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The Future of IT Leadership in the Coming Digital Economy

As more businesses undergo a digital transformation, and as those digital transformations become more ingrained into organizational culture, Digital becomes not something unique and different from the business, but a core component of every aspect of the business. As this shift occurs, IT itself faces the very real possibility of no longer being something unique from the business, but instead a component of every aspect of the business. In this world, what role then exists for IT Leaders? Two clear paths are presenting themselves â?" one leads to a focus on infrastructure and integration, to keeping the lights on for the digital innovators, while the other leads to information and innovation itself. Knowing what path to choose, how to choose it, and how to see it through will be one of the greatest challenges CxOs of this era will face.

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Protecting a Mobile Workforce and Mitigating IOT Related Cyber Risks

Massive communities in every enterprise are now highly functional on their mobile platforms and as a result handling confidential and sensitive information on devices that have varying degrees of security.  As a group let us share some insights on the challenges and the strategies to protect this growing piece of the enterprise infrastructure. 

Recent IOT attacks in the US have crippled major internet points of presence.  As a leader in the deployment and us of IOT, as a group we can share some insights on how organizations can work with their infrastructure partners to better protect themselves from IOT related cyber threats.   

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Innovation: How in a world fighting change?

There is no doubt that Innovation is one of the hottest words used in the corporate world today. What does it mean and why should we adopt the culture? In spite of most understanding the need for constant improvement, evolution and disruption, very few are successful in execution. The conflict between trying something new and not introducing change to risk stability is real dilemma. Remaining the same and doing it the way that it has always been done? is not an option. How do we find the balance between changing for the sake of change vs. changing for capability and survival? Successful CIOs need to establish a culture of innovation, finding a way to make the change to their own organization before a competitor does. 

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Ensuring Data Quality

Data quality is one of the most critical issues facing every enterprise and whether data be duplicate, stale, incomplete, invalid, conflicting or just plain incorrect the impact of enterprise decision making and ultimately enterprise success and be significant and severe. As the number of data sources grows, as the speed with which data is collected and utilized increases, and as the raw volume expands almost exponentially, the impacts of poor data quality becomes more significant than ever before. IT executives must build strong data governance capabilities to ensure that enterprise data is kept unique, timely, complete, valid, consistent, and accurate.

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Leadership Considerations in a Multi-Generational World

Executives have challenges in terms of attracting or retaining new talent into long established organizations, and maximizing the potential of a multi-generational team. How to structure an organization in the new world with a blend of full-time, contract, and specialized resources and leveraging communities and crowds, in order to maximize flexibility and agility. Position your organization to more rapidly and easily adopt and implement new technologies by embracing the multi-generational workforce. 

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Using Data & Analytics to Drive Business Transformation

Big Data initiatives have become a reality among almost every company today, however, what we have seen is lots of initiatives have become just science projects and did not deliver on early expectations. This situation needs to reversed quickly because those organizations that are being successful with Big Data and analytics programs are rapidly leaving those that are unsuccessful in their wake. Big Data and analytics has the potential to be transformational for the enterprise, but IT leaders need to be making the right investments, in the right areas, to ensure optimal success. This discussion will focus on how to use data and analytics to drive true business success and show some real examples of companies and individuals who made a difference. 

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To Android or Not to Android, THAT, is the Question

Android represents the most common and most popular mobile device operating system and any businesses developing for an external audience absolutely must ensure that Android is a supported platform in the capabilities it offers. However, Android is also the most unsecure platform with as much as 95% of all mobile malware inexistence targeting that platform and so businesses that allow mobility within their organization must very carefully consider that threat before they allow Android devices to connect. Rationalizing that dichotomy of a device that will be common and popular amongst the workforce yet at the same time represents a dire threat to enterprise security is an issue that every CIO and CISO must address.

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Disaster Recovery and Preparing for the Inevitable

Like death and taxes, IT outages are an inevitability whether as the result of power loss, telecommunications outage, or any one of a myriad other potential technical and non-technical issues. In this environment, the savvy CIO knows that what matters most is preparation " being ready for that next outage with an IT infrastructure that is both resilient and flexible and Disaster Recovery procedures that allow for efficient and effective recovery, balancing Recovery Time and Recovery Point objectives with appropriate cost. Disasters happen but with proper planning they don't have to be disastrous to your business.

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Managing Up - Strategies for Effective Senior Management and Board Communications

One of a CISO's most significant responsibilities and greatest challenges is communicating security risk and security performance in a way that resonates with senior management and the board quickly and concisely. Effectively managing the SMT and board communications arms the executives with the information they need to provide appropriate guidance to the CISO, as well as support. In this session we will discuss effective strategies for communicating risk, security team performance and approaches to benchmark against peers.

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Planning for a MultiCloud Future

The promise of the cloud is almost beyond compare; infinite computing resources, unmatched reliability and uptime, instantaneous service availability, simplistic self-service and provisioning, and the low-low prices of a buy by the drink model. These are the reasons behind the rush to the cloud that we are currently experiencing, but the wholesale adoption does bring a downside " as more and more capability is moved to the cloud, more and more cloud providers are utilized since, for the most part, each provider offers only a limited suite of services. The MultiCloud environment that creates a new set of challenges that IT leaders need to overcome, notably resiliency, interoperability/integration, and security and compliance through careful planning and the lessons learned from building complex on premise distributed systems.

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