CIO Talk Radio

Guest: Mark Katz Title: VP Global IT and Chief Information Officer, Esselte Corp Guest: Dr. Janis L. Gogan Title: Professor, Information & Process Management, Bentley College, Waltham, MA When it comes to hot new technologies that are still immature or just challengingly complex, how can an internal IT department develop the necessary criteria to avoid being taken for a ride by a vendor? How does IT Leadership keep a healthy skepticism about what a vendor is doing, when they themselves may have only a tenuous grip on the technology?

Guest: Shawn Banerji Title: CIO Practice, Russell Reynolds Associates, Inc. Guest: Robert W. Blair Title: Senior Vice President – Enterprise Delivery Services, SunTrust Banks, Inc. Guest: Mark Polansky Title: Managing Director, North America Information Technology Officers, Korn/Ferry International While there are obvious incentives for an IT executive to opt for the title of CIO in a small firm, what about accepting a position in a much larger firm where he/she reports to another CIO? For the ultimate IT leader, a CIO, what are the career advantages? How easy is it to adapt to being second banana in a larger organization, after having been the top banana elsewhere?

Guest: David Cannon Title: President, itSMF USA Board. Co-author, Service Operation book for ITIL v3. ITSM Practice Principal, HP Guest: John Foley Title: Director – IT Governance, Alcatel-Lucent IT Services Management (ITSM) started as a set of best practices to deliver better IT. However, the execution touches almost every area of business. Isn't it time that we exploit ITSM's potential beyond IT?

Guest: Carey Nachenberg Title: Chief Architect and Symantec Fellow, Security Technology and Response, Symantec Guest: Al Kirkpatrick, CISM, CISSP Title: VP, CISO, First American Corporation Guest: George Dolicker Title: CISO, Lenovo Guest: Howard A. Schmidt Title: President & CEO of the London based Information Security Forum (ISF)Professor of Practice, The Georgia Institute of Technology's GTISCFormer White House Cyber-Security AdvisorDistinguished Fellow, The Poneman InstituteProfessor of Research, Idaho Stat Today's IT security is only as effective as the human beings who implement and monitor it. Technology may promise self healing, intelligent, automated systems that will proactively respond to threats. How soon will this be a reality? Will this be state of the art IT security ...IN THE YEAR 2050?

Guest: Christopher J. Rence Title: Chief Information and Business Transformation Officer, FICO With the economic explosion in India has come challenges of managing growth and competitive pressures. Changing from the relatively insignificant business function of keeping computers running to becoming a mission critical backbone of an organization, enterprise IT's role requires a complete transformation in terms of people, processes, and technology. How are IT leaders in India coping?

Guest: John Conley Title: Deputy CIO, Governor's Office of Information Technology, State of Colorado Guest: Bruce J. Goodman Title: SVP and Chief Information Officer, Humana Guest:  John Conley Title: Deputy CIO, Governor's Office of Information Technology, State of Colorado Consolidation of IT infrastructure, applications, and data is the logical way to control costs, but how much consolidation is practical? Too much and the end result may be a lethargic monolithic IT with a lot of inertia and intertwined critical parts requiring meticulous synchronization. Given the speed of technology change, is this approach practical?

Guest: Gregory R. Simpson Title: Chief Technology Officer, GE Guest: Joshua Holbrook Title: Director, Enterprise Research, Yankee Group It wasn't long ago when using office productivity applications online were considered a fad. Enterprise applications are already running in (software as a service) SaaS and/or are internally hosted and used over a browser. A perceived inconvenience held us to the desktop. With web2.0 applications for office productivity gaining ground, can we safely say good-bye to desktops? Are we there yet?

