CIO Talk Radio

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?

Guest: Robert Israel Title: CIO, John C. Lincoln Hospitals, Phoenix, Arizona Guest: Zeus Kerravala Title: Senior Vice President, 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?

Guest: Rick Davidson Title: CIO of Manpower Guest: Diane Morello Title: Research VP and Gartner Fellow 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?

Guest: Terri Jordan Title: VP of Operations, eBay Guest: Rob Soderbery Title: SVP, Data Center Management Group, Symantec Guest:  Terri Jordan Title: VP of Operations, eBay 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.

Guest: Andrés Carvallo Title: Chief Information Officer, Austin Energy Guest:  Deirdre Woods Title: Chief Information Officer, The Wharton School at The University of Pennsylvania 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?

Guest: Ken Hamilton Title: Founder/Past Chair itSMF USA; Director, HP Education Guest: Russ Daniels Title: VP and Chief Technology Officer, HP Enterprise Services Hewlett-Packard 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?

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?

Guest: Ed Lazowska Title: Bill and Melinda Gates Chair, Computer Science and Engineering, University of Washington,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?

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?

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?

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?

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?

Guest: Mark P. McDonald Title: Group VP Executive Programs, Gartner, Inc. Guest: Gerard McNamara Title: Managing Partner, CIO Practice, Americas - Heidrick & Struggles, Inc. Gerry McNamara is the Practice Managing Partner, CIO Practice Americas for Heidrick and 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.

Guest: David Buckholtz Title: VP, Enterprise Architecture & Planning - Sony Pictures Entertainment Guest: Peter S. Kastner Title: VP & Research Director, Enterprise Technology, Aberdeen Group Guest: Ronald Schmelzer Title: Senior Analyst and founder, ZapThink As SOA becomes pervasive within the organization as well as among external entities, just setting up related technology is not enough. While we are betting on this wild horse, what control and governance measures are being taken for its successful adoption?

Guest: Wallace Dalrymple Title: Chief Network & Telecom Architect, Global Technology Management, General Motors Guest: Johna Johnson Title: President, Nemertes Research We demand agility from our IT environments and offering software solutions to address the issue. How about infrastructure? Understaffed and bogged down by daily fire-fighting, can we truly expect the infrastructure team to complete a project without an effect on other groups and at the speed expected?