October 4-6, 1999 in Phoenix,
AZ
The Human Side of IT Implementation: Managing Change
at Warp Speed
October 4, 1999
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The next generation of technologies
will see the carbon and silicon worlds coming together.
The
principles and operating regimes evolved over millions
of years will find their way into electronic and photonic
technologies developed in the last 50. New forms of
software and intelligence will create new business
opportunities in a networked world with everything
on line. From the intelligent mining of medical records,
to the construction of peopleless manufacturing plants,
trading companies and corporations, new and more efficient
operating paradigms will be realized.
Managers and people
will have to rethink their relationships with each
other and an increasingly networked world.
This will be future of man, woman and machine - a
world of chaos dominated by bits and not atoms. Here
our
established human experience and wisdom will count
for less as we enter an era of immense complexity
and counterintuitive outcomes to decisions taken
amid a
field of dynamic data. Companies will have to rethink
their business models, logistics, people management
and mode of operation. Not much will escape the need
to change.
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Dan Bryson, Founder and
CEO, Stark Design, Inc
Frank Casanova, Director,
QuickTime Product Marketing, Apple Computer Inc.
Peter Cochrane, Chief Technologist,
BT Laboratories
John Ellenby, GeoVector
Corporation
Doug Engelbart, Director,
Bootstrap Institute, and Inventor of the Mouse
Bill Joy, Co-founder and
Chief Scientist, Sun Microsystems
Murray Gell-Mann, Distinguished
Fellow and Co-chair of the Science Board, Santa Fe
Institute, and Nobel
Laureate in Physics
Ray Idaszak, Co-founder
and Chief Technology Officer, Alternate Realities Corporation
Sundaresan Jayaraman, Professor,
School of Textile & Fiber
Engineering, Georgia
Institute of Technology
Leon Lederman, Nobel Laureate in Physics"
Jo Lernout, Co-Chairman and Co-founder, Lernout & Hauspie (L&H)
Ed Muth, Microsoft, Group Product Manager
Nicholas Negroponte, Director, Media Laboratory and
Professor, Media Technology,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Chris Winter, Vice-President Development, CyberLife
Technology Ltd: "Artificial
Life
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Information technology continues
to advance at exponential rates. Companies and their
leadership must continually adapt at warp speed. Instilling
effective change competencies in organizations is more
critical than ever for survival in tomorrow’s
competitive marketplace.
Digital strategy is quickly
becoming the driver of a company’s success.
As purveyors of these technological advances for
their
companies, senior business and technology
executives will be increasingly called upon both
to deliver the most advanced and appropriate technology
solutions and to ensure their effective implementation.
Senior managers must become proficient in preparing
their organizations for IT-driven changes, and integrating
these dramatic and sometimes disruptive technologies
into standard, but dynamic business practices. In
doing
so, IT professionals must become trusted partners
in managing change for the business.
The workshop
will be highly interactive and will
be conducted through dialogues and exercises that
will:
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Establish a compelling context for what’s ahead
in terms of technology trends and their foreseeable
cultural and global impacts;
•
Determine required organizational responses for succeeding
in that emerging world;
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Examine implications for senior management and the
roles they must play; and
•
Offer methodologies and tools for preparing today’s
enterprise for the changes that are coming tomorrow.
Participants will:
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Gain insight in the principles and practices associated
with effective change management;
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Learn the most current methodologies and tools;
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Test these tools on their own business cases; and
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Prepare for "back-home" implementation.
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