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Note: Topics may change.
We Are The Business: How CEOs and CIOs Interact
- Harnessing the IT and business-side relationship
- Where technology leads -- and follows -- the organization
- When CIOs sit on the executive committee
Business Management IS: The Nature of the New IS Organization
- Insights into those IT managers who work inside business units
- Techn
ologists without technology titles
- The different influence and roll of business management IS
IT as the Growth Engine: Managing the Accelerating Pace of Change
- How can and does one lead the business
- Managing the consolidation of vendor power
- How IS ensures that the right technology investments are made and assimilated
Year 2000: The Crisis Continues
- What are the right guidelines?
- What if your business partners aren't Year 2000-compliant?
- Stealing resources from other projects.
- How do you test the results?
Enabling Technologies: Enterprise Development Environments of the
Future
- What Java and ActiveX mean to the enterprise
- Trusting mission-critical applications to new development models
- The role of component-based application development.
Revolution on the Desktop: Behind the Cost cf Ownership Dilemma
- When to use the full- functi
oned PC, there's the $1,000 thinned-down PC, the NetPC, and the network computer.
- The role of the server.
- Stategies for saving installation and maintenance costs.
The Services Convergence: Outsourcing, Off Sourcing, and Knowledge Management
- Outsourcing subcontractors.
- Managing your outsourcer.
- Creating outsourcing-driven business ventures.
- Off-shore outsourcing.
What's the Right Infrastructure? Controlling and Managing IT Assets
- Enterprise management
- Licensing and usage issues.
- Rightsizing in the age of NT and SAP.
The People Shortage: Can you Find -- and Keep -- the Right Staff?
- The talent chase.
- Tricks for finding -- and retaining -- staff.
- Business unit IT staffing.
- The revolution in training
Customer Asset Management: the Key to Handling Today's Terabytes
- The Internet meets warehousing.
- The ultra-large k
nowledge store.
- Data mining, presentation, and push technology tricks.
New Company Focus: Strategic Issues Involving the Extranets and Intranets?
- Creating an effective Web site that's a sales tool
- Opening up the warehouse to business partners
- The issues that won't go away: privacy and security?
Measurement Systems: How the IS Executive Is Evaluated.
- How do you measure effective delivery of IT systems
- Measurement function points
- Employee satisfaction and productivity, customer satisfaction and product effectiveness, and resource allocation.
Emerging Technologies: How Today's Innovators and Labs Will Effect Tomorrow's IT
- A look at how some leading edge companies use emerging
technologies
- Where will newer technologies such as HDTV, ADSL, and voice recognition fit.
- A peak into the top university and R&D labs.
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