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Keynote Speakers
Don't miss your chance to hear from these renowned leaders:
Nicholas Carr, Acclaimed Business Writer and Speaker
The Big Switch
Carr draws on themes from his new book, The Big Switch: Rewiring the World, from Edison to Google, and explores the revolutionary changes taking place within IT. Carr argues that the Internet and other technological changes have transformed computing into a utility. He emphasizes the need for today’s leaders to understand this profound shift and to adapt their business strategies accordingly.
A former executive editor of the Harvard Business Review, Carr writes and speaks on technology, business, and culture. His intriguing 2003 Harvard Business Review article, “IT Doesn’t Matter,” was an instant sensation, setting the stage for the global debate on the strategic value of information technology in business. His 2004 book, Does IT Matter?: Information Technology and the Corrosion of Competitive Advantage, was a bestseller and kept the worldwide business community discussing the role of computers and IT in business.
The Big Switch: Rewiring the World, from Edison to Google examines the future of computing and its implications for business and society. The Wall Street Journal says The Big Switch is “destined to influence CEOs and the boards and investors that support them as companies grapple with the constant change of the digital age.”
Doug Keeley, CEO and Chief Storyteller for The Mark of a Leader
The Mark of a Leader
Keeley uses a pioneering technique called Digital Storytelling to inspire his audience and take them on a journey of the past, present, and future of IT. Keeley is one of North America’s leading communicators, and a self-professed “leadership junkie.”
Keeley’s revolutionary new program, The Mark of a Leader, is moving corporate workforces across North America to improve performance and includes inspiring stories from the world’s greatest leaders, teams, and brands.
Russell Romanella, Director of the International Space Station/Payload Processing Directorate, NASA
The NASA Exploration Vision
Romanella’s presentation focuses on the future plans for the Space Shuttle, the International Space Station, robotic exploration of the solar system, and humans’ return to the moon and visit to Mars.
In his current position, Romanella is responsible for launch site ground processing of the International Space Station and Shuttle Payloads. During previous positions at NASA, critical elements of the International Space Station were successfully assembled at the Kennedy Space Center, tested, and launched to orbit. These elements are now operating in orbit and supporting the largest, most complex Space Station in human history. In addition, Romanella is responsible for preparing the Kennedy Space Center for fi nal assembly of the future launch of the human space vehicle – the Crew Exploration Vehicle – Orion.
Tony Salvaggio, CEO and President, Computer Aid, Inc. (CAI)
IT and the World Wide Manufacturing Revolution
For 30 years, manufacturing companies have gone through a revolutionary journey that has resulted in dramatically higher productivity, lower costs, and improved quality. Salvaggio examines their journey, as well as how and why it happened. He draws a parallel between the current changes with information technology and what we can learn and copy.
Salvaggio has been President of CAI, an IT outsourcing and professional services corporation, since 1985. He founded the “IT Metrics and Productivity Institute” – a leading IT best practices educational organization and Web site repository of IT information.
Lloyd Taylor, VP, Technical Operations, LinkedIn
Social Networks: Business Value vs. Business Risk
Taylor’s presentation focuses on the value and risks of social networks to corporations.
Taylor joined LinkedIn from Google, where he was Director of Global Operations. During his three years there, he was responsible for scaling the Google.com infrastructure, including data centers and server operations, to support Google’s post-IPO growth.His efforts helped the company scale its infrastructure by more than 500% while growing staff responsible for machine maintenance by only 80 percent.
Erik Wahl, Inspirational Artist and Speaker
The Art of Vision
Wahl uncovers new ways to make organizations more innovative and profitable through challenging his audience to focus on strategies for empowering leadership, organizational excellence, and embracing change.
Wahl is a recognized artist and speaker who challenges organizations to transcend mediocrity through creativity. His success as a speaker and unique understanding of vision traces back to his training as an artist. He holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of San Diego where he studied both art and business. After first working in the business world and playing with his art, he now plays in the business world by working with his art.
Andrew Winston, Founder, Winston Eco-Strategies and Co-author of Green to Gold
Green to Gold
Winston explores the environmental and societal pressures that are driving companies to “go green” and outlines the innovative strategies and tools exemplary organizations are using to address this need and to profi t from their “green” efforts.
Winston is the co-author of Green to Gold, the best-selling guide to what works – and what doesn’t – when companies go “green” and is a globally-recognized expert on green business. Winston is dedicated to helping companies both large and small use environmental strategy to grow, create enduring value, and build stronger relationships with employees, customers, and other stakeholders. For his efforts, he was recently named a “Planet Defender” by Rock the Earth.
CIO Panel
Innovative IT Strategies for Addressing Business Challenges
Moderator: Nancy Markle, Board of Trustees, Fielding Graduate University
Prominent CIOs discuss strategies used to address the commoditization of IT, the pressure to go “green,” the challenges of filling the professional pipeline, and much more.
Keep visiting simposium.simnet.org for panelists, who will be announced shortly.
Featured Speakers
New this year, SIMposium 08 features additional prominent speakers, including:
Dr. Kenneth E. Washington, Lockheed Martin Corporation
The Future of Privacy
Which data breach did you read about in the paper this morning? Whether it involved identity theft, a lost mobile device with sensitive information, or a compromised database, all of these have one common theme: loss of privacy. Privacy has suddenly become a necessary element of conducting business. Government regulations around the world have begun to impose strict and complicated privacy requirements on businesses that will result increased cost to ensure information is properly classified and protected. But might there also be ways privacy could become a business enabler, providing a business competitive advantage? With a multitude of devices that include embedded RFID, GPS, and/or sensor based technology on the horizon, now is the time to implement privacy policies, tools and techniques that will prepare your business for the future.
