Conference
Program
8:00 am - 9:00
am - Registration and Continental Breakfast
9:00 am - 10:00
am
Meeting the Global IT Challenge:
Serving as a Strategic Leader in Your
Organization
|
Shafer |
Patricia Shafer, President, Compel, Ltd.
A growing body of research indicates that
executives and managers often perceive that
IT investments are not as efficient or
effective as they could be, and IT
professionals need to enhance their
abilities to add value by “providing
relevant business solutions.” The
presenter will share the results of her
research initiative, “The Whole World at
Work: Managers Around the Globe Tell Us What
Still Needs to Change in Organizations.”
During a two year period she conducted over
160 interviews in multinational corporations
representing nearly 30 nationalities in
North America, Europe, Asia/Oceania and
sub-Sahara Africa, in which working managers
shared frustrations with and aspirations for
IT and its leaders. Attendees will
understand why the most successful 21st
century organizations will be more
connected, communicative, collaborative and
consensus-building - but only if new visions
of technology are developed to meet the
challenge.
And, only if new models of IT leadership
emerge
In this session, attendees will learn:
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What managers around the world are
saying about the ideal organization of
the future, how to successfully manage
change, and effective leadership on the
global stage
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Barriers to achieving these ideals,
including missed opportunities to
capitalize on technology
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What
this means for technology leaders and
those charged with training and
developing leaders of the future
10:00 am - 10:30 am - Refreshment Break
10:30 am - 11:30 am
Innovating With Discipline: How to Leverage
IT to Drive Innovation in the Enterprise
|
Meaux |
Duane Meaux, Client Partner, Geneca
Anyone who takes on the challenge of
technology innovation -- whether to cut
costs or create competitive advantage --
knows that innovation goes hand in hand with
risk. So while your executive team may
express support for new ideas, they are
often apprehensive about innovation and view
it as high-risk effort with uncertain
returns. In order to be successful, it is
becoming increasingly important for you to
understand and communicate the concept of
Innovating With Discipline.
This presentation demonstrates an objective,
pragmatic approach to managing the
relationship between innovation and risk.
This approach will bring a higher level of
certainty to even the most risk prone
initiatives and help your team progress from
seeing risk as a danger to be avoided to a
necessity that can absolutely be managed.
Topics covered include:
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Creating an innovation environment with
your business partners
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Measuring and communicating the return
on innovation investments
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Enabling Innovation Certainty
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Classifying types of project risks
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Assessing project risk, size and
complexity
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Risk mitigation processes: What’s
available; what works; and areas of
needed expertise to carry it off
11:30 am -
12:30 am
The Best Technology : How to Apply it to
your Business Processes
|
Lauter |
Andrew Lauter, President, PSC
Whether it is e-mail, the Internet, master
scheduling, ERP, CRM, workflow, portals or
content management, we are all using some
form of business technology. The challenge
is in using it in the most efficient way to
meet your business goals. There are three
levels of activity to consider when applying
technology to a business: the individual
level, where the work is performed, the
group level where individuals collaborate as
part of a process, and at the enterprise
level, where technology unites individuals
and group into a single, highly efficient
entity. All levels must work together in the
same technological framework if business
goals are to be met. The speaker will
discuss the concepts and requirements for
each level as well as give examples from
actual case studies.
Attendees will learn how to:
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Use the latest technology to provide
critical information to employees
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Keep that information in context with
the overall business process
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Take the lead in leveraging technology
to drive business growth
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Prove to executive management what
specific technologies are working today.
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm Luncheon
|
Rogan
Oborn
Orndorff
Zimmerman |
1:30 pm -
2:30 pm
Quality of IT Services: How to Increase–
(panel discussion)
Moderator: Brian Rogan, SVP of Strategic
Business and Marketing, Sierra Atlantic
Panelists: John Oborn,
SVP, Chief Information Officer, Health Care
Service Corporation
Diane K. Orndorff, Vice
President and Chief Information Officer,
Laidlaw Education Services
Scott
Zimmerman, CIO, CenterPoint Properties
In this session attendees will hear from
enterprise IT executives as to how they have
increased the quality of IT services at
their respective organizations.
Attendees will be provided with frameworks
and suggestions to use that include:
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How design and implement strategies to
increase quality
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How to establish effective communication
channels
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How to balance the needs of different
enterprise business units
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How to manage expectations of delivery
of services
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Suggestions to make IT indispensable to
the rest of the organization
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How to rate the delivery of those
services
2:30 pm - 3:00 pm Refreshment Break
3:00 pm - 4:00
pm
Compliance: How to Achieve Compliance
Without Lowering Operational Excellence
Lance Masten, Senior Product Manager, Quest
Software
|
Masten |
Compliance affects almost every organization
in business today, whether it’s from an
external source like the
SEC or internal
initiatives to improve internal controls and
security. Companies are spending large
amounts of money to meet these objectives
and at the time they are sacrificing
operational excellence. Due to these facts,
corporations are looking to consolidate
efforts that will help them achieve both
their security requirements and their
day-to-day operations.
In
this session, attendees will learn:
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How to perform a risk analysis and
determine where your organization is
today
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How to implement
Compliance Lifecycle
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How to
handle
the inside threat- why it’s important
and what it means
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How to
ensure reputability and authenticity
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How to implement remediation policies and what is
appropriate
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How to lower the overall cost of
compliance
4:00 pm -
5:00 pm
|
Anderson
Scott
Kallembach
Kozlowski
Lemme |
IT Leadership: How to be an Effective IT
Leader– (panel discussion)
Moderator: Dave Anderson, President &
CEO, Binary Visions
Panelists: Yvonne
Scott, CIO, GATX
Larry
Kallembach, SVP & CIO, MB Financial
Mike
Kozlowski, CIO, Rust-Oleum, Inc.
Dave Lemme,
EVP & CIO, Anixter
The key to any organization’s success is
having leaders that can help take the
business to the next level. For current and
future IT leaders, understanding the needs
of the business is crucial to their growth.
In this session, attendees will hear from
seasoned IT executives on how to be an
effective IT/Business Leader and how to lead
one’s staff into the future.
Areas that will be addressed include:
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Skills needed to be successful in the
business IT climate
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Managing business expectations
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Pitfalls to avoid
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How to acquire those skills
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How one should manage their staff
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Cross function job rotation
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How to handle chargebacks
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Driving efforts vs. simply aligning IT
with business projects
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How to discuss how new technology will
improve ROI
