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My guest this week is Reggie Wilkerson, Director of Enterprise Data Management at the State Department Federal Credit Union. Reggie's one of the few guys that is really dominating data.
While running my CIO Innovation Insider series, I noticed that a lot of recent conversations have been around data analytics, business intelligence, data warehousing, and data visualization.
That is why I invited Reggie to discuss how to get your Power BI project started from the ground up and what would your first hundred days looked like. You are going to hear about the approaches and tools Reggie is using, how to shift perception and opinions within your organization and a lot more.
I believe that the skills within this domain are very important and hope you enjoy listening to my interview with Reggie Wilkerson.
Major Take-Aways From This Episode:
- Key tools:
- Tableau - BI platform that helps you gain insights into data.
- SAP Business Objects – single centralized BI platform for reporting and visualization.
- Cognos - IBM’s analytics solution.
- Alteryx tool - ETL / data integration tool
- Good Data - data visualization tool
- Looker analytics platform.
- Art of the Possible: Shift Perception + Opinion.
- When to ask for forgiveness vs. permission?
- How to know whether to move to the cloud vs. staying on premise?
- What are the roles of the end user and data architect?
- How to create momentum and “snowball effect”?
- How do you work with a CEO to build impact?
- How do you manage data quality and integrity with a BI, Data Warehousing, Data Visualization project?
- How do you know the data that you are governing that you have integrity with your data?
- How do you create the right SOW to have a quick win with your organization’s BI project.
About Reggie Wilkerson
Reginald Wilkerson is the Director of Enterprise Data Management at the State Department Federal Credit Union. Reginald Wilkerson is an Analytics leader with experience in all aspects of Information Management including building out cloud based (AWS) target state solutions which streamline and automate the data sourcing, data management, data quality and enterprise reporting components. He is adept at reducing friction and increasing efficiencies by bridging silos, and he is also adept at designing analytics platforms which provide enterprises with actionable insights. In his free time, he enjoys reading tech blogs, listening to podcasts and finding a good pickup basketball games around the DC area.
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How to get in touch with Reggie Wilkerson
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About Bill Murphy
Bill Murphy is a world renowned IT Security Expert dedicated to your success as an IT business leader. Follow Bill on LinkedIn and Twitter.
My guest today is Adam Shostack. Adam is a consultant, entrepreneur, technologist, game designer, and author of the book Threat Modelling: Designing for Security.
I invited Adam to talk security and discuss a concept he designed that is called threat modelling. I love thee simplicity of the concept and appreciate the fact that Adam understands the complexity of security and was able to distill it into an actionable security program.
Our conversation is versatile, covering technical areas and goes up to the board level. If you have an interest in making security simple, and if your instinct tells you that defense is the new offence, you will enjoy listening to this podcast episode.
Major Take-Aways From This Episode:
- What is Threat Modelling and why CIOs need to do it?
- The definition of STRIDE Concept.
- What are the common traps associated with STRIDE?
- How does Threat Modelling differ from the similar government-style programs?
- What questions you need to ask when you threat model?
- Why is it important for CIOs to threat model and how does it help with communication at the board level?
About Adam Shostack
Adam is a consultant, entrepreneur, technologist, author and game designer. He's a member of the BlackHat Review Board, and helped found the CVE and many other things. He's currently helping a variety of organizations improve their security, and advising startups as a Mach37 Star Mentor. While at Microsoft, he drove the Autorun fix into Windows Update, was the lead designer of the SDL Threat Modeling Tool v3 and created the "Elevation of Privilege" game. Adam is the author of Threat Modeling: Designing for Security, and the co-author of The New School of Information Security.
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How to get in touch with Adam Shostack
Key Resources:
- More information about Adam Shostack can be found at his website: https://adam.shostack.org/
- Threat Modelling: Designing for Security, Adam Shostack
- Checklist Manifesto, Atul Gawande
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This week my guest is Professor Stephen Hicks, a Canadian-American philosopher.
I have invited Professor Hicks on the show to walk me through important cultural themes that are happening today and why they matter for you and your business. Aside from that, with my daughter going off to university/college next year, I wanted to understand what is being bred in the Universities on a cultural level.
During the interview, Professor Hicks and I take a deep dive into history to trace the rise of post-modernism, and discuss the issue of offense as a weapon in the current social environment. We also talk about business ethics, hiring young talent and structuring your group dynamics as a leader in order to maximize individual thinking in current environment.
I hope you will find this interview fascinating and educational as much as I did. With that, enjoy my wide-ranging conversation with Professor Stephen Hicks!
Major Take-Aways From This Episode:
- Learn about the University shift from tradition of classical liberal education with focus on individual and his uniqueness to a post-modern outlook with focus on groups that are fundamental to a person’s identity than their individuality.
- If you are an entrepreneur/ business leader who has scaled up your business, you are also the chief culture officer and are able to work with people of all different personality types.
- Walk through the major epochs and find out what brought us to a post-modern era.
- When you are hiring young people out of college that have dramatically different backgrounds, how do you socially manage them working closely with each other?
- Post-modernism views involve philosophical argumentation that individuals are either secondary, or ultimately not real.
- As a leader, how do you structure your group dynamics to maximize the individual thinking?
- Why Professor Hicks’ take on ethics in business is a “minority position”?
- What is equality of outcomes perspective and why is that an issue?
- What are the ways to embrace the new generation that is constantly being offended coming into the workforce and integrate them into society?
- Why should you should expect to be offended on a regular basis and develop a thick skin?
- Why you should be aware that the broader culture is everything?
About Professor Stephen Hicks
Stephen R. C. Hicks is Professor of Philosophy at Rockford University, Illinois, USA, where he also directs the Center for Ethics and Entrepreneurship. He has published four books and his writings have been translated into fourteen languages: Portuguese, Spanish, German, Korean, Persian, Serbo-Croatian, Polish, Swedish, Hindi, Russian, Ukrainian, Cantonese, French, and Arabic.
He has published in academic journals such as Business Ethics Quarterly, Teaching Philosophy, and Review of Metaphysics, as well as other publications such as The Wall Street Journal, Cato Unbound, and The Baltimore Sun.
In 2010, he won his university’s Excellence in Teaching Award. He has been Visiting Professor of Business Ethics at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., a Visiting Fellow at the Social Philosophy & Policy Center in Bowling Green, Ohio, Senior Fellow at The Objectivist Center in New York, and in 2018 he will be Visiting Professor at the University of Kasimir the Great, Poland.
He received his Bachelor's and Master's degrees from the University of Guelph, Canada, and his Ph.D. in philosophy from Indiana University, Bloomington.
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How to get in touch with Professor Stephen Hicks
Key Resources:
- More information about Dr. Hicks’s courses, publications, and blog can be found at his website: www.StephenHicks.org.
- Center for Ethics and Entrepreneurship Profile
Books:
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- Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism and Socialism from Rousseau to Foucault (Scholargy Publishing, 2004; Expanded Edition, 2011).
- Nietzsche and the Nazis (Ockham’s Razor, 2010).
- The Art of Reasoning: Readings for Logical Analysis (co-edited with David Kelley, W. W. Norton & Co., 1994, second edition 1998).
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This week my guest is Sunny Gupta, CEO of Apptio. I looked into Apptio software used by a previous podcast guest Bob Fecteau, CIO of SAIC. I had to check it out because I got to see what Bob was dealing with and why Apptio added such a tremendous value for his business.
During our interview, Sunny shares the story of Apptio's genesis and I think every CIO can learn from it. It is fascinating how Sunny was able to take a problem of one CIO and reconstitute it into a solution set that ultimately addresses all today's CIOs and their challenges.
