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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.

Alliant Energy CIO and other Wisconsin executives recognized as top business technology leaders

Computerworld, has named Wisconsin-based, Alliant Energy Chief Information Technology Officer, David Cagigal as a 2010 Premier 100 IT Leader award winner. Cagigal is joined by three other Wisconsin executives as Premier IT leaders, Shaleen Devgun, vice president, strategy, planning and architecture, Schneider National, Green Bay, James Krueger, CIO, Hydrite Chemical, Watertown, and Scott Ranson vice president, CIO, Brookdale Senior Living, Milwaukee. The publication selected 100 men and women who foster ideas and creative work environments, envision innovative technology approaches to business problems and effectively manage IT strategies. Read article →

The path from good to great for the CIO

What makes a good CIO great? The last few blog posts have sought to answer this question in terms of the characteristics of a great CIO. The characteristics, listed below, provide some guidance on what a great CIO is, but not necessarily how a good CIO becomes great. Read article →

Interview: Vivek Kundra, Fed CIO on the commerialization of government data and the use of social networks to spur innovation

The government is committing to the power of cloud computing and collecting and sharing information from social networks and government databases to spark domestic and global innovation as well commercial opportunities to mine and offer new applications from this data, such as GPS. I recently attended the Gartner Symposium IT/xpo 2009 at which the Federal CIO, Vikek Kunda addressed the needs of all CIOs in the public and private sectors to get more support and engagement from their bosses and stakeholders. He discussed how public sector CIOs need to shift the focus away purely from data centers and networks to focusing on solving problems that people care about. Kundra said, "It's a 10-year journey as we look at moving towards this direction, because there are number of barriers that need to be addressed, number one being security." He also discussed as more business processes move to the digital world, there is going to be greater IT investments. He is concerned about is not necessarily the investments are being made, but where we are making them. Read article →

Technology leadership and increased IT project transparency, procurement and cloud computing, Interview with Fed CIO, Vivek Kundra: Part two

Technology leadership and increased IT project transparency and procurement processes are big concerns facing all CIOs not only in the public sector, but the private sector as well, especially in this time of flat to shrinking budgets, furloughs, and increased demands for transparency and accountability. Federal CIO, Vikek Kundra addresses the role of the CIO in the public sector and provided many examples of how government IT leaders can be more responsive and innovative by utilizing technology and improved procurement processes to be more proactive and provide better and more data available to their stakeholders and the public. This is part two of a multi-part interview on a wide scope of government IT projects to reduce costs, time of deployment, reduce IT failures and provide more transparency for their IT projects. Read article →

WTN Leadership Interview: Jorge Lopez, Gartner, “The current and future scenario for CEOs, CIOs and IT.”

Jorge Lopez, Vice President, distinguished analyst, CIO Research, Gartner and I recently discussed at Gartner's IT Symposium/expo 2009, the impact of the evolving role of the CIO and IT in this fast changing economy in terms of a backdrop of mergers and acquisitions mergers and acquisitions, and an economy where we have huge job loss. How will we recover and what advise can he offer? Read full interview... Read article →

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 →