The Executive IT Forum meets October 13th to discuss “Identity Theft and Some Latest Trends That May Affect CIOs and IT Directors”, “The Trend and Implications of End User Application Development”, “The Major IT Lessons Learned Over the Past Two Years,” and “ROI and Metrics for Marketing Efforts.” RSVP to rrouth@ginesys.com.
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The Executive IT Forum will be on September 8. The September agenda includes presentations and discussions on “IT Agility” –the latest buzz term and what you need to know about it, Why Competing for the Governor’s Award Might Help Your Business, Challenges and Pitfalls in Rolling Out Big IT Systems for Healthcare, XP Service Pack 2—the Good, the Bad and the Ugly, and a lunchtime discussion on lessons learned and past highlights of the forum. RSVP to rrouth@ginesys.com.
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The July Executive IT Forum will be on July 14th. It is expected to be hosted at Rockwell Automation headquarters at I-85 & I-385 in Greenville this month, confirmation, location and direction details will follow.
As always, a full breakfast will be served buffet style beginning at 7:30 a.m. Presentations will begin at 8:00 a.m. The final presentations will be delivered during our catered lunch and will end just before 1:00 p.m.
The Forum agenda for July will feature Part II of successful strategies for “Running IT Like a Business.” This month reviews an in-depth case study of how USAA spun off their IT department as a separate business so that it now runs as a profit center. There have been some interesting obstacles along the way, but IT productivity is now double what it was before the change and their annual budget is 20% lower
The forum will also consider the pro’s and con’s and how-to’s for effective internal marketing of IT within a corporation and professor Ron Fulbright will lead a discussion on improving IT personnel morale. Additional presentations will be made on “How to choose an enterprise standard Java application server” and “How to put hard value numbers on your IT infrastructure.”
Lunch-time presentations will include IT News Tidbits, The Skill Set of a Successful CIO, Why CIO’s should become privacy champions, Why is IT Alignment so elusive, A Gartner Report: Backlash against offshoring to vanish by 2006 and HP’s latest push: “Adaptive Enterprise”
RSVP to rrouth@ginesys.com
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The GINESYS Corporation has announced that the Executive IT Forum is now officially a University of South Carolina Executive Continuing Education program. USC has joined the GINESYS Corporation as a permanent co-sponsor of the Executive IT Forum.
“The USC Sponsorship significantly increases the public prestige of the Executive IT Forum” says GINESYS Corporation President, Ric Routh. “It also allows participants to earn Continuing Education Units (CEUs) for their participation in the Forum.” Forum Participants earn the equivalent of one CEU for each Forum.
The next Executive IT Forum will be held on USC’s Spartanburg campus on May 12.
For more information contact Richard L. Routh, 800-277-8338, rrouth@ginesys.com
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The October 16th meeting of the Executive IT Forum will feature the following topics: SCO vs. IBM, Publishing with RSS, Server Consolidation Strategies, What IT Execs need to know about the Fundamentals of Business Value, ROI of Network Security, IT Auditor as Ally, and IT Governance. The group meets from 7:30 AM to 1:00 PM. The meeting is open to IT Executives by invitation only. For more information or to receive an invitation send email to Forum@ginesys.com or call 800-277-8338.
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The next meeting of the Executive IT Forum will be Thursday, September 18th. The meeting begins at 7:30 AM and ends at 1:00 PM. Topics for the upcoming session include Best Practices in Application Performance Testing, Dealing with Enterprise SPAM, and more. Advanced registration is required. (details)
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The Executive IT Forum will next meet on June 12th. The Agenda of this forum will cover A strategic view of CRM, a case study of the IT strategy at Bob Jones University, an overview of Knowledge Management, Mobile Workforce Tools Integration, a Wireless Tutorial, and New Working Business Strategies for the Web — Six Brief Case Studies. (more information)
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The next Exectuve IT Forum meeting will be May 8th at the Hilton (I-385 & Haywood Road). It starts at 7:30, goes till 1:00 and includes a continental breakfast and a hot catered lunch. Advance registration required. (Learn More.)
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