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IT Leadership Strategies

Strategies and techniques for leading and guiding IT through a business approach during challenging times

July 14, 2011

9:00am-5:00pm

7 CPE / 0.7 CEU / CISSP / 7 PDU Credits Awarded

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Donald E. Stephens Convention Center  Rosemont (O'Hare) Illinois

Overview

How do you define IT Leadership? Does it consist of aligning IT with the business? Driving business efforts forward? Increasing quality of IT services? What skills does it take to be an effective IT Leader? How do you lead IT during challenging economic times?

What You Will Learn

In this one day conference attendees will learn:

  • IT Leadership: Techniques to Drive Sustainable Success

  • Innovation and Execution – Practical Strategies for Selecting, Designing & Implementing Solutions

  • CIO Secrets to Building High Performance IT Teams

  • Business Agility: How Will Cloud Computing Specifically Support Your Enterprise?

  • Consumerized IT: How to Create a Robust Mobile Strategy to Support Enterprise Needs

  • Journey to the Future State CIO

Conference Program

8:00am - 9:00am - Registration and Continental Breakfast


Smith

Thomas

9:00am-10:00am

IT Leadership: Techniques to Drive Sustainable Success

Mark Smith, Interim CIO, Director, Business Application Development and PMO, American Water
Leigh Ann Thomas, ITS Application Manager Business Application Development, American Water

Overview of the steps taken by the IT department of the nation's largest water utility to build an environment focused on communication and metrics, pay for performance and ‘straight talk’. Session will cover four main areas (1) Unique communication vehicles such as trivia-based Road Shows designed to align IT with the business and first and foremost, build relationships (2) Revised approaches to metrics and SLA’s that drive the conversations about IT performance strengths as well as gaps (3) Improved emphasis on performance goals – measuring and rewarding quality and innovation, not effort (4) Leadership activities for management fostering a collegial environment that enables direct communication rather than leadership by politics.

10:00am -10:30am - Refreshment Break

Chakkarapani 

10:30am-11:30am

Enterprise Social Collaboration & Innovation – How to Create an Effective Strategy & Implementation Plan to Support Your Organization’s Goals

Karthik Chakkarapani, Director - Technology Solutions & Operations, American Hospital Association

Consumer-oriented social media & mobile technologies are transforming the way that people communicate and accelerating the spread of information at the speed of light. Having an Enterprise Collaboration platform also allows organizations to transform the way employees share, learn, generate ideas, collaborate and communicate effectively and efficiently. As organizations move toward greater levels of collaboration due to the changing workforce, economic conditions and the wide availability of collaboration platforms, the drive for innovation & process improvement from within will happen naturally and quickly.

This session will provide an overview of social media & enterprise collaboration, business need & value, strategy and implementation plan, enterprise social architecture, SaaS/SSO architecture, best practices, adoption strategies, and demo of AHA’s collaboration platform.

Basgall

Dallal

Ghanimah

Papworth


Sherborne

11:30am-12:30pm

CIO Secrets to Building a High Performance Team Culture

Moderator: Joel Basgall, CEO, Geneca

Panelists will include:
Eytan Dallal, IT Director, Feldco Windows & Siding
Fares Ghanimah, Director of Application Development at Harris Associates
Gina Papworth, Executive Director of I.T., Motor Coach Industries
Jes Sherborne, Managing Principal of Software Development, ZS Associates

and other enterprise IT CIOs sharing best practices and lessons learned

Building high-performance teams is not about working longer, harder, or faster. The key is CULTURE.

Ask yourself these questions: Does your management team do everything possible to set your people up for success? Are your people motivated and energized about doing great things for clients, for the company and for themselves? Do they have want they to need to grow personally and professionally? Or are they stressed out, checked out and overworked?

This session reveals what high-performance organizations are doing differently and gives you solutions to put these ideas into action. While obtaining an ideal culture isn't easy, it is entirely achievable when it becomes a mission that involves every part of the organization from human resources to delivery to management.

Some of the topics covered include:

  • In with collaboration and loyalty, out with obedience
  • Consistency between mission/values and daily execution
  • Making commitments and honoring them
  • The importance of transparency
  • Listening to the voice of the employee
  • Building community, education and training

12:30pm - 1:30pm Luncheon

 

 

1:30pm-2:30pm

Enterprise Mobile Strategy: Creating a Robust Mobile Strategy to Support Enterprise Needs

Mike An, Mobile Delivery Manager, Solstice Consulting
Gregg Wheeler, Mobile Engagement Manager, Solstice Consulting

While corporate Blackberry’s have been the standard for the better part of the last decade, the mobile market has seen inception rates never before seen by any other technology. With the growing popularity of smartphones, tablets, and anything with the letter “i” in front of it, consumer behavior has forced enterprises to reconsider their mobile strategy. As the space between consumer and enterprise mobility continues to converge, companies are trying to define a mobile strategy that is secure, sustainable, and supportable. Our discussion will walk the fine line between the consumer marketplace, and enterprise mobility trends. Join us to understand how enterprises plan on navigating the mobile space and what platforms will win out in the near future.

During this presentation you will learn:

  • State of the Mobile Market
  • Mobile Platforms, Design & Development
  • Managing Mobile in the Enterprise
  • Mobile Delivery Approach & Considerations

2:30pm - 3:00pm - Refreshment Break

 

 

3:00pm-4:00pm

Business Agility: How Will Cloud Computing Specifically Support Your Enterprise?

Christopher Willis, Americas Director of Cloud and Converged Solutions, Hitachi Data Systems

Cloud Computing represents a huge opportunity for IT leaders to provide significant value to the extended enterprises and its users. But where do hype and reality meet?
In this session attendees will learn:

  • Where cloud computing fits and where it does not fit
  • The different patterns of current enterprise adoption (e.g. Private vs. Public)
  • The differences between Software-as-a- Service (SaaS), Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) and
  • Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)
  • How can we leverage these technologies/processes to make IT more valuable to the business?

Caraher

Kallembach

Massel

4:00pm-5:00pm

Journey to the Future State CIO

Moderator: Michael Marchuk, Client Solutions Director, Network Data Systems

Panelists will include:
William Caraher, CIO, von Briesen & Roper, s.c.
Larry Kallembach, EVP & CIO, MB Financial
Bruce Massel, VP-IT,Fidelitone Logistics

and other enterprise IT CIOs sharing best practices and lessons learned

Journey to the Future State CIO as a role every IT leader should be taking. Taking this journey will allow CIOs to define their future role, rather than having the future define them.

By going through these in depth, thought provoking series of activities, CIOs and IT leaders with learn how to significantly strengthen their position with the extended enterprise.

In this session attendees will learn from a panel of CIOs as to how they can:

  • Earn credibility by delivering efficient and effective services
  • Become influential with the business by leading change through IT enablement
  • Achieve the ‘business strategist’ or ‘business forecasting’ CIO role
  • Deliver business expertise in your staff
  • How to become a true business peer of the extended enterprise

Conference Price: $249.00 per person


Each attendee will receive a certificate awarding 7 CPE credits for CISSP continuing education, in addition to 0.7 CEUs and 7 PDUs. CISSP is a registered certification mark of (ISC)², Inc.

Exhibits

As is always the case at CAMP IT Conferences events, the talks will not include product presentations.  During the continental breakfast, coffee breaks, and the luncheon break you will have the opportunity to informally meet representatives from the following sponsoring companies, who have solutions in the area of the conference.


   
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