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CIO Leadership Series

WTN's CIO Leadership Series highlights the people who create change and value in their organizations through information technology. Now, connect with other IT leaders through the Fusion InGroup on LinkedIn.

CIO Leadership: Part 3 - Phil Fasano Kaiser CIO on data center redundancy

In the last of a three part exclusive interview with Philip Fasano, Senior Vice President and CIO for Kaiser Health Plan, and Kaiser Foundation Hospitals, Fasano discusses his strategy for outsourcing to IBM a $500 million data center operations management project. Read part one at here and part two here. Read article →

Phil Fasano: Kaiser CIO on data center strategy, budget growth, medical imaging and PAC's plans

In part two of an exclusive interview with Philip Fasano, Senior Vice President and CIO for Kaiser Health Plan, and Kaiser Foundation Hospitals, Fasano discusses his strategy for outsourcing to IBM a $500 million data center operations management project, Kaiser's IT budget growth in 2009 versus 2008 and where strategic investments are being made and priorities being re-evaluated, as well Kaiser's IT department challenge of mass data storage in relationship to their PAC's strategy and medical imaging storage challenges. Read part one at http://wistechnology.com/fusioncio/article/5776. Read article →

Leaving a legacy: Rockwell Automation transforms to a single ERP system

When Mike Jackson began his role as CIO with Rockwell Automation in 2003, what he heard repeatedly in talking to people throughout the organization was that there were too many systems constraining the business. The challenges of the current economy reinforce why Rockwell is going through the multi-million dollar Global Process Transformation project. The Milwaukee-based corporation is well ahead of the original goal – a hard savings of $100 million annually – and is looking to save more going forward as it replaces more than 700 legacy systems with a single-source ERP solution. Read article →

CIO Leadership Series: Phil Fasano, Sr. Vice President & CIO, Kaiser Permanente

Following the announcement that Kaiser Permanente signed a $500M, 7-year data center outsourcing contract with IBM, WTN News sat down with Kaiser Permanente's, Senior Vice President aad Chief Information Officer, in an exclusive interview with Phil Fasano to discuss the rationale for this decision, as well as his thoughts on Kaiser's vision for "real time health care delivery." Also covered were Fasano's vision on clinical transformation and adoption of Epic's electronic medical record, and the accompanying KP HealthConnect, as well as patient to physician e-mail management. This is part one, of a two part series. Read article →

Cisco's CIO on collaboration, virtualization

While so many CIOs are being forced to scale back projects and initiatives due to economic pressures, Cisco CIO Rebecca Jacoby sees opportunities to accelerate. One of her key points: CIOs are constantly seeing opportunities to boost productivity in their companies as well as their IT shops. Instead of ignoring them or postponing their implementation or execution, IT leaders should move ahead--and help position their businesses for post-recession success. Read article →

Change helped CUNA Mutual grow, navigate the economic crisis

Rick Roy, the CIO of CUNA Mutual Group shared his perspective with CUNA Mutual Group's CEO Jeff Post in their tag-team talk, “The CEO - CIO Relationship - Navigating Unprecedented Uncertainty" presented at the Fusion CEO - CIO Symposium, produced by WTN Media. They outlined frankly how they executed a three-year plan to change and grow the company, the financial services firm founded in 1935 and employing 4,700 currently, 2,000 in Madison. Read article →

Business data losses approach stimulus spending

The mounting annual trillion-dollar risk to businesses from corporate information loss and consumer data leakage gains perspective through the comparable magnitude of the federal stimulus package. The costs, liabilities and risks of lost, stolen, inappropriately accessed and improperly disposed information are astronomical and growing. Read article →

Innovating during tough economic times, key theme for 2009 Fusion symposium

As companies retrench in the face of an uncertain economy, now is the time to innovate with IT projects that can transform the business and position the organization for future growth. Speakers at this year’s Fusion 2009 CEO-CIO Symposium on March 4-5 at the University of Wisconsin Fluno Center will address the most pressing concerns that CEOs and senior executives face today, including how CEOs and CIO’s navigate unprecedented economic uncertainty, and how to innovate during tough times. Read article →