CIO Talk Radio

Guest: Jim Grogan Title: Vice President, SunGard Availability Services In today's world, most organizations have some sort of contingency plan in order to deal with business disruptions. Beyond just maintaining a warm or hot site, there are other IT management challenges that need to be thought through in the event of a natural disaster. How many organizations actually prepare for complete destruction of facilities, equipment, and inability to work in the same geographic area for long periods of time?

Guest: Dave Hollander Title: CTO, Contivo, Inc. Guest: Ronald Schmelzer Title: Senior Analyst and founder, ZapThink Getting on board Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) bandwagon may seem as simple as creating a few web services. But, there is more involved. Are all components of your IT organization ready for it?

Guest: Malcolm Fry Title: Member, ITIL Advisory Group and Independent Executive Advisor, BMC Software ITIL is a set of best practices for IT governance first developed by British Government 20 years ago. With CMM and CoBIT already in place, what incremental benefits does ITIL provide?

Guest: Mike Hugos Title: CIO at Large, Center for Systems Innovation [c4si] Supply Chain management (SCM) has significantly benefited from IT. Once the required level of optimization is achieved, does it make sense to keep investing where the incremental benefits are minimal? Is there an out of the box thinking required to take SCM to the next level?

Guest: Michael Palmer Title: EVP Supply Chain Management and CIO, Allied Office Products Guest: Brian Barker Title: VP of Infrastructure - Allied Office Products Guest: George Goodall Title: Senior Analyst, Info-Tech Research Group The VoIP wave promises great features along with significant savings. Once the adoption reaches critical mass, will it offer the same advantages over Baby Bells? What are the implementation and maintenance challenges?

Guest: Brad Fitch Title: Deputy Director, Congressional Management Foundation Guest: Tim Lordan Title: Staff director, Internet Education Foundation The US Congress holds tremendous power and shapes the way IT related regulations are envisioned and enacted. The whole idea is to develop a system of checks and balances in order to prevent potential abuse and safeguard the interests of nation and its people. While the intent is noble, when it comes to interpretation of regulations in terms of understanding implementation requirements and impact on business, and finally corresponding development/deployment of IT policies; most organizations seem to be struggling and spending millions. Can we do any better?

Guest: Dr. John Glaser Title: Vice President and CIO, Partners Healthcare System Guest: Mary Finlay Title: Deputy CIO, Partners Healthcare System As an IT leader, you can be only as effective in delivering results as your crew. Careful selection and grooming of your IT staff goes a long way.

Guest: Ellen Pearlman Title: Vice President and Editor-in-Chief, CIO Insight Guest: Michael Schreiber Title: Exec. Vice President Enterprise Services, United Way of America Till date, there are a very few adopters who have success stories to tell. Either the CRM deployments have been total fiascos OR have failed to deliver significant incremental value as expected. The whole idea is to get closer to the customer using CRM technology. Are we missing something here?

Guest: Mark Griesbaum Title: EVP, Chief Information Officer for Cardean Learning Group Guest: Bill Chapman Title: Senior VP and CTO, Avnet, Inc. Mergers and acquisitions are becoming a way of life for today's CIO. How can the IT leadership be groomed to adequately handle the related challenges?

Guest: Walter Weir Title: CIO, The University of Nebraska Guest: Stanley Elbaum Title: Senior Vice President Research, Aberdeen Group In this day and age of Open Systems and Open Source development, what possible value does ERP offer? With millions of dollars already invested in ERP solutions, are the organizations stuck paying for its maintenance or are there other options? Is the ERP world expected to morph into a more acceptable form. If yes, what would and should that form be?

Guest: Douglas Hubbard Title: Inventor, Applied Information Economics (AIE) Try talking to an IT Leader about how to measure value of IT for an organization. Usually, the answer is long winded and full of abstraction. Now is the time to do the real math. What measures can be used to quantify the value of IT in form of hard numbers and dollars?

Guest: Ellen Barry Title: CIO, Metropolitan Pier and Exposition Authority Guest: Stanley Elbaum Title: Senior Vice President Research, Aberdeen Group CIOs have gone through utopia during the Internet Boom followed by a drastic cutbacks after the bust. Now, as economy is recovering, today's CIO is challenged to deliver value by investing in technology again. How are things different now?

Guest: Gunjan Sinha Title: Chairman - MetricStream Government Compliance Regulations are requiring organizations to retain electronic records including structured data (databases) as well as documents, spreadsheets, and emails for longer than ever periods of time. Yes, mass storage industry will flourish. But, what impact will it have on the overall IT spending on other related aspects like architecture, facilities, etc.

Guest: John Fontanella Title: Senior Vice President and Research Director, Supply Chain Services, Aberdeen Group Guest: Tim Hanrahan Title: Vice-President - Information Services, Adaptec, Inc. Radical results do not always warrant radical measures. With so much being said about how to turnaround a failing IT organization, what actually works?

Guest: Asiff Hirji Title: Chief Information Officer - AMERITRADE Holding Corporation Guest: Juergen Geck Title: CTO - SUSE LINUX, NOVELL Knowledge begets trust and confidence! As more and more technology leaders feel comfortable with open source technologies, the corresponding adoption rate is increasing. While there are a few challenges, organizations taking a leap of faith may be rewarded.