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Simplifying Digital Now and Next May 31, 2017

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Digital is here, and we have to deal with it. It will also be there tomorrow so have to prepare for it. The perceived complexity and scale of what it'd take to embrace Digital seems daunting and is unnerving. Does everything you have today need to go away, replaced by the shiny new? How can you get clarity on what you need to be and stay Digital and how to go about it?

Guest 1: Brian Solis, Author, X: The Experience When Business Meets Design

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Guest 2: Steven John, Chief Information Officer, H.B. Fuller Company

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Better Learning through Digital Transformation May 24, 2017

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While traditional technology has helped improve instructional techniques, optimize instructors time, and make classes available anytime and anywhere—can education be digitally transformed to achieve the desired state where students learn faster, fully, practically, and achieve mastery?

Guest: Borre Ulrichsen, Chief Information Officer, Gonzaga University

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Acing the 4 Critical Behaviors for Leadership Success May 10, 2017

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As per McKinsey Organizational Health Index, top reported behaviors of successful leaders include solving problems effectively, operating with strong results orientation, seeking different perspectives, and be supportive of others. These should be table stakes for any leader, but apparently, they are not. What prevents it and what can you do to make these critical behaviors your second nature?

Guest: Helen Norris, Chief Information Officer, Chapman University

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Embracing Emerging Technologies Apr 26, 2017

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Among the many emerging technologies that are available, not all will help with differentiation, allow breaking into new markets, remaining competitive, and enabling innovation. How can organizations stay current with these emerging technologies, prioritize related investments, and reduce the associated risk of failure or costly mistakes?

Guest: Ying Chan, CITO – Chief of IT Operations, Texas Health and Human Services Commission

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Is Leadership for you? Apr 19, 2017

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Leadership comes at a cost and demands many lines of expertise. Are you ready to deliver? A CIO is no longer just an IT leader, he or she needs to be able to deliver business strategies using technology expertise. Are you there yet? Is your team behind you? The top position comes at a price to personal life. Are you ready for the balancing act? Are you willing to do what it takes to be a leader?

Guest: Jim Smith, CIO, Office of Information Technology, State of Maine.

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Getting the extraordinary done Apr 10, 2017

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Not everyone is a protégé or born leader. However, putting the right people, with the right capabilities in the right roles can help an organization achieve its most ambitious goals. How can leaders align their strategy, culture, and technology to get the extraordinary done?

Guest 1: Dave Ulrich, Rensis Likert Professor of Business, Ross School of Business, University of Michigan & Author, Victory Through Organization

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Guest 2: Amir Dabirian, Chief Information Officer, California State University, Fullerton

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Using Uncertainty as an Advantage Apr 05, 2017

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When faced with uncertainty, most organizations make moves to mitigate risk and prepare for managing the potential consequences of dealing with the unknown. What can leaders do to harness the confusion to create opportunities for market differentiation and unleash innovative solutions that appeal to customers, partners and other ecosystem players?

Guest: Vince Kellen, Chief Information Officer, University of California, San Diego

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From Problem to Productive Workforce Mar 22, 2017

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Best strategies gather dust or don't meet their full potential due to people-related challenges. Getting rid of problem employees does not solve the underlying issues. We need to identify such employees, communicate with them, manage their resistance to change and turn them around. How do you lay the groundwork to minimize people issues from surfacing, quickly and efficiently fix them if they do, and enjoy the fruits of predictably realized strategies using productive workforce?

Guest 1: Samuel Sudhakar, Chief Information Officer and Vice President for Information Technology Services, California State University, San Bernardino

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Guest 2: Curtis Carver, Vice President and Chief Information Officer, University of Alabama at Birmingham

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Balancing Crystal Ball and Capabilities Mar 21, 2017

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Organizations are uncovering the invisible, improving ability to understand the elusive, and enhancing the speed and sophistication of decision making using Data Analytics. The capabilities required to capitalize on the opportunities, however, take longer to develop thus undermining investments in Data Analytics. How can organizations balance their investments in analytics and organizational capability development to maximize ROI?

Guest: Pamela Arora, SVP and CIO, Children's Health

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Evaluating Puppet's Automation Capabilities Mar 16, 2017

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As part of Digital Transformation, enterprises are rethinking their infrastructure, applications and other software based systems and service platforms to enable innovation, business agility, performance improvement, resilience, and secure operations. Automation, while considered as a key driver for DevOps, if leveraged in a holistic manner, can be the shortest path to driving related change with confidence", claims Puppet. With humble roots in Open Source, Puppet is now positioning itself as a major player in Automation. With multiple established Automation providers serving Global Enterprises already, how does Puppet match up? We speak with Puppet's Chief Technical Strategist to find out.

Guest: Nigel Kersten Title: Chief Technical Strategist, Puppet

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