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Is CIO Succession Planning Still Relevant? Feb 10, 2016

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For years, succession planning has been a crucial part of the CIO's job. As a leader, The CIO's responsibility to ensure continuity. However, with changing times, does the Chief Information Officer [CIO] need to evaluate and change his succession planning strategy? What are the concerns and goals that existing CIOs face and how should they find and mentor the right people to fill their shoes? How should succession planning be altered to develop successors who may be more relevant for the organization?

Guest: Joe Topinka, CIO, SnapAV, CIO Mentor

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Building Your Team's Achievement Muscle Jan 27, 2016

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Your vision, strategy, and goals as a leader are only achieved when your team develops thinking, behaviors and relationships that allows each individual to effectively solve problems, focus on things that matter and achieve higher satisfaction in life. If we are to consider achievement as a muscle, what can you do to help the team learn how to flex and strengthen it?

Guest: Brian Haugabrook, CIO, Valdosta State University

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Will IoT Improve Healthcare? Jan 24, 2016

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IoT promises transformation of healthcare industry by increasing efficiency, lowering costs and putting the focus back on better patient care. For those who have tried, what are the results? What are some of the related challenges that healthcare CIOs are facing while trying to maximize ROI from related investment?

Guest: Dr. John Showalter, Chief Health Information Officer, University of Mississippi Medical Center

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Creating a DevOps Vision and Roadmap Jan 20, 2016

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DevOps approach is gaining momentum because it tightly integrates development and testing with system operations. But how can the two groups work more closely together and automate the deployment process? How can dev teams make sure the changes map to the larger initiatives at the business level? How does the organization address the change management issues and focus on competitive differentiation and customer retention?

Guest 1: John Willis, Co-Author, "The Devops Handbook"

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Guest 2: Leonard J. Hardy, Senior Vice President of Operations & Technology, Northern Trust Corporation

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Solving the Talent Conundrum Jan 13, 2016

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Is IT talent management still an issue for CIOs? Have organizations, like some claim, finally managed to attract and retain top talent and develop their skills and competencies based on rapidly changing demands or has it just been lip service? Has the CIO recruited staff from outside IT or are they working closely with HR to build talent programs? Is there a talent management playbook that one can refer to in order to fix this issue forever?

Guest: Zeeshan Sheikh, Chief Information Officer, Entergy

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Bimodal IT: Challenges and Lessons Learnt Jan 06, 2016

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Bi Modal IT has gone mainstream. So how are CIOs evaluating the impact of Bi modal IT adoption in their organizations? What has been the success rate? What were some of the challenges that CIOs faced while implementing it and what are some of the lessons learned. Has Bi Modal IT delivered on its promise?

Guest: Sahal Lahar, Executive Vice President and Chief Information Officer, Brooks Brothers

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2016 CIO Agenda Dec 30, 2015

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How does the year 2016 look for the CIO? With new disruptive technologies such as mobility, big data, and cloud are mainstream, what new technologies will the CIO bank upon? What are the CIO's key wants and spending plans? What do they plan on doing differently to take advantage of all the new opportunities on the horizon?

Guest 1: Kevin Burns, Chief Information Officer, City of Miami

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Guest 2: Walter Weir, CIO, The University of Nebraska

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Maintaining a Healthy Company Culture Dec 16, 2015

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A healthy organization's culture can be best understood as a set of shared values and how everyone gets work done as individual and team to delivers value to customers. A healthy culture results in sustained growth, profitability and employee wellbeing. Who is responsible for building and maintaining it and what does it take?

Guest: Jay Ferro, CIO, American Cancer Society

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How Effective Is Your Enterprise Architecture? Dec 09, 2015

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Your organization may have dedicated Enterprise Architecture (EA) groups as the custodian of the what and how IT systems and applications should enable business processes. Is it driven by ideal state scenarios or empirical evidence of what works? How are you refining and leveraging your Enterprise Architecture to develop a solid foundation for handling future demands and disruptions?

Guest: Dean Pipes, Chief Architect and Chief Technology Officer, Zurich Insurance

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Becoming a Visionary Leader Dec 02, 2015

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You can either submit to the turbulence caused by complex and fast pace business environment and get lost OR position yourself ahead of the trends. What does it take to become a visionary leader and help your organization navigate through sea of change and land on the green pastures of opportunity and growth?

Guest: Rob-Jan de Jong, "Anticipate – the Art of Leading by Looking Ahead", Founder of Vongolo Consulting and Author

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