• Identifying how our evolving relationship with technology is shifting infrastructure-investment priorities and criteria.
• Evaluating the different approaches for expanding your current capabilities ? which is the right path for your Enterprise?
• Understanding the importance of the "barrier to exit" in your technology investments.
• Defining the role of open source software and industry-standard components in your investment strategy.

• First things first ? being responsive and building a solid foundation
• Incentives and how to grow from being a trusted vendor into earning a partnership
• Role of innovation in rising from Junior Partner to becoming Senior Partner
• Building a customer-focused culture and enlisting business assistance
• How to keep your customer focus from going to your head

• Where strategic alignment meets a practical framework ? IT is about the business
• How the HR and finance component works at Levis
• Integrating the business strategy into the enterprise architecture context
• Mapping resources, talent and driving performance metrics
• The long-term lifecycle vs. the short-term firedrill ? tips for sanity in the life of a CIO

• Managing a business is about making prudent investments ? with a view to their return value to the business
• Not all business investments "pan-out"; some are duds
• Business managers inherently understand, walk thru and work in a world of greys ? only the shades change
• In the binary tech world ? where the blacks are black and the whites are white ? the technology leadership role often comes pre-defined as a manager of a (usually large) cost-center
• Taking a business management approach teases you to ask yourself, "Am I comfortable ? not just capable of ? operating in a grey world?"
• Are you ready to look in the mirror and play CxO, where x is NOT = "I" for Information?

• Identifying the key governance and compliance requirements pertinent to IT processes
• Implementing an evaluation framework that drives compliance and business opportunities
• Driving business results from process evaluation and compliance objectives
• Sustaining compliance effort cost-effectively
• Linking compliance activities to corporate process improvement initiatives

The Perspectives Workshop provides a rare opportunity to hear firsthand how Enterprise CIOs are approaching the front-line issues faced by today's technology leadership. Move beyond theory and rhetoric to learn how your peers are blending leadership and technology solutions to solve critical issues in business management, culture and innovation.

The session is hosted by members of the CIO Executive Summit's Governing Body. The session hosts work together to stage provocative problem sets and discussion questions designed to keep the roundtable conversation focused and productive.

The executive perspectives workshop is hosted by Governing Body Chair Gary Masada, IT President & CIO of Chevron.

• Re-engineering IT to a true "Service Orientated" model requires a new business relationship
• Focusing on the real value of IT ? analyzing and architecting the business
• Alignment does not stop at the CIO's door
• How to position IT at the project level for real business process improvement
• Creating a new lexicon for business partners to agree upon

• Thriving as both strategic contributor and service organization
• How to blend the business strategist and IS corporate leader roles
• How to productize IT services while proactively helping drive business outcomes
• Managing the operations/IT nexus
• Staying close to your internal (and external) customers
• Changing IT's mindset and ambition

• The execution plan is the cornerstone of the strategic vision
• Reigning in IT projects and anchoring them to the business value
• Getting back to basics ? putting a strong foundation into place
• Now, move forward ? backing into your execution plan from your end game objective
• Don't forget your strongest ally ? your business partner