CIO Talk Radio

Guest: Bill McCorey Title: Vice President of Global Infrastructure, IBM Guest: Jim Fortner Title: VP of Global Business Services, IT Development & Operations, P&G Guest: Vittorio Cretella Title: VP – CTO of Mars IS As an I&O (Infrastructure & Operations) leader, do you know how to get the most bang for your buck, out of you data center and end user computing environment without sacrificing performance or reliability? Are you able to make your business leaders see servers, storage, PCs, or switches as more than capital expenses? Do you know how to run an efficient and effective helpdesk? ...Or, run support and configuration management functions on a shoestring budget? What does it take to be an IT I&O rockstar?

Guest: Ben Trowbridge Title: Founder and CEO of Alsbridge Guest: Laurent Rotival Title: Senior Vice President and General Manager, GE Healthcare IT Guest:  Ben Trowbridge Title: Founder and CEO of Alsbridge Guest:  Laurent Rotival Title: Senior Vice President and General Manager, GE Healthcare IT The Application Development function is fraught with challenges, complexities, and can require hard-to-find resources. So, does it make sense to keep this function in-house? If you do outsource, why do only partial outsourcing? How would you plan and execute the complete outsourcing of an Application Development function?

Guest: David S. Kaufman Title: Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer, ARAMARK Guest: Eric Dirst Title: Senior Vice President and CIO, DeVry Inc.

Guest: André V. Mendes Title: Chief Information Officer, Special Olympics International Guest: Arshele Stevens Title: Chief Information Officer, Board of Education, City of Chicago The holy grail for IT leadership is Business/IT alignment. Perhaps if IT leadership took a step back and focused instead on converging Business and IT strategy, business alignment would become a moot point. Has business and IT strategy convergence ever really been tried? If so, did it work? What were the challenges?

Guest: Gaurav Dhillon Title: Chairman, and Chief Executive Officer, Snaplogic Guest: Jeff Chapman Title: Head of Technology, ING Direct Most organizations use some form of SaaS. In the brave new world of cloud computing, what are the solutions and challenges to integrating two disparate data sets? How do we marry "data from somewhere else" with "our data here"?

Guest: Don Campbell Title: Chief Technology Officer, Analytics and Performance Management, IBM Guest: Stephen Brobst Title: Chief Technology Officer, Teradata Corporation What is "Business intelligence" for, if not to give a company a competitive edge? What's the state of competitive BI today? Have enterprises been able to fully exploit BI for all its promised potential or has it turned out to be more difficult in execution then expected? Have there been any breakthrough innovations to better identify and develop opportunities for a competitive edge? Besides the tools, what else is needed for BI to become “competitive” BI?

Guest: Emil G. D'Angelo, CISA, CISM Title: International President, ISACA Senior Vice President at the Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ, Ltd. Guest: Dr. Melodie Mayberry-Stewart, Ph.D. Title: New York State Chief Information Officer, Director of the Office For Technology Guest: Hardik Bhatt Title: Chief Information Officer, Commissioner for Innovation & Technology, City of Chicago Guest: Jeanne W. Ross Title: Director and Principal Research Scientist, Center for Information Systems Research (CISR), MIT IT leaders are used to thinking of IT governance as a way to optimize IT to create and deliver value. However, when economic times turn tough there is a tendency to see it as a cost and a budget item to be cut. What if that thinking is wrong? What if IT governance could help us to avoid costly mistakes and actually save money in the long run?

Guest: Robin Arendt Title: Chief Information Officer for Zurich North America Commercial In troubled economic times, organizations tend to cut their IT budgets to reduce the risk of losing sustainability. However, unbridled IT cost cutting could actually increase risk by cutting the critical funds IT needs to help sustain business strategies and run IT. Because such cost cutting affects not only the IT function but the whole enterprise, where should an IT leader draw the line?

Guest: George Westerman Title: Research Scientist in the Center for Information Systems Research at the MIT Sloan School of Management Guest: Richard Hunter Title: Group Vice-President and Gartner fellow in Gartner Executive Programmes Guest: Scott Gibson Title: CIO & Senior VP of Distribution, Best Western International Since IT supports the business functions needed to execute business strategy, wouldn't IT be a powerful ally in minimizing business risk? Is there any way IT could help identify risks ahead of the curve so they could be dealt with before they become serious issues? What kinds of risks could IT best help tackle?

Guest: Richard (Dick) C. Schaeffer, Jr. Title: Information Assurance Director, National Security Agency (NSA) Guest: Arthur W. Coviello, Jr. Title: Executive Vice President, EMC Corporation and President, RSA, The Security Division of EMC Guest: D. James Bidzos Title: Chairman of the Board of Directors, Executive Chairman, VeriSign, Inc. No one is secure from the relentlessly morphing and multipronged threats facing the Internet. These threats are real and must be met with a cohesive and collaborative effort from both public and private sectors to increase security. What are the current R&D priorities on security, and what programs have been implemented? What can we understand about the road ahead which would help us to more effectively meet this menace?

Guest: Lieutenant General Harry D. Raduege Jr. (USAF, Ret) Title: Director, Deloitte & Touche LLP Chairman, The Deloitte Center for Network Innovation Guest: Mark Weatherford Title: Director and Chief Information Security Officer (CISO), State of California Office of Information Security Guest: William F. Pelgrin Title: President and CEO, Center for Internet Security (CIS); Founder and Chair, Multi-State Information Sharing and Analysis Center (MS-ISAC) There are risks inherent in all new technology. Sometimes these risks get blown out of all proportion in comparison to the advantages these new technologies can offer. Rather than letting our worse fears keep us from exploiting these new technologies for the advantages they offer, what steps should IT leaders take to balance their use against their risks, to deliver these new technologies and the value they provide.

Guest: Doug Robinson Title: NASCIO Executive Director Guest: Chris Buse Title: Chief Information Security Officer (CISO), State of Minnesota While each state has its own technology issues, they all face similar internal problems related to cyber security. There is also a need to create a secure collaborative cyber environment among all states. What are the common current gaps each state faces with regards to internal cyber security? Are state administrations giving cyber security the kind of priority and resources needed to properly secure state and national cyber space? In what ways are states handling or not handling cyber security properly?

Guest: Rich Adduci Title: Vice President and Chief Information Officer, Boston Scientific Guest: Tony Young Title: Chief Information Officer, Informatica IT leaders are getting aggressive about innovating and creating top line growth! So, what about optimizing IT product/services procurement and minimizing costs to the nth degree? This should, in theory, maximize profits, right? But what Will we have to give up or compromise on to do this?

Guest: Russ Bostick Title: EVP Technology and Operations, Conseco Guest: Paul Gossen Title: Business Transformation Expert The harsh new business world of globalized competition, economic contraction, and technological change are forcing businesses everywhere to transform themselves by expanding their boundaries, consolidating their business interests, or reinventing themselves. In what situations is IT the helper, and in which should IT be the leader and driver? How does IT help or lead business transformation?

Guest: Tom Clewett Title: VP IT Enterprise Solutions, Exelon Corporation Guest: Urs Fischer, CISA, CPA (Swiss), CIA Title: Lead Developer, ISACA.org's Risk IT framework Vice President and head of IT governance and risk management, SwissLife Group The introduction of a new IT technology imposes risks: Political risks to champions within the IT organization; business risks that vary based on how invasive or intrusive are the changes it imposes on business; and financial risks as regards its implementation and ROI. How does an IT leader successfully manage these risks to reap the benefits that drove the adoption of the new technology? ...Or, how does he quickly identify a boondoggle, and pull the plug!