Business Leadership 2008 (2.5 days, Monday - Wednesday 1pm)
Program details are subject to change.
The Business Leadership program is an intensive, 2.5 day curriculum designed specifically for corporate executives, IT managers and key decision makers in the world's top industries. This program has been expanded and includes more sessions covering a wider range of topics of interest to business leaders, including business performance management, compliance, governance and issues related to proper management of content and data.
With over 120 sessions in this program, you’ll discover innovative ideas and successful strategies to show you how to grow your business, improve customer service, reduce costs, manage risk and tackle leadership challenges you face in your managerial role. Many of the concepts are illustrated by real-life stories told by the executives who made it happen. They got IT right and unlocked the value of their business information.
When you register, you will be able to choose among various roadmaps (available in late summer 2008) to design your personal conference schedule to include any of the sessions offered for your specific industry or job role, the topics that interest you most or even some Hands-on labs from the Technical Skill Building program.
During the Business Leadership program, you will also have the opportunity to schedule one-on-one meetings with key IBM executives and distinguished technical leaders to share ideas and discuss your specific needs.
Business Leadership Track Details
Tracks in the Business Leadership program will include:
- Banking & Financial Markets
- Business Value of Information Innovations
- Communications Service Providers
- Consumer Products
- Energy and Utilities
- Government
- Healthcare & Life Sciences
- Industrial
- Insurance
- Retail
Banking & Financial Markets
Beyond its employees, information is one of a financial services organization's most valuable assets. In reality, however, few companies today are fully leveraging its value. Managed correctly, it's a competitive differentiator-fostering innovation and enabling you to better meet customer expectations and drive business value.
But with critical information spread across a variety of systems, business units, channels and in various formats, it's easy to understand why decision makers have difficulty turning all of this disconnected information into true business insight. What is needed a way to unlock information in all its forms from their repository, process, and application silos, and deliver trusted information in context to reduce risk, improve business operations and client care. That's where IBM comes in.
At Information On Demand 2008, the Banking and Financial Markets industry track will address the most pressing issues and challenges organizations face today, present real life case studies from you peers and share the latest practical ideas from information management experts.
Business Value of Information Innovations
IBM's Information on Demand portfolio enables clients across industries to leverage enterprise information in real-time or near real-time. IOD solutions can help create business value by unlocking information from repository, process and application silos and by delivering trusted information - in context - to improve revenue, reduce risk and improve operational efficiencies.
The IBM Information On Demand 2008 cross-industry Business Leadership sessions provide opportunities to learn about the Information On Demand market, benefit from key client experiences and learnings, find out more about current thought leadership and areas to explore for business value, and gain deeper insight into how you can put IBM's Information On Demand portfolio to work for you.
Communications Service Providers
Never before has there been a greater demand for communication service providers to expand revenue opportunities, while reducing costs and managing risks. The key is to have trusted and reliable information that is available to the right people or process whenever and wherever it's needed. The IBM Information On Demand 2008 Business Leadership program will provide the roadmap required to help leverage your enterprise information to become more responsive to the opportunities and unique challenges communications service providers are facing in this new competitive landscape.
Consumer Products
Consumer products companies face an increasing need to manage their information as a strategic asset in order to win in the marketplace. IBM's Information on Demand initiative for consumer products seeks to help companies make better decisions, derive greater insight, and take quicker action to deliver improved brand performance at the first moment of truth. At Information on Demand 2008, the consumer products industry track will address the most pressing issues and challenges consumer products organizations face today, present real-life case studies from your peers, and share the latest practical ideas from information management experts.
Energy and Utilities
Consolidation, deregulation, new technologies, competitive pressures, and new customer service demands affect the energy and utilities industry on a daily basis. To maintain leadership, major energy and utility companies must differentiate themselves by proactively exceeding customer demands and lowering operational costs, while increasing customer satisfaction and shareholder value. The IBM Information On Demand 2008 Business Leadership program will provide a roadmap to help you more effectively manage the most important element of your business, your information.
Government
In the global economy, information is key for competitive success. But all levels of government struggle to free information from departmental silos and deliver it to the right person, at the right time, in the required context. An additional challenge is to deliver that same information with the business integrity that can help satisfy national security, public safety and citizen services. Done correctly, the ultimate result is the ability to deliver business clarity for optimization and performance gains as well as for improved strategic planning.
IBM Information on Demand solutions can directly address these government client business needs by:
- Optimizing business process and information access to increase the value in both legacy and future enterprise systems.
- Improving response time, flexibility and consistency, thereby providing real-time, actionable intelligence.
- Helping migrate from legacy/siloed systems to an on demand infrastructure.
- Addressing issues associated with stakeholder service, constituency concerns, supply chain visibility, and business activity monitoring.
- Gaining actionable financial and operational insight.
Government-focused sessions in the IBM Information On Demand 2008 Business Leadership program deliver education to help you become more responsive to government challenges - from services improvement opportunities to security threats - while leveraging existing investments. These sessions will help you discover how to transform your information and provide you the unique opportunity to interact within IBM's greater government community and to collaborate with the largest network of information specialists.
Healthcare & Life Sciences
IBM Information on Demand solutions help healthcare organizations address difficult challenges in today's environment of rapid, continuous change. Successful healthcare systems and organizations are turning to innovation and collaboration. Create business value by unlocking information from clinical, financial, and claims data silos. Deliver trusted information in context to cost-effectively grow new business and to improve healthcare delivery, metrics and clinical outcomes by leveraging the exponentially growing volumes of data.
IBM Information On Demand 2008 Healthcare Business Leadership sessions provide opportunities to learn techniques for innovation as a strategic imperative, to network with your peers for internal and external collaboration, and to hear from healthcare industry visionaries about the future of healthcare. Discover solutions to improve quality patient care, regulatory compliance, and operational efficiency with actionable, integrated healthcare information. Learn how healthcare organizations are solving key business issues and using information for a clearer view of the business as a competitive differentiator.
Industrial
Manufacturers are under increasing pressure to reduce their operating costs while increasing the speed by which they design and build innovative products that meet the demands of a more sophisticated, informed customer base.
Faced with these challenges, manufacturers have learned how to leverage the information they already have to drive innovation, increase operational efficiency and respond faster to their customers.
The Industrial Track at IBM Information On Demand 2008 will provide valuable insight into how many manufacturers have optimized their business processes by leveraging information in response to an extremely challenging and competitive environment.
Insurance
While the insurance industry as a whole had a great 2007, market dynamics, an empowered consumer and business complexity will challenge carriers to innovate for continued success. Innovation in insurance products, services and distribution systems necessitate innovating with information - finding new and better ways to leverage enterprise information to drive real business value. To achieve competitive differentiation, enterprise information must be liberated from silos, shared across lines of business and unlocked from applications to deliver actionable business insight.
At IBM Information On Demand 2008, the Insurance industry track will present sessions led by insurance industry experts, industry views by prominent insurance analysts and case studies from your peers that are relevant to today's insurance challenges, business drivers and key initiatives.
Retail
This Business Leadership program track is designed for retail IT executives who are engaged in or expect to be engaged in a major innovation project for a core retail business area such as merchandising & supply chain, store innovation or multi-channel retailing. These sessions will show how IBM's Information on Demand portfolio enables the vast store of retail information to become a strategic asset that is essential to business innovation initiatives.
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