CIO Talk Radio

Guest: Paul C. Tinnirello Title: Executive Vice President and CIO, Information Services Division, A.M. Best Company Guest: Capers Jones Title: Founder and chief scientist emeritus, Software Productivity, Research, LLC Sizing an IT Project in terms scope, effort, and cost is usually done using templates following a few ground rules. Do we factor in complexity? Is it the same for every project or for that matter every organization? Can we attribute the high failure rate of IT projects to this oversight?

Guest: Alex Adamopoulos Title: Senior Analyst, Data Management Technology Practice, Aberdeen Group Guest: Patrick E. Moroney Title: SVP/CIO HealthCare Service Corporation, BlueCross BlueShield of Illinois, Texas, New Mexico IT Leaders today are inundated with research data promising an unprecedented insight into trends and issues and help them manage their goals better. How much of this data is actually useful? How do research firms decide on the research initiatives? How well are IT leaders able to leverage the available date to formulate effective strategies?

Guest: Dennis P. L'Heureux Title: SVP, Planning and CIO, Rockford Health System Guest: R. Ryan Nelson Title: Director, Center for the Management of Information Technology, McIntire School of Commerce, University of Virginia Project success requires a combination of product success and project management success. We usually ask "was your project a success?" Instead we should be asking "how successful was your project?". With different stakeholders using different measures, achieving complete satisfaction becomes a nearly impossible task. While we put a lot of effort in ensuring successful delivery of end product, what needs to be done so as to receive the medal of delivering a “successful” project.

Guest: Allwyn Sequeira Title: VP of Engineering and Operations, Blue Lane Technologies Guest: Andreas Antonopoulos Title: Senior VP and Founding Partner, Nemertes Research Software companies now release thousands of patches every year. To make the process efficient, organizations using the software are deploying patch management software as an efficient and automated way to manage and deploy these patches. However, this alone won't provide a complete solution. Organizations need to combine automation with an effort to get a better handle on their rather chaotic computing environments.

Guest: Lac Tran Title: CIO, Rush University Medical Center Guest: Mike Gotta Title: Principal Analyst, Burton Group Enterprise portals are rapidly being adopted to address the information and application access requirements of an organization. A large percentage of such deployments are not delivering results or are facing adoption issues. What is going wrong here?

Guest: Mark Griesbaum Title: EVP, Chief Information Officer for Cardean Learning Group Guest: Dr. Wendell Jones Title: Chief Executive at SIM, and Former VP, Worldwide Service Delivery, Compaq Computer Corporation and Analyst, Cutter Consortium Guest: Jason Corsello Title: Program Manager and Analyst, The Yankee Group Having been burnt by high failure rates using outsourcing, IT leaders are looking for options. Root cause analysis has determined that beyond money there needs to be a little more skin in the game, for an alliance to be successful. Is this highly collaborative, risk sharing approach, also known as IT Co-sourcing, going to help increase the success rate?

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. Alfred Z. Spector Title: Chief Technology Officer and VP of Strategy and Technology, IBM Software Group Guest: Amy Wohl Title: Renowned Technology Editor, Columnist, and Futurist President Bush recently announced The American Competitiveness Initiative (ACI) to encourage American innovation and strengthen this nation's ability To compete In the global economy. This is an ambitious and multifaceted initiative. How is it going to impact the business and community in United States and other parts of the world?

Guest: Michael J. Carlson Title: Vice President of Business Transformation and Customer Value, Xcel Energy Guest: Kimberly Collins Title: Research Vice President, Gartner CRM What if we had a complete visibility to customer's values, their key issues, their thought process, their decision making approach, and their overall buying behaviors? Can we safely say “deploy Business Intelligence and CRM systems” is the answer?

Guest: Mike Kistner Title: CIO, Pegasus Solutions (Ex-CIO, Best Western) A well defined IT delivery process minimizes risk and increases rate of success and requires appropriate time and effort for checks and balances. Meanwhile, IT is also supposed to facilitate quick business change thus help develop an “agile” enterprise. How do we eat the cake and have it too?

Guest: Kevin Molloy Title: CIO, Vancouver Airport Guest: Bruce Reirden Title: CIO, Care New England Today's CIO needs to deal with more than just IT. Ideal CIO is one who leverages his/her resources and skills to get the job done while dealing with ever increasing pressure of delivering more with less. Are resourceful CIOs born with the talent or is it an acquired skill?

Guest: Peter Madsen Title: Executive Director - Center for the Advancement of Applied Ethics, Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) Guest: Keith Darcy Title: Executive Director, Ethics Officer Association (EOA) Whether it is related to reporting regulatory compliance, agreeing to hide or delete digital information that may divulge a mis-conduct, blowing whistle against an IT system that may be causing damage to your organization or its customers; it is the duty of IT leadership and the team to maintain and demonstrate a high level of ethics. Is that truly happening?

Guest: Ray Johnson Title: Vice President and CIO, Entergy Guest: Richard Morrey Title: Chief Technology Officer, ACCELA How well can you prepare for the worst and deal with the aftermath? From normalcy, to chaos, to revival; the unfortunate event in New Orleans will have lessons to teach to the IT leaders of the world.

Guest: Will Weider Title: CIO, Affinity Health System Guest: Sean Gallagher Title: Executive Editor for the Vertical/Enterprise group of Ziff-Davis Internet Legacy systems play such a critical role in IT infrastructure; yet seem to drain precious resources. Today's CIO is challenged with achieving a balance between managing short-term issues of cost and complexity, while at the same time investing in the future. Whether legacy systems should be replaced or should have their life extended?

Guest: Christopher Crowhurst Title: VP Architecture & Business Systems Infrastructure, Thomson Reuters Guest: Jamie Lewis Title: CEO, Burton Group Today's IT environment is a mixed bag of legacy systems, hosted applications, and enterprise software with their own authentication and authorization mechanisms. What if there was one logon id and password per user for all applications. Even better, what if the management of user privileges are centralized and automated. It sure is possible but comes with a hefty price tag and inherent complexity.

Guest: Andrew Warzecha Title: Chief Strategist, Information Management, IBM Guest: Henry Morris Title: Group Vice President and General Manager, Integration, Development, and Application Strategies (IDeAS) solutions research group, IDC The world today is experiencing an unprecedented growth in data and information generated by multiple disparate sources. Linking to this data is also being made easy by leveraging SOA (Service Oriented Architecture). Access to the data anytime and anywhere is also possible through wireless technology. Are we making the best use of this opportunity? What impact does this data/information deluge have on storage and information management?