I thought, many of you are constantly solving problems for other departments within your business, but what about yourselves? How are you, the CIO, solving your own enterprise resource planning?
You will find this interview useful if you want to learn how to build transparency, trust and confidence and have a seat at the table. Sunny and I also talk about defense and offense, comprehensive IT, vendor, cloud spending. I believe that this type of approach to bringing IT together would only work today. Many of you, CIOs, are at that point where you are looking to up level your skills as leaders, as Sunny put it, CIOs are technologists wanting to be business people without going to business school.
Listen to this interview to get practical advice on how to gain visibility into your IT cost management and find out how Apptio is collaborating with IT leaders today to achieve that.
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Major Take-Aways From This Episode:
- Story of Apptio
- System of Record for IT that came out of the need to manage business, analytics and decision-making for CIOs.
- Listening to the customers and morphing, changing execution plan based on hearing from CIOs, gave Apptio its start and growth.
- Apptio as an “ERP for CIO” helps IT Leaders become more business-oriented.
- Technology Business Management System as a Market
- Apptio’s standardization function is explained.
- Apptio as a framework of language and transparency.
- Technology Business Management Council is a non-profit organization created by Apptio and dedicated to industry standards and an operating model for CIOs.
- What role does Apptio play with the speed of change? How Apptio helps CIOs innovate and dive into transformation projects?
- How is Apptio helping CIOs win with their business? Practical advice for CIOs on how to get started.
- Apptio solution helps to get granular transparency into CIO services and products spending and uses it to create an offense dialogue with the business.
- Automating your existing budget, planning, financial management discipline.
- Categorizing the vendor's spending fine optimizations.
- Getting control of your Cloud spending.
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How to get in touch with Sunny Gupta
Key Resources:
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About Bill Murphy
Bill Murphy is a world renowned Innovation and Transformation (Offense and Defense) Expert dedicated to your success as an IT business leader. Follow Bill on LinkedIn and Twitter.
This week my guest is Capitan Tom Chaby. Tom has been an active duty US Navy SEAL for 26 years and was a task force commander of 400 men in Iraq and Afghanistan. Retired a few years ago, he now specializes in leadership performance optimization. Tom works with sports teams and corporations that are looking to learn from his experience and his circle of influence.
In this interview, we discuss leadership and team culture from Navy SEAL’s perspective. What I find extraordinary about Tom is that most things we talk about are so transferable to you: leadership style, the way you lead and perform under pressure, and how to be a high performance leader.
For those leaders in innovation, transformation, entrepreneurship and leadership of any sort, you will love my interview with Captain Tom Chaby. I hope you receive as much benefit and value from it as I did.
Major Take-Aways From This Episode:
1. The importance of good mentors in leadership.
2. Leadership styles discussed building a team does not
happen by accident.
3. Why it is important to scrutinize every angle.
4. Look for consistent best practices that work within the
organization.
5. Why leadership is not a title: modifying your team’s
behavior to change the trajectory of their outcomes.
6. What is a concept of kaizen – “continual improvement”?
7. Learn about the way you perform and lead under pressure.
8. Concept of “hot wash” explained: why should you put your
rank on the table and speak openly with your team.
9. The four-point process of looking at team excellence:
a. Shared values; b. Buy in; c. Consistency; d. Performing
under pressure.
10. Why you should use negative experience to your advantage.
11. How to lead the younger generation and stay relevant?
12. How do you embrace discomfort as a leader?
13. How to lead a high performance culture.
14. How do you get feedback from your teams
About Tom Chaby
Captain Tom Chaby has been an active duty US Navy SEAL for 26 years. Throughout his career, Tom has led special operations at every level in over 70 countries around the world. Shortly after 9/11, Captain Chaby deployed to Afghanistan leading a Task Unit of 50 SEALs and support personnel conducting special operations in support of the initial stages of Operation ENDURING FREEDOM. During the latter part of the most critical fight in Fallujah, Tom led a Task Force of over 400 personnel conducting full spectrum special operations in support of Operation IRAQI FREEDOM. Earlier in his career, Tom lived in South America leading Counter Drug Operations throughout Colombia and the region. Captain Chaby's operational experience has been extensive, diverse and extremely effective.
Outside of the operational realm, Tom has worked relentlessly with developing and ensuring performance optimization for the SEAL community and developing holistic resiliency for the entire 67,000 members that comprise the Special Operations community. During five years of being the Deputy Commanding Officer of the SEAL Training Command and a SEAL Instructor, Tom was integral in creating the current generation of SEAL operators. While directing the Preservation of the Force and Family effort, Tom helped shape programs, authorities and resources to help the entire Special Operations community build and sustain resiliency in four domains: physical, psychological, social and spiritual. His efforts have significantly improved operational readiness and the well-being of his teammates.
Over the past four years, Captain Chaby has been collaborating with dozens of corporate leadership and sports teams, providing value to organizations by bringing his extensive experience and insights through speaking engagements and full spectrum consulting. Some of Captain Chaby's talks include: Leadership in Chaos, Embracing Disruption; The Art of Relevance; Handling Pressure, the most important SKILL when it matters most; Failure is not an option; Setting the Conditions for Success, creating a culture of change; and Full Spectrum Resiliency and how it improves your bottom line. Tom has spoken to Bill Gates, Dennis Washington, CBRE leadership, American Medical Association, Intuit leadership, Coach Saban and the University of Alabama Football Team, Coach Garrett and the Dallas Cowboys, the New York Yankees coaching staff and dozens of other high performance organizations.
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How to get in touch with Tom Chaby:
Email: tom@tomchaby.com
Key Resources:
- Tom Chaby’s Website
- Top Dog: The Science of Winning and Losing, Po Bronson and Ashley Merryman
- TEDx Youth “The Secret to Performing Under Pressure”
- List of Organizations Tom Chaby is a part of.
- Interview The Weekly Yes, And Podcast
- Jocko Podcast – Podcast of Jocko Willink, decorated retired Navy SEAL Officer that covers discipline and leadership in business, war, relationships and everyday life.
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This week my guest is Ann Cavoukian, Distinguished Expert-in-Residence, leading Privacy by Design Centre of Excellence at Ryerson University.
Ann and I talk about privacy, GDPR and the concept of privacy by design, which Ann created. Privacy by design was recognized by the International Data Protection and Privacy Commissioners as an essential component of fundamental privacy protection and it is a core part of the European Union GDPR regulations.
It is really interesting that GDPR is the next thing, from a privacy prospective, that is hitting security. I like GDPR, the privacy it promotes and freedom it will bring to the individual in a long run. It will ultimately force security to respect the individual right.
Listen to the interview and learn more on how to win GDPR with Privacy by Design, Positive Sum Mindset and how to embed privacy and security in your operations.
If you have any questions about preparing for GDPR or need help facilitating this process, email privacy@redzonetech.net
Major Take-Aways From This Episode:
- Privacy is not about secrecy. Privacy breathes freedom, innovation, and prosperity.
- Privacy by Design could be embedded into the design of your technologies, policies, procedures and data architecture.
- How to get rid of "zero-sum mindset": embed both privacy and security in your operations.
- The importance of asking how much "baking privacy and security" is going to save you in a long run, not what is it going to cost you.
- Privacy (and Data Protection) by design and by default ( Article 25 of the EU GDPR) and transparency are the biggest game-changers with preparing for GDPR.
- Great resource to learn about Privacy by Design is International Council on Global Privacy and Security, By Design that highlights the importance of global privacy and security by design.
- Practical application of GDPR. How to show that you are serious about abiding by GDPR law?
