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Enterprise Virtualization: Making it a Reality Aug 08, 2007

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Organizations are aggressively moving forward to make their IT dynamic by introducing virtualization to their server, storage, application, and desktop environments. How are we planning for this? What are our specific goals and priorities? Given that we are touching almost all areas of Enterprise IT at the same time, are we setting ourselves up for failure?

Guest 1: Phil Edholm, Enterprise CTO and VP Network Architecture, Nortel Networks

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Guest 2: Jeffrey M. Nick, Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, EMC Corporation

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Guest 3: Hubert Yoshida, Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, Hitachi Data Systems Corporation

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Effective IT Audits and Auditors Aug 01, 2007

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How an IT audit is carried out and how we best leverage internal/external IT auditor(s) determines the fate of organizations facing compliance mandates today. An increasing number of compliance initiative failures and the reported inadequate empowerment of IT auditors suggests that there are issues that need to be addressed. Are there issues? And, if so, how do we address them?

Guest 1: Anne McCrory, Editorial Director/ Editor in Chief, CIO Decisions Magazine and Conference

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Guest 2: Everett C. Johnson Jr., CPA, Past international president of ISACA, The IT Governance Institute (ITGI)

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Guest 3: Antoine Shagoury, Executive Vice President, Chief Information Officer, The American Stock Exchange, LLC

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Complex Business Transformations: Can IT help? Jul 18, 2007

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Business transformations are inevitable in order to stay competitive. They bring along complexity and IT has to deal with that complexity after the game plan is in place. As a result, there is a high implementation cost for transformations in IT and non-IT disciplines. What if IT was invited while planning such transformations?

Guest 1: Robert Fort, CIO, Virgin Entertainment Group's North America Megastores

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Guest 2: Dennis E. Wisnosky, Chief Technical Officer, The Department of Defense (DoD) Business Mission Area

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CIO Decision Making: Intuitive or Analytical? Jun 27, 2007

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CIO decision making today is based on extensive "due diligence" performed leveraging multiple information sources as well as tools that aid the process. Still, the results are less than stellar. Is it possible to rule out the gut feel?

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

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Guest 2: George F. Chappelle, SVP & CIO, Sara Lee Corporation

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Next Generation Data Storage: Beyond Coolness! May 30, 2007

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Data storage requirements are growing exponentially, consequently, the need for scalability, simplicity of management and performance is forcing organizations to look for new solutions. This may be good news for vendors, but will today's solutions actually meet tomorrow's needs?

Guest: Paul Massiglia, Chief Technology Strategists, Agami Systems

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Software Change Management: Planning for Success! May 16, 2007

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When increasingly complex IT systems and applications must be modified by globally dispersed technical teams due to a deluge of requests from a variety of stakeholders, we call it "change" in today's world. Managing this change is not easy, and unmanaged changes have cost organizations a fortune. Surprisingly, there are still a lot of companies who don't have a formal control mechanism defined. Are we missing something here?

Guest 1: Carlos Galarce, SVP, CIO, Infor

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Guest 2: Carl Theobald, SVP of Products, Serena Software, Inc.

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Guest 3: Gregory Jones, VP of Information Technology, Sprint Nextel

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Cheaper, Better, and Safer Healthcare: IT Innovation Can Help! May 09, 2007

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Healthcare is expensive. Limiting rapidly rising prices and lowering costs are on everyone's agenda. IT innovation promises to help by offering solutions to handle supply chain inefficiencies, providing better monitoring and scheduling solutions, and preventing prescription errors that can result in deaths. What is the current state of the art?

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

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Guest 2: Stanley Crane, CTO, Allscripts

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Integrating Supply Chain Post M&A: Taming The Beast May 02, 2007

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While Post M&A IT integration is tedious, an even more challenging task is Supply Chain integration. What makes it so formidable is the need for a very high level of human intervention and the usually large disparity in the related systems, technologies, and processes. So, how can we ensure the success of such an undertaking?

Guest 1: Neville Rademeyer, SVP and CIO, Solo Cup Company

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Guest 2: Dr. John J. Gattorna, International Supply Chain Thought, Leader and Writer

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CIO at Large: Freedom, Paranoia, et al Apr 04, 2007

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Senior IT professionals go through an emotional roller coaster ride when their IT leadership role in a company comes to an un/planned end. It can be challenging to find another equally high profiled IT leadership role, given the way the previous job ended. Also, after working 70-80 hour work weeks, the sudden lull can be unnerving. When faced with such a dramatic change in their career path, what should accomplished IT leaders do?

Guest 1: Jerry Gregoire, Former SVP and CIO, Dell Computer

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Guest 2: Kathleen Rowe, Former SVP and CIO, Winterthur US Holdings

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Guest 3: Ron Guistalli, Former VP and CIO, LSS (Subsidiary of W.W. Grainger)

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Stifled User Productivity and Innovation: Is Corporate IT Responsible? Mar 21, 2007

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Today's business user wants to get things done faster and better, with or without Corporate IT's help by leveraging the consumer devices and programs. Does it make sense to accommodate this parallel IT department run by business users vs. stifling their initiative and productivity by saying 'NO' to it?

Guest 1: Robert Israel, CIO, John C. Lincoln Hospitals, Phoenix, Arizona

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

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