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CIO Leadership Series

WTN's CIO Leadership Series highlights the people who create change and value in their organizations through information technology. Now, connect with other IT leaders through the Fusion InGroup on LinkedIn.

CIO Leadership Series: David Cagigal

David Cagigal, CIO of the Wisconsin Department of Enterprise Technology, has seen the future of education upfront and personal, and he knows first hand that information technology will play a transformative role. In this CIO Leadership interview with WTN News, Cagigal discusses how Wisconsin is laying the groundwork for a technological version of No Child Left Behind. Here are excerpts of our recent talk. Read article →

Pinterest updates the terms of service, but it is still a liability

One of the reasons Social Media is so popular and so loved is because users and companies are rewarded for broadcasting and sharing interesting and relevant content. It also works because the content owners encourage and welcome shares and links to their work because they get higher ranks on search engines like Google. Content owners also get more users to read and share their information, which results in more web traffic, additional ad revenue and hopefully more sales. But, Pinterest is different from all other Social Media networks because it references ownership rights to user posted\shared content. Read article →

CMO and CIO: New best friends forever

Chief Marketing Officers (CMOs) are swamped with data - 850M people on Facebook, 200M tweets a day 86% of consumers use multiple channels- everything is becoming instrumented, intelligent, interconnected through sensors, RFID tags, cameras, data recorders everywhere. 90% of the world’s data was created in the last 2 years – most of it unstructured. People trust their friends – and even strangers - on line more than brands and ‘experts’. They can champion a brand or sully a reputation with the click of a mouse. Read article →

CIOs - Play nice with marketing because they have budget

Chief Marketing Officers (CMOs) are overwhelmed by the amount of data they have available, but rather than look to the Chief Information Officers (CIOs) for help, they are much more likely to turn to outside resources such as ad agencies, said Alisa Maclin, vice president of marketing for IBM's Smarter Commerce Initiative. Maclin is presenting The Evolving Role of the CMO - Implications for the CIO,” at the pre-conference of the Fusion 2012 CEO-CIO Symposium, produced by WTN Media. Read article →

ERP R.I.P?

Don’t look for a lot of exciting presentations on ERP systems at Fusion 2012 CEO-CIO Symposium sponsored by WTN Media. ERP’s time came, and passed, perhaps a decade ago. Bruce Richardson, senior vice president and chief enterprise strategist at Salesforce.com, noted in a blog post that it’s been 10 years since the big ERP vendors started talking about composite apps to overcome the limitations and inflexibility of their software. Read article →

Mobile on the move - The personal device also means business

The use of mobile devices is spreading across companies as employees and executives find they improve efficiency, especially for people who work outside the office, such as sales staff and insurance adjusters. About half the 5,000 employees of CUNA Mutual Group use smart phones, said Rick Roy, CIO at the Madison-based firm which provides insurance to credit unions and their members across the country. He estimates 80 percent use iPhones or Androids, split about evenly, and the other 20 percent use BlackBerry. Read article →

IBM's Global Technology Outlook

IBM’s Global Technology Outlook (GTO), which has been developed annually for 25 years under the leadership of IBM Research, provides a comprehensive overview of advances in technology, how new technologies can be applied in the marketplace, and how they are expected to change and create new industries and businesses. Read article →

Greenplum analyzes complex Big Data

Business clients want analytics that will tell them what is happening with their customers, their competitors and the advertising landscape. They have to work across different channels of lead generation and analyze data that often comes in from new and different sources such as Twitter, Facebook and new ad mechanisms. Luke Lonergan, co-founder and chief technology officer at Greenplum, wasn’t exactly looking to start a big data analytics firm in 2002. At the time he was focused on helping companies with online transaction processing (OLTP). Read article →