All the talk about transformation and alignment of IT and the business means little if there aren’t proper metrics to measure the efficacy of these efforts. At Williams, virtually all new IT endeavors are pegged to measureable metrics, both traditional IT measurements as well as business metrics. Williams in an energy infrastructure company. Enterprise CIO Forum content director Bill Laberis interviews Williams CIO Dru Rai.

At Chevron, CIO Louie Ehrlich took a 10-year view of IT and the business and came up with a three-pronged strategy focusing on prioritization, integration and simplification. In this video interview with Stan Gibson, senior managing editor of the Enterprise CIO Forum, Ehrlich explains how goals and targets were established and met, resulting in a $1 billion positive impact to Chevron over three years. As a result, Ehrlich was named winner of the Enterprise CIO Forum’s Transformational CIO Award.

Being a business peer or game-changer should be your goal as an IT leader, according to Louie Ehrlich, CIO of Chevron and winner of the Enterprise CIO Forum’s Transformational CIO Award. In this video interview, Ehrlich tells Stan Gibson, senior managing editor of the Enterprise CIO Forum that if you are viewed as merely a cost-center or service provider, you need to do better. Meet key line-of-business players and discussed their business goals.

Analytics are playing a very significant role in delivering measurable business value and competitive advantage across a broad swath of organizational types, according to Harvard Business School visiting professor Tom Davenport. He reveals some of the secrets why some companies are better with analytics than others. Humana is cited as an example CIO publisher emeritus Gary Beach conducts the interview.