- Positive-Sum Mentality in relation to the concept of “Global Privacy and Security by Design”: Positive Sum for Privacy + Security or for Privacy + Business
Important Links and Resources:
- International Council on Global Privacy and Security, By Design
- TEDx Talk on Privacy and Freedom
- TrustArc - comprehensive solutions for the EU GDPR, Privacy Shield, etc.
- Enigma.co – Enigma is a scalable privacy protocol for every blockchain.
- Nymity.com – Research-based privacy compliance software.
- ICO - UK's independent body set up to uphold information rights.
- Wikipedia - Profile
- Ryerson University Profile - Profile
- Privacy by Design (Wikipedia)
About Ann Cavoukian
Dr. Ann Cavoukian is recognized as one of the world's leading privacy experts. She is presently the Distinguished Expert-in-Residence, leading the Privacy by Design Centre of Excellence at Ryerson University. Dr. Cavoukian is also a Senior Fellow of the Ted Rogers Leadership Centre at Ryerson University, and a Faculty Fellow of the Center for Law, Science & Innovation at Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law at Arizona State University. Dr. Cavoukian served an unprecedented three terms as the Information & Privacy Commissioner of Ontario, Canada. There she created Privacy by Design, a framework that seeks to proactively embed privacy into the design specifications of information technologies, networked infrastructure and business practices, thereby achieving the strongest protection possible. In 2010, International Privacy Regulators unanimously passed a Resolution recognizing Privacy by Design as an international standard. Since then, PbD has been translated into 40 languages.
Dr. Cavoukian has received numerous awards recognizing her leadership in privacy, including being named as one of the Top 25 Women of Influence in Canada, named among the Top 10 Women in Data Security and Privacy, named as one of the Power 50' by Canadian Business, named as one of the Top 100 Leaders in Identity, she was awarded the Meritorious Service Medal by the Governor General of Canada for her outstanding work on creating Privacy by Design and taking it global (May, 2017), named as one of the 50 Most Impactful Smart Cities Leaders, (November, 2017), and most recently, was named among the Top Women in Tech.
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How to get in touch with Ann Cavoukian
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About Bill Murphy
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This week my guests are Mark Mandel and Francesc Campoy Flores who run the Google Cloud Platform (GCP) Podcast. They produce a weekly podcast discussing everything on Google Cloud Platform that would benefit your business. As you look at alternatives like Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services, you should also look at Google Cloud Platform.
Our conversation is super techy, but very informative. Listen to the interview and learn more about Google Cloud Platform
Major Take-Aways From This Episode:
- The GCP Podcast interviews Google product managers and engineers who answer questions from listeners.
- Google’s philosophy of Open Cloud is explained.
- Google App Engine and managed services explained.
- Kubernetes and Container Orchestration (Google Container Engine) at scale - @ 16:00
- Google Cloud is open as it is the best place to run Open Source technologies. No vendor lock-in; minimizing all operations that are not a part of your business.
- The concept of “Lift and Shift”.
- “On Demand” managed services - Helping customers orchestrate their projects in the Cloud and available to everyone.
- Open source product, Spinnaker – automated launcher for common things; Container builder – sets up steps of a workflow.
- Why you need a better observability of your system?
- Difference between “Go Programming”, “Python”, and “C++” @ 27:00.
- Who is Go Programming Language for? Code that is easy to learn for decision-makers.
- The direction the future programming talent is heading to.
Other key resources:
- TensorFlow open-source machine learning framework
- Greenfield Platform @ 8:00
- Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM) - unified view into security policy across your entire organization, with built-in auditing to ease compliance processes.
- Episode #25 on GCP Podcast, Interview with Go team members.
- Episode #100 with Vint Cerf, one of Internet founders, on GCP podcast
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About Mark Mandel
Mark Mandel is a Developer Advocate for the Google Cloud Platform. Hailing from Australia, Mark built his career developing backend web applications which included several widely adopted open source projects, and running an international conference in Melbourne for several years. Since then he has focused on becoming a polyglot developer, building systems in Go, JRuby and Clojure on a variety of infrastructures. In his spare time he plays with his dog, trains martial arts and reads too much fantasy literature.
About Francesc Campoy Flores
Francesc Campoy Flores is a Developer Advocate for Go and the Cloud at Google. He joined the Go team in 2012 and since then he has written some considerable didactic resources and traveled the world attending conferences, organizing live courses, and meeting fellow gophers. He joined Google in 2011 as a backend software engineer working mostly in C++ and Python, but it was with Go that he rediscovered how fun programming can be.
Where to Find Google Cloud Platform Podcast
- Email: hello@gcppodcast.com
- Twitter: GCPPodcast
- Google Plus: +GCPPodcast
- Reddit: /r/gcppodcast
Ways to connect with Mark and Francesc:
Mark Mandel:
Francesc Campoy Flores:
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My guest this week is James Crifasi, Vice President and CTO of RedZone Technologies.
In this interview we discuss the importance of password security. Implementing a strong password policy and educating users is vital to your organization’s IT Security Immune System.
Listen to the interview to learn about how to create a strong password in order to protect your company from hackers and fishing attacks
Major Take-Aways From This Episode:
• A lot of customer calls about hacks in reality are a lost password issue (because someone lost their password and someone else used it).
• Password cracking systems use dictionaries that include not only a word dictionary, but also movie and book titles.
• The main issues of easy-cracked passwords: habitual passwords and poor password policy.
• Passwords that work best are phrases intermixed with numbers or symbols.
• Two-factor authentication prevents someone from using your password against you.
• Make your password interesting, not more complicated!
Once malware starts cracking your passwords, it is capable of doing anything.
• The nature of the advanced fishing attacks is the ability to say, “If your silly enough to lose your password and don’t have two-factor authentication, your password could be cracked.”
• Two-factor authentication solves 90% of the problems for remote access.
About James Crifasi
James Crifasi is Vice President and CTO of RedZone Technologies in Annapolis, Maryland. The firm provides Managed IT and Security solutions to businesses based in the Mid-Atlantic and supports client locations nationwide. Currently, James leads the RedZone teams that support clients in their efforts to [protect against hackers, as well as successfully and repeatedly pass any and all security examinations and regulatory audits. He is a member of InfraGard, a partnership between the FBI and the private sector. InfraGard is dedicated to sharing information and intelligence to prevent hostile acts against the U.S. James is also a frequent speaker on security issues and the expanding threat landscape.
Prior to joining RedZone in 2005, James built IT infrastructures, improved organizational performance, lead IT initiatives, and lowered costs in the Retail and Biotechnology industry. He has also consulted with Banking and Finance institutions to implement network security and high performance business systems.
James holds several degrees from the University of Maryland: a B.S in Computer Science and Algorithmic Theory, a B.A. in Criminology and Criminal Justice, and a M.S. in Interdisciplinary Management. He has over 20 years of IT security, architecture and integration experience. His varied education and experience, plus his broad knowledge of assessments and audit regulations, enables him and his team to deliver on the security needs of RedZone clients. Under his leadership, RedZone has successfully developed into a world-class IT service organization
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How to get in touch with James Crifasi
Useful Links and Resources:
- For password or any security questions, email defenseinnovation@redzonetech.net
- www.redzonetech.net - RedZone Technologies Website
This episode is sponsored by the CIO Innovation Insider Offense and Defense Community, dedicated to Business Digital Leaders who want to be a part of 20% of the planet and help their businesses win with innovation and transformation.
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My guest this week is Scott Berinato, author of Good Charts: The HBR Guide to Making Smarter, More Persuasive Data Visualizations, and Senior Editor at Harvard Business Review.
