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Monday
08:00 AM-08:15 AM | | |
Monday
08:15 AM-09:30 AM | | |
| The need to master multisourcing is already being felt. From basic IT services to complex business processes, your organization will increasingly source services and capabilities from a shifting blend of internal and external resources to meet its goals for cost efficiency, agility and growth. Given the effort and discipline required to successfully implement a multisourcing operational model, some may be tempted to simply wait. Unfortunately, waiting is not an option. Those that refuse to change will constantly be operating at a disadvantage to competitors.
Organizations that master multisourcing will create the agility necessary to find and exploit growth. Our keynote presentation will introduce the nine critical competencies necessary to master the discipline of multisourcing. | |
Monday
09:45 AM-10:45 AM | | |
| In a world of global economic uncertainty, where cost reduction is once again paramount, the importance of making the right IT and business process services purchasing decisions is critical. And the wide variety of new sourcing models makes the choices even more complex. We will present a view of the evolving IT and business process services marketplace, examine forces of disruption and inertia, and present insights that will help you to make the right choices in a period where making the wrong ones will have serious consequences. | |
Tuesday
08:30 AM-09:30 AM | | |
| A flat, connected, and transparent world has changed the rules of the marketplace. Customers, competitors, and the public now have unprecedented visibility into organizations and their operations. Drawing on his recent book and years of practical experience, Dov Seidman, CEO of LRN and author, will demonstrate that the frontier of 21st century prosperity lies not in outperforming the competition but in outbehaving them - that it's not what you do, but how you do what you do that matters most. Dov will illustrate to the audience how they can win by literally outbehaving the competition and will detail the approaches that enable advantage and success over the long term. | |
Wednesday
08:30 AM-09:45 AM | | |
| Web 2.0. Cloud computing. Software as a service. These are but a few of the touchstones of a new era in computing -- one that will have a profound effect on the way we live, work, learn and think. But what will that future ultimately look like, and how much will it displace everything we know and use today? And what’s the path to that destination? Don’t miss this captivating examination of two very distinct views of that future and -- as importantly -- the forces that will shape it.
Drawing on the themes of his new book "The Big Switch: Rewiring the World, from Edison to Google," Nick Carr creates a historical, economic and technological context for the transformation of IT that is now under way. He argues that more and more of the computing functions that companies rely on will shift from internal data centers to the Internet's vast computing grid, as the World Wide Web turns into the "World Wide Computer." And, finally, he looks ahead to how IT departments themselves will be transformed by "the big switch."
Then hear Michael Treacy’s provocative critique of Carr’s assumptions and conclusions, as he argues that the way we get to the future is not through convulsive transformation, but rather the compounding effect of small, incremental impacts. Treacy’s landscape of a brave, new world that will change the way we do business is no less intriguing, and yet he suggests both a very different journey and a radically divergent endgame. | |