Keynotes
Keynotes, briefings and workshops tailored for business and technical audiences
Doing Business in the Cloud
What is cloud computing and how it is changing the nature of corporate business structures. The cloud is creating dramatic new options for variable cost business models that better manage risk and enable faster and more agile enterprises.
Tao of Supply Chains
See how to turn commodity products into valuable solutions to unique customer needs by wrapping them with tailored supply chain services. Learn to identify customer needs and effectively deliver value added supply chain services to meet those needs. Customers will pay extra for services with a provable value proposition.
Established Company Looking for Chief Innovation Officer
In business it’s not just innovative ideas that you need; what really counts is turning those ideas into profitable offerings customers want to buy. How will the chief innovation officer and the creative types be integrated into the rest of the company? Are they just going to dream up ideas and toss them over the wall to be delivered by others or will they have their own delivery capabilities?
IT Agility Makes Work Fun Again
IT people get no respect from business people – here’s what to do about it. Respond to business needs quickly using 30-60-90 day cycles to deliver working systems and then continuously enhance them with new features as the world unfolds and new needs arise.
Business Agility: Sustainable Prosperity in a Relentlessly Competitive World
Learn five key characteristics of the agile enterprise that companies are using to become more agile and adaptive, and see how organizations are changing their financial and operating structures and their supporting IT architecture to respond in real time.
A Formula to Measure Business Agility
Drawing on my experience as a CIO and working with clients, actual business and IT strategies are presented to deliver business success and earn the “agility dividend” of profit margins consistently 2 to 4 percent higher than the going market rate.
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Recent Speaking Engagements
- Five City North American Tour, Keynote Speaker, “Consumer Powered IT” produced by IT Services Vendor
- Istanbul, Turkey, Featured Speaker, “Building Supply Chains to Increase Profits”, Logistics & Supply Chain Management Summit, Bosphorus Conferences
- Singapore, Keynote speaker at Asia Pacific CIO Forum, “How to Get Inspired for Innovation”, sponsored by IT Vendor
- Beijing, China, Keynote speaker at supply chain seminar, “Building Agile Real-Time Supply Chains”, produced by CIO Insight China, sponsored by IT Vendor
- Dallas, USA, Featured speaker at corporate advisory board meeting, “Business Agility: Earning the Agility Dividend”
- Chicago, USA, Featured speaker at Beyond Budgeting Round Table Conference, “Doing Business in the Cloud”