Washington was recently named Lockheed Martin’s first Chief Privacy Leader. In this role, he oversees all activities related to the organization’s policies and procedures covering the privacy of employee and program data in compliance with federal, state, and international laws, and customer requirements. Washington previously served as CTO for Lockheed Martin Enterprise Information Systems, where he was responsible for shaping the future of the corporation’s more than $1 billion information technology enterprise. He also chaired the corporation’s IT Architecture Council, which has the charter for IT technical coordination and establishment of corporate-wide IT standards.
Luis von Ahn, Assistant Professor, Computer Science Department, Carnegie Mellon University
As the inventor of captchas, those mash-ups of fuzzy letters computers make you recognize to access a Web site, von Anh is revolutionizing the way computers learn to think. His presentation focuses on his general paradigm for utilizing human processing power to solve computational problems in a distributed manner. More specifically, he focuses on harnessing human time and energy for addressing problems that computers cannot yet solve. By leveraging human skills and abilities in a novel way, he hopes to solve large-scale computational problems and/or collect training data to teach computers many of these human talents. His "games with a purpose" entice people to play online games that complete simple tasks and help make computers smarter.
A MacArthur Fellowship recipient, von Ahn was named one of Popular Science Magazine’s “Brilliant 10” scientists of 2006. His work has appeared in more than 100 news outlets including The New York Times, CNN, USA Today, BBC, and The Discovery Channel.
Enterprise Architecture Pioneers Panel
Leon Kappelman, Ph.D., Professor of IS, University of North Texas (Moderator); Larry R. DeBoever, Managing Director, EAdirections; John A. Zachman, CEO, Zachman International; Kathie Sowell, President, Custom Enterprise Solutions, LLC; Randolph G. Hite, Director, IT Architecture & Systems Issues US Government Accountability Office; Dr. Jeanne W. Ross,Director, MIT Center for Information Systems Research
Increasingly, businesses have been establishing Enterprise Architecture (EA) practices. An enterprise architecture describes some aspect of the organization and helps ensure alignment of IT to business requirements. It is a blueprint of the organization and can serve as a starting point for analysis, decision-making, design, strategic planning, and alignment. Come and listen to some of the most distinguished pioneers of the EA field who will explain the origins of EA and why it is becoming increasingly important to your business. In addition, they will explain how they are influencing the evolution of EA and its future prospects. If you are considering implementing or enhancing an EA practice, you will not want to miss this session.
Leon Kappelman, Ph.D., Professor of IS, University of North Texas (Moderator)
Kappelman is a research scientist, teacher, author, speaker, and consultant dedicated to helping organizations better manage their information, systems, and technology assets. He is co-chair of SIM’s Enterprise Architecture Working Group and has done EA work for the Executive Office of the President of the United States and the Department of Veterans Affairs.
Larry R. DeBoever, Managing Director, EAdirections
Recognized as one of the pioneers of EA, DeBoever founded DeBoever Architectures (DAI) in 1990, the first consulting firm focused on EA project execution. DeBoever developed Adaptive Architecture and published one of the first EA process methodologies in the early 1990s. DAI was acquired by the META Group in October 1996, where DeBoever started the Enterprise Architecture Strategies (EAS) practice, the first EA research service. In 1997, he started the Enterprise Architectures Conference (EAC) and chaired the event in its early years.
John A. Zachman, CEO, Zachman International
Zachman is an internationally-recognized EA thought leader. He is the originator of the “Framework for Enterprise Architecture,” which has received broad acceptance throughout the world as an integrative framework for understanding enterprises and the systems, people, technologies, and processes that comprise and support them. Zachman is also known for his early contributions to Business Systems Planning, IBM’s widely-used information planning methodology in the 1970s, as well as Intensive Planning, the basis for IBM’s executive, team planning techniques.
Randolph C. Hite, Director, IT Architecture & Systems Issues US Government Accountability Office
In his current role, Hite is responsible for GAO’s work on IT issues across the government, specifically architecture and systems acquisition, development, operations, and maintenance, as well as GAO’s IT work at DOD, DHS, State, and Justice. During his 30-year career with GAO, he has directed reviews of major federal IT investments, such as IRS’ business systems modernization, FAA’s air traffic control modernization, NWS’s weather systems modernization, DHS’s border security modernization programs (e.g., ACE, US-VISIT, and SBInet), DOD’s business systems modernization, as well as other system areas, such as electronic voting systems. He has also directed GAO’s research and publication of enterprise architecture best practices, as well as its evaluations of federal agencies’ development and use of enterprise architectures, and their systems development and acquisition and IT services outsourcing efforts. Hite is a principal author of several information technology management guides, such as GAO’s guide on system testing, the federal CIO Counsel guide on enterprise architectures, and GAO’s enterprise architecture management maturity framework. He frequently testifies before Congress on these and other topics.
Hite has received many awards throughout his career, including GAO's Meritorious Service Award, Distinguished Service Award, multiple Congressional Client Service Awards, the Federal Computer Week Federal 100 Award, the Secure E-Government Thought Leadership Award, and the e-Gov Institute Excellence in Enterprise Architecture Award.
