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Effective Patch Management Mar 29, 2006

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Software companies now release thousands of patches every year. To make the process efficient, organizations using the software are deploying patch management software as an efficient and automated way to manage and deploy these patches. However, this alone won't provide a complete solution. Organizations need to combine automation with an effort to get a better handle on their rather chaotic computing environments.

Guest 1: Allwyn Sequeira, VP of Engineering and Operations, Blue Lane Technologies

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Guest 2: Andreas Antonopoulos, Senior VP and Founding Partner, Nemertes Research

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Making Enterprise Portals Work! Mar 22, 2006

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Enterprise portals are rapidly being adopted to address the information and application access requirements of an organization. A large percentage of such deployments are not delivering results or are facing adoption issues. What is going wrong here?

Guest 1: Lac Tran Title: Chief Information Officer, Rush University Medical Center

Guest 2: Mike Gotta Title: Principal Analyst, Burton Group

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IT Co-Sourcing: A new Promise Mar 15, 2006

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Having been burnt by high failure rates using outsourcing, IT leaders are looking for options. Root cause analysis has determined that beyond money there needs to be a little more skin in the game, for an alliance to be successful. Is this highly collaborative, risk-sharing approach, also known as IT Co-sourcing, going to help increase the success rate?

Guest 1: Mark Griesbaum, EVP, Chief Information Officer, Cardean Learning Group

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Guest 2: Dr. Wendell Jones, Chief Executive at SIM, and Former VP, Worldwide Service Delivery, Compaq Computer Corporation and Analyst, Cutter Consortium

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Guest 3: Jason Corsello, Program Manager and Analyst, The Yankee Group

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The American Competitiveness Initiative: Why It Matters to You Mar 08, 2006

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President Bush recently announced The American Competitiveness Initiative (ACI) to encourage American innovation and strengthen this nation's ability To compete In the global economy. This is an ambitious and multifaceted initiative. How is it going to impact the business and community in United States and other parts of the world?

Guest 1: Ed Lazowska, Bill and Melinda Gates Chair, Computer Science and Engineering, University of Washington, Former Co-chair, President Bush's Information Technology Advisory Committee

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Guest 2: Dr. Alfred Z. Spector, Chief Technology Officer and VP of Strategy and Technology, IBM Software Group

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Guest 3: Amy Wohl, Renowned Technology Editor, Columnist, and Futurist

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360º Customer View Through IT Mar 01, 2006

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What if we had a complete visibility to customer's values, their key issues, their thought process, their decision making approach, and their overall buying behaviors? Can we safely say "deploy Business Intelligence and CRM systems" is the answer?

Guest 1: Michael J. Carlson, Vice President of Business Transformation and Customer Value, Xcel Energy

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Guest 2: Kimberly Collins, Research Vice President, Gartner CRM

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IT Delivery Process Vs. Agility: A Balancing Act Feb 22, 2006

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A well defined IT delivery process minimizes risk and increases rate of success and requires appropriate time and effort for checks and balances. Meanwhile, IT is also supposed to facilitate quick business change thus help develop an "agile" enterprise. How do we eat the cake and have it too?

Guest: Mike Kistner, CIO, Pegasus Solutions (Ex-CIO, Best Western)

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A Resourceful CIO Feb 08, 2006

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Today's CIO needs to deal with more than just IT. Ideal CIO is one who leverages his/her resources and skills to get the job done while dealing with ever-increasing pressure of delivering more with less. Are resourceful CIOs born with the talent or is it an acquired skill?

Guest 1: Kevin Molloy, CIO, Vancouver Airport

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Guest 2: Bruce Reirden, CIO, Care New England

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Ethical issues in an IT Organization Dec 09, 2005

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Whether it is related to reporting regulatory compliance, agreeing to hide or delete digital information that may divulge a mis-conduct, blowing whistle against an IT system that may be causing damage to your organization or its customers; it is the duty of IT leadership and the team to maintain and demonstrate a high level of ethics. Is that truly happening?

Guest 1: Peter Madsen, Executive Director, Center for the Advancement of Applied Ethics, Carnegie Mellon University (CMU)

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Guest 2: Keith Darcy, Executive Director, Ethics Officer Association (EOA)

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New Orleans Disaster: The IT Management Story Nov 18, 2005

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How well can you prepare for the worst and deal with the aftermath? From normalcy, to chaos, to revival; the unfortunate event in New Orleans will have lessons to teach to the IT leaders of the world.

Guest 1: Ray Johnson, Vice President and CIO, Entergy

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Guest 2: Richard Morrey, Chief Technology Officer, ACCELA

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Legacy Turnover Rate for an IT Organization Nov 04, 2005

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Legacy systems play such a critical role in IT infrastructure; yet seem to drain precious resources. Today's CIO is challenged with achieving a balance between managing short-term issues of cost and complexity, while at the same time investing in the future. Whether legacy systems should be replaced or should have their life extended?

Guest 1: Will Weider, CIO, Affinity Health System

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Guest 2: Sean Gallagher, Executive Editor, The Vertical/Enterprise group of Ziff-Davis Internet

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