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The Borderless Enterprise: Global Technology, Customers, and Standards
It’s one of the most misunderstood – but potentially most important – issues shaping business technology in the coming year. Globalization, that is the ability of a company to engage, co-create value, and succeed with any partner or customer regardless of geographic location, size, or business technology infrastructure, is about more than just transacting business across oceans. And it certainly isn’t the exclusive domain of huge multinational companies. It involves ensuring your applications fit a business model and business processes that facilitate transactions both inside your company and across a global network of diverse platforms. It means understanding the diversities of parochial customer needs, and having the intelligence and the infrastructure to stay ahead of the lightning-quick changes in those preferences. And it means deploying the technology, services, and processes available from a wide array of choices that connect your business with customers in the most reliable, efficient, and cost-effective manner possible.
The InformationWeek Spring Conference will spotlight companies who are already major players in the global arena. We’ll examine the hurdles they had to overcome to get there, the continuing challenges inherent to international business, and the competitive and financial advantages they’re enjoying as a result. We’ll debate what business and IT functions and processes can and should be offshored. We’ll highlight emerging markets that need to be on your radar screen in the coming months and years.
Among the featured highlights for the InformationWeek Spring Conference:
Captivating keynote presentations by Ram Charan, executive consultant and co-author of Confronting Reality: Master the New Model for Success; and Bob Herbold, former COO with Microsoft and author of The Fiefdom Syndrome
Spotlight sessions – featuring UPS and Volkswagen – who have perfected the move to global business
Panels of international technology executives who share their strategies for overcoming obstacles and using IT for maximum business advantage in the global markets of China and India.
Technology breakout sessions focused on advancements in security, storage, IT standards, and business intelligence.
The Ritz-Carlton Amelia Island, Florida
Off the coast of northeast Florida is a barrier island known as Amelia Island -- a destination of untainted coastal beauty and Southern charm where ocean breezes beckon and wild sand dunes hug the shoreline. The Ritz-Carlton, Amelia Island, a resort whose impeccable five diamond service, relaxed elegance and pampering staff are as distinctive as the island itself. One of only 17 hotels in the country to have received two AAA Five Diamond Awards—one for the resort and one for its fine dining restaurant—the resort also offers a spectacular on-premise 18-hole PGA championship golf course and a nine-court oceanside tennis complex.
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Questions? Contact the Spring Conference Concierge: 800 450 1840 or 513 731 3706
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