Dr. Jeanne W. Ross, Director and Principal Research Scientist, Center for Information Systems Research (CISR), MIT Sloan School of Management
Ross studies the organizational and performance implications of enterprise initiatives related to enterprise architecture, governance, and new IT management practices. Ross shares her research in lectures, executive education courses, articles, and books. Her work has appeared in the Sloan Management Review, Harvard Business Review, The Wall Street Journal, CIO Magazine, MIS Quarterly, MISQ Executive, and IBM Systems Journal, among others. She has co-authored two books: IT Governance: How Top Performers Manage IT Decision Rights for Superior Results and Enterprise Architecture as Strategy: Creating a Foundation for Business Execution. Her third book, IT Savvy: What Top Executives Must Know to Go from Pain to Gain will be published around the end of the year. Jeanne is a founding senior editor of MIS Quarterly Executive and currently serves as editor-in-chief.
Kathie Sowell, President, Custom Enterprise Solutions, LLC
Sowell is a recognized leader in EA, having been the principal author of DoD’s original architecture framework and a principal developer of other frameworks for Government and Industry. Her expertise has been tapped by NATO Headquarters, the Australian Ministry of Defence, Canadian corporations, the Danish Embassy, the Swedish military, and state and local governments. For five years she served as a curriculum developer, Technical Director, and Director of the DoD Division of the Federated Enterprise Architecture Certification Institute (FEAC). She now provides Enterprise Architect Certification through her company and National-Louis University.
Focus Area Session Speakers
Gather peer-driven practical knowledge, experiences, and insights during breakout sessions corresponding to five focus areas.
Next Wave of IT Innovation
Investigate the impact of emerging technologies and innovations. Focus area topics include the Next Gen Web, predictive software, and virtualization.
Emerging Technologies Radar Screen 2008 and Beyond
Chandra Olson, Enterprise Architect, Lockheed Martin
Every enterprise predicts the future, explicitly through architectural road maps, scenario planning or other formal techniques, or implicitly through the investment decisions made. In many cases, the basis for the forecast is an assumption that trends will continue along their current paths. While this has traditionally held true in the short term (i.e., 18 to 24 months), it is rarely the case from a longer-term perspective (e.g., 3 to 10 years). It is important for enterprises to seek out potential discontinuities as part of their technology forecasting activities. This presentation highlights a number of key, high-impact trends.
Olson is specializes in emerging technologies and enterprise architecture. She developed the Lockheed Martin Technology Radar Screen, worked closely with Lockheed Martin suppliers to influence future capabilities, and initiated Lockheed’s participation in numerous beta and early adopter programs. Olson participates in the IEEE 802.11 Working Groups, OASIS, and the Open Group. Her current focus includes EA, mobile\wireless, social software, unified communications, rich interactive application development and numerous emerging technologies. She was the 2004 Lockheed Martin Pinnacle Award winner for Technical Excellence.
Web 2.0 – Leverage Community Development
Jack Pond, CIO, The County of Montgomery, PA
As technologists, we cannot overlook the technologically driven phenomenon of mass collaboration. Social computing tools such as Wikis, blogs, instant messaging, MySpace, YouTube, mail list servers, etc. are transforming not only the mode of communication, but the culture of communication right under our noses. The successful IT organizations will harness the culture not only to serve their companies, but also to transform and enhance their own roles. Bottom-up knowledge creation is not just changing the traditional roles of IT departments, it is obliterating them. Hear real-life examples of how to harness the media, culture, and economics to transform and facilitate collaboration in the increasingly dynamic environment. The speaker will investigate how it relates to strategic planning, project management, requirements analysis, service oriented approaches, vendor management, and most importantly, learning to use the inexorable fluidity to achieve objectives without loss of sanity (or job)!
With more than 25 years of experience, Pond planned and executed high-tech projects employing a variety of technologies spanning telecommunications, converged data and voice networks, enterprise software systems, and enterprise infrastructure. He has overseen implementations in client/server, open systems, mainframe, and Internet and collaborative (web 2.0) platforms .Additionally, Pond has worked on the creation and development of networks (including VoIP), vertical applications, outsourcing, and data operation centers for large organizations with more than 30,000 users.
Predictive Software: How to Use this Technology to Make Better Decisions
Eric Bonabeau, CEO and Chief Scientific Officer, Icosystem and Adam Siegel, CEO and Founder, Inkling Markets
Adam Siegel, CEO and Founder, Inkling Markets
Siegel is a co-founder and the CEO of Inkling Markets, a Chicago-based prediction market company that helps organizations and individuals tap into the collective wisdom of their employees, peers, and customers to improve forecasting processes, predict key corporate metrics, identify promising future innovations, and forge new communication and collaboration channels. As a leading industry expert, Adam frequently speaks at conferences and has been published by Forbes.com, Risk Magazine and the Journal of Prediction Markets. Previously, Adam worked at Accenture, a global consulting firm where he served over a dozen clients across multiple industries.
Security in a Virtualized Environment
Discovering Innovation
This focus area provides proven strategies for pioneering a culture of innovation at all levels within your organization. Discover best practices and lessons learned from leaders who continue to push the envelope.
Mastering the Art of Innovation
Anna Frazzetto, VP of Technology Solutions, Harvey Nash USA
No other discovery in the last 100 years has changed the business world as much as information technology. Those leaders who foresaw the opportunities that IT would create were in their own right innovative. But more importantly, It's those that DID something with their insight and intuition that has mastered the art of innovation. Individuals recognize and respond to new ideas uniquely. How someone finds and filters information sets the stage for how they pursue innovation. In this session, you will learn common ways of discovering innovation and moving with it. The speaker will explain how creativity and flexibility feed innovation and how to practice being creative and flexible. Join this session that is devoted to understanding and embracing the art of innovation.
