Topic #1: Enhancing Corporate IT Responsiveness

Challenge: Pressure from business leaders to make IT faster, more transparent, more agile and more responsive to changing needs has reached a crescendo for CIOs at many organizations.

This discussion will focus on understanding which managerial, organizational or architectural strategies participants are pursuing most aggressively to reduce IT cycle times and improve IT responsiveness to rapidly shifting business partner needs.

Topic #2: Extracting Business Value from ‘Big Data’

Challenge: Organizations are seeing compound annual growth in their data stores of 60%. Knowledge workers now report spending 1/3 of their time simply shifting through and analyzing data.

CEB research reveals that there are three keys inputs required for extracting business value from big data:
• Information Accessibility
• Information Usefulness
• Knowledge Worker Capability

This discussion will focus on understanding participant strategies associated with reaping greater business value from ‘Big Data’. The conversation will focus in particular on approaches to the two most difficult objectives: enhancing information usefulness and knowledge worker capability.