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Dare a CIO Show Sensitivity in Tough Times? Jun 03, 2009

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With the global economic downturn and increasing competition, corporate focus is on IT to deliver results! Dare a CIO be sensitive or touchy-feely, or do tough times demand a tough-nosed productivity centric number cruncher, who delivers at any cost?

Guest 1: Ahmed Mahmoud, Chief Information Officer, Advanced Micro Devices (AMD)

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Guest 2: Chad Kirkpatrick, State CIO & Director of GITA, State of Arizona

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Improving The IT Planning Process May 27, 2009

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The state of our IT, short or long term, is a direct reflection of how well we've planned. Our hindsight is only as good as the plans we made the previous year and the end results. So, how should we plan? Do we plan based on empirical data? What about using creativity or projections? How well thought out is the IT planning process and what safeguards do we need to ensure that the final result is a strategic IT plan which will create success and growth?

Guest 1: Nicholas Colisto, Vice President and Chief Information Officer, Avery Dennison

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Guest 2: John Conley, Deputy CIO, Governor's Office of Information Technology, State of Colorado

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Are All Your IT Applications Truly Strategic? May 13, 2009

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Over the years, organizations build any number of IT applications to get work done. They then keep those same applications limping along, year after year. Would there be any value to identifying which ones are truly strategic and then focusing on investing resources in them, while outsourcing the rest? How about a cleaner IT application portfolio by design?

Guest 1: Brendan O'MaIIey, Vice President and Chief Information Officer, Tasty Baking Company

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Guest 2: Mark Griesbaum, EVP, Chief Information Officer, Cardean Learning Group

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Negotiate and Lead: Mantra for IT Leaders May 06, 2009

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Today, IT spending can represent up to fifty percent of annual corporate capital expenditures. Not all CIO's are blessed with procurement departments and savvy buyers who know the technology well enough. So, a CIO needs to step in. How well are today's CIO's using their expertise to get the best value for their IT dollars?

Guest 1: Rich Gius, VP and CIO, Atmos Energy

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Guest 2: Eric Dirst, Senior Vice President and CIO, DeVry Inc.

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Getting New Business from Current Customers Apr 29, 2009

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Lately, new customers are hard to come by. What about focusing our attention on our current customers and getting more (and maybe additional) business from them? What would it take to get our current customers to use us more? Can IT help?

Guest 1: Donald F. Martin, Vice President and CIO, Armstrong World Industries

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Guest 2: Merv Tarde, VP, Information Technology and Chief Information Officer, Vice President of Facilities and Property Management, Interstate Battery System of America, Inc.

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Does Your IT Vendor Pass The Tough Times Test? Apr 22, 2009

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A Friend in need is a friend indeed. In a severe economic downturn, everyone is affected. What do you look for from your vendors, to signal their willingness to work with you to help you successfully weather the downturn?For the most part, how have your vendors successfully or not-so successfully adjusted to your IT's changed needs and wants?

Guest 1: Yuvi Kochar, CTO and VP of Technology, The Washington Post

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Guest 2: Mike Hugos, CIO, Large, Center for Systems Innovation

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Structuring ECR vs. Slash and Burn! Apr 15, 2009

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Everyone is trying to get a handle on costs, but an indiscriminate slash and burn of assets can reduce productivity and profitability. Cost cutting needs to be more precise. Could IT help capture costs as well as the impact of cuts in those costs, in a more organized and transparent way, to avoid such overkill? What are the ways that IT can help structure Enterprise Cost Reduction (ECR) efforts?

Guest 1: Marti Menacho, SVP and CIO, JDS Uniphase

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Guest 2: Robert Fort, CIO, Virgin Entertainment Group's North America Megastores

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Getting a Handle on User Driven Innovation Apr 08, 2009

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In the past, R&D built products and designed services to be cheaper and cheaper. Today however, competition is driven by knowledge vs. price. Instead of selling what we produce, we need to produce what sells. User driven innovation can make that happen. How well is IT and IT leadership positioned to enable user driven innovation?

Guest 1: Dr. John J. Sviokla, Vice Chairman, Global Managing Director of Innovation and Research, Diamond Management & Technology Consultants Former professor, Harvard Business School

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Guest 2: Dr. George O. Strawn, Director of the National Coordination Office (NCO) for the Federal government's multiagency Networking and Information Technology Research and Development (NITRD) Program. Co-Chair, The NITRD Subcommittee of the National Science and Technology Council

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Leveraging Social Networks for Results Apr 01, 2009

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All workers have networks of colleagues, both outside as well as inside the organization. To access all ideas available in both networks, what is the best way to introduce social networking into business strategy? How do IT and business leaders leverage worker networks, including those outside the organization, to get the best results?

Guest 1: Robert J. Vitello, Chief Information Officer (Deputy Commissioner for Planning and Technology), The New York State Department of Labor

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Guest 2: Zeus Kerravala, Senior Vice President, Yankee Group

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Guest 3: Pieter Schoehuijs, Chief Information Officer, AKZO Nobel N.V.

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Demand Management: Justifying the ROI Mar 11, 2009

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Demand management promises the next generation of supply chain forecasting, however it can be a complex initiative involving a cascade of changes in jobs, organizational structure, and communications within and outside the enterprise. Is such an initiative worth it? How hard will it be, to get it right the first time?

Guest 1: Ashwin Rangan, Former CIO, WaI-Mart

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Guest 2: Tim Payne, Research Director, Gartner, Inc.

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Guest 3: Simon Ellis, Practice Director, Supply Chain Strategies, IDC

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Guest 4: Larry Lapide, Ph.D., Research Director, Demand Management Solutions Group Director, Demand Management, MIT Center, Transportation & Logistics

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