CIO Leadership Series: David Cagigal, Alliant Energy
...ng of the networked refrigerator at Maytag . cagigal David cagigal is Alliant Energys new CITO. Prior to that he wa...he people who work there forward. Q&A with David cagigal What's the latest book you've read? Generations...Fusion 2006 symposium focuses on making IT work for businesses
...00 servers," said David Cagigal, chief information technology officer of Alliant Energy. "We need to know why." "There's really two hard messages," cagigal said. "Sometimes we find it difficult within ourselves to know what value we deliver, so IT departments need to be able to decide what value that is, ...CEOs and CIOs must be 'joined at the hip'
...eploying mature technologies. "Our business model states that the pioneers get the arrows, and the settlers get the land," he stated. For his part, cagigal would like to field more employee questions about new or existing technologies. "We don't have enough churn in our organization to test the mettle of ...What do CIOs want? Fusion2007 speakers weigh in
... Shared alignment Although there is some disagreement about who initiates the alignment process - upper management or information technology - cagigal views it as a dual - and welcome - responsibility. We cannot be waiting for the orders to come to IT, he said. We need to be proactively engaged i...Fusion 2007: In e-legalities, CIOs and lawyers combine to provide business value
...ct an annual risk assessment - an inventory of your greatest vulnerabilities - and take the results to the board of directors. In risk assessments, cagigal said the technology risks bubble up to the top pretty quickly, and the process is a way of informing upper management that at least we've got a good a...The business case for software applications
... Madison, Wis. - David cagigal knows the missing link in many software evaluation... cost over the life of the application. David cagigal It's easy to pinpoint the pre-implementation cost...del. The scale of interest is in the long term, so cagigal requires technologists to calculate the return on ...