In this interview we discuss bridging the world of data science and the art of data visualization. Scott and I focus on how we make good use of Data Visualization skills that I believe are critical for CIOs to have.
Listen to the interview to learn more on how to be a better data visualization guy and methods of being a good data storyteller.
Major Take-Aways From This Episode:
- Why to avoid “click+vis”
- The importance of incorporating prototyping, sketching, and charting your data visualizations
- The key to presenting data is not the data or the perfect design, it is the design thinking process
- Automatic output of data tools is not enough to convey your ideas
- How to overcome obstacles with conveying ideas + concepts; How to avoid being intimidated
- Tools Landscape: plot.ly and exploratory
- The idea of “the power of a beautiful constraint”
- What you barely need is data; you need to know what the data is telling you (@23:00)
- When are you putting yourself at a disadvantage with DOT plots
- It isn’t the slide quota that is important for your presentation, it is the amount of information on a slide that is important
- Best Methods for Visual Storytelling:
- Maximum one or two ideas per slide
- Wrong Metric: The number of slides
- Correct Metric: Ideas per visual field/ slide
About Scott Berinato
Scott Berinato is the author of Good Charts: The HBR Guide to Making Smarter, More Persuasive Data Visualizations. Even though he's a writer, he's also a self-described "dataviz geek" who loves the challenge of finding visual solutions to communications and data challenges. He speaks frequently on the topic of data visualization and leads workshops to help others improve their chart skills.
Scott is a Senior Editor at Harvard Business Review, where he created successful visual storytelling formats. He writes and edits regularly for HBR and HBR.org, focused mostly on stories about data, science, and technology. When HBR redesigned in 2010, Scott created the front section of the magazine, Idea Watch, launching successful features such as "Defend Your Research." He led a team that launched HBR's iPad app, and more recently led the creation of HBR's Big Idea, a bi-monthly digital longform event.
Prior to joining HBR, Scott was executive editor at IDG where he wrote and edited for CIO magazine and helped create and launch CSO magazine. In addition to writing and editing feature articles, he was a columnist writing about security in a post-9/11 world. He is a six-time winner of the Jesse H. Neal award (the "Pulitzers of the business press") for best feature article of the year and two-time winner of the Grand Neal Award for the year's best overall contribution to the business press. Scott was awarded the McAllister Fellowship for his contributions to the business press and, through it, was able to return to his alma mater, Medill, to teach writing.
Prior to IDG, Scott was a beat reporter at PC Week, where he covered the Microsoft anti-trust trial and the rise of the Internet, among other major tech events.
Scott holds a Masters degree from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University and a Bachelor's degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
He's currently at work on his next project, The Good Charts Workbook.
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How to get in touch with Scott Berinato
Website:
Key Resources:
- Plot.ly - prototyping tool
- Exploratory - Exploratory’s Simple UI allows the latest and the most advanced innovation in Data Science to discover deep insights
- The Power of Data Visualization - TedX Talk by David McCandless mentioning Tor Norretranders
- Tableau - business intelligence software that helps people see and understand their data
- Peanut butter price over decade – chart example (mentioned @ 30.00)
- Better Charts in a Couple of Hours: Sketching to Win – article by Scott Berinato for HBR.org
Books:
Good Charts: The HBR Guide to Making Smarter, More Persuasive Data Visualizations, Scott Berinato
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One of the A-caliber CIOs I know recently asked me this amazing question:
'Bill, do you realize how much it is costing me to secure my systems?'
I decided to ask this question during my interview with Raj Samani, Chief Scientist and McAfee Fellow at McAfee. How DO YOU scale your security defenses when it is very difficult to get people to scale?
In this week's interview Raj shares his passion for the Security Industry and his ways of diving deep into his craft. We talk about the power of learning and the need for an IT leader to be an articulate communicator. LIsten to Raj and I discuss how we can solve Enterprise Security challenges across the globe.
Major Take-Aways From This Episode:
- Being Innovative does not mean we should ignore privacy or care.
- Power of choice and making a decision.
- Power of ongoing learning.
- The importance of developing communication skills.
- Key questions to ask about improving your skills for future: Are you willing to learn? Do you have aptitude + ability to learn? Do you have enthusiasm and passion to learn?
- How to teach kids to sell their ideas? How to teach kids not to take “no” for an answer?
- Great industry collaboration = Solving a question of an A-caliber CIO I know.
- The necessity of taking security, privacy and managing our personal data seriously.
About Raj Samani
Raj Samani is Chief Scientist and McAfee Fellow for cybersecurity firm McAfee. He has assisted multiple law enforcement agencies in cybercrime cases, and is a special advisor to the European Cybercrime Centre in The Hague. Samani has been recognized for his contribution to the computer security industry through numerous awards, including the Infosecurity Europe hall of Fame, Peter Szor award, and Intel Achievement Award, among others. He is the coauthor of the book "Applied Cyber Security and the Smart Grid" and the "CSA Guide to Cloud Computing," as well as technical editor for numerous other publications. He can be found on twitter @Raj_Samani.
Read full transcript here.
How to get in touch with Raj Samani
Key Resources and Links:
- Applied Cryptography: Protocols, Algorythms, and Source Code in C, Bruce Schneier
- Books by Ira Winkler
- Books by Kevin Mitnick
- nomoreransom.org
- McAfee Business and Government Solutions
- RSA 2017 Presentation with Christiaan Beek
- McAfee Blogs – Raj Samani
- CIO Online Article – Are you Ready to Trust the Cloud?
- CIO Online Article – Countdown to the Cloud?
- CSA Summit 2017 - Ep 2 - Recorded Live at Infosec 2017 in London - Raj Samani
- Blog: Motivation roulette: Is pseudo-ransomware a term?
Website:
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My guest this week is David Cross and it is my second discussion with him. I loved talking to David when he was on the Microsoft side of the fence. Two years later, he is on the Google side of the fence as a Cloud Security Engineering Director, and I decided to bring him back on for another fun conversation.
We discuss Google's on-premises Solutions, Data Custodian Model (SAP), the story behind BeyondCorp, Google's beta product called Identity-Aware Proxy and much more. Our conversation is a deep dive into IT Security and highly technical... Regardless of your title within IT Security realm, you will benefit from this conversation.
Major Take-Aways From This Episode:
- Google’s beta product - Identity-Aware Proxy,
- BeyondCorp Model at Google and Anti-Phishing,
- Importance of two-factor authentication; U2F Security Keys, FIDO U2F Protocol, OAuth,
- YubiKeys – security keys for two-factor authentication,
- Gsuites - Gmail, Docs, Drive and Calendar for business, everything in one package,
- Building trust in cloud service provider,
- Data Custodian Model at Google
- access transparency,
- identity and protection
- Google Cloud Blog article about Google’s custom chip Titan.
About David Cross
David is the Cloud Security Engineering Director in the Google Security and Privacy organization. David is a long time innovator of security technology stemming back to US Navy service with the aviation electronic warfare community and his previous 18 years spent with Microsoft in numerous security product and engineering leadership roles. In addition, David has been a contributing author on a number of whitepapers and Microsoft Press books regarding security and PKI. David holds a B.S. in Computer Information Systems as well as an MBA in MIS.
Read full transcript here.
How to get in touch with David Cross:
Key Resources:
- An Insider’s Look at Security at Microsoft Azure – Assume the Breach! – #1 Interview with David for RedZone Podcast
- RSA conference Speaker Profile
- What Is Needed in the Next Generation Cloud Based Platform? – Presentation at RSA 2017
- Google Cloud Platform Podcast
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My guest this week is Matthew Markus, co-founder and CEO of Pembient.