Frazzetto is an IT executive who has architected, implemented, and overseen application development, managed services, and outsourcing/offshoring at Global 1000 and mid-size companies. Prior to that, she was responsible for the development and operation of technology practices, where she’s held strategic responsibility for managing large-scale help desk, application development, data center, and outsourcing/offshore practices. Currently, she is in charge of the development and implementation of technology solutions for Harvey Nash’s nationwide offices.
Creating Innovative IT Organizations
Alex Cullen, VP, Research Director, Forrester Research, Inc.
It is important for CIOs to prepare their people to look for business innovation opportunities and to make innovation a part of everyday IT life. This session presents a model for understanding and recognizing business innovations.
Cullen is a leading expert on IT planning and strategy, governance, organizational structure, and process improvement and leads the team responsible for research and advisory services that address the needs, priorities, and concerns of CIOs and senior IT management. He focuses his research on IT planning and strategy, IT organization, and enterprise architecture. Alex has a particular interest in ensuring that the IT organizational implications of technology trends are understood and managed such that their full potential for business optimization is realized.
Lassoing the Constantly Changing Paradigm
Dr. Ron Eaglin, Department Chair, University of Central Florida
Good leaders recognize changes and are capable of positioning an organization to take full advantage of the shifts without major disruption. They do this while still achieving their objectives. This session explores real cases and what leadership (or lack there of) did that helped (or hindered) their organizations.
Eaglin is a researcher, professor, teacher, and administrator at the University of Central Florida. His research interests are in applying best practices in IT in new domains. He works with databases, business, and software systems and applications in criminal justice, government, medicine, and education. He is known for his innovative approaches to problems that have won him numerous awards.
Customer Service Magic
Woodie Perkins, Director of System Support, Batesville Casket Company
Learn first-hand how Batesville embarked on a year-long journey to transform their outsourced desk-side support organization into a world-class customer service organization. This session focuses on how the company applied innovative technology and customer centric techniques to enhance the overall customer experience, as well as the steps taken to optimize the processes and the metrics used to measure success.
In Perkins’ current position, he is responsible for enterprise wide ERP support, deskside service center, enterprise collaboration, and executive liaison to a tier one outsourcing partner. With more than 20 years of experience, he has led IT infrastructure, application development, and enterprise application teams - a business person first and a technologist second. He has worked for companies, including General Motors, Electronic Data Systems, 3Com Corporation, Probusiness Systems, Del Monte Foods, and Wyse Technologies.
Innovation vs. Agility: The Path to Profitable Growth
Jeanne W. Ross, Director, Center for Information Systems Research (CISR), MIT Sloan School of Management
In this session we will explore innovation as both a source of—and obstacle to—business agility. Jeanne will argue that innovation creates something new, while agility depends on reuse of capabilities. Does that put them in conflict? Must CIOs choose between agility and innovation? How can organizations get the best of both worlds? Using examples of successful organizations like Southwest Airlines, Campbell Soup Company, UPS, and Swiss Re, Jeanne will describe both the tradeoffs and the synergies between innovation and agility. She will note how organizations can recognize whether innovation or agility should dominate the IT organization’s strategic agenda.
Jeanne W. Ross studies the organizational and performance implications of enterprise initiatives related to enterprise architecture, governance, and new IT management practices.
Ross shares her research in lectures, executive education courses, articles, and books. Her work has appeared in the Sloan Management Review, Harvard Business Review, The Wall Street Journal, CIO Magazine, MIS Quarterly, MISQ Executive, and IBM Systems Journal, among others. She has coauthored two books: IT Governance: How Top Performers Manage IT Decision Rights for Superior Results (Harvard Business School Press, 2004), and Enterprise Architecture as Strategy: Creating a Foundation for Business Execution (Harvard Business School Press, 2006). Her third book, IT Savvy: What Top Executives Must Know to Go from Pain to Gain will be published around the end of the year. Ross is a founding senior editor of MIS Quarterly Executives and currently serves as editor-in-chief.
Attributes of Innovative Leaders
Uncover and channel the skills you already possess to maintain and strengthen your leadership acumen.
Balancing Client and Provider Needs
Christine Bullen, Professor, Stevens Institute of Technology; Dr. Judith C. Simon, Professor of MIS and Research Center Director, University of Memphis; Keith Frampton, Principal Consultant, The Marlo Group; and Kevin P. Gallagher, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Business Informatics, Northern Kentucky University
Hear straight from the IT Workforce Research Team who has been investigating the current and future needs for IT competencies in the IT marketplace. One of the key factors influencing the hiring and retention of IT professionals is the impact of sourcing strategies which increase the sourcing of IT work and thus changes the mix of IT competencies needed in house. The team members will compare client and provider findings, highlighting important issues. Discussion about current and future needs will take place.
Christine V. Bullen, Professor, Stevens Institute of Technology
Bullen's research focuses on IT workforce trends and the impacts of sourcing practices, understanding how IT enables new business models and processes, strategic planning for the IT function, and the organizational impact of IT. Prior to academia, she spent nine years in the industry as a consultant and strategic planner.
Judith C. Simon, Professor of MIS and Research Center Director, University of Memphis
In addition to being a professor, Simon is the University of Memphis’ Director of Center for Innovative Technology Management. She has authored several IT-related textbooks and has had her work published in a variety of research and practitioner journals. Her current research interests include information security management, offshore vendor management, IT workforce management, and IT risk management.
