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CIO panel discussions and keynote topics
Digitise the enterprise
Your company relies heavily on the flow of timely information to the right people in the right forms, are you devoting the time and energy to the synchronisation of the movement and enhancement and redistribution of that information as you are to the movement of your company’s physical goods and assets?
The budget trap becomes the competitive performance gap
Companies that don’t invest aggressively on IT innovation will get crushed this year. If they don’t this will make them slower and out of touch with their customers and prospects. How can we as IT leaders successfully address the budget issue?
The IT Leader as Chief Acceleration Officer
How would your CEO rate your contributions to speeding up the business?
• Reducing latency in product development
• Moving as fast as your customers and prospects
• Increasing the speed of operations and execution
Enabling the massively adaptable data center
Transforming your traditional data centres whilst juggling private and emerging hybrid clouds. New systems and technologies are emerging all the time – just where/how/can they fit into those complex data-center strategies? How do you craft future plans in this massively mobile world?
Harnessing the power of analytics to increase speed, customer understanding and business success to shape the future of your company is an essential tool for an innovative IT leader
• Speed is a competitive requirement
• The increase of end-to-end intelligence as an indispensible corporate capability
• Engaging the customer
• Effective allocation of IT investments
Consumerism – The ‘FMCG’ of IT
New technologies such as Smartphone’s, tablet computers, social media and other consumer /public cloud services are emerging into the market at an alarming rate – how do these tools effect the business and how can IT leaders stabilize and support this environment?
• Embracing new technologies
• Predicting future trends and technologies
• Creating a place for enabling technologies in the business place
• Effective mobile strategies
IT Laws, Legislation, Frameworks, Standards and ‘Good Practice’
How do we as IT Leaders stay abreast with the required, relevant and most importantly appropriate laws, legislation, frameworks, standards and ‘good’ practices, as they relate to IT?
The importance of being global
Global engagement and global capabilities will be more important than ever in 2012. What patterns are we seeing, how are different opportunities emerging in different cultures and is your corporate strategy taking them into account? Can you keep up?
Security threats in an ever-changing digital world
The evolving threats that companies are facing
• Mitigating against data breaches
• Challenges and opportunities
• Threat forecasting
ICT Sourcing
What are the sourcing trends? Multi-sourcing has been around for a few years now, what have we learnt? How has Cloud Computing impacted the IT outsource\sourcing industry? Are sourcing strategies still driven by cost? Or is it capability? Do we outsource to benefit the business or IT?
Optimising opportunities with optimised systems
Optimised systems can offer stunning levels of performance, however this does not make them ideal for every application. How do you separate the killer apps from the lemons? IT leaders need to scrutinise these highly engineered and integrated systems. Just what are the key aspects to evaluate in order to determine which ones offer true business value?
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