We discuss digital biology, cellular agriculture, 3D printing, security of species, big visions, entrepreneurship and envisioning a world without wildlife poaching and the destruction of species.
What does it take to disrupt the illegal trade of animals and envision a world that has an increasing population of rhinos?
Pembient is leveraging advances in biotechnology to fabricate wildlife products, such as rhino horn and elephant ivory, at prices below the levels that induce poaching. Their goal is to replace the illegal wildlife trade, a $20B black market, and the fourth largest after drug, arms, and human trafficking, with sustainable commerce.
About Matthew Markus
Matthew is Co-founder and CEO of Pembient, a company biofabricating wildlife products. A serial entrepreneur, Matthew has 15 years of startup experience. His past ventures include PrivacyBank.com, an internet company that was acquired by InfoSpace (now NASDAQ: BCOR). Matthew’s passion presently lies with the emerging animal replacement industry, of which Pembient is a part. Pembient seeks to stop the poaching of, and prevent the farming of, iconic species. Chief among these is the rhinoceros, whose horn is prized as a carving material. Pembient uses the tools of biotechnology to create biofabricated horn that has the same molecular structure as horn produced by a rhinoceros. The company has been featured on CNN, TechCrunch, and The Guardian. Via Pembient, Matthew is a graduate of IndieBio, the world’s first biotech accelerator. Additionally, he holds a B.S. in Mathematics and Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and a Masters of Engineering Management, as well as an M.S. in Genetic Epidemiology, from Washington University in St. Louis.
Major Take-Aways From This Episode:
- The source and cause of poaching is not what you think.
- How to use Design thinking approach to prototyping.
- Recently launched ICO for pre-paid private contracts.
- The concept of de-risking
- Cellular Agriculture
- Acellular Agriculture
- Companies printing meat: Memphis Meat, Modern Meadow, Hampton Creek Foods
- Indie Bio Accelerator
Read full trasnscript here.
How to get in touch with Matthew Markus
Website:
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My guest this week is Seth Familian, who specializes in connecting powerful web-based tools and services to create highly customized marketing + analytics experiences for product and content marketing teams. He is the founder and principal of Familian&1, a visual insights and automation consultancy whose work has benefitted companies including Cisco, RingCentral, Adorama and Cloud9. Seth is also an avid educator with experience teaching over 800 students in 40+ workshops on Visual Design with Data, Working with Big Data, Digital Tools for Business and Affordable Web Design. He has lectured at General Assembly, Galvanize, Impact HUB SF, Presidio Graduate School, the Haas School of Business and KQED.
Seth received his MBA from UC Berkeley's Haas School of Business in 2007 and his BA from Harvard University in 2001. He is based in Boulder, CO and works from Galvanize Boulder.
If you are a CIO, CMO, an entrepreneur, a CIO who is expected to also be a CMO or a CISO who wants to better present data…Regardless of your situation all will benefit from this conversation.
Major Take-Aways From This Episode:
- Why it is important to build visual design skills into your team?
- What are the big errors in data visualization and storytelling
- Seth’s favorite tools you have to look at:
- Concept of Scrollytelling
- Mixpanel - Most advanced analytics platform for mobile and web
- Intercom - Customer messaging platform
- Segment - Customer data platform
- Google TAG manager - Free tool that makes it easy for marketers to add and update website tags
- Skitch - Evernote application that tries to make information as easy to relay virtually as it is in real life, by capturing screenshots and annotating them
- Time-saving tactics with creating effective visual presentations of data
- His presentations on Slideshare are great. One of them - Visual Design with data got 500k + views
- Visualization Strategies for IT Execs, Tools, Ideas on how they can be more successful
- Ways to leverage cloud apps + infrastructure to shorten implementation times
- Different trends I'm noticing in data viz and storytelling (like Scrollytelling). Check out the Guardian Newspaper article about Hollman Square to see an example of Scrollytelling. In a world of high complexity, business IT leaders need ways to visualize data and, more importantly, context in data in the ways that engage business leaders
Read full transcript here.
How to get in touch with Seth Familian
Websites:
Useful Resources:
- Slideshare Presentation (Working with Big Data)
- Slideshare Presentation (Visual Design with Data) 500k+
- Slideshare Presentation (Automating Big Data)
- Best Data Viz Book - Good Charts
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My guest this week is Jeff Williams, co-founder and Chief Technology Officer at Contrast Security.
The reason that I wanted Jeff on the program is that his technology was massively interesting to me, given that application attacks are the single biggest vector for security breaches. In 2017 There will be 111 billion new lines of code produced resulting in endless complexity.
His product was an Innovation Sandbox Finalist at RSA this year. So I wanted to understand more.
I have tried to integrate application level firewalls and experienced working through real & hard human challenges of coders and network security people trying to defend and deploy at the same time I wanted to understand his technology better AND because iterative application development is going to be even more important for companies for their security to move at the pace of the business innovation and applications development and testing becoming more and more iterative and agile. So how do we do this?
Major Take-Aways From This Episode:
- Planes, Cars, for example, are instrumented to security events via a dashboard and panel
- Instrument your software and turn it into self protecting software (like an internal robot helper) … always-on protection of an entire application portfolio
- Weave sensors into your application without disruptive scanning or expensive security experts
- Continuous Application Security at Scale & the Future of Dev Sec Ops
- Named a "Visionary" by Gartner
- The only "Transformational" tool in the entire category in the latest Gartner Hype Cycle Report.
About Jeff Williams
Jeff is co-founder and CTO of Contrast Security. He’s been working in application security for over 20 years and has found thousands of serious vulnerabilities in critical applications in hundreds of leading companies. He's extremely active in both open source and security communities and helped start OWASP where he created many open source tools and projects. Jeff pioneered the use of software instrumentation for application security and founded Contrast Security to bring this revolutionary technology to market. Jeff has spoken at conferences including JavaOne (Java Rockstar), BlackHat, QCon, RSA, and OWASP. Jeff has degrees from UVA, George Mason, and Georgetown University Law Center.
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How to get in touch with Jeff Williams
Key Resources:
- Website: contrastsecurity.com
- Innovation Sandbox Contest Finalist - Contrast Security Selected As Finalist For RSA Conference Innovation Sandbox Contest 2017, The Street
- Download Continuous Application Security Handbook
- RSA 2017 Presentation Overview
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My guest this week is the Greg Satell.
Greg is a popular writer, speaker and innovation advisor, whose work has appeared in Harvard Business Review, and Forbes.
I met Greg through the two gentlemen at Experian who have been on the show recently, Eric Haller, Executive Vice President of Experian’s DataLabs, and Barry Libenson, CIO of Experian. Birds of a feather flock together, as they say. As Greg and I were setting up the conversation, he just released his first book called Mapping Innovation: A Playbook for Navigating a disruptive age. It was published in May of 2017.
Major Take-Aways From This Episode:
- My conversation with Greg is a refreshing perspective on innovation largely because of his concept of an innovation matrix. This is a framework that he created to help companies frame problems so that they can find the approach that will most likely solve them.
- I love the concept of “looking for problems to solve” versus just generating ideas. I always appreciate the “mental judo” that innovative thinking offers and my conversation with Greg does that. It sort of breaks off the mental cobwebs.
- Innovation Labs - While reviewing the episode transcript, I liked what Greg said about innovation labs:
"When an innovation lab is targeted at finding new problems for solutions that exist within the organization, they tend to do pretty well.”
- We discuss two contrasts: Apple CEO Tim Cook’s vision for corporate innovation contrasted with Google's, for example.