Guest: Georg Kell Title: Executive Director, the United Nations Global Compact Guest: Stanley S. Litow Title: VP, Corporate Citizenship & Corporate Affairs and President, IBM International Foundation Guest: Sean Worthington Title: Vice President, IT Business Services, CISCO Systems, INC. Organizations have long been using Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) as a PR tool and/or cost of doing business. IT facilitates organizational changes such as those related to CSR, through communication and collaboration. So, are organization empowering IT leadership to take an active part in genuine CSR vs. just being a business enabler? And, since IT is also a source of environmental damage and a facilitator of change towards CSR, how can it be both hero and devil at the same time?

Guest: Steven Rubinow Title: Executive Vice President & Chief Information Officer, NYSE EURONEXT Guest: Imad Mouline Title: Chief Technology Officer of Gomez, Inc. Many organizations require virtually 100% uptime. This means more than just implementing internal or vendor SLA's. How exactly do you train people and develop a 100% uptime culture? What kind of technologies and processes do you have to put in place?

Guest: Jane Landon Title: CIO, NYC Department Of Finance, NY, NY Guest: Steve Bandrowczak Title: Chief Information Officer (CIO), Nortel Networks A CIO needs to keep his/her IT organization agile to handle uncertainty, rapid business changes, disruptive innovations, and cater to management that may not have the patience to wait for long term IT projects. On the other hand, careful strategy, consistency of effort, and an eye focused firmly on future goals are also needed. What should a CIO train for? Becoming a sprinter or marathon runner?

Guest: John Pescatore Title: Vice president and Research Fellow, Gartner Research Most innovations including virtualization, SOA, and Web 2.0 are still not fully cooked and have security vulnerabilities. Furthermore, there are more new innovations in the pipeline. How does an enterprise secure anything when everything is in flux?

Guest: Melissa Webster Title: Program Vice President, Content & Digital Media Technologies, IDC Guest: Carl Kessler Title: Vice President, Worldwide Development, IBM Guest: Razmik Abnous Title: Vice President, Chief Technology Officer, Documentum Founding Engineer, EMC Content Management and Archiving Division Organizations are adopting ECM (Enterprise Content Management) systems to handle the deluge of different types of content coming from many different sources. How successful are they at getting a handle on all that content, and when successful, have they figured out ways of leveraging it all as an asset to increase ROI instead of just passively storing it?

Guest: Calvin S. Sihilling Title: Chief Information Officer and Executive Vice President, Nash Finch Co. Guest: Michael J. Gelb Title: Noted Author, Lecturer on Innovation & Creativity Is being a creative CIO based on natural talent alone? ....Or can critical skills like thinking "outside the box" (OTB) be learned? What balance of innate and acquired skills make the difference between a merely good CIO and a truly creative IT leader?

Guest: Harry R. Lewis Title: Gordon McKay Professor of Computer Science, Harvard College Guest: Kevin R. Faughnan Title: Director, IBM Academic Initiative, Software Group Guest:  Harry R. Lewis Title: Gordon McKay Professor of Computer Science, Harvard College A fresh graduate (even with MIS as a major) usually has little clue about how real world IT works. If ongoing education programs are ineffective in retooling or improving worker value, can IT and academia come together to create an ongoing certification program, to keep track of an IT graduate's training and career advancement, from college throughout his career?

Guest: Lynn Lawton, CISA, FBCS CITP, FCA, FIIA, PIIA Title: International president of ISACA and the IT Governance Institute (ITGI) Guest: Jeff Johnson Title: VP, IT Infrastructure, Constellation Energy Guest: Pete Gibson Title: Senior Vice President, Information Technology and Systems Development Wyndham Hotel Group Guest:  Lynn Lawton, CISA, FBCS CITP, FCA, FIIA, PIIA Title: International president of ISACA and the IT Governance Institute (ITGI) Guest:  Jeff Johnson Title: VP, IT Infrastructure, Constellation Energy While there's a lot of emphasis on IT Governance, organizations have been building silo IT governance mechanisms to solve problems in isolation. This is a reactionary and prevents IT from making a strategic impact. How about proactively designing IT governance around an organization's overall objectives and performance goals and continually redesigning whenever these objectives and goals change?