Alex Buhler recently presented at the Conference Board of Canada’s Council of Chief Information Officers. The theme of the event was: What’s Relevant Today, Tomorrow, and in the Future for the Strategic CIO Alex shared his perspective on the key strategic role a CIO must play in driving the digital business transformation while managing demand …
MNP’s Technology Consulting team will be speaking on ways to safeguard your business from the direct and indirect costs of a Go Live failure at the upcoming CIO Peer Forum, April 20-21, 2016 in Toronto. Today’s Chief Information Officers (CIO) are facing a more complex set of risks at the ‘go live’ stage than ever …
Enterprises hire Chief Digital Officer’s (CDOs) to lead a digital transformation, but “digital” has various definitions. It could refer to customer engagement through digital channels, or it could mean creating a full-scale digital business. Thus, the requirements for CDO positions reveal a lot about the enterprise’s overall vision for digitalization. This vision presents challenges and …
It was only three months ago that Ralph Ostertag from Mercedes-Benz Canada and Humza Teherany from Compass Group Canada were chatting informally. Despite their companies’ different product offerings, they soon realized that they were facing similar challenges, especially in their retail customer experience environments. They surmised that working with young startups could very well be …
A webinar held on March 2 introduced the CEO CIO Alignment Program. If you missed the webinar, you can watch a recording of the session here. You will be asked for a passcode, which is CIOCAN2016. Anyone who is interested in participating in the program can join by sending an e-mail to the CIO Association …
JD Gershbein, CEO of Owlish Communications, is considered one of the world’s top thought leaders on LinkedIn strategy, and a pioneer in the design and delivery of LinkedIn education. JD’s Workshop, Connect to Prosper, on Thursday April 21st, 2016 at the CIO Peer Forum is a must-attend for those looking to amp up their networking game and …
Fact: 67% of CEOs and CIOs are misaligned on how IT should be enabling the business. Fact: Improving the IT-business alignment in your organization can make IT operate more effectively and generate tangible value for your business. Fact: The CEO CIO Alignment Program can help you and your business. Despite the fact that global …
At the Toronto Chapter Event held on February 17, 2016 Kelly Friedman and Dave Millier provided guidelines for how Legal and IT should work together to deal with data breaches. Click on the presentation icon to see the slides from Kelly’s presentation.
How clearly defined are your responsibilities for digital business? Are you the a) champion; b) influencer; c) facilitator of digital strategy — or d) a bit of all three? If your answer is “d,” you aren’t alone. Digital business is changing market paradigms and enterprise priorities at blink-and-you’ll-miss-it speed.
Thanks to the digital revolution, CIOs have an unprecedented opportunity to transform themselves and their departments, and become a key voice at the executive table and boardroom. At the upcoming Gartner CIO & IT Executive Summit in Toronto, the leadership role the CIO must play in digital business will be explained as contextual and depends on more than self-initiative. Digital business is a fast-moving team sport and, as such, requires role clarity and synchronization to succeed. One of the first acts of leadership a CIO can contribute to the enterprise is to drive digital role clarity and teamwork expectations.
The “new CIO” does not forget the lessons from the past and, in fact, respects and values those things that may have been painfully learned so that the actions that they take today and tomorrow in support of the ongoing digital transformation agenda can be enhanced and amplified for all the key stakeholders. They understand that their ultimate success is dependent on building bridges between the past, present and future. Long live the “new CIO”!
The Fifth Annual Toronto Chapter event was held on January 28 at the comfortably classy University Club of Toronto. Along with the research results and insights provided by the speakers, attendee participation, through polling of the audience and lively dialogue, made the content even more relevant and helpful. Comments from …
If you missed the inaugural Beers with Peers for the Ottawa Chapter, you missed out!