Evanta – CIO Executive Summits

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Evanta – CIO Executive Summit The CIO Executive Summit is a private conference built by CIOs, for CIOs. The one day event held in both Toronto and Vancouver is by invitation only and is steered by a Governing Body of distinguished IT leaders from Fortune 1000 companies and other leading organizations in our region. The CIO Association …

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CIO Lessons Learned and Shared: Strategy Comes First

Over the course of almost three years, a series of 10 blogs were written and published related to my extensive career experiences as a Chief Information Officer (CIO) within the retail and telecom industries and as the President for the CIO Association of Canada (2011 to 2016). The purpose of these blogs was to share my …

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June 2018 Newsletter

  JUNE 27: Beers with Peers (Information & Registration HERE) JUNE 28: Trends and Techniques in Data Analytics (Information & Registration HERE) JUNE 18-19: Blockchain Foundational Workshop (Information & Registration HERE) JUNE 19-20: IdentityNorth (Information & Registration HERE) JUNE 13: Beers with Peers New West Minster (Information & Registration HERE) JUNE 14: Beers with Peers North Shore (Information & Registration HERE) JUNE 20: Cyber CIO BC 2018 (Information & Registration HERE) We …

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A look at what technologies are NOT good at

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David Lyle, Pacific Data Integrators will be speaking at the CIO Peer Forum on Disruptive Next-Gen Analytics: What’s next?   Over the past decade, powerful Big Data storage and retrieval technologies have emerged that give us added power to harvest the information cornucopia surrounding us. But as our world becomes more complex, the variety of these tools …

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In the new digital world, what are the metrics that matter?

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Authored by: Peter D. Moore, Business Strategy Advisor Speaker, April 10, 2018, CIO Peer Forum Peter Moore, President, Wild Oak Enterprises, LLC is a speaker at the CIO Peer Forum on the topic of  The Four Zones Model In the new digital world, what are the metrics that matter? Authored by: Peter D. Moore, Business Strategy Advisor Speaker, April 10, 2018, CIO …

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Hard Drive Destruction on-site at the CIO Peer Forum courtesy of ERA

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If you have old hard drives that are collecting dust in your basement or storage facilities (or let’s face it, under your desk or in the corner of your office), bring them with you to the CIO Peer Forum and have them destroyed on-site. April 10-11, 2018 8:30am – 4:30pm Westin Bayshore , 1601 Bayshore …

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CIO Association of Canada Vancouver Chapter’s 20 year anniversary

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The changing world of CIOs – CIO Association of Canada Vancouver Chapter’s 20 year anniversary Peer Forum in Vancouver on April 10-11 Reflections from Catherine Aczel Boivie Oh, how far we have come in twenty years as CIOs! At that time IT was relegated to back office and business considered it an operational necessity. In …

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Negotiating Successful IT Deals

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Matthew Peters, National Innovation Leader and Partner at McCarthy Tétrault LLP sets the stage for his presentation at the CIO Peer Forum in April 2018.  Here are some of his thoughts on managing and negotiating successful IT deals: When entering a new business relationship, there is a tendency to pull out a contract that has …

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In the new digital world, it’s time to write a new charter for IT

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Peter Moore is a speaker at the 2018 CIO Peer Forum. Finding the right balance between operational excellence and business innovation The CiO.com 2017 State of the CIO survey found that 72% of respondents said they were struggling to strike the right balance between operational excellence and business innovation. 87% of respondents also said that …

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CIOCAN Members on Strategy

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This blog is based on an interview with Shari Wallace, CIO for the City of Burnaby. Recognizing the level of public scrutiny public sector organizations receive, and the traditionally risk-averse approach of governments, IT leaders face the question of how the public sector can effectively innovate to provide better service to citizens more efficiently. The …

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State of Digital Transformation

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In collaboration with DX Agents, the CIO Association of Canada recently conducted a survey to understand CIO and CFO attitudes and organizational preparation for digital transformation.  The results demonstrate that some of our largest companies are squandering opportunities to take global leadership in tech. This failure to act has already affected our retail sector, and …

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