Keith Frampton, Principal Consultant, The Marlo Group
In his current position, Frampton assists clients to achieve their business goals through the effective use of technology. His consultancy expertise focuses on the appropriate mix of organizational capabilities, people attributes, and technology exploitation to achieve these aims. He has successfully consulted across a wide range of industries and countries, often leading multi-organization and cross discipline teams. Frampton is involved in several different international research projects, focusing on what IT skills are needed by companies world-wide and the important characteristics of successful IT Architects. Additionally, heprovides consultancy advice on IT certification and setting up architecture competency centres of excellence to enterprises and industry bodies. Keith also was responsible for the creation of a Master Degree in Enterprise Architecture at RMIT University.
Kevin P. Gallagher, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Business Informatics, Northern Kentucky University
Before entering a career in academia, Gallagher worked as an IT manager and consultant. His teaching, research, and consulting interests include strategic alignment, business agility, organizational design, and workforce development, all within the context of effective information systems management.
Sharpening Your Leadership, Strategist, and Relationship Skills
Madeline Weiss, President, Weiss Associates, Inc.; Pat Coffey, Vice President, Allstate Insurance; Marty Colburn, CTO and Executive Vice President, FINRA; Stephen Pickett, CIO and Vice President, Penske Corporation; and Ed Trainor, CIO and Vice President, Amtrak
According to a recent Advanced Practices Council® (APC) research study (“Grooming the 2010 CIO”), the 2010 CIO will be more of a business than technical expert, leveraging technology to provide a competitive advantage, closely supported by a chief technology officer. The CIO will be more of a leader than manager, with a notable presence on the top management team. Of the seven distinct roles that CIOs are expected to play (i.e., strategist, relationship architect, leader, information steward, integrator, educator, and utility provider), the researchers found that strategist, relationship architect, and leader will increase in importance. In this session, Madeline Weiss, APC’s program director, facilitates a conversation with top CIOs, members of the APC, on how they continue to sharpen their leadership, strategist, and relationship skills. Come to learn about the best practices uncovered by the researchers for building these skills in emerging CIOs.
Dr. Weiss’ firm specializes in organizational strategy and change, specifically as they relate to information services and technology. With more than 30 years of experience, Weiss consults global businesses (many in the Fortune 100), international non-profits, universities, and professional organizations. She is also an active SIM Member, acting as the Advanced Practices Council’s® (APC’s) director and Regional Leadership Forum (RLF) facilitator. Open Computing magazine has listed her as one of the top 100 women in computing.
SIM Women: Separating Fact from Fiction
Kristen Lamoreaux, Senior Director, Jarvis Walker
With the decline in women in IT leadership roles, SIM Women created surveys to gather data from top female IT leaders about who they are and what they do every day. Each survey focused on a different aspect of being a successful female leader: career path, mentoring, leadership development, networking, visibility, work/life balance, peer-to-peer communication, and continuing education. This session features the results of these surveys, as well as successes SIM Women have achieved within each topic.
Lamoreaux has more than 10 years experience in information technology executive search. She is also the Founder of SIM Women, a networking organization for female CIOs and their direct reports that is focused on promoting communication, mentorship, leadership, and career development of women within information technology. In this role, Lamoreaux has created the following programs: Ladies Who Lunch, 1:1 Mentoring, and Call a Coach. In addition to SIM Women, she served two years as a Vice President on the New Jersey SIM Board.
Strategic Leadership: How to Avoid Five Deadly Sins
William Malek, MBA, PMP, Strategy 2 Reality, LLC
Enterprise architects often take an analytical and logical approach where a blue print is made to translate the strategic vision into IT solutions. However, this approach does not always succeed. This session focuses on a theory of organizational change that can explain the issues architects are facing. Based on a notion that different stakeholders look at change from different perspectives, specific interventions based on these perspectives, also known as “colors” in this theory, will be discussed with evidence that common structural actions are not always the most successful interventions in achieving organizational impact. This session focuses on the different emphasizes in terms of colors among architects and provides an analysis of the competencies that are needed for the various roles.
With more than 28 years of corporate experience in strategic planning, performance management consulting, and organizational development, Malek’s passion has been the study of strategy execution, organizational alignment, and how to lead a positive organization. His mastery of effective group planning techniques, strategic leadership, and his dynamic presence as a trainer and facilitator has earned him an international reputation as a keynote speaker, workshop leader, strategic consultant, and author, which includes his new book, Executing Your Strategy: How to Break it Down & Get it Done. Malek has held executive positions such as CEO of IPSolutions as well as facilitating Fortune 500 senior management teams in companies such as IBM, Qualcomm, Cisco, McKesson, and the Library of Congress. A few of his certifications include a Stanford Certified Project Manager (SCPM), a Project Management Professional (PMP®), and a New Product Development Professional (NPDP).
The Art of Accidental Insight
Clement Chen, SVP, Strategic Development,SAIC Infrastructure, Logistics and Product Solutions Group
One of the important attributes of innovative leaders is the ability to discover what they were not looking for. This session will explore principles and thought models that are important in creating environments where accidental insights are not always “accidental."
In his current role, Chen is responsible for strategic planning, M&A support, and the crafting of innovative business strategies in markets, including energy, homeland security, and logistics. Prior to joining SAIC, he served as Vice President, Business Innovation for Lockheed Martin, where he was responsible for driving innovative concepts linking technology development, business models, and strategy across the enterprise. He has held numerous positions in finance, business development, business operations, strategic planning, and corporate development with Lockheed Martin, IBM and Software AG.
