OC CIO Minutes February 13, 2014

Southern California/Orange County CIO Breakfast Round Table

February 13, 2014 meeting

 

Present:        Jeff Crowell, Jim Sutter, Sean Brown, William Zauner, Ashwin Rangan, Joel Manfredo, Jeff Reid, Jeff Hecht, Dave Phillips

The topics and speakers for meetings through August 2014 are listed in Attachment A.

Note the change for March.

 

Topic:          3D Printing

          “3D printing will change the world!”.

Jeff Crowell did a good job of persuading us that this might happen in the not too distant future. 3D printing was first developed in 1984 by Charles Hull and named SLA – stereolithography – an additive manufacturing or printing technology used for producing models, prototypes, patterns and production parts.  There are a wide variety of 3D printers in use today. Slide 5, 6 shows how it works – each scanner/printer can scan, print, copy and fax.  3d printing is experiencing multidimensional growth (Slides 9-13). Gartner says there was 75% growth in 2013 – by 2016 enterprise 3D printers will cost less than $2,000.  There are many advantages to 3D printing – lower cost for a new business by reducing product development time, production costs, energy costs, material costs, inventorying carrying costs, etc.  Major players in this game are Autodesk, Stratasys, 3D Systems DDD, Dassault, Shapeways.  Within 10 years there will be one in every house (?).  There are negatives e.g. 3D printed guns, counterfeiting, drugs on demand, intellectual property losses.  There are endless uses in medicine, paleontology, archaeology, building construction, etc.  The potential is amazing.  Look at Jeff’s slides and appendices. They are at:   http://www.slideshare.net/occio .

 

Jeff also showed us a number of slide shows, which helped our understanding of the current uses and potential. Great presentation.

 

OC CIO Minutes January 9, 2014

Southern California/Orange County CIO Breakfast Round Table

January 9, 2014 meeting

 

Present:        David Mann, Sean Brown, Jon Hahn, Jim Sutter, Jeff Hecht, Joel Manfredo, Jeff Crowell,, Dave Phillips

The topics and speakers were selected for meetings through August 2014 – see Attachment A.

Topic:          Agile & SCRUM

David introduced the value proposition for Agile & SCRUM - improved sales efficiency, enhanced customer experience and increased staff loyalty. It is process driven, which provides a focus. Having a process is important for many reasons - time to market, productivity, efficiency and quality. People don’t follow complex processes so it has to be simple, customizable and scalable. David described a SCRUM as an Agile process. It’s not about rushing things; it is iterative, full customer involvement, frequent releases and focused on delivery.  It is not chaos.  It is dependable in terms of scope, time, cost and quality (see slides 16-23). It depends on defining milestones, deliverables, and teamwork.  I recommend that you read the attached slides.  Find them at: http://www.slideshare.net/occio .

 

Thanks to David, we had a productive and interactive meeting.

Schedule for the meetings through August 2014:

DATE           INTRODUCTION                                    TOPIC

                   

9/12/13	Jeff Hecht, Word & Brown	BYOD
10/10/13	Keith Golden, Econolite	Evolving role of the CIO
11/14/13	Jeff Crowell, uGovernIT	IT Governance – Demand, Project, Service Mgmt.
12/12/13	Hicham Semaan, Quickstart	Microsoft update
1/9/14	David Mann, Financial Payment Sys	Agile & SCRUM
2/13/14	Jeff Crowell, uGovernIT	3-D Printing
3/13/14	Sean Brown, RJT Compuquest	Legal challenges for Cloud computing
4/10/14	Joel Manfredo	Salesforce update
5/8/14	David Mann, Financial Paymnt Sys.	Mobile security
6/12/14	Jon Hahn	Gartner Group update on BYOD
7/10/14	Jeff Hecht, Word & Brown
8/14/14	Keith Golden, Econolite	Intelligent Transportation