This forum will explore the important role of IT to enable business performance and change. IT comes in many forms, each uniquely tied to achieving measurable results. Whether grappling with innovation, application design and outsourcing strategies, or focused on specific technologies like modeling and simulation tools, virtual worlds, or the latest IT platforms, the IT organization serves as a business partner and source of new opportunities.
Session topics include:
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Herding and Hearing Flocks of Brain - Howard Smith, CSC: Taking an idea and turning it into cash is an effort that involves almost every part of a company. Idea management, or 'ideation', focuses the creativity of employees on critical business problems and increases their participation in solving line-of-business and 'big picture' market and revenue-related issues.
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Tapping the Long Tail for Problem Solving at Pfizer - Rob Spencer, Pfizer: Many ideas are hidden in the 'long tail', the thousands of individuals who make up your workforce. Research at Pfizer shows that many aspects of innovation (participation, ideation, idea triage, outcomes) have robust 'long tail' properties that organizations need to leverage.
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Simulating the Business - iRise: Visualization is now a proven strategy for communicating business requirements and 'test driving' applications prior to development. This accelerates time to revenue, improves the customer experience, lowers costs and reduces risk with global sourcing models.
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Next Generation Business Process Management - Mark de Simone, Cordys: On-demand business process management, from the cloud, is essential for fast business innovation and quick response to customer demands. Cut costs while still developing customized solutions per department, business unit or geography.
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Dynamic Sourcing - Axel Schulte, CSC: Over the life of an outsourcing engagement, businesses expect new capabilities to be enabled by IT as business reality drives change in the initial assumptions, performance levels and economic expectations agreed upon. Dynamic sourcing is explicitly designed to maintain business alignment by exploiting new solutions and business services while maintaining contractual discipline.
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Managing Operational Risk - Bob Flast, CSC: Integrating business process management with operational risk management can dramatically increase an organization's optimal business performance. By taking a business process approach to managing operational risk, organizations can identify and mitigate operational risks in technology, outsourcing, offshoring, risk organization design and governance.
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Consumerization of IT and the Cloud - Doug Neal, Leading Edge Forum: Consumerization, Web 2.0 and cloud computing are part of a massive wave of change impacting what, and how, IT services are delivered and consumed. As we witness the emergence of a public infrastructure 'stack', the future of collaboration is in the cloud.
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Rethinking Access Management - Shane Buckley, Rohati Systems: Collaboration between customers, partners and employees via the Internet 'virtualizes' the enterprise and opens the IT infrastructure to a fluid mix of users, devices, resources and transactions. Today organizations need a more granular level of access control that is context and transaction specific, based on who, what, when, where and how attributes.
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Aligning Advanced Modeling and Simulation with the Mission - Jeffrey Miller, CSC: Modeling and simulation drive the mission of manufacturing, from design through spare parts fulfillment. Powerful M&S tools are transforming 'mission capabilities' in aerospace and defense companies by changing the way data is brought to bear on a problem and by supporting 'smart product' requirements that A&D manufacturers must incorporate into their products.
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Bringing Reality to Virtual Reality - Thom Theriault, Malden Labs: Interact with your data center or physical plant in a virtual world, safely and from anywhere, anytime. Bring physical objects into a virtual world and interact with their content (data) directly, speeding the decision-making cycle. The 6thSpace environment, built with Sun's Project Wonderland open source toolkit for creating 3D virtual worlds, leverages Web 2.0 integration technologies, graphical user interfaces, 3D spatial interaction and mixed reality collaboration.
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Bioinformatics: Data Driving New Opportunities - Robert House, CSC: Bioinformatics proposes to turn mountains of data into useful information through better analytical tools and integration. This will usher in a host of new business opportunities, including the potential to reduce drug discovery time and cost as well as make personalized medicine a reality. Lessons learned in bioinformatics can be applied to other industries to generate business value.
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CSC Platform Research Preview - Yale Esrock, CSC: Today's computing platform is undergoing enormous change. Multicore, virtualization, sensor networks, mobility, new interfaces, next-generation application development, new operating system choices and cloud computing are just some of the big changes underway that the LEF is exploring for its next research report.
Please contact your CSC Account Executive for more information or e-mail Laura Szczybor.