Chen has recently served on the Computer Science Advisory Board and as an adjunct professor in the School of Management at George Mason University and on the Federal Executive Advisory Council of Sun Microsystems.
Between Concept and Reality
Explore the real-life benefits and risks of investing in IT services/products. This focus area analyzes return on investments (ROI) through case studies.
Green IT
Join Andrew Winston, Founder, Winston Eco-Strategies and Co-author of Green to Gold and other IT executives for a discussion on “green” business.
What CIOs Need to Know About Intellectual Property
Peter Vogel, Partner, Gardere Wynne Sewell, LLP
This session focuses on how intellectual property applies to IT and may be used by CIOs. Fundamental information about intellectual property will be provided to assist you in understanding how to apply these laws to protect your interests.
Before practicing law, Vogel was a systems programmer on mainframes, received a masters in computer science, and taught graduate courses in information systems and operations research. For 30 years his law practice has always been exclusively limited to representing buyers and sellers of computer technology and Internet services. Vogel drafts and negotiates agreements for software development, outsourcing, and licensing and has had trials throughout the US concerning protection of Intellectual Property, failed ERP implementation projects, outsourcing, and eCommerce.
IT Architects and Organizational Change
Paul Teeuwen, Senior Consultant, IT Strategy and Architecture, Netherlands Computer Society
Enterprise architects often take an approach where a blue print is made to translate the Strategic Vision into IT Solutions. Often an analytical and logical approach is taken. However, this approach does not always succeed. Learn how a theory of organisational change can explain the issues architects are facing. This theory is based on notion that different stakeholders look at change from different perspectives. These alternative approaches have proved to be very successful and case examples will be included. The speaker will show that different architect roles have a different emphasis in terms of colours and we will conclude with an analysis of the competencies that are needed for the various roles.
After starting his career in the IT organization of AT&T Network Systems (now Lucent), Teeuwen joined KPMG Nolan Norton, where he was a Senior Consultant in Business and IT Strategy. His consulting work has always been founded on the maturity model of the Nolan stages theory. Since 1998, Teeuwen is an independent consultant in IT srategy and IT architecture, performing a wide range of consulting work, including leading architecture departments in interim positions. Recently he has been focusing on the role that IT architects have in organizational change. Paul is a member of the organizing committee of the Dutch Architecture Conference and author of various contributions in professional journals.
What Business People Need to Know About IT
Harwell Thrasher, President and Founder, MakingITclear, Inc.
IT is more about people than about technology, and many challenges are derived from misunderstandings between business and technology people. The session focuses on the critical aspects of IT management that business people need to understand.
Author of the book Boiling the IT Frog, Thrasher has spent more than 35 years working in IT organizations, including as a developer of information systems, a manager of software development groups, and a technology vice-president. Thrasher has worked for major companies, including Digital Equipment Corporation and Ceridian Corporation. He's done technology due diligence for more than 20 corporate acquisitions in the United States, Canada, the U.K., and Switzerland.
The Role of EA in Business and IT Transformations
Larry Burgess, CTO, Consumer Lending, Citigroup; Leon Kappelman, Ph.D., Professor of IS, University of North Texas; John A. Zachman, CEO, Zachman International; and Thomas McGinnis, Doctoral Student of Management Information Systems, University of North Texas
EA, driven by the collection of enterprise goals, is the change agent that identifies the capabilities required to ensure the agility the business must have to adapt to change. This session focuses on: EA as the key to describing the as-is ‘current state’ and the to-be “future state,” analyzing and validating capabilities required for the “future state.” determining the impact to “current state” of the proposed transformation, creating effective ‘transformation roadmaps,” using scenario and trade-off analyses to increase success, and creating a shared understanding of “future’ state.”
Larry Burgess, CTO, Consumer Lending, Citigroup
Before joining Citigroup, Burgess worked with Bank of America and JPMorgan in infrastructure security and process maturity. He also worked in the healthcare and technology industries with a concentration in finance, system development, program management, and enterprise architecture. Burgess co-chairs the Society for Information Management’s Enterprise Architecture Working Group and has presented at the Shared Insights Enterprise Architecture Conference.
Leon Kappelman, Ph.D., Professor of IS, University of North Texas (Moderator)
Kappelman is a research scientist, teacher, author, speaker, and consultant dedicated to helping organizations better manage their information, systems, and technology assets. He is co-chair of SIM’s Enterprise Architecture Working Group and has done EA work for the Executive Office of the President of the United States and the Department of Veterans Affairs.
John A. Zachman, CEO, Zachman International
Zachman is an internationally-recognized EA thought leader. He is the originator of the “Framework for Enterprise Architecture,” which has received broad acceptance throughout the world as an integrative framework for understanding enterprises and the systems, people, technologies, and processes that comprise and support them. Zachman is also known for his early contributions to Business Systems Planning, IBM’s widely-used information planning methodology in the 1970s, as well as Intensive Planning, the basis for IBM’s executive, team planning techniques.
Thomas McGinnis, Doctoral Student of Management Information Systems, University of North Texas
Before pursuing his doctoral studies in Information Systems, McGinnis spent 16 years in the chemical industry focusing on enterprise information systems and business process reengineering. He was also a consultant for a leading IT consulting firm. His research interests include enterprise resource planning, enterprise architecture and knowledge management. His research has been published in conference proceedings and in Information & Management.
Breaking Tradition...Driving Business Value
Learn proven approaches for strategically organizing your department to drive business value. Topics include strategic planning and Enterprise Architecture.