- It will make you wonder what is right for your organization.
- Destructive innovation myths. Innovation just doesn’t happen because someone comes up with one big idea.
- Digital Age innovation is different than previous generations. We need to learn how to use new tools properly.
- In the resource links you can find a free chapter download Greg has made available along with a video about the book and the Amazon link to buy it.
About Greg Satell
Greg Satell is a popular writer, speaker and innovation advisor, whose work has appeared in Harvard Business Review, Forbes and other A-list publications.
Previously, he served as Senior Vice President Strategy & Innovation at Moxie Interactive, a division of Publicis Groupe, one of the world's leading marketing services organizations as well as Co-CEO of KP Media, a leading publisher of magazines and websites in Ukraine, including the newsmagazine Korrespondent and the web portal, Bigmir.
You can find Greg's blog at DigitalTonto.com and on Twitter @DigitalTonto. His first book, Mapping Innovation, has been published by McGraw-Hill in May.
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How to get in touch with Greg Satell:
Books / Publications:
- Mapping Innovation
- First chapter download link
- Short video (under 3 minutes) about the book
- Forbes Magazine Publications
- Harvard Business Review Publications
- Inc. Publications
Speaker's Profile:
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My guest this week is Jim Linn, Managing Director of Information Technology of American Gas Association. In an association, this simply means he is the “top dog” with IT.
What is fascinating about my guest today is that he built his own ISAC (information Sharing and Analysis Center) from scratch to service his industry - Natural Gas, which is part of the critical infrastructure of the US. He is the Executive Director for the Downstream Natural Gas Information Sharing and Analysis Center (DNG-ISAC).
By Far Jim has the most industry certification I have ever seen:
- B.S. degree in Computer Systems Management from Drexel University and an M.B.A. from Drexel University
- He is a Certified Chief Information Security Officer
- Certified Information Systems Security Professional
- Certified Association Executive
- Certified Information Systems Auditor.
Jim is quiet spoken but as I talked with him the word WISDOM kept popping up for me.
Lessons and wins for you as you listen are:
- Learn what an ISAC is and what it does.
- Why it is hard to upgrade critical infrastructure components
- What is DHS – AIS automated Indicator Sharing
- Learn about ISAO - Information Sharing Analysis Organization
- Emphasis of the value of ‘Service’ as a CIO
- Being a mentor and Finding a mentor
- Volunteering in your community to develop leadership skills
- Building Communications skills, e.g. via toastmasters, etc.
- Relationships: The importance of an IT Leader to build relationships
- The importance of recognizing how hard critical infrastructure (Gas and Electric) personnel is working their tails off to be secure
- Be cautious but proud of the work you do
- How current information sharing (such as ISAC) works and his vision for the future with DoE, DoD, NIST, DHS, etc.
About Jim Linn:
Jim has spent the past 30 years of his career in Information Technology and Cybersecurity management with several non-profit organizations in the Washington, DC area. He is presently Managing Director, Information Technology for the American Gas Association,and has been for the past nineteen years. Prior to that he spent eight years as IT Director for the Chemical Manufacturers Association. He planned IT projects and set technical direction for both of these organizations. In addition, he is a Certified Chief Information Security Officer, Certified Information Systems Security Professional, Certified Association Executive, Certified Information Systems Auditor, and holds many other industry certifications.
In recent years Jim has split his time between internal IT responsibilities and industry responsibilities. Jim is the information technology cybersecurity subject matter expert for AGA’s cybersecurity Strategy Task Force. In this capacity he has administered cybersecurity reviews with a number of natural gas utilities and also serves as Executive Director for the Downstream Natural Gas ISAC (https://www.dngisac.com/). He is the staff executive for AGA’s Customer Service Committee and Technology Advisory Council. In these capacities he serves senior leaders in the fields of Customer Service and Information Technology within the natural gas distribution industry. The Customer Service area includes an annual benchmarking effort, two workshops and a large conference. The Information Technology area includes two council meetings annually.
Jim has a B.S. degree in Computer Systems Management from Drexel University and an M.B.A. from Drexel University.
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How to get in touch with Jim Linn
Key Resources:
- American Gas Association Website
- Interview with Energy Central
- Jim Linn's Profile on True Blue Natural Gas Blog
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My guest this week is Barry Libenson, Global Chief Information Officer of Experian. During our interview Barry and I discuss what Experian is doing with innovation and his role in it.
Some of the big ideas we discuss:
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- The shifts Barry sees of customers requiring access at the API layer to micro services so they can consume only what they want
- How to build a micro services environment for internal and external use
- How IoT is shifting what customers are asking for
- Taking costs and complexity out of the business
- Speeding up innovation
- Better experience for customers
- Agile performance to respond to organizational threats
- Smart Hubs
- The API Economy
- Tools for Microservices: Red Hat OpenShift, Pivotal Labs, Mirantis
- The importance of portability and use of portable containers for Azure and AWS using Cassandra, PostgreSQL, or MySQL or one of the more portable container.
About Barry Libenson:
Barry Libenson is Chief Information Officer (CIO), with responsibility for the design and delivery of Experian’s global technology strategy. Prior to joining Experian in June 2015, he was CIO of Safeway in North America. Earlier in his career, Barry held CIO positions at Land O’Lakes and Ingersoll Rand. Barry has a BA in Computer Science from Colgate University, and a MBA from Duke University. He was also one of the first employees at Oracle when they were only a $19 million dollar company.
Read full transcript here.
Other Resources:
- About Experian’s DataLabs
- How Hadoop helps Experian crunch credit reports - CIO.com
- CIO Secrets to Great Pizza: The CIO Interview with Barry Libenson, Land O'Lakes – Heller Search Assosiates Blog
- Experian CIO embraces APIs and microservices to improve data transfer - Computerworld.com
- We Too Often Ignore the Tradeoff Between Innovation and Efficiency - Inc. Magazine
- How Experian is Turning Big Data Into Big Dollars – San Diego Union-Tribune
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My guest this week is the Global VP of IT of Seacret Direct, Stephanie Nelson. If you are a young IT Leader or the one that doesn’t want your clock cleaned by young talent, you need to listen to my conversation with Stephanie to see how someone, working with a rapidly growing worldwide company as a VP of IT, is executing.
Major Take-Aways From This Episode:
Stephanie and I discuss how she has been able to achieve so much so young and we get into a lot of fun details and big ideas, such as:
- The importance of self- learning
- The importance of ‘White Boarding” your ideas
- Best lesson she learned about how to convey technical information to the business
- Lessons she has learned about working with the ‘C’ Suite, and the importance of being able to answer their question of ‘why’
- How she uses questions in meetings
- How she has found mentors and how to find the best ones
- Innovation mindset, big egos, and how she solves this problem
- How to partner with business analysts to get things done
- CIO and CMO - Marketing - predictive behavior, analytics, content marketing, targeted marketing, influencer marketing…
- Tools she uses for marketing analytics
- How she is going to deploy V/R online
About Stephanie Nelson:
Stephanie Nelson is a senior IT Technical Lead, Senior Developer, and Technical Manager with 10+ years of experience and success with web-based software, database, virtual and cloud solutions, and client applications. She has extensive experience helping private sector, non-profit, and government organizations and teams transform and achieve success. Stephanie is a highly effective leader and communicator, who is able to collaborate and work with all levels of an organization. She achieved success developing and guiding on site, off site and off shore teams that design, build and deploy mission critical solutions, across a wide range of industries, in revenue generating production environments.
Read full transcript here.
