CIO Talk Radio

Guest: Juergen Geck Title: CTO - SUSE LINUX, NOVELL Organizations today are looking at LINUX as an opportunity to save significantly on software licensing fees. Options are available to only pay for support and ongoing upgrades. Is this too good to be true? What is the ROI? What is the TCO of porting existing applications to LINUX as well as developing new applications?

Guest: Dr. Juan Esteva Title: Chief Technology Officer, DTE Energy The role of CTO is often undermined in an organization where the CIO is the leader. What value does a CTO bring to an organization and how can the CIO leverage a CTO's contribution to carry out his/her job effectively?

Guest: Todd Walter Title: Chief Technical Officer, R&D, Teradata (a division of NCR) Guest: Mark Jeffery Title: Associate Professor of Technology, Center for Research on Technology and Innovation, Kellogg School of Management IT Portfolio Management is far beyond a one time effort. Ongoing efforts related to measuring results and using feedback for continuous improvement is critical.

Guest: John Fisher Title: Senior VP & CIO, Smith Bucklin IT plays an important part in handling business processes related to Association Management. What are the related challenges and how do these challenges compound further for an outsourcing vendor handling multiple associations?

Guest: Darwin John Title: Ex-CIO, FBI With IT is becoming a key driver for business, the role of CIO is changing as well. While a CIO could be enjoying the limelight, the increased accountability and related challenges are equally daunting.

Guest: Nick Carr Title: Renowned Business Writer and Speaker Guest: Mark Jeffery Title: Associate Professor of Technology, Center for Research on Technology and Innovation, Kellogg School of Management While we are all riding the technology wave, have we ever stopped and considered the possibility of overestimating what technology can do for us? Playing devil's advocate can definitely help us get a reality check.

Guest: Alan Hubbard Title: Executive Vice President - R&D, KANA The service resolution management (SRM) wave is all about giving better serve customers. How different is it from CRM? What new opportunities and challenges does it bring for software vendors and end customers?

Guest: Michael Schrage Title: Advisor, CIO Magazine Columnist, and Researcher at MIT Agility in an enterprise is defined as an ability to adapt to changes in business environment with minimal disruption of existing processes and in minimal time. Can IT help build an Agile Enterprise?

Guest: Joseph Norton Title: Ex-CTO, McDonalds Corporation Guest: Mark Jeffery Title: Associate Professor of Technology, Center for Research on Technology and Innovation, Kellogg School of Management Successful IT Portfolio management requires risk management, program and project level supervision as well as IT Governance. What role can and should the technology leadership play in these areas?

Guest: Esther Dyson Title: Editor-At-Large, CNET Networks Is the technology evolution actually helping individuals and businesses? Where is this continuous pursuit of technology going to lead us?

Guest: P.G. Narayanan Title: CEO-Americas, Allot Communications Guest: Stephen Elliot Title: Senior Analyst - Network Management, IDC Today, almost every aspect of business processing is carried out over enterprise network. Due to limitations on available bandwidth, there is a constant tussle about which process/data gets priority over others. Are the available network traffic management solutions able to help deal with the related challenges?

Guest: Jon Fieldman Title: Chief Information Officer - DSC Logistics Guest: Robert B. Cornick Title: Vice President/General Manager - RFID, Zebra Technologies RFID promises anytime anywhere tracking of inventory at the warehouse and in transit. There is a steep price tag attached to it and has its own related integration challenges. Is it for everyone?

Guest: Bruce Schneier Title: Renowned Security Technologist and Author In the last decade the role of enterprise security has evolved from a departmental function to a well funded and closely watched strategic function. What are factors involved in this evolution and is there a tangible benefit to this move towards acute focus on security?

Guest: Mark Fralick Title: Vice President - R&D, Red Prairie Guest: Steve Aulds Title: Senior Vice President - R & D, Yantra The mandates related to RFID in supply chain industry has spawned many initiatives and products that claim to tackle this beast. What is a vendor's perspective of the challenges that RFID is claiming to tackle and how are they architecting solutions to meet them?

Guest: John J. Higginson Title: Exec. Vice President - Technology, Applied Systems Guest: David Perry Title: Global Director of Education, Trend Micro Consumers and Businesses alike, SPAM and SPIM (where even during Instant Messaging, unsolicited messages popup) is causing a lot of nuisance and resulting in financial losses for businesses. Will we ever get a handle on them?