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: Optimizing your IT Talent Strategy
Challenge: Changes in the nature of demand for IT services and business support are driving changes in requirements for IT talent with the right skills including technical (i.e. mobile development), functional (i.e. data architecture) and professional (i.e. business communications).

This discussion will focus on understanding where participants are experiencing the greatest skills gaps and how this is impacting both their workforce planning and the most critical emerging roles and skills required to meet future demand.