Company Website:
Other Resources:
- About Seacret Direct
- Quantcast - audience measuring analytical tool
- Crazy Egg – heat mapping tool
Ways to connect with Stephanie Nelson:
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My guest this week is the Global VP of IT of Seacret Direct, Stephanie Nelson. If you are a young IT Leader or the one that doesn’t want your clock cleaned by young talent, you need to listen to my conversation with Stephanie to see how someone, working with a rapidly growing worldwide company as a VP of IT, is executing.
Major Take-Aways From This Episode:
Stephanie and I discuss how she has been able to achieve so much so young and we get into a lot of fun details and big ideas, such as:
- The importance of self- learning
- The importance of ‘White Boarding” your ideas
- Best lesson she learned about how to convey technical information to the business
- Lessons she has learned about working with the ‘C’ Suite, and the importance of being able to answer their question of ‘why’
- How she uses questions in meetings
- How she has found mentors and how to find the best ones
- Innovation mindset, big egos, and how she solves this problem
- How to partner with business analysts to get things done
- CIO and CMO - Marketing - predictive behavior, analytics, content marketing, targeted marketing, influencer marketing…
- Tools she uses for marketing analytics
- How she is going to deploy V/R online
About Stephanie Nelson:
Stephanie Nelson is a senior IT Technical Lead, Senior Developer, and Technical Manager with 10+ years of experience and success with web-based software, database, virtual and cloud solutions, and client applications. She has extensive experience helping private sector, non-profit, and government organizations and teams transform and achieve success. Stephanie is a highly effective leader and communicator, who is able to collaborate and work with all levels of an organization. She achieved success developing and guiding on site, off site and off shore teams that design, build and deploy mission critical solutions, across a wide range of industries, in revenue generating production environments.
Read full transcript here.
Company Website:
Other Resources:
- About Seacret Direct
- Quantcast - audience measuring analytical tool
- Crazy Egg – heat mapping tool
Ways to connect with Stephanie Nelson:
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My conversation with Bill Granger, CTO of Walker & Dunlop, continues down my path of exploring superpowers, skills, strategies and tactics that make top A+ Chief Information Officers succeed.
As I reviewed the transcript of my conversation with Bill, I was reminded that as you progress in your career, the truly successful transition is from I/me success, to we/us, to helping others succeed.
Major Take-Aways From This Episode:
- How to influence and lead positively as one of the core foundation skills
- The role of exercise for busy, successful leaders
- Paying attention to experimental and disruptive technologies
- The huge impact of finding a mentor and being a mentor
- The importance of continuous learning
- Unique project management skills I loved
- How to pitch solutions using strong financial literacy
- Fun story of the flea at 42:00
About Bill Granger:
Bill Granger, chief technology officer, joined Walker & Dunlop in 2010. Mr. Granger is responsible for managing and expanding the company’s information technology infrastructure. Before joining Walker & Dunlop, Mr. Granger was director of Information Technology at Beers & Cutler, a Virginia-based accounting firm recently acquired by Baker Tilly, LLC. At Beers & Cutler, Mr. Granger successfully upgraded the firm’s infrastructure to position the firm for expansion prior to the company’s acquisition. Previous to Beers & Cutler, Mr. Granger led the application group for the Mills Corporation and the technology infrastructure group at Charles E. Smith Commercial Realty before it was acquired by Vornado Realty Trust. Mr. Granger served in the U.S. Air Force from 1986 – 1992, when he was honorably discharged with Air Force Commendation Medals. Mr. Granger received a Bachelor of Science in Accounting from George Mason University in 1994.
Company Website:
Other Resources:
- Rich Dad Poor Dad: What The Rich Teach Their Kids About Money That the Poor and Middle Class Do Not! Robert Kiyosaki
- Iron War: Dave Scott, Mark Allen, and the Greatest Race Ever Run, Matt Fitzgerald
- Zig Ziglar Quotes
Ways to connect with Bill Granger:
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My guest for this episode is Bob Fecteau who is the CIO of SAIC. SAIC is a 15000 employee, $4.0 billion publicly-traded company.
He is one of the four top people who travel to Wall Street to report on the company performance along with the CEO, CFO and COO. He signs off on the SOX control documents for his publicly traded company.
From my perspective of working with and interviewing hundreds of CIOs, he is a visionary, and is one of the best in the profession. He is a giver who wants to elevate the whole profession and share his wisdom.
I think every early, mid and late career CIO with gas in the tank will benefit from listening to Bob's perspective as it rang true for me. Here are the quick wins for you. I warn you that you will want to take notes on this one because as I read through the show notes I had a difficult time choosing which points to put in this list because there were so many. I encourage you to go to the show notes page at www.redzonetech.net to see the show transcript and see the links to vendors and programs we discussed.
Here are the highlights from the conversation:
- Painting the visionary picture of what is the “art of the possible”.
- His perspective of the role of the CIO and Finance.
- His perspective of how he uses labor and time savings that has made a big difference for ROI and TCO calculations for technology investments.
- What it means to be a “state of art” versus ‘State of Market” with technology investments.
- We discuss his role with Compliance.
- We discuss his belief of the role of the CIO and innovation.
- The top 3 skills a CIO must have: Analytical, Financial, and Communication.
- What it means to own the problem.
- Important CIO Tools he uses that I thought were right on.
- His approach to Total Cost Accounting or an ERPC for CIOs and the tools he is using and testing; Apptio.com.
- Portfolio Management Software called Troux.com.
- What it means to have consistent artifacts as a CIO.
About Bob Fecteau
Bob Fecteau is the Chief Information Officer (CIO) for SAIC. In this role, Bob is responsible for guiding technology investments and delivering operational services in direct support of the business. As the CIO, Bob focuses on the efficiency and effectiveness of enterprise IT operations in support of both internal business needs and customer support processes.
Prior to joining SAIC, Bob served as the CIO of BAE Systems’ Intelligence and Security sector and as Chief Information Officer, United States Army Intelligence and Security Command (INSCOM). In 2001, he was selected for the Department of Defense’s Chief Information Officer Award for Outstanding Achievement in Information Management.
As an Army officer he served a variety of roles with the intelligence branch including, Army System Integration Management Officer (SIMO) for Army Intelligence; Intelligence Systems Architect for automated systems; Tactical Intelligence Officer; Human Intelligence Officer; and Company Commander. While assigned to Army headquarters as the Army SIMO, he received the National Intelligence Meritorious Citation for support to the Army’s and National Intelligence Community’s Y2K mission as well as serving as the Army’s Intelligence Year 2000 Program Manager.
Bob also serves the technical community as an executive board member of CIO Magazine’s CIO Executive Council and a judge for their annual One’s To Watch program. He also works as a mentor within the Pathways Program and teaches Enterprise Architecture and IT Leadership at Carnegie Mellon University’s Executive Education Program.
Bob's technical and leadership acumen has also been recognized by industry peers. In 2009 he was selected as one of the top 100 IT Leaders by Computerworld Magazine and in 2004, he received Government Executive Magazine’s Grace Hopper Government Technology Leadership Award for his efforts in breaking down barriers between government and industry through the use of the Army Contractor Automated Verification System (ACAVS). The ACAVS system has continued to deliver outstanding savings for the U.S. Army and contract companies in support of intelligence missions.
Bob received a Bachelor of Science degree from Corpus Christi State University and completed Syracuse University’s masters of information studies in Washington, D.C. He also received a Chief Information Officer certificate from the National Defense University.
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How to get in touch with Bob Fecteau:
Key Resources:
- Portfolio Management software - http://www.troux.com/
- ERP - Business Management Systems for CIOs - www.apptio.com
- Bill's first interview with Bob Fecteau - The Next Gen CIO. What Does This Person Look Like?
