Summit 2005 In Review

IT Strategy

Keynote: Embracing Continuous IT Change for Success
Warren McFarlan, Professor, Harvard Business School

Panel Debate: Tom Bugnitz, Warren McFarlan, John Halamka

Description: Things like changing technology economics and change management have been with us since IT's beginning. Open systems and global sourcing are brand new. In his opening keynote session, Harvard Business School Professor Warren McFarlan will illustrate the history of IT change - and its impact - by looking at the evolution of Carter's, Inc. Professor McFarlan began studying Carter's, which specializes in children's pajamas, when he wrote his first pair of HBS cases on the problems involved with the company's computer feasibility study and the first wave of factory automation. Today, all the factories have disappeared from the US; Carter's sources all of its pajamas from China and India for distribution by its sales force. After learning how Carter's and several other large companies have embraced continuous IT change, you'll understand why the most significant days are still ahead and how IT can enable significant opportunities for organizational transformation.

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Survivability and Security of Information Infrastructures

Keynote: Computers Under Attack, What Shall We Do?
Rich Pethia, Networked Systems Survivability (NSS) Program Director at the Software Engineering Institute (SEI)

Panel Debate: Dave Dittrich, Rich Pethia, Claude Baudoin, Larry Clinton

Description: Government, commercial, and educational organizations depend on computers to such an extent that day-to-day operations are significantly hindered when the computers are "down." It's easy to exploit the many security holes in the Internet and in the software commonly used in conjunction with it; and it's easy to disguise or hide the true origin and identity of the people doing the exploiting. Moreover, the Internet is easily accessible to anyone with a computer and a network connection. Individuals and organizations worldwide can reach any point on the network without regard to national or geographic boundaries. In his keynote session, cybersecurity expert Rich Pethia will illustrate the computer security problem with examples of intruder activity and recent trends. He will discuss an agenda for action. You will discover what steps system developers, system operators, policy makers and individual users need to take or order to protect our information infrastructures and the data in them.

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Enterprise Architecture

Keynote: The Service-Oriented Enterprise: The Business Value of SOA
Mike Rosen, Cutter Consortium Senior Consultant

Panel Debate: Mike Rosen, Dan Dixon, Borys Stokalski

Description: The Service Oriented Enterprise goes beyond technology to achieve the benefits of agility and real-time information that makes it a competitive force. Service Oriented Architecture, while a major topic of discussion in IT, is just like other technology approaches: it is only a part of the solution, not a silver bullet. In his keynote, Cutter Consortium Senior Consultant Mike Rosen will discuss the major issues that have to be addressed to achieve the goals of an SOE, including the business implications, processes, and planning/strategy necessary; how an SOE affects organizational structure, and how to demonstrate the value of an SOE.

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The Politics of IT

Keynote: Breaking the Glass Ceiling: Beyond the Role of IT Director
Robina Chatham, Visiting Fellow at Cranfield School of Management

Panel Debate: Robina Chatham, Christopher Avery, Christine Davis, Berit Svendsen

Description: In her keynote presentation, Robina Chatham will vocalize the often hushed-up political realities of corporate life and teach you the lessons from a rare breed of IT professionals that have risen beyond the top IT job and made it to the position of CEO. All leaders need to be adept at dealing with organizational politics; however, there is no single formula for success. Outcomes in the political arena depend upon the subtle interactions and interplays between people. Each situation is different and unique, and what proves successful in one situation may prove disastrous in the next. In essence organizational politics is an art rather than a science! Find out what it takes to become politically astute; how to enhance your influencing prowess and achieve win-win outcomes; how reputations are formed and their repercussions, and finally, what it takes to break through that glass ceiling and become CEO.

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Innovation

Keynote: Experimentation Matters
Stefan Thomke

Description: Every company's ability to innovate depends on a process of experimentation whereby new products and services are created and existing ones improved. In his keynote presentation, Stefan Thomke will demonstrate the impact new technologies - including computer modeling and simulation - are having on the economics of experimentation. They amplify the impact of learning, creating the potential for higher R&D performance and innovation and new ways of creating value for customers. Professor Thomke will teach you how you can unlock such potential, and why your company must fundamentally change its processes, organization, and management of innovation.

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IT Strategy

Keynote: Radical Changes, Radical Responses
Steve Andriole, Cutter Consortium Senior Consultant

Panel Debate: Steve Andriole, Rob Austin, Tom Davenport, Carlos Zozaya-Gorostiza

Description

Steve Andriole will argue -- in his keynote on Wednesday morning -- that the business technology world of the early 21st century will bear no resemblance to the past 10 years -- or even the past five years. We won't buy hardware or software the same way, we won't build it the same way, and we won't transact business the same way: everything will change. Are we prepared? Are we buying the right things? Are we teaching the right things? At this point in the transition from then to now and beyond, we're clearly not: many of us are pretending that the changes occurring today are evolutionary. They are not. When we wake up in a few years, everything will be different ... radically different. Now is the time to completely redefine the business technology relationship.

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Closing Keynote

Keynote: Summit 2005: Themes and Implications
Tom DeMarco, Cutter Consortium Fellow

Description: In his closing keynote, Tom DeMarco "wraps up" Summit 2005 by identifying the themes that have emerged throughout the conference. The resulting live, "take-home lesson checklist" helps you define both your corporate business-IT strategy and your personal professional growth strategy.

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Workshops

Agile Business Intelligence with Ken Collier

Enterprise Project Portfolio Management with Donna Fitzgerald

Enterprise Agile: From Agile Teams to the Executive Suite with Jim Highsmith

Business Enterprise Architecture Modeling (BEAM) with Ken Orr