CSC: Experience. Results

Klaus Heinrich, Conference Chair

Professor Lee Schlenker, Ecole de Management, Lyon

If enterprise applications have traditionally been designed to reinforce predominant management paradigms, what types of information architectures can help managers see their organisations and their responsibilities in a different light?Drawing on four examples taken from the Leading Edge Forum's study on the impact of social media on management practice, Professor Schlenker will explore visions, contexts and experiences of IT implementations that have supported contrasting visions of the managers' role in their organisations and in their business communities. He will challenge the audience to look beyond 'best practices'; and to discuss how the resulting value propositions can be adapted to account for specific markets and industries.
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Chris Hughes, Co-Founder, Facebook

David Moschella, Global Research Director - Executive Programme, Leading Edge Forum

Business and technology change are now inseparable, and can no longer be discussed or analysed in isolation. Each is pushing the other in a process we have labelled as business/IT co-evolution. In this emerging world, business and technology change increasingly occur at the same speed, challenging traditional industry structures, management orthodoxies, and risk management assumptions. In this session, David will assess the state of business/IT co-evolution today and over the next five years, while defining the broad parameters of economic, technological and social change, and their implications for the individual firm.
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Andrej Radovic, A T Kearney International

Despite the fact that Switzerland is a small country without a sizeable indigenous IT industry, it has already for a long time been at the vanguard of the IT user community. Taking the example of Switzerland, Andrej Radovic will present A T Kearney's view on the future development of the IT market, discuss some new technological developments and their far-reaching impact on the IT community, and show how IT skills and organisations of tomorrow will undergo profound change. The next-generation CIO will not only have to keep costs under tight control, but at the same time become a trusted advisor of the line organisations and a champion of IT-driven innovation within the firm.

Hans Brechbuhl, Executive Director, Center for Digital Strategies, Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth

The role of corporate IT has shifted dramatically in recent years and will continue to change. From an internal focus, managing a utility and providing a reactive service focused on the technical, IT's focus has shifted to being a proactive partner to other parts of the business and facilitating technology-enabled capabilities. Tomorrow's CIO will need to be a different breed - understanding technology, yes, but even more a leader with a clear business orientation who brings strong change management abilities and outstanding integration capabilities to the table. IT will not be a strategy or a service organisation - it will be both, all while keeping the utility running.