The Key to a Successful Vendor Partnership
Lynn Willenbring, CIO, City of Minneapolis
With a vision of firmly establishing Minneapolis as a world-class virtual city, Lynn Willenbring, CIO of the City of Minneapolis, recognized the need to first overcome significant challenges within the City’s IT organization. Old methods and processes, scarce resources and limited funding, coupled with ever-growing demand from citizens for online access to public services, required an innovative sourcing approach able to meet the demands of the city today, and into the future. Willenbring recognized the strategic role that external vendors could have in the City’s ability to deliver exceptional service to its citizens, and keep pace with increasing future demands. Attend this session to learn about the City’s experience with outsourcing to external vendors, and what Willenbring has learned are the keys to success in these relationships.
Prior to her current position, Willenbring spent three years as the Director of Information Services & Customer Relations, responsible for the City’s network, outsourcing, and management of the new wireless services. She also worked for the State of MN, serving the MN Department of Public Safety as Assistant Commissioner, and Driver and Vehicle Services Director and the MN Department of Revenue in a variety of positions. While with the State of Minnesota, she directed many successful citizen facing technology initiatives and spent time on assignment to Lithuania as a government advisor.
Connect Change Management to IT Business Results
Jeff Hiatt, CEO and Founder, Prosci Research, Inc.
Employee resistance, declining productivity, slower than expected adoption of the solution, miscommunication, and poor executive sponsorship are common barriers that are difficult for IT project managers to overcome. Change management delivers a structured approach to managing the people side of change introduced by your projects. This session focuses on change management and a comprehensive, systematic, and research-based approach to how to link it to project health and business results.
Hiatt is a leading expert in the field of change management, conducting research with more than 1600 companies from 59 countries. He is the author of ADKAR – a model for change in business, government and our community, co-author of Change Management: the People Side of Change and author of Employee's Survival Guide to Change. In his current role, Hiatt has led more than a decade of research in the area of change and has been a keynote speaker and presenter at conferences and executive briefings, including the U.S. State Department, Gartner Group, HR Leader's Summit, and more.
Bridging the Digital Divide in Organizations
Dr. Dave Chatterjee, Associate Professor, Department of Management Information Systems, The University of Georgia
For IT to be able to break tradition and drive business value, the divide between IT and business people needs to be bridged. This session presents extensive field research to provide some insights and guidelines on improving the level of IT enlightenment in organizations.
Chatterjee's research interests lie in the area of strategic management of information technology. His work has appeared in leading practitioner and academic journals. He has given invited talks in major institutions and corporations around the world. He is an active SIM Member, having conducted research for SIM’s APC® and currently serving as Program Chair of the SIM Atlanta Chapter.
Leveraging EA to Deliver Business Value
Leon Kappelman, PhD, Professor of IS, University of North Texas; Stan Locke, Managing Director, Zachman Framework Associates; John A. Zachman, CEO, Zachman International; Mark Lane, Award-winning IT executive and Enterprise Architecture leader
Communicating and delivering "value" to the business remains one of the most critical issues confronting CIOs. During the past few years, a number of companies have found that EA can be a very effective tool for delivering business value as well as achieving and demonstrating IT alignment with the business. But alignment and value are only two of the many business objectives that EA can help you achieve more effectively and efficiently. In this session, we will explore: best practices in using EA to deliver business value, common challenges of demonstrating "value" and demonstrating "alignment," it is not enough to deliver "value" – CIOs must communicate "value," performing a rapid assessment of your capacity to "deliver value," and delivering business value: IT credibility vs IT dependency.
Leon Kappleman, PhD, Professor of IS, University of North Texas
Kappelman is a research scientist, teacher, author, speaker, and consultant dedicated to helping organizations better manage their information, systems, and technology assets. He is co-chair of SIM’s Enterprise Architecture Working Group and has done EA work for the Executive Office of the President of the United States and the Department of Veterans Affairs.
Stan Locke, Managing Director, Zachman Framework Associates
Locke provides enterprise architecture leadership and consulting support to large Canadian government organizations and leading corporations in North America. His EA expertise includes the areas of business entity modeling, business flow, and modeling, database management, and repository development. His specialized capability in model management integration, software engineering, and project implementation has helped numerous large organizations develop unique approaches to delivering and managing EA. He also assisted Canadian federal government departments in EA and consulted to large U.S. and Canadian organizations in the private and not-for-profit sectors.
John A. Zachman, CEO, Zachman International
Zachman is an internationally-recognized EA thought leader. He is the originator of the “Framework for Enterprise Architecture,” which has received broad acceptance throughout the world as an integrative framework for understanding enterprises and the systems, people, technologies, and processes that comprise and support them. Zachman is also known for his early contributions to Business Systems Planning, IBM’s widely-used information planning methodology in the 1970s, as well as Intensive Planning, the basis for IBM’s executive, team planning techniques.
Mark Lane, Award Winning IT Executive and Enterprise Architecture leader
Lane has more than 27 years of experience in global financial service, IT managerial and enterprise architecture leadership. He specializes in architecture governance and risk management, program and portfolio management, standard and policy compliance and strategy development. He has many professional certifications related to arts, and sciences, including simulation modeling, enterprise architecture, ITIL, six sigma, and leadership development.
Solving the IT Talent Problem: How to Turn Recruiting, Retention, and Succession Planning into Core Competencies
Martha Heller, Managing Director, IT Leadership Practice, ZRG
Most CIOs know that without a strong line of command, an IT organization will not be effective. Yet a surprisingly small number of CIOs would count recruiting, retention and succession planning as core competencies. Learn the strategies that companies are deploying to recruit first-rate IT professionals. This session focuses on how CIOs are building a strong succession plan and managing different recruiting and retention strategies.