- SAIC Website
Where to Develop Additional Learning:
- Syracuse University - Information Management at the iSchool
- Duke University - Office of Information Technology
- Stanford University - Information Science and Technology
- Carnegie Mellon – Institute for Software Research, Executive & Professional Education Programs
- Penn State – Information Sciences and Technology Programs which have an integrated Enterprise Architecture component that was built by CIOs and business leaders in response to a need to teach students how to align IT to the business. Undergraduate, Graduate and Executive Certification Programs
- National Defense University – Information Resource College’s, Chief Information Officer Program
- Harvard Sponsored Program in their Center For Management Research: Programs on Leadership for Senior Executives as well as the Kennedy School of Government
- CIO Executive Council – CIO Pathways – provides a broad range of CIO Level leadership programs
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I am excited to share with you my conversation with Eric Haller as this is the first time I have had someone on the show that is in charge of a major innovation lab so our conversation will give you a window of visibility into several areas.
Major Take-Aways From This Episode:
- Why he believes that “Ruthless Competency Wins”.
- Innovation is more powerful when linked to a higher purpose.
- Managing an innovation portfolio and the development of the Intellectual property comes out of these efforts.
- The organizational structure he reports to.
- The culture of Experian from the types of people Eric hires as well as the culture of the Experian business as it supports the development efforts of the Innovation Lab.
- LDA – Machine Learning Techniques.
- Latent Dirichlet Allocation.
- Unsupervised and supervised Machine Learning.
- Unsupervised is based on recognizing patterns.
- Supervised – modelling known outcomes.
About Eric Haller
Eric Haller is the Executive Vice President of Experian DataLabs. Experian DataLabs is responsible for developing innovative products generated from break-through experimentation leveraging machine learning and data assets from a variety of sources. He led the creation of labs in the US, UK & Brazil that support research & development initiatives across the Experian enterprise. New products developed in the labs cover mobile, payments, consumer & commercial credit, fraud, targeted marketing & healthcare. Prior to Experian, Eric was responsible for new products with Sequoia Capital backed Green Dot where he created and brought to market the first credit card a consumer could purchase off of a j-hook in a retailer. Eric also co-founded identity fraud detection business iDawg which was later renamed ID Analytics. ID Analytics was acquired by LifeLock which is now part of Symantec. Other roles held by Eric includes Chief Marketing Officer of the first publicly traded machine learning company, HNC Software (acquired by FICO) and executive roles with Visa & MasterCard.
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How to get in touch with Eric Haller:
Key Resources:
- Experian’s DataLabs Website
- About Experian’s DataLabs
- Article by Eric Haller for insideBIGDATA website How Breakthrough Innovations at Experian’s DataLabs Expand the Horizons of Doing Good Things with Data
- We Too Often Ignore the Tradeoff Between Innovation and Efficiency - Inc. Magazine
- How Experian is Turning Big Data Into Big Dollars – San Diego Union-Tribune
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My guest for this episode is Lisa Kay Solomon. If you are into Design Thinking, expanding you leadership skills, innovation, want to learn how to be agile, flexible, nimble and execute both personally and collaboratively with your teams as an IT Business leader, this conversation is for you.
The reason that I asked Lisa onto the show is that she is one of the foremost experts in Design Thinking.
We discuss:
- Why the study of Design Thinking is so important moving forward?
- The importance of the unique human ability to tell stories.
- MBA is now called the “Masters in Business Ambiguity”.
- The definition of Design Thinking. How do you answer the question, "Is it just drawing pictures?"
- Resistance, Hero's Journey, Corporate Anti-bodies:How to generate ideas and protect yourself against naysayers.
- What is the definition of a strategic conversation?
- When is the last time you felt comfortable not knowing the answers?
- Leading with Curiosity.
- Best Question on All: If things have gone well, what has happened?
- What makes for a great day? If you had a perfect ending to your day, what would it look like?
- Overcoming “yeah butts…”
About Lisa Kay Solomon
Lisa Kay Solomon is a well-known thought leader in design innovation with a focus on building the leadership skills required to ignite change and create lasting impact. Lisa is Principal Faculty and Managing Director of Transformational Practices at Singularity University a global community of smart, passionate, action-oriented leaders who want to use exponential technologies to positively impact the world.
Lisa coauthored the Wall Street Journal bestseller, Moments of Impact: How to Design Strategic Conversations that Accelerate Change (Simon & Schuster), which Publisher's Weekly called a guide every frustrated meeting-goer should read, with advice they should all implement. In it, she provides leaders the tools and frameworks to create strategic conversations and design team meetings that shape the future of their organizations.
Her new book, Design a Better Business: New Tools, Skills and Mindset for Strategy and Innovation, was just released with Wiley Publishing. She and her co-authors provide a full set of design tools, strategies and practices that allow individuals and organizations to be more flexible and resilient in the face of constant change.
Lisa is a frequent keynote speaker on innovation, design thinking and leadership at global conferences. She has taught at the revolutionary Design MBA program at California College of the Arts and has developed and led popular classes for Stanford d. School such as Networking By Design and Design With the Brain in Mind.
A passionate educator, Lisa works extensively with K12 educators and school leaders. She is the Executive Producer of the annual Inspired4Schools conference, a design leadership program for educators, and is on the planning committee for The Nueva School's Innovative Learning Conference, a biennial gathering for trends related to the future of education.
Her articles and ideas have appeared in Forbes, Business Week, Medium, Inc., WSJ and the Huffington Post.
Lisa earned a BA from Cornell University and an MBA from New York University - Stern School of Business. She resides in Menlo Park with her husband and two daughters. Join her and the conversation about leading innovation at LisaKaySolomon.com.
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How to get in touch with Lisa Kay Solomon
Website:
Books:
- Moments of Impact: How to Design Strategic Conversations to Accelerate Change
- Design a Better Business: New Tools, Skills and Mindset for Strategy and Innovation
- The Hero’s Journey – Joseph Campbell and His Life and Work
- Value Proposition Design: How to Create Products and Services Customers Want (Strategyzer)
- Business Model Generation: A Handbook for Visionaries, Game Changers , and Challengers
Other Resources:
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My guest for this episode is Shola Oyewole, CIO of United Therapeutics.
As a member of the Senior Executive Leadership of United Therapeutics Corporation, Shola provides technology, vision, and leadership in the development and implementation of the global information technology (IT) program. In that role he supports the Finance, HR, R&D, Manufacturing, Sales & Marketing, and various business units in planning and implementing enterprise information systems to support both distributed and centralized business operations, and achieve more effective and cost beneficial enterprise-wide IT operations.
Additionally, Shola provides strategic and tactical planning, budget development, evaluation, and coordination of the information and technology systems for the corporation. He facilitates communication between staff, management, vendors, and other technology resources within (and outside) of the organization.
Major Take-Aways From This Episode:
1. In our discussion we highlighted the importance of continuous learning in not just tech domain but all elements leadership, innovation and team building for example.
2. The Importance of mentors.
3. Innovation and help desk ideas that will spark your imagination
4. Branding and marketing an IT Dpt. Click here see an example of the logo below for his team that was developed related to the marketing and branding of the IT department.
5. Stories of how Shola said 'Yes' to requests his CEO made that lead to major new sources of revenue for the company.
Ways to connect with SholaPrabhash Shrestha:
LinkedIn
Twitter
Other Resources:
United Therapeutics Website
Advanced Therapies For Patients Suffering with PAH, CIO Review
Harvard Business School Classes
Singularity University
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