Michigan CIO Roundtable Potential Discussion Topics

Michigan CIO Roundtable

Potential Discussion Topics

Please indicate which of those listed are of most interest to you. Feel free to add new topics you'd like to discuss.

CIO Responses to Technical and Political Challenges of Cloud Computing

• How are you responding to challenges presented by cloud computing? 
• Are you moving in the direction of cloud computing and if so, what are the issues you have to handle?
• Is outsourcing related at all to your evaluation of cloud computing?
• What other technical and technological challenges is your shop facing?  

Responsibilities of Users towards their Information Systems (Current Perspectives)

• Are users too demanding while simultaneously too ill-informed about IT and its value and also what the IT unit does?  
• Do users perceive they are receiving value from their use of IT and if not what are the barriers to this perception? 
• To what extent do users respect and trust IT professionals and treat them as business partners?  What are the barriers?

IT and Organizational Politics (Current Perspectives)

• How do CIOs balance operational and strategic pressures from their organizations, especially in tough economic times?
• What role does IT governance play in assuring strategic alignment between IT and the organization as a whole?
• How do CIOs get to be treated as executives and “sit at the executive table”?
• What political issues do you face and how do you handle them?