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A Burnt Out IT Workforce: Diminishing Returns Apr 30, 2008

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With stakes continually rising, maximizing the use of IT talent and resources can become so demanding, it becomes counter productive. Burnt out and struggling with grueling hours toiling over ever growing task lists, IT soldiers suffer from battle fatigue with negative results ranging from acute productivity loss to resignation resulting in loss to an organization of valuable system/business knowledge.

Guest 1: N. Dean Meyer, Organizational Transformation Author and Coach, NDMA

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Guest 2: Christina Maslach, Professor of Psychology, Vice Provost, University of California, Berkeley

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Large Application Delivery: Solving a Good Problem Apr 23, 2008

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Business growth brings its own challenges. With organizations delivering large web applications and content across the globe to multi-platform desktops and mobile devices, there are 2 delivery problems: 1) Scale (number of users and devices) and 2) The flexibility needed to support any device. These problems could create a bottleneck, but just adding more hardware is not the best solution. What can organizations do to enable their infrastructure to support practically limitless bandwidth and performance requirements for demanding needs both now and in the future

Guest 1: Karl Triebes, Senior Vice President & Chief Technology Officer, FS Networks, Inc.

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Guest 2: Mark Fabbi, VP Distinguished Analyst, Gartner's Networking and Communications Equipment practice

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My CIO is an Alien! Apr 16, 2008

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If being a CIO is a very demanding role that requires taking control of the IT function to reduce cost and get things done whatever it takes, are you in danger of being seen by your own crew as well as other business users, as an oppressor, control freak, and an alien who is making their life miserable?

Guest 1: Susan Cramm, President Valuedance and Former CIO, Taco Bell Corporation

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Guest 2: Tim Sanders, Author, Speaker, Chief Solutions Officer , former Yahoo! Leadership Coach

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MDM: Is it an IT or a Business Challenge? Apr 09, 2008

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Organizations are facing a problem: They don't have a unified view of the data spread across departments. Expensive technology tools claiming to magically solve this problem have not helped. Is this a problem with creating or sharing data? Is it an IT or a business problem?

Guest 1: Robert Friedrich, VP, Enterprise Data Architecture, Equifax

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Guest 2: Aaron Zornes, Chief Research Officer, The MDM Institute

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Guest 3: Jim Honerkamp, CIO, The Hillman Group

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Social Networks: The Enterprise Adoption Challenge Apr 02, 2008

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Beyond the cool technology factor, can social network tools (networking sites, Internet communities, blogging software, et al) be adopted by enterprises to facilitate learning, internal and external communication, and improve productivity within the IT department and organization as a whole?

Guest 1: Mark P. McDonald, Chief Information Officer, City of Vancouver

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Guest 2: Lloyd Lloyd Taylor, Vice President of Technical Operations, Linkedln

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Green IT: The True ROI Mar 26, 2008

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Green IT initiatives are primarily to help improve the global environment rather than our balance sheets. While organizations may join the bandwagon for visibility, do they really care about it given that there is not a significant tangible ROI on related investments?

Guest 1: Molly A. O'NeiII, Assistant Administrator and Chief Information Officer, Office of Environmental Information U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)

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Guest 2: Wendy Bell, CIO, GE Capital Solutions Fleet Services

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Guest 3: Pat Lawicki, Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer, Pacific Gas and Electric Company

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Guest 4: Ashok Singhal, Chief Technical Officer, Founder, 3PAR

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The CIO as a Communications Maestro! Mar 13, 2008

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Effective communication with internal/external constituents and customers is key to achieving success in business and IT. How well are we doing on that front? What does it take for an IT leader to become a maestro and conduct a communications orchestra where the right messages are getting conveyed, timely, to the right people and nothing gets lost in translation?

Guest 1: Stephen C. Savage, Senior Vice President, Chief Information Officer, CA, Inc.

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Guest 2: Atefeh (Atti) Riazi, Chief Information Officer, NY City Housing Authority (NYCHA)

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IT Spending Into the Skid Mar 12, 2008

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When faced with a car skid, experts teach that you should "steer into the skid", despite an instinctual urge to do the opposite. Similarly, when it comes to IT investment and its impact upon business performance, management reacts the same way. Just at the point of crisis, when companies should be investing more in technology, to drive business performance, management's reflex is to cut spending. While this is no surprise, since management's focus is mainly on IT's cost, not its value, how can IT leadership challenge such a management reflex?

Guest 1: Dr. Howard A. Rubin, Senior Gartner Advisor, Professor Emeritus of Computer Science at Hunter College, the City University of New York, former Nolan Norton Research Fellow

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Guest 2: 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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IT Initiative Failures: Saving a Sinking Ship Mar 05, 2008

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There are numerous examples of failed IT initiatives and related analysis of why the failure happened. What can be done to proactively raise the flag? At what point, do we cut our losses vs. trying to save a sinking ship?

Guest 1: Jane Landon, CIO, NYC Department Of Finance, NY, NY

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Guest 2: Charles Hunsinger, Vice President, Chief Information Officer, Corporate Express US

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Does Your IT Helpdesk Help? Feb 27, 2008

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The IT helpdesk operation in most organization has mostly been ad hoc and reactionary. It has also been given the glamorous title, "service desk" with "ITIL" expected to provide a virtual weapon and the department to become a proactive army that anticipates and annihilates enterprise wide IT problems. Is that truly the case?

Guest 1: Barry Carter, Corporate Information Officer (CIO), Alliance Data Systems

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Guest 2: Vinny Licht, Chief Information Officer, TAUCK WORLD DISCOVERY

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