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Securing the Global Supply Chain Oct 03, 2012

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Today, global business demands firms leverage global supply chains and service global customers. Pandemics, natural disasters, or terrorist attacks could undermine the continuity of this global supply system. Furthermore, with everyone interconnected, even small localized events could cause significant interruptions in the flow of goods, or even escalate into something more widespread. Are organizations and governments prepared with well-defined strategies to handle these threats? What are organizations doing individually or as a group, to proactively handle these potential security vulnerabilities effectively?

Guest 1: Dan Burges, Director of Intelligence, author of Cargo Theft, Loss Prevention, and Supply Chain Security, Freightwatch International

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Guest 2: Richard Sharpe, Expert on Supply Chain Risk Mitigation, founding member, The American Logistics Aid Network (ALAN)

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eDiscovery: Best Practices and Trends Sep 28, 2012

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How confident are enterprises about their eDiscovery capabilities? What are the best technology solutions supporting eDiscovery? What best practices should be followed? Among enterprises and law practices, what are the top trends for the handling of technology driven eDiscovery?

Guest 1: Vivian Tero Title: Program Director, IDC

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Supporting Value Innovation Sep 26, 2012

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Today's overcrowded industries are like sharks competing in a "bloody" ocean of rivals competing for ever shrinking profits, making growth impossible. To succeed, the companies of the future will have to create value innovation that seeks out an uncontested market space with new demand where rivals are obsolete. But this is easier said than done! How does IT help identify what has worked and what didn't and find that new value innovation? How can IT get the organization back to a blue ocean of profitability?

Guest 1: Gregory E. Buoncontri, SVP & CIO, Pitney Bowes Inc.

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Guest 2: Mary Alice Annecharico, SVP & Chief Information Officer, Henry Ford Health System

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New Normal, New IT leader…first 6 months Sep 12, 2012

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New working environment, unknown people, unpredictable economic climate, pressing demands from business stakeholders to deliver value, innovation, competitive advantage and cost savings through IT… it all seems pretty daunting for a new IT leader! What is s/he supposed to do to secure his role and lay a solid foundation for his future tenure?

Guest 1: Ronald E. Lejcar, Chief Information Officer, Ingredion

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Guest 2: Daniela Crivianu Gaita, Chief Information Officer, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toront

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Guest 3: Carlos Ramos, Chief Information Officer, The State of California

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The Cost of Business Agility Sep 05, 2012

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It's been said, "If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together." In some IT organizations, you'll find a few overzealous proponents of faster and faster, pushing for business agility, but that doesn't providing consistent value creation over the long term, and can lose those individuals that got the organization where it is. What is the price business pays, knowingly or unknowingly, for agility?

Guest 1: Michael Hugos, Author, Essentials of Supply Chain Management

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Guest 2: Henry Peyret, Principal Analyst serving Enterprise Architecture PROFESSIONALS, Forrester

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Charting the Path to Automating the Data Center Aug 29, 2012

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Data centers are quickly becoming the new nerve centers of organizations. As dependency on them increases, so does the need to reduce costs and increase performance and productivity. Automation promises all these benefits. if automating the data center is beneficial, how close can we get to complete automation? Is complete automation even desirable? What are the challenges?

Guest 1: Brenda Decker, Chief Information Officer, State of Nebraska

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Guest 2: Richard Fichera, Vice President, Principal Analyst serving Infrastructure & Operations PROFESSIONALS, Forrester

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Harnessing Conflict for Organizational Benefit Aug 22, 2012

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Traditional wisdom counsels the avoidance of conflict, but organizations don't grow by being passive or complacent. To meet their full potential, business and its IT must be able to channel conflict, both internal and external, into beneficial progress. But how does a leader help his/her team distinguish between the destructive and beneficial uses of conflict? How can leaders foster individual thinking (which can cause conflict) and use collective consensus and team unity to harness it for the common good?

Guest 1: Michele J. Gelfand, Professor of Psychology, Distinguished University Scholar Teacher, University of Maryland, College Park

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Guest 2: Bryson Koehler, EVP & Chief Information Officer, The Weather Channel

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Guest 3: Pat Shier, Director of Enterprise Technology, The State of Alaska

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Do You Run a Rigid IT Aug 15, 2012

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Recent technology innovations have introduced the potential for IT to be nimble and efficient, but have these innovations alone achieved these goals? Which traditional practices should be abandoned? Also, what should be done about the siloed monolithic mental structures that exist in the minds of business leaders, IT managers, and IT workers? Why should so many IT leaders earn kudos for IT transformations that ultimately fail to make IT a simpler, more leverageable resource for business? Could it be that some of us are unintentionally running a rigid IT?

Guest 1: John Baldoni, Chair of leadership development N2growth, a global leadership advisory firm & Author of 13 books… newest is MOXIE, The Secret to Bold and Gutsy Leadership

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Guest 2: Bobby Cameron, Vice President and Principal Analyst, Forrester CIO Practice

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Will Business/IT Agility Eat Strategy for Breakfast? Aug 08, 2012

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Some organizations are adopting a "fail small" and/or "fail quick" approach to technology that pushes internal IT and leverages shadow IT to see what works. If everyone were to approach business this way, then what happens to the strategic innovation that a CIO is expected to enable/lead/drive? Instead of evolving into the Chief "Innovation" Officer," won't this force CIO's to regress back to their roots where they were just responsible for data, security, and integration issues?

Guest 1: Jerry Johnson, Chief Information Officer and Director of Information Technology Services, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

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Guest 2: Dr. Vince Kellen, CIO, The University of Kentucky

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Supply Chain to Supply Circle Aug 01, 2012

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In the new global economy, how can manufacturers create value, cut costs, and reduce their exposure to volatile commodity price swings that squeeze profits? Perhaps by collaborating with suppliers and customers to extend the lifecycle of products, components, and materials while rethinking their business model to retain ownership of recoverable materials and then recycling them back into use. This suggests a supply circle rather than a supply chain. While it looks great as a hypothesis, is this concept practical? Just how do you pull such strategies off? And just where, around this supply circle, can IT intervene or be leveraged to make it happen?

Guest 1: Bryan Ball, Vice President and Principal Analyst, Supply Chain Management, Aberdeen Group

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Guest 2: Rick D. Blasgen, President and CEO, the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals (CSCMP)

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