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The Road to Enabling Growth Mar 12, 2014

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Growth is a leading priority for many C-Suites, and yet many companies still struggle to make an impact. We all want market expansion, an enriching customer experience, the capability to predict consumer behavior and create flexible business models while minimizing the effect of such a volatile external environment. But what does it take to identify these opportunities for growth? What is preventing organizations from developing practical strategies and constructing support processes and systems in order to achieve their growth objectives?

Guest 1: Jay Ferro, CIO, American Cancer Society

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Guest 2: Mark Shaver, VP & CIO, Joy Global

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Streamlining Healthcare Data Retention and Integration Mar 12, 2014

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Healthcare providers continue to face a wave of information required to maintain regulatory compliance, all while IT workers struggle to lower costs and utilize data to create a more patient-centric approach. But as regulations become more stringent and as standards are either lacking or vary across sources, both data retention and integration become major pain points of frustration, confusion and an ultimate drain on resources. What can the healthcare industry do to streamline the methods of retaining and integrating data and provide more opportunities for innovation?

Guest: Elizabeth King, CIO, White Plains Hospital

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How Strong is Your IT's Brand? Mar 05, 2014

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What does it take to build a strong brand? It has to provide consistency, convenience, quality and overall value. A strong brand is one that people can trust. Some departments have been successful in maintaining a consistent presence with business and their end users, but how strong is IT's brand today? Is IT doing what it takes to listen, to deliver, to be visible and to be seen as a catalyst of real change and innovation? For those groups who have mastered this experience, how have they been able to do so consistently, and what's preventing others from following their lead?

Guest 1: Atti Riazi, Assistant Secretary-General & Chief Information Technology Officer, United Nations

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Guest 2: Chandra Dhandapani, SVP and Divisional CIO, Capital One Financial Services Division

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Do you have the chops to be a Change Leader? Feb 26, 2014

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You can't keep doing the same thing and expect a different result, and it's a hard fact that organizations are specifically designed such that they receive consistent results. But if the organization wants change, it requires a change leader who has what it takes to enable a transformation in the internal culture, earn strong executive sponsorship, restructure their organization and better align their workforce. What does it take for a leader to enable change in a dynamic age of upheaval, innovation and disruption?

Guest: Dr. John Kotter, Head of Research, Konosuke Matsushita Professor of Leadership, Emeritus, Kotter International, Harvard Business School

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Could Global Connectivity Transform the World's Economy? Feb 19, 2014

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Over five billion people, nearly two thirds of the world's population, are without Internet access. Attempts to bridge the gap of this Digital Divide have struggled due to poor infrastructure and an inability to generate greater commerce or quality of life. But new innovations with mobility have made it such that people can receive 3G connectivity in places without electricity. So can global Internet connectivity have the necessary gradual impact on a region's economy and living conditions in order to see a significant change? How are governments, the commercial sector and non-profits joining hands to contribute to this cause, and how can working on this help solve the impoverished world's other priorities?

Guest 1: Dr. Jon Gant, Director of the Center for Digital Inclusion, Professor, Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois

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Guest 2: John Windhausen Jr., Executive Director, Health & Libraries Broadband Coalition

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Back to Basics: Leading Like a Kid Feb 12, 2014

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Kids say the darnedest things. If you took your son or daughter into your office, what questions might they ask? They would ask the simplest questions about why you do what you do, what each tool does and how you go about each process. Would you have good answers for him or her? We often don't stop to ask the fundamental questions that would challenge the status quo. We're too focused on the strategy and the visionary end goal to ask the basics first or to find the waste in what we're doing. So what would it take to build leaders and an entire organization that thought this way?

Guest 1: Bob Baskerville, Chief Information Officer, Scripps Networks Interactive

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Guest 2: Kathy Edwards, Senior Lecturer Department of Management, University of Texas, McCombs Business School

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Cloud Enabled Security Feb 06, 2014

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Traditionally, cloud has been seen as having major security vulnerabilities. Is it now possible to ensure that corporate and customer data is protected when used over public and private cloud services? What new security policies and architectures actually take advantage of cloud delivery in order to increase the levels of security?

Guest: Larry Biagini Title: Chief Technology and Security Officer, GE

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Is your IT Team and Budget a Victim of Process Over-Engineering? Feb 05, 2014

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When IT teams try to rationalize which project to invest in, where to appropriately allocate IT spend and how to respond as business constantly changes, the process put in place is often over-engineered. We see the budget utilized ineffectively and unnecessary delays as we try to standardize everything to find a compromise where both business and staff are happy. It results in the team getting focused on how to execute that process rather than determine how to achieve the right outcome. How do we learn to minimize and prevent becoming a victim of the process?

Guest 1: Debbie Simkins, Associate Vice President, Office of the CIO, Molina Healthcare, Inc.

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Guest 2: James H. Sills, Cabinet Secretary and Chief Information Officer, State of Delaware

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Leading by Taking a Step Back Jan 29, 2014

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We aspire to do more, dream more, learn more, and become more, and for better or worse, the traditional wisdom has been that we need to accomplish more in order to get more. But for many, experience, trial and error says differently. We pile on more projects, goals and objectives and lose sight of the one unifying vision that defines us as a company and as leaders. So how can leaders learn to step back and only move forward by putting one foot in front of the other at a time? How do we avoid becoming task managers and get back to being leaders? When everyone is "leaning in" to get ahead, does it make sense to "lean out" for a change?

Guest 1: Teresa Shuchart, Deputy Chief Information Officer, The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

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Guest 2: William G. Halnon, Senior Vice President & Chief Information Officer, Republic Services Inc

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Building Confidence in Your Team Jan 22, 2014

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Part of a CIO's job is to instill confidence in your team that you've got everyone's back. Demonstrating that you know what's important to your team and to your business can go a long way toward building productivity, connectivity and a willingness to ascend and grow within the organization. But a leader can't make someone confident, only help people find their confidence. What are the principles to investing in your employees? How do you build that platform of risk-taking and opportunity for your team to stand on?

Guest 1: Becky Blalock, Former SVP & CIO, Author, Southern Company

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Guest 2: Brenda Decker, Chief Information Officer, State of Nebraska

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