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The Bright Future of a CIO & CFO Partnership Jul 30, 2014

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There will come a day when the CIO and the CFO can work together as true partners and allies. It will be when CFOs will see IT as more than just a cost center and the CIO will be able to prove IT's value in a way the CFO can understand. Someday they will both speak the same language. For now there is work to be done and in some places a rivalry to overcome. Are CIOs and CFOs doing all they can to enable the success of the other? How can they align their risk priorities, simplify processes and reduce costs so that everyone is happy?

Guest 1: Randy Gaboriault, CIO, Christiana Care Health System

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Guest 2: Tom Corrigan, SVP Finance and CFO, Christiana Care Health System

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IT Employee Retention in the New Normal Jul 23, 2014

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With a younger generation rising in the workplace, technology replacing more and more roles and new technology and data centric strategies demanding new skills that are short in supply, 2014 could be the year of the employee. Recruitment and retention will require new strategies and investments in this new normal. So how will HR be redefined? How will organizations begin taking career development seriously? How will we rewrite the traditional rules of acquisition and retention to win the war for talent?

Guest 1: John J. Higginson, CTO, Wheels Inc.

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Guest 2: Josh Bersin, Principal and Founder, Bersin by Deloitte

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Guest 3: Steve Safier, Chief Transformation and Human Resources Officer, Panasonic North America

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Making The Most of The Manufacturing Value Chain Jul 21, 2014

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The potential of the Internet of Things in the Manufacturing industry suggests that as machines and processes begin to govern themselves, every step of a product's journey will be interconnected. No longer is manufacturing confined to the traditional production process of raw materials to the finished good. Every step from the research and development, production, route to market, consumption and disposal of a product can and will produce data and insight in real time. Can this allow manufacturing to become an industry of innovation and profit? How are organizations envisioning making the most of this possibility, and in what all ways do they have planned?

Guest 1: Jim Davis Title: Vice Provost IT & Chief Academic Technology Officer, UCLA

Guest 2: Jim Wetzel Title: Technical Director, Platform Center of Excellence, General Mills

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Leading 'Startup Magic' Back to The Enterprise Jul 16, 2014

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There's nothing like the speed, strategic alignment and employee engagement and vision that strong start-ups have. Each has a certain magic that simply vanishes in a large, multi-department environment. Many leaders know the feeling of struggling to bring that magic back, but how can they without the same intimate, one-on-one conversations and close knit environment a startup allows? Just how can leadership eliminate the sterile, remote and distributed communication of the enterprise and find that lost spark?

Guest: Alan Berson, Learning Director Executive Education and founder of Leadership Conversation LLC, Wharton

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Big Data Ethics: Privacy, Risks and Principles Jul 09, 2014

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Big Data may be a dying buzzword, but the act of collecting and analyzing data to create new value and insights is here to stay. As data analysis practices get more sophisticated and companies are collecting, even more, data about their customers, business leaders, and decision makers calling the shots on how a company uses that data must start to weigh the moral and ethical implications associated with all that is collected and acted upon. Now is the time to define words, risks, and standards for which practices are serving the consumer and which are plain creepy. So how can leaders re-evaluate their company transparency and values as it pertains to Big Data? What universal principles can we set in stone to make data collection a morally sound endeavor?

Guest: Frank Buytendijk, Author, Research VP, Gartner

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Guest 2: Kord Davis, Author, Co-Founder, Design+Strategy Forum

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The Chief Digital Officer's First 12 Months Jun 25, 2014

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The hiring of Chief Digital Officers has doubled every year since 2005. The CDO role is here to stay, and it is their job to put the customer first by being focused on strategy and execution, by never being afraid of failure and being able to recruit and retain talent that will get their enterprise and C-suite thinking digitally. If the new CDO wants to show business how they can get to the next level of growth and innovation through digital channels, how can he or she immediately come into the role and make an impact? What should be their primary responsibilities and goals in the first year on the job?

Guest: Tricia Blair, SVP, Chief Digital Officer and Head of Enterprise IT Services, Lincoln Financial Group

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Putting Together The Pieces of an Organization Jun 18, 2014

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An organization is like a puzzle, with each person a piece that fits snugly to make up the whole. It doesn't work the other way around, and you can't fit a round peg into a square hole. In order to achieve the greatest value and success from a team, an organization should help individuals identify what they're really meant to do and how best they can excel in that area. The best leaders know how to apply those unique attributes to the universal goals that will help a company thrive. So what's the road map to help an individual lead their own path and find within an organization's puzzle just where they belong?

Guest: Carolyn Parnell, CIO and Commissioner of IT Services, State of Minnesota

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The Sixth Sense of Leadership Jun 11, 2014

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A successful leader needs to offer direction and vision that goes beyond what is said and what is needed among the team. A leader must know a team's wants and needs before they do. He or she must know when to prod, when to coax and when to do nothing at all. A leader needs that Sixth Sense to help their team succeed. So just how do you tap into and hone that sense?

Guest: Frank Wander, Author, Former CIO, People Productive, LLC (Formerly The IT Excellence Institute)

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Why IT Should Move at Two Speeds Jun 04, 2014

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A mountain bike decked out with gears is built to travel up rocky, uneven climbs as well as slick, paved downhills. But an IT department focused on gathering requirements only has one speed, and for many groups that's way too slow. Two-Speed IT is built on the mindset that IT can move swiftly when needed to innovate and quickly implement projects that otherwise might go "rogue," but also maintain the low gear necessary to mitigate risk associated with business-critical IT operations. How can CIOs build a new ride to handle the many peaks, slopes and valleys of the IT environment?

Guest 1: Gavin Nichols, VP of Strategy/EA/R&D Innovation IT, Quintiles

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Guest 2: Richard Thomas, CIO and Global Head Technology Solutions, Quintiles

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Can Bosch Deliver An IoT Enabled Manufacturing Transformation? Jun 02, 2014

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In the industry of the future, software-based system and service platforms – such as the one supplied by Bosch Software Innovations – will play a large role. They will enable the real and virtual worlds to be connected and therefore enable communication between objects. Manufacturers have the potential to create predictable, seamless processes to reduce the costs associated with manufacturing operations. They have the possibility of adding new revenue streams and service opportunities. They can even soon craft entirely smart enterprises. It's all promised by The Internet of Things, and Bosch hopes to be at the center. But how does Bosch hope to support the manufacturing space to leverage IT to the fullest and see the complete value behind connected manufacturing? We speak with Bosch Software Innovations' Chief Technology Officer and Managing Director to find out.

Guest 1: Matthew Jennings Title: Managing Director, Bosch Software Innovations Americas

Guest 2: Troy Foster Title: Chief Technology Officer, Bosch Software Innovations Americas

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