| Gartner Analyst Opening Keynote: Technology-Powered Business Acceleration | |
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Tuesday, 13 May 2008
09:15-10:15 | |
Keynote Speakers: Partha Iyengar, Jeffrey Mann, Mary Mesaglio, Daryl C. Plummer, Stephen Prentice
Location: Palau de Congressos de Catalunya - Main Auditorium
Session Type: Keynote Session
| Job Roles: Applications, BI & IM: Business Intelligence & Information Management, Business Process Improvement, CIOs & Other Senior IT Leaders, Enterprise Architecture, Infrastructure & Operations, Program & Portfolio Management, Security & Risk Management, Sourcing & Vendor Relationships
Vertical Industries: Manufacturing, Government, Financial Services, Retail, Education, Technology-Hardware, Technology-Software, Technology-IT Services, Technology-Telecommunications, Energy & Utilities |
Turbulent business conditions have recently given business and government leaders pause for thought. How can we quickly power out of the slowdown to restore growth and progress to the pace we have seen in recent years? The time is ripe for a round of deeper value engineering and business innovation. On the face of it, tech seems more than ready than ever to meet the challenge – offering a slew of great breakthrough opportunities from online virtual worlds to enterprise software-as-a-service, but many of them require brave leadership and a sharp break from traditional thinking. Globalisation now means treating emerging nations as serious technology enabled growth markets not just sources of cheap supply. The penetration of rich media and wirelesss communication technologies into every nook of the globe opens many new doors, but through them cyber threats as well as opportunities are pouring in. Powerful and complex social networks are thriving on the second wave of the internet revolution but the massive communities that arise, seemingly overnight, are capable of draining staggering amounts of computing and carbon contributing electrical power from a global tera-scale online utility computing grid. New delivery models are being constructed so hastily that even their providers don’t know where they will lead. As our existing ideas about provisioning are inverted by this new industrialization, the foundations of the corporate IT department will be shaken – but we believe it will simply advance to the next step and focus on a developing a range of new value creating competencies. Welcome to the hype-connected enterprise. |
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