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Information Week 500
Navigation Image Map Redefining IS: We Are the Business
Program Topics
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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Sybase
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Oberon
MKS
Microsoft
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Lockheed Martin
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Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu International
Compuware
Cabletron
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