At ZRG, Heller recruits IT executives for senior level positions across all industries and geographies. Prior to joining ZRG, she was co-founder and managing director of CIO Magazine's CIO Executive Council, a professional organization for CIOs. In this role, she developed programs that allow CIOs to share leadership development ideas and hiring and retention best practices. She led advocacy programs to improve the IT workforce and better the standing of the CIO in the executive suite, and she ran research projects on IT staffing trends. Prior to this, Heller developed and directed the CIO Best Practice Exchange, a members-only network of CIOs from top-tier organizations, as well as CIO Select, a peer-to-peer program for IT executives. During her seven-year tenure at CIO Magazine, Heller wrote a weekly column on IT leadership and led a series of executive events on IT staffing, career development, and leadership.
Sponsor Case Studies
RIM2.0: No Slam Dunk without a Trusted Partner
Bob Boles, VP Infrastructure Services, Cognizant Technology Solutions
Transforming IT Management to Achieve Dramatic Business Success
Bob Lawhorn, CTO, Computer Aid, Inc. (CAI)
There are three main challenges that organizations getting started with a software process improvement program frequently face: 1) how to develop a workable method for gathering the metrics needed; 2) how to conduct meaningful analysis on that data, despite the fundamental comparison problems that arise across projects, teams, and technologies; and 3) how to institutionalize and market such a program so that it will overcome the inevitable resistance of an organization’s various constituents. In this presentation by Bob Lawhorn, CTO of CAI, an automated approach to data collection is outlined that can address these challenges, at both a technological and a cultural level, while at the same time institutionalizing standard processes throughout an organization so that the data we wind up with, in the end, can be analyzed in a meaningful and consistent manner.
Bob Lawhorn has more than 40 years of experience in software development, software measurement, and software project estimation. He spent his first twenty years at Bethlehem Steel working on applications related to steel, mining, and ship building and his next twenty years at CAI, where he is credited with the invention of CAI's application development methodologies and fixed price estimating matrices. Bob is currently CTO of CAI where he spends most of time consulting with companies and government agencies on how to implement application development best practices within their own organizations.
Special Interest
Media Panel: Innovative IT Strategies for Addressing Business Challenges
Steve Hamm, Senior Writer, BusinessWeek; Tom Hoffman, Editor, Computerworld; John McCormick, Chief Content Officer, CIOZone; and Rob Preston, Editor In Chief/Vice President, InformationWeek
Prominent members of the media discuss strategies used to address the commoditization of IT, the pressure to go "green," the challenges of filling the professional pipeline, and much more.
Steve Hamm, Senior Writer, BusinessWeek
Hamm is a senior writer at BusinessWeek. He writes about innovation, globalization, and leadership. Hamm's first book, Bangalore Tigers, about the rise of the Indian tech industry, was published in 2006. His new book, The Race for Perfect: Inside the Quest to Design the Ultimate Portable Computer, came out in October.
Tom Hoffman, Editor, Computerworld
Hoffman is an Editor at Large at Computerworld where he writes about IT management issues, including staffing, budgeting, financial management, alignment and IT governance issues. Since joining Computerworld in 1992, Hoffman has served the publication in a number of roles, including stints as an Online News Editor and as the print publication’s Business Editor. During his 20 years in IT journalism, Hoffman has won a number of editorial awards from the Computer Press Association and the American Society of Business Press Editors. Prior to joining Computerworld, Hoffman was a reporter at InformationWeek. A frequent conference speaker, Hoffman has appeared on CNN and ABC News and has also been interviewed by The Wall Street Journal and Newsday.
John McCormick, Chief Content Officer, CIOZone
McCormick is the chief content officers for the CIOZone, the first and only social network for chief information officers. Before joining the CIOZone, John was VP/Editor-in-Chief of Ziff Davis' Baseline and CIO Insight, two of the most highly regarded magazines covering business and information technology. He set the strategy for the publications and led the teams of award-winning investigative business journalists, technology editors, bloggers, and researchers. In 2005, McCormick was awarded the Jesse H. Neal Gold Award—the Pulitzer Prize for the business press—for Best Single Article, and was a finalist in the same category in 2003. Accolades include several American Society of Business Publication Editors (ASBPE) awards for columns, features and case studies, including two top editorial prizes in 2006. John was also the Editor of Ziff's Inter@ctive Week, where he created The Inter@ctive 500, the first-ever ranking of e-commerce companies by online revenues. He also was the Editorial Director at SIGS Publications, Editor of CMP's InformationWeek in print and online, served as the Editor-in-Chief of InfoDaily and appeared as a regular analyst on CNBC's Technology Edge program.
Rob Preston, Editor In Chief/Vice President, InformationWeek
Preston, VP/Editor In Chief of InformationWeek, oversees the editorial direction of the world's leading business technology media brand. Rob works with an award-winning team of more than 40 writers, editors, and market experts to deliver practical and thought-provoking analysis on business technology issues and trends. InformationWeek helps 2 million Web site users, magazine and newsletter readers, and conference attendees frame and define their business technology objectives and make technology purchasing decisions.
Preston's two decades in technology journalism span senior editorial management positions at TechWeb’s Network Computing, InternetWeek, CommunicationsWeek International, and CommunicationsWeek. Preston has a bachelor’s degree in journalism from St. Bonaventure University and a master’s degree in economics from the State University of New York at Binghamton.
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