This executive breakfast, specifically designed for senior business-technology executives, will explore why the pressure is on IT to help the business transform, and how it can meet those expectations. More than ever before, companies are demanding their CIOs to be strategic thinkers in helping them innovate and operate at peak performance – especially as businesses are under pressure from the poor state of the economy and the ever-faster pace of change in a global market. In this environment, you can’t miss this opportunity to gain insight into the tactics and strategy that will help you be on your best game.

So many factors are driving enterprises to reshape who they are, what they do, and even where they do it: Globalization brings new market opportunities, such as a chance to gain a new customer base and access new talent, but it also brings new competitors. Uncertain economic conditions demand cost-savings even as they compel companies to come up with new products and services to secure buyers’ increasingly scarce dollars. New Internet formats like blogs and social networks can be a venue for better understanding your customers—and also an outlet for customer frustrations. Today’s businesses must transform their processes, their business models, and even their culture in order to proactively exploit emerging opportunities and react quickly to potential challenges—and IT must provide the agile and flexible environment for innovation to thrive.

Topics Covered

• Harnessing disruptive technologies, such as social networking and software as a service, for enterprise transformation
• IT process improvement as a foundation for transformational excellence.
• Leveraging the services model for end-to-end adaptability
• The business transformation office: What it is, why you need it
• Leading transformation in good and bad times
  

Join your industry peers at this InformationWeek breakfast to learn how and why it’s more important than ever that senior business-technology leaders ensure operational excellence as the bedrock platform for business transformation, and how they can make significant contributions to the organization’s overall transformation agenda.