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"IT SOLUTIONS FOR BUSINESS PROBLEMS"
November 17-18, 2010
Crowne Plaza Downtown
Portland, OR |
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KEYNOTE: "PULSE: THE INTERNET AS THE ULTIMATE MEASUREMENT INSTRUMENT FOR BUSINESS AND GOVERNMENT"
Presented by: Douglas W. Hubbard,President, Hubbard Decision Research Discussion: In this session, Doug Hubbard, author of How to Measure Anything and The Failure of Risk Management will present his latest research into a new way to use the internet. As more people use Twitter, Facebook, Craigslist, ebay and Amazon, it is become more feasible to use the “tracks” they leave behind as an important source of business intelligence. Reports on the frequency of particular searches on Google can be used to determine if unemployment is decreasing or even to determine where flu outbreaks occur first. Ranks of books on Amazon can be analyzed to determine whether housing is recovering or if more people are going into their own business. New methods for searching blogs and twitter can give you the “buzz” on your company. The internet has become the most powerful socio-economic measurement tool in history – and is yet vastly underutilized for this purpose. Find out what’s next for this new way of analyzing trends in business, government, and popular culture. |
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KEYNOTE: “CIO CAREER DEVELOPMENT"
Moderated by: Alan Guibord,Founder, The Advisory Council
Panelists: TBDbr Discussion: An informal and interactive discussion with today’s search industry leaders. Find out: what they hear from prospective clients, what skills are needed to be successful, why do CIO's loose their jobs, what are prospective employers looking for, how do you get on their radar screens, which resumes get their attention, what is the future state of the CIO. This is your chance to hear it from the experts. |
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KEYNOTE – "THE BUSINESS VALUE OF SOCIAL SOFTWARE"
Presented by: Wolfgang Kulhanek, Program Director: Social Software Adoption, IBM Software Group
Discussion: This keynote will discuss the business benefits of social networking. We will talk about networking, branding and productivity improvements by using social networking tools in the enterprise. We will use IBM as a case study of successful social software deployments and how IBM deals with the risk in letting our employees do social networking internally and especially externally. |
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"THE VALUE OF IT AND IT METRICS"
Moderated by: Manoj Garg,CIO, Virtual Information Executives
Panelists: Mike Green, CIO, Paccess
Nate Oliver, Sr. Director IT, Genesis Financial
Discussion: Most CIOs and leaders of IT struggle in demonstrating the value of IT to the business. The key challenge lies in defining the right metrics that make sense to business leaders. Unfortunately, there is no standard way to do this. In this session, three CIOs will discuss practices they have followed successfully in demonstrating the value of IT using metrics aligned to the business. Please come, learn and share your best practices with the group. |
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“INFORMATION GOVERNANCE: SMARTER STRATEGIES TO MAXIMIZE YOUR INFORMATION SUPPLY CHAIN”
Presented by: Eric Naiburg, Director, IBM
Discussion: The volume and variety of digital information is exploding as our Planet becomes more instrumented, interconnected and intelligent. Current economic times require corporations and governments to analyze new information faster and make timely decisions for achieving business goals within budget. Look around you and think about all the new types of information your organization is collecting that it previously did not capture 10, 5, or even a single year ago. How do you manage and protect this information today? Is your organization able to harness this data to drive smarter business outcomes and ensure your company is prepared for the future? In this session we will discuss best practices to master the complete lifecycle of information, establish sustainable management of information quality and security, and enable IT to make information more accessible and meaningful to the business. Learn how an effective governance strategy can enable IT and business to collaborate more effectively by ensuring information is aligned to business goals. Understand how your organization can take a holistic approach to improve operational efficiency by reducing risk and wasted time and cost associated with finding, understanding, and managing information. |
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“EDUCATING THE IT WORKFORCE”
Moderated by: J. Hootman, Sr. IT Faculty, DeVry University
Panelists: Mike Eom, Asst. Professor of Business MIS, University of Portland
Rene Reitsma,Assoc. Professor, School of Business, OSU
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“EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES”
Presented by: Accenture
Discussion: TBD |
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“IT LEADERSHIP”
Moderated by: Lance Harris,CIO, TL-Harris Consulting
Panelists: Steve Brilling, Executive Director, Entrepreneurship Center, Seattle University
Ida Salazar, CIO, City of Salem
Laura Schildkraut, Principal, Onboarding Gen Y
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“FINDING GOLD IN RED PROJECTS”
Presented by: Todd Williams, President, eCameron, Inc.
Discussion: The ability to deliver initiatives that make breakthroughs in the business is the differentiator of a truly successful IT department. However, the project success rates are very poor. Failure rate estimates range from 40%-75% of projects that are over budget, late, or fail to deliver the required functionality. Finding the Gold in Red Projects looks at the value in performing a formal recovery on a red projects. The Presenter will use current and historical data, case studies and his twenty-five years experience of recovering projects to illustrate the process. Finding the Gold in Red Projects has four major goals: Defines the state of today’s project management success/failure ratio; Shows how a formal recovery process can reduce or eliminate failure reoccurrence; Examples of some common problems and their solutions; Outlines next steps in improving project performance. At the end of the presentation, attendees will understand some of the factors that influence continued project failure and a number of steps that can be taken to improve success rates and minimize reoccurrence. |
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ADVANCE REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED
To register, please contact:
Nina Di Francisco
ninad@pemconferences.com
1.503.821.7318
There is no registration via the web due to pre-qualification requirements.
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