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BEI Conference Preview: Chris Curran on the Innovation Expectation Gap

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[Update November 2, 2010 – Unfortunately, the Optimization for Innovation Conference has been postponed until 2011. However, don’t let that stop you from watching Chris Curran’s video below, or following his work.]

Did I mention that Chris Curran, CTO of Diamond Management and Technology Consultants, is the opening keynote for the Optimization for Innovation conference I’ve been working on? Below, is a video preview of Chris’ session.

To see the full Optimization for Innovation program, go here.

[Disclosure: The Business Ecology Initiative is my client.]

Join me: Event Processing Symposium: Capital Markets Edition – October 6, 2010 in NY, NY

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Seems as though I’m channeling a conference promoter lately, but I’ve got one more to share.  A Capital Markets focused Event Processing Symposium in New York, on October 6, 2010, organized by the Event Processing Community of Practice.

In the opening keynote, Roy Schulte of Gartner will provide an overview of the commercial use of CEP (complex event processing), focusing on capital markets.  Roy’s session will cover these key issues:

  1. Buy versus build – When to use commercial CEP software and when to write your own
  2. Market landscape – Who are the major CEP vendors and what role does each play in capital markets
  3. Product selection – What to look for in an event processing platform

Opher Etzion, Event Processing Scientific Leader at IBM Research Lab in Haifa and chair of the Event Processing Technical Society, is our closer.  Opher will share insights from his research and his soon-to-be released Event Processing in Action book.

For more information, please visit the Symposium site.

 

[Disclosure: The Event Processing Community of Practice (CoP) is a client of my firm, Elemental Links. I am a member of the Event Processing Technical Society (EPTS).]

Optimization for Innovation Conference – Call for Participation

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I’m working with the Business Ecology Initiative (BEI) on a new Optimization for Innovation Conference series.  The inaugural conference is “Optimization for Innovation: Reset; Joint Business & Technology Actions for the New Normal”:

As the world economy emerges from a painful recession, organizations are confronted with the challenge of retaining bottom-line diligence, while pursuing market sustaining and gaining innovation, in an environment riddled with uncertainty, increased regulation, consumer reluctance and tighter credit. This is the “new normal.” To execute in the “new normal,” organizations are seeking new ideas and techniques to optimize business operations and foster business innovation.

At the inaugural Optimization for Innovation conference, executives, senior-level practitioners, experts and thought leaders will share real-world experiences and pragmatic 90-day action items to harvest savings and trapped value from existing processes, resources and capabilities. The conference will consist of a combination of invited guest speakers, keynotes, case studies, presentations and tutorials.

By attending this conference, direct reports and senior staff of the COO, CFO and CIO will learn:

  • How leading organizations are optimizing for innovation
  • Business Optimization Techniques and Practices
  • Business & Technology Partnership Models
  • Business Performance Analysis and Measurement Practices
  • Business Risk Identification & Mitigation in a Connected World
  • Business-Technology Enablers

The conference is December 6 – 8, 2010, in Santa Clara, CA USA.  December 6 is tutorials.  December 7 & 8 are full conference days. 

This morning, we issued a call for participation.  We are seeking proposals for presentations including (but not limited to) the following topics:

Program Topics

  • Optimization for Innovation Success Stories
  • Business-Technology Reset: Optimization for Innovation
  • Governance Models for the New Normal
  • Business Analytics as Optimization Foundation
  • New Normal Linchpins: Business-Tech Savvy Professionals
  • Business-IT Alignment is a Dead-End
  • Business Optimization Techniques

Tutorials Topics

  • Instituting a Business Performance Measurement Framework
  • Cyber Risk Analysis: Assessment, Policy, & Economics
  • Business Process Modeling and Business Instrumentation
  • Lean / Six Sigma in the New Normal

Presentations and tutorials proposed should be geared toward an audience comprising direct reports and senior staff of the COO, CFO and CIO. All presentations and tutorials  must include a 90-day action plan for attendees to pursue post-conference.

The submission deadline is August 13, 2010. Please note, submissions that are direct pitches for product or services will not be considered. Submissions should be prepared in English, containing the following information:

  • Presenter name, title and affiliation
  • Presenter Bio
  • Session Title
  • 2 – 3 paragraph description of proposed session
  • 3 – 5 bullets on what attendees will learn
  • Target audience characteristics: role, skill and industry
  • 90-day action plan items

Submit abstracts as described above to Program Chair Brenda M. Michelson (me) via e-mail.

[Disclosure: The Business Ecology Initiative is a client of my firm, Elemental Links.]

Business Ecology Initiative (BEI): Business Architecture Day, Sept 22, 2010 in Cambridge, MA

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Are you interested in Business Architecture? Want to hear from leading practitioners and thinkers? Then check out the Business Architecture Information Day, co-sponsored by the Business Ecology Initiative and OMG’s Business Architecture Working Group. The day features practitioner and analyst keynotes:

Capitalizing on Business Architecture in the Pharmaceutical Industry by Deb Boykin, Business Process Management, Director, Pfizer, Inc.

Pfizer Inc. is a research-based global pharmaceutical company applying innovative science to improve world health. It discovers, develops, manufactures and markets prescription medicines for humans and animals. Pfizer markets its pharmaceuticals directly to health care providers and patients; with the majority of sales conducted through wholesalers including McKesson and Cardinal Health. At Pfizer, Business Architecture resides within the Business Process Management (BPM) group and is a critical component in delivering Business Process value. This presentation will first examine the approach used to develop a robust and agile Business Architecture structure and will then discuss how content is leveraged and sustained to ensure business value.

Trends & Emerging Strategies in Business Architecture, by Jeff Scott, Senior Analyst, Forrester Research, Inc.

Business architecture’s time has come. While EAs have talked about business architecture for years, not much has really happened. But now a confluence of events is driving renewed interest – and action – in the business architecture space. Forrester sees three significant trends driving this change: a shift towards business led IT initiatives particularly in social technologies, EA disintermediation in technology decisions as IT organizations outsource more of their role, and renewed interest in strategic planning as business models and organizations become more complex. This presentation will explore these trends and the challenges and opportunities they bring. Key takeaways include trends that are challenging the traditional EA model, trends in developing business architecture and challenges every EA will face on the road ahead.

Find the complete agenda here. Hope to see you there!

[Disclosure: The Business Ecology Initiative is a client of my firm, Elemental Links.]

New Business Ecology Initiative Podcast: Aleks Buterman on Decoding Business/IT Unity

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This morning, the Business Ecology Initiative released a new podcast of Aleks Buterman (@aleksb6) speaking on Decoding Business and IT Unity.  From my BEI post:

“Utilizing a case study approach, Buterman spoke of classic and newly identified failure patterns associated with enterprise technology investment. Interestingly, Buterman’s case studies extend beyond initial delivery, to focus on real-world challenges of product, program and business sustainment brought on by unanticipated customer and business unit demand, organizational change and insufficient architectural investment.

For preventive and corrective measures, Buterman advocates a capability portfolio approach to bring complexity to a manageable level. The capability portfolio approach considers four dimensions: business, technology, organization and risk. Buterman emphasized the need to apply business discipline, particularly risk assessment and management, throughout business-technology lifecycles.

Amplifying Buterman’s findings was a special video conference guest appearance from a vice president at a large Fortune 500 Financial Services firm.”

To listen to an audio recording of Aleks’ presentation go here.

 

[Disclosure: The Business Ecology Initiative is a client of my firm, Elemental Links.]

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