resource-intensive. Shadow IT is inevitable with digital, leading to significant cost leakages. Finding, keeping, retaining, and repurposing digital talent is an ongoing and expensive struggle. Security risks are enormous but so are the costs of managing them. How are leaders optimizing costs and running a tight, digital ship? Guest 1: Viren Shah Title: Chief Digital Officer, GE Appliances, a Haier company For more details and related content: https://ciotalknetwork.com/running-a-tight-digital-ship/

Digital has forced security leaders to rethink their department’s strategy, people, processes, tools, governance, budgets, and culture. With the dynamic and volatile nature of digital, it isn’t easy to build a standardized, unified, and cohesive approach to making security forethought and implementing it in the very DNA of the organization. With unique organizational needs and constraints, how are security leaders developing their unique recipes and acing it? Guest 1: Brandon Champion Title: Chief Information Security Officer, Syneos Health For more details and related content: https://ciotalknetwork.com/acing-the-security-leadership-recipe-for-digital/

Digital has the potential to uncover new and hidden markets. What about the existing market full of competition? How are companies leveraging digital to establish higher value-based positioning, increase mindshare, proactively prospect, and enhance delivery to displace competition? Guest 1: Samuli Savo Title: Chief Digital Officer, Stora Enso Guest 2: Edward W Marx Title: Chief Information Officer, Cleveland Clinic Guest 3: Thomas Barnett Title: Chief Information Officer, University of Rochester (N.Y.) Medical Center For more details and related content: https://ciotalknetwork.com/displacing-competition-through-digital/

People have conversations as part of doing their job to exchange information or data. They also interact to pitch ideas and persuade others. But how can leaders foster a transformational level of conversations that would lead to real change and desired results? Guest 1: Rekha Ramesh Title: Chief Information Officer, Advantage Solutions For more details and related content: https://ciotalknetwork.com/conversations-that-deliver-results/

Public and hybrid cloud infrastructure has proven to be a viable option for business but is it the most secure? Security breaches are rampant, with many of them attributed to cloud adoption. How can the business, IT, and cybersecurity leaders work together with the cloud providers to effectively manage cloud security? Guest 1: Michael Welch Title: Chief Information Security Officer (CISO), OSI Group For more details and related content: https://ciotalknetwork.com/cloud-security-as-a-shared-responsibility/

Data security requires rethinking people, processes, and tools to protect data throughout its lifecycle across public cloud, on-premises, and hybrid cloud deployments no matter the size and scale. Marred with explosive data growth, privacy regulations, operational complexities, and acute talent shortage, enterprises are scrambling at best. What are some of the most progressive and creative security leaders doing to tame this beast? Guest 1: Leon Ravenna Title: Chief Information Security Officer at KAR Global For more details and related content: https://ciotalknetwork.com/taming-the-data-security-beast/

Lack of transparency, siloed thinking, lack of vision, and openness to experimentation indicate issues that prevent harnessing digital opportunities in enterprises. How can we reset and rebuild a winning culture for digital success where leaders think big, take risks, and employees are informed, engaged, and empowered? Guest 1: Saugat Dutta Title: Country IT Head/CIO, DP Worldwide For more details and related content: https://ciotalknetwork.com/building-a-winning-digital-culture/

CIOs need to shift from keeping business humming and predictable to mastering the art of possible and working with others to create new solutions. How do they reset their hardwiring, develop new skills, and lead their organizations into the new? Guest 1: Steven A Marks Title: CIO, Brooklyn Law School Guest 2: Dr. Jonathan Vester Title: Vice President of Technology and Chief Information Officer, Nash Community College Guest 3: Kelly Walsh Title: CIO, The College of Westchester For more details and related content: https://ciotalknetwork.com/cio-as-an-innovation-leader/

In the digital age, IT security needs to improve resilience, fast track innovation, and drive business expansion. But we require the entire organization’s support to make that happen. What does it take to make IT security everyone’s business? Guest 1: Sheryl Rose Title: Chief Information Security Officer, Summa Health System For more details and related content: https://ciotalknetwork.com/how-to-make-it-security-everyones-business/

  Business is willing to invest in digital but wants to know where we are, how is it going, when will we get there, and what did related investments get us. With dynamically shifting digital landscape and experimentation underway, how should business and IT leaders collaborate to define digital KPIs and measure them to track progress and performance? Guest 1: Balaji Rengachari Title: Global Chief Information Officer, Tata Global Beverages For more details and related content: https://ciotalknetwork.com/tracking-digital-progress-and-performance/  

Good leaders today are expected to drive business agility through cooperation, collaboration, and adaptability of its team and ecosystem partners. Such leaders are also supposed to demonstrate flexibility and sensitivity? Can we harness AI beyond just automation or aid to decision making? Are there ways AI can help improve leadership quality within an organization? Guest 1: Jeanne Holm Title: Deputy CIO and Senior Technology Advisor, City of Los Angeles For more details and related content: https://ciotalknetwork.com/ai-enabled-leadership/

For IT leaders, saying Yes to ever increasing business demands makes their workload unmanageable and saying No earns them a bad name. Is there a way out? What strategies for work acceptance, prioritization, allocation, and execution can help them get out of this predicament and keep delivering value to the business? Guest 1: Brian Stewart Title: Deputy CIO and Director of Business Transformation, University of Alberta Guest 2: Michael Dellinger Title: Chief Information Officer at City of Tulsa For more details and related content: https://ciotalknetwork.com/